Dude, where's my country

by Michael Moore

Warner Books; October 2003
The people of the US have been tricked by Republican lawmakers and their wealthy corporate pals who use a combination of concocted bogeymen and lies to stay rich and in control... A handbook for how people can take back their country from the conservative forces in power.

Fixing Elections- The Failure of America's Winner Take All Politics

by Steven Hill

Routledge; September 2003
Was the lesson of Florida punch-cards that we need better machines, or that there's something deeply wrong with a system where the candidate with fewer votes wins the office? "Fixing Elections" shows why it's not just the Electoral College that's outdated, but our entire 18th-century Winner Take All political system, including the way we elect our legislatures.

The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century

by Paul Krugman

W.W. Norton & Company; September 2003
Offering his own take on the trickle-down theory, economist and columnist Paul Krugman lays much of the blame for a slew of problems on the Bush administration, which he views as a "revolutionary power...a movement whose leaders do not accept the legitimacy of our current political system."

Bushwacked, life in George W. Bush's America

by Molly Ivins, Lou Dubose

Random House; September 2003
While many of the topics covered here have been covered extensively (Enron, the war in Iraq), Ivins does a good job of building on what’s already been written (proving Bush’s close ties to former Enron chief Ken Lay, and laying out the fundamentalist, apocalyptic view of Iraq and the Middle East that drives Bush’s foreign policy).

Lies and the Lying Liars who tell them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right

by Al Franken

Dutton Books; August 2003
Franken occupies a unique place in the modern political dialogue as perhaps the media's only comedy writer and performer who is also a Harvard fellow as well as a liberal political commentator.

Big Lies, The Right Wing Propaganda Machine and how it distorts the Truth

by Joe Conason

Thomas Dunne Books; May 2003
Conason dissects 10 of the most persistent, and--according to him--glaringly incorrect, arguments made by conservatives.

WHAT LIBERAL MEDIA? THE TRUTH ABOUT BIAS AND THE NEWS

by Eric Alterman Basic Books; February 2003

Alterman argues that the conservatives in the newspapers, television, talk radio, and the Republican party are lying about liberal bias and repeating the same lies long enough that they've taken on a patina of truth. The perception of such a bias has cowed many media outlets into presenting more conservative opinions to counterbalance a bias, which does not, in fact, exist,

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