If you read just one book read 'Deer Hunting with Jesus' by Joe Bageant, doesn't matter if you are left right republican democrat or independent, the story its tells is both funny and sad but real. Working class America has its chronicler.

In 'America Since 1980,' Dean Baker examines the changes in America since the Reagan revolution. He examines how policies have contributed to the top 5 percent while the working classes have sunk farther behind. Reading it along side Bageant's book is an experience. Dean outlines the causes, Joe shows the effects.

'The Big Con' by Jonathan Chait explores the economics of the time. How many remember when American corporations represented American people and not the market and consequently only the rich. Probably few today as now the working class worships the very system that has made them slaves of insecurity and low wages. 'You know they know better that's why they're CEO etc.' Anyone ever notice or wonder why so many business execs end up in jail - and probably many more deserve to be there. Making big money or large profits isn't always a good thing for American society.

As the conservative media and Fox spin the news to favor the abandonment of the bill of rights Noami Wolf reviews the steps necessary in 'The End of America.' The steps she reviews are all too obvious in the Bush administration, and though Bush is a failure even in the minds of the conservatives, the people he has placed in our judicial system are hardly concerned with justice. Ideologues are scary people, you would think we had learned that.

Read Joe's book and if you want a real challenge to your worldview, check out Derrick Jensen's 'The Culture of Make Believe.'