Arianna Huffington
Arianna Huffington is the author of 10 books and a nationally syndicated columnist. Her latest book is Fanatics and Fools: The Game Plan for Winning Back America.
In His Own Right: The Political Odyssey of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy by Joseph Palermo (Columbia University, $20). The civil rights leader John Lewis once said: “When Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated, something died in America. Something died in all of us.” This inspiring book shows how RFK transformed both himself and the party he sought to represent—and reminds us of the power of dreaming of things that never were and asking, “Why not?”
Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich (Owl, $13). Ehrenreich’s searing chronicle of her experiences as a cultural explorer among America’s working poor puts a human face on those falling through the gaping tears in our social safety net. A postcard from the front lines of the Other America.
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50 Ways to Love Your Country by the members of MoveOn.org (Inner Ocean, $11). A user-friendly how-to guide for fixing our broken democracy. Both nuts-and-bolts practical and deeply personal, this book is political Viagra for anyone tired of feeling hopeless, helpless, and impotent in the face of our Big Money– Big Media–controlled political system.
When You Ride Alone, You Ride With bin Laden by Bill Maher (New Millennium, $19). Wickedly funny and deeply patriotic, this book puts the question of why our leaders ask nothing more of us than that we go shopping front and center in the national debate. Savage wit wielded in the service of passionate conviction.
Sybil by Benjamin Disraeli (Oxford, $10). Disraeli’s classic account of the wretched conditions prevailing among England’s working classes sparked outrage and propelled fundamental social reforms. The power of the pen made manifest.
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