Niles Public Library District

Politics & Current Events

All the President’s Men	by Carl Bernstein
Great Deluge	by Douglas Brinkley
Cult of the Amateur: How today’s Internet Is Killing Our Culture	by Andrew Keen
Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream	by Barack Obama
Nickel and Dimed: On Not Getting by in America	by Barbara Ehrenreich
Working Poor: Invisible in America	by David K. Shipler
God Is Not Great: How Religions Poisons Everything	by Christopher Hitchens
Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur’s Odyssey to Educate the World’s Children	by John Wood
Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace…One School at a Time	by Greg Mortensen
How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else	by Michael Gill
American Theocracy: The Perils and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century	by Kevin Phillips
World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century	by Thomas L. Friedman
Wal-Mart Effect: How the World’s Most Powerful Company Really Works-and How It’s Transforming the American Economy	by Charles Fishman
China, Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World	by Ted C. Fishman
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything	by Steven Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
Liar’s Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street	by Michael Lewis
Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron	by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man	by John Perkins
Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations	by James Suroweicki
Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping	by Paco Underhill
Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today’s Popular Culture is Actually Making Us Smarter	by Steven Johnson