The Good War Studs Terkel 1984 Pantheon books (In the section Capitalism commits treason and sabotage)
"Very illuminating...It will give historians a lot to write about. And for the general reader it will be a revelation" - William L. Shirer (Author of the Rise and Fall of the Third Riech and Infiltration - another source of mine)
"Incontestably one of the great human documents of all time. It has the essence and cumulative force of a hundred powerful war novels, without drawing on a single word of fiction. Among major historians Terkel is now in orbit all by himself, world class." - Normal Corwin
I'm not 100% sure about anything, but here's something I'm 99% sure of: Read Howard Zinn's The twentieth century: A people's history It's "brilliant and moving...An excellent antidote to establishment history" (library journal) "A step towards a coherent new version of American history" (New York Times book review)
Kevin Phillips' The politics of rich and poor: wealth and the American electorate in the Reagan aftermath Is a classic. And it's by a republican. No, I don't understand either.
I used some ideas from (mostly fat jokes) Al Franken ("the man responsible for some of the most brilliant political satire of our time..." - New York Post)'s Rush Limbaugh is a big fat idiot, and other observations