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| Preface | |
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| Introduction: Why a Critical Reader? | |
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| Structure | |
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| Democracy and Political Economy | |
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| Frances Moore Lapp�" The Straightjacket of Thin Democracy | |
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| Susan George A Short History of Neo-Liberalism | |
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| Dan Clawson, Alan Neustadtl, and Mark Weller Why Does the Air Stink? Corporate Power and Public Policy | |
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| Fred Magdoff and John Bellamy Foster Capitalism and the Environment | |
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| Ideology and Political Culture | |
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| Jennifer L. Hochschild What Is the American Dream? | |
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| James Gustave Speth Happiness and the American Dream | |
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| Ira Chernus The Theology of American Empire | |
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| Robert Jensen The Greatest Nation on Earth | |
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| Constitutional and State Structures | |
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| Joshua Cohen and Joel Rogers American Exceptionalism and the Politics of Fragmentation | |
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| Kenneth M. Dolbeare and Linda Medcalf The Dark Side of the Constitution | |
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| Brooke Allen Our Godless Constitution | |
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| Howard Zinn Some Truths Are Not Self-Evident | |
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| Politics and Institutions | |
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| Mass Media and Politics | |
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| Robert W. McChesney and John Nichols The Death and Life of American Journalism | |
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| W. Lance Bennett News Content and Illusion: Four Information Biases That Matter | |
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| John Atlas and Peter Dreier Why ACORN Fell: The Times, Lies, and Videotape | |
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| Bill Moyers "Facts Still Matter…": The Need for an Independent Media | |
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| Parties and Elections | |
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| Thomas Frank What's the Matter with America? | |
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| Paul Street and Anthony DiMaggio The Myth of the Tea Party | |
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| Lawrence Lessig Democracy after Citizens United: The Supreme Court and Campaign Finance | |
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| Katrina vanden Heuvel Just Democracy: The Crisis and Opportunity in American Elections | |
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| Congress | |
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| John C. Berg Congress and Big Business | |
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| Common Cause Democracy on Drugs: How a Bill Really Becomes a Law | |
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| Matt Taibbi Wall Street's Big Win: The Charade of Financial Reform | |
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| Patricia Siplon and William F. Grover Congressional Inertia: Iron Triangles Old and New | |
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| The Presidency | |
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| Michael A. Genovese The Limits of Presidential Power | |
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| Bruce Miroff The Presidential Spectacle | |
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| Tom Engelhardt Militarism and the American Presidency | |
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| Joseph G. Peschek The Obama Presidency and the Economic Crisis | |
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| Law and the Courts | |
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| Jeffrey Rosen Supreme Court Inc. | |
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| Saul Cornell New Originalism: A Constitutional Scam | |
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| Patricia J. Williams This Dangerous Patriot's Game | |
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| R. Claire Snyder-Hall Neo-Patriarchy and the Anti-Homosexual Agenda | |
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| Politics and Vision | |
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| Political Challenges at Home and Abroad | |
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| Barbara Ehrenreich Kicking People When They're Down: Poverty in America | |
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| Walter Benn Michaels Race, Gender, and Class in U.S. Politics | |
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| Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway Merchants of Doubt | |
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| Noam Chomsky 9/11 and the Imperial Mentality | |
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| Visions of a New Democracy | |
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| Martin Luther King, Jr. Letter From Birmingham Jail | |
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| Naomi Klein Reclaiming the Commons | |
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| Jared Bernstein All Together Now: Common Sense for a Fair Economy | |
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| Bill McKibben Deep Economy: Reimagining Growth and Progress | |
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| Credits | |