1. After the Cataclysm
   Postwar Indochina & the Reconstruction of Imperial Ideology (The Political Economy of Human Right:s)
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1979
   
2. Against Capitalism
   The European Left on the March
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2007
   
3. Alternative America
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   Published: 1990
   12,150 organizations, mainly American, listed geographically by zip code, and again alphabetically. A subject keyword index referring to group numbers only.
   
4. American Communism and Soviet Russia
   The Formative Period
   Resource Type: Book
   
5. American Power and the New Mandarins
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1969
   
6. The American Socialist Movement: 1897-1912
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1952
   
7. Bound By Power
   Intended Consequences
   Resource Type: Book
   These essays focus on how power and ideology work within society. Interviews are with Noam Chomsky, Linda McQuaig, Robert Bertuzzi and others. They speak to the issues of the understanding of power and political dissent, the repression of dissent in post 9/11 media coverage and the war on terror.
8. Chicago 68
   Resource Type: Book
   A vivid history of the political and social movements of that turbulent time, when the power structure felt itself threatened by social movements that rejected much of what it stood for.
9. Chomsky.Info 
   Resource Type: Internet WWW site
   The Noam Chomsky Web site.
10. A Citizen Legislature
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1985
    
11. Class Warfare
    Interviews with David Barsamian
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996
    
12. Common Sense for Hard Times 
    The Power of the Powerless to Cope with Everyday life and Transform Society in The Nineteen Seventies
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1976
    Presents a vision of society as it is and as it could be. Putting the problems of contemporary daily life in historical perspective, it reveals that they have their roots in the way our society is organized, and thereby enables us to re-examine our own situation and experience.
    
13. Connexions Library: USA Focus
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on the United States of America.
14. Conspiracy, Inc.
    Wild Tales From the Reactionary Right
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Increasingly, reactionary media pundits and much of the rank-and-file of the Republican Party are taking the American right down a dangerous path, marked most ominously by the abundance of conspiracy theories directed against the Democratic Party and mainstream liberals.
15. The Corporations and the State
    Essays in the Theory of Capitalism and Imperialism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1974
    
16. Counterpunch
    Periodical profile
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Progressive U.S. newsletter edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair.
17. Democracy for the Few
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988   Published: 1995
    How does the U.S. political system work and for what purpose? What are the major forces shaping political life and how do they operate? Who governs in the United States? Who gets what, when, how, and why? Who pays and in what ways. These are the central questions investigated in this book.
    
18. Democracy in the Unites States? Fugetaboutit!
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2007
    We who want a more equal and democratic society are the vast majority. There is no reason for us to feel hesitant about speaking our minds and talking revolution to our friends and neighbors, our co-workers, and even people we meet in the course of shopping and so forth. When millions of Americans feel that they are not alone in wanting a revolution, that's when things will start to change. That's when people will start to think creatively and concretely about how to make it happen. Until then, we'll remain on a treadmill to nowhere, with everybody feeling that they are just one lonely person who "can't fight city hall."
19. Elections 2000
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2001
    Chomsky reviews the details of the 2000 elections and reveals the tendency of dysfunction in democratic electoral models.
20. The Empire God Built
    Inside Pat Robertson's media machine
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996
    A profile of the demagogue who become one of the most successful media moguls in the world.
21. Failure of a Dream?
    Essays in the History of American Socialism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1974
    Examines the reasons for the relative weakness of American socialism.
22. Fear of Falling
    The Inner Life of the Middle Class
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1990
    Examines the insecurities of the middle class in an attempt to explain its turn to the right during the past two decades. Fear of Falling traces the myths about the middle class to their roots in the ambition and anxieties that torment it and that have led to its retreat from a responsible leadership role.
23. For Reasons of State
    Resource Type: Book
    
24. Gag Rule
    On the Suppression of Dissent and the Stifling of Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    Dissent is democracy. Democracy is in trouble. Never before, Lapham argues, have voices of protest been so locked out of the mainstream conversation. A call to action in defense of one of the most important liberties, the right to raise our voices against the powers that be, and to have those voice heard.
25. Hegemony or Survival
    America's Quest for Global Dominance
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003   Published: 2004
    
26. How Dare You Clean Up Our Mess?
    Tweedle Destruction and Tweedle Disaster
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    On the nauseating hypocrisy of our good friends on the regressive right. You know the rules. One set of sexual standards for us, another for them behind closed doors. Big thumping militarist patriotism when our kids go off to war, rather less when it’s their turn. Itsy-bitsy small government ideology for the lil’ folk, Washington as a great big candy-covered sugar teat for them. Etc., etc.
27. How they shot those campus bums
    Review of The Truth About Kent State
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1973
    How Ohio National Guard troops out to "get" campus radicals and teach them "what law and order is all about" shot down students at Kent State University on May 4, 1970, killing four and wounding nine others.
28. How to Light a Prairie Fire
    The Spell Can be Broken
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    If there's one thing I think many people need to understand, it is this: sustained mass movements rarely happen unless many of the participants believe they might win.
29. How US Democracy Triumphed Again
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2001
    Chomsky explores the discrepancies of the Bush-Gore tie in the 2000 elections such as income correlation and the lack of voter participation, revealing meaningful flaws in the democratic system.
30. Impeach the President
    The Case Against Bush and Cheney
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    
31. Imperial Presidency
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2005
    Chomsky explores the conception of presidential authority and sovereignty, depicting the dangers of the Bush administration's understanding of these concepts.
32. In a Time of Torment
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1968
    
33. Letters from Lexington
    Reflections on Propaganda
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    
34. Malcolm X Speaks
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1965
    A series of speeches, seminars and press conferences given by Malcolm X during the last years of his life in 1964 and early 1965.
35. Of National Lies and Racial America
    Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama and the Unacceptability of Truth
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2008
    To some, the horror of 9/11 was not new. To some it was not on that day that "everything changed." To some, everything changed four hundred years ago, when that first ship landed at what would become Jamestown. To some, everything changed when their ancestors were forced into the hulls of slave ships at Goree Island and brought to a strange land as chattel. To some, everything changed when they were run out of Northern Mexico, only to watch it become the Southwest United States, thanks to a war of annihilation initiated by the U.S. government. To some, being on the receiving end of terrorism has been a way of life.
36. The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
    
37. A People's History of the United States
    1492 - Present
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1995   Published: 2003
    Zinn's history includes those most ignored by typical American textbook history, including Indians, blacks, women and workers.
    
38. The Perils of Obamamania
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    Reed discusses the Left's support for Obama as a phenomenon in which the "lesser evil" is supported at any cost. Reed examines the implications of this support seeing as Obama's policies are shifting toward the center ground. In his analysis, he suggests that progressive support for Obama may permanently shift American politics to the Right.
39. Polemics and Prophecies 1967-1970
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
    An anthology of I.F. Stone's articles from 1967 - 1970.
40. Politics Past
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1958   Published: 1970
    A collection of essays by Dwight Macdonald.
41. The Port Huron Statement 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1962
    A seminal statement of the New Left, adopted by SDS in 1962.
42. The President and the Presidency
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1973
    Chomsky assesses public reactions to the Watergate scandal, dividing them into two categories: cynicism or outrage. He further explores the different perceptions of what in fact Nixon's criminal actions were and discusses the meaning of the principle of unconstrained executive power in relation to democracy.
    
43. Pretensions to Empire
    Resource Type: Book
    Delves into the perversion of America's democratic legacy under George W. Bush, and makes the case for impeachment.
44. Radical Perspectives on the Economic Crisis of Monopoly Capitalism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1975
    
45. Rethinking Camelot
    JFK, the Vietnam War, and US Political Culture
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    Chomsky analyzes the Kennedy Administration's policy on the Vietnam War and compares the US Administrations of Presidents Kennedy and Reagan.
    
46. Right Wingers Marching in DC Is Big News -- But the Same Old Faces Are Pulling the Strings
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    The right is never truly defeated; its leaders are patient, and they learn from their errors. When they're out of power, they stay busy, building institutions and mailing lists, all the while waiting for their moment to strike.
47. '68: The Year of the Barricades 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    Caute's book looks at the explosive year 1968 (while situating it in the context of what had led up to it). One of the great strengths of this excellent book is that it looks at what was happening around the world.
    
48. SNCC
    The New Abolitionists
    Resource Type: Book
    
49. The Socialist Register 1985/1986
    Social Democracy and After
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1986
    
50. Targeting Iran
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    A critical analysis of the Bush administration's policies towards Iran.
51. Towards a New Cold War
    Essays on the Current Crisis and How We Got There
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1982
    A sobering assessment of American foreign policy from the end of the Vietnam era to Ronald Reagan.
52. 2004 Elections
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2004
    Chomsky explores potential implications of the 2004 election results in America, concluding they are, in fact, of little significance. For insight, he points instead to those public opinions which were not included in the process.
53. Wanted a Leader for America
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2005
    Chomsky depicts how the issues concerning the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), including the pre-determined risk of 9/11, went ignored under the Bush Administration which focused instead upon global domination ambitions.
54. Watergate
    A sceptical view
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1973
    Noam Chomsky asserts that in light of the other telling symptoms of an unhealthy democracy - such as Kissinger's murderous war ambitions - the Watergate scandal should not have come as a shock to even the least cynical. He illustrates why Nixon's small-scale coup attempt and the revelations which followed should not be the focus of skepticism, noting that there are other issues which deserve more attention.
55. Weather Underground Organization
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    An American radical left organization.
56. Weatherman
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1971
    A history of the Weatherman organization.
57. What Went Wrong in Ohio
    The Conyers Report on the 2004 Presidential Election
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    Documents fraud in the 2004 U.S. election.
58. Why There Is No Socialism in the United States
    Resource Type: Book
    
59. World Orders Old and New
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    
60. The Wrecking Crew
    How Conservatives Rule
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    How Republican conservatives govern in Washington and how they enrich others through their methods.

Experts on U.S. Politics in the Sources Directory

1. National Museum of American History