Learn from the mistakes of others

fear

Dr. Marc Siegel, False Alarm: The Truth About the Epidemic of Fear, Wiley (July 22, 2005) ISBN: 0471678694 [amazon.com]

Corey Robin, Fear: The History of a Political Idea, Oxford University Press (August 4, 2004) ISBN: 0195157028 [amazon.com]

fundamentalism

Malise Ruthven, Fundamentalism: The Search for Meaning, Oxford University Press (June 1, 2004) ISBN: 0192840916 [amazon.com]

free speech

Floyd Abrams, Speaking Freely: Trials of the First Amendment Viking Adult (April 7, 2005) ISBN: 0670033758 [amazon.com]

Geoffrey R. Stone, Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from The Sedition Act of 1798 to The War on Terrorism W. W. Norton & Company (October 25, 2004) ISBN: 0393058808 [amazon.com]

journalism

Tom Fenton, Bad News : The Decline of Reporting, the Business of News, and the Danger to Us All Regan Books (March 1, 2005) ISBN: 0060797460 [amazon.com]

nationalism

Anatol Lieven, America Right Or Wrong: An Anatomy Of American Nationalism Oxford University Press (September 30, 2004) ISBN: 0195168402 [amazon.com]

militarism

Andrew Bacevich, The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced By War, Oxford University Press (February 28, 2005) ISBN: 0195173384 [amazon.com]

Chalmers Johnson, The Sorrows of Empire : Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic [The American Empire Project] Metropolitan Books (January 13, 2004) ISBN: 0805070044 [amazon.com]

poverty

Jeffrey Sachs, The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time The Penguin Press HC (March 15, 2005) ISBN: 1594200459 [amazon.com]

propaganda

Sheldon Rampton & John Stauber, Weapons of Mass Deception: The Uses of Propaganda in Bush's War on Iraq Jeremy P. Tarcher (July 1, 2003) ISBN: 1585422762 [amazon.com]

economics

John Perkins, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man Berrett-Koehler Publishers (November 9, 2004) ISBN: 1576753018 [amazon.com]