UPDATE (12/20/07): I’ve now listed the books for PS 557 Kentucky Government and Politics at the bottom of this post.
Here are the reading lists for my Spring 2008 Courses. I wanted to provide these early incase you wanted to purchase the books in advance for less on Amazon or just wanted to get an early start with your reading. I will update shortly with the books for PS 557 Kentucky Government and Politics.
PS 101 SPRING 2008
Al Gore, The Assault on Reason. 2007. Penguin Press. ISBN: 978-1-59420-122-6.
Jerome Armstrong and Markos Moulitsas, Crashing the Gate. 2006. Chelsea Green. ISBN: 978-1933392417.
Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail ’72. 1985. Grand Central Publishing. ISBN: 978-0446313643.
Larry J. Sabato, A More Perfect Constitution. 2007. Walker & Company. ISBN: 978-0802716217.
Cary Jacobson, A Divider, Not a Uniter. 2008. Pearson-Longman. ISBN: 978-0-205-52974-2. (2006 election and beyond printing)
PS 545 SPRING 2008
Wendell, Berry, The Unsettling of America. 1996. Sierra Club Books. ISBN: 978-0871568779.
Dewey, John, The Public and its Problems. 1954. Swallow Press. ISBN: 978-0804002547.
Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club. 2005. W.W. Norton. ISBN: 978-0393327342.
Lawrence Lessig, Free Culture. 2005. Penguin. ISBN: 978-0143034650.
Naomi Klein, Shock Doctrine. 2007. Metropolitan Books. ISBN: 978-0805079838.
Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger. 2007. Break Through. Houghton Mifflin Co. ISBN: 978-0618658251.
PS 557 SPRING 2008
Goodell, Jeff. Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America’s Energy Future (2007) ISBN: 978-0618872244
Wedekind, Carl. Politics, Religion and Death (2006) ISBN: 0-9786881-0-4
Miller, Penny. Kentucky Politics and Government (1994) ISBN: 0-8032-8206-0
Pearce, John Ed. Divide and Dissent: Kentucky Politics 1930-1963 (1987) ISBN: 0-8131-0804-7
Florida, Richard. The Rise of the Creative Class (2003) ISBN: 0465024777
[NOTE: all books for PS 557 are in paperback]
4 Comments
December 7, 2007 at 4:14 pm
Is this the order you expect to read them in?
December 9, 2007 at 12:51 pm
Im pumped about the shock doctrine
December 21, 2007 at 10:03 pm
Mikey are you in 545? If so it will be kick ass to get the group together again. However Emma is bailing on us………
December 24, 2007 at 1:39 pm
Do you plan to make us read the whole books or select passages? I have already tired to read some of them and they are to put lightly, dry. This is for 545 btw.