SUGGESTED READING ★ A-21September 11: http://americanhistory.si.edu/exhibitons/ september- 11
- remembrance- and- reflection
Global Exchange: http://www.globalexchange.org
Making the Macintosh: Technology and Culture in Silicon Valley: http://
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BOOKS
Bacevich, Andrew. American Empire: The Realities and Consequences of U.S. Diplo-
macy (2003). Examines how the idea of an American empire reemerged
after September 11, and some of the results.
Brinkley, Douglas. The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the
Mississippi Gulf Coast (2006). A scathing account of how government at all
levels failed the people of New Orleans.
Cherlin, Andrew J. Labor’s Love Lost: The Rise and Fall of the Working- Class Family
in America (2015). Studies how class differences affect family life and
opportunities for social mobility in today’s America.
Cole, David. Terrorism and the Constitution (rev. ed., 2006). Explores the constitu-
tional issues raised by the war on terrorism.
Fraser, Steve. The Age of Acquiescence (2015). A comparison of the late nine-
teenth century with the current era, exploring why protest against
inequality was stronger in the former.
Gardner, Lloyd C. The Long Road to Baghdad: A History of U.S. Foreign Policy from
the 1970s to the Present (2008). A careful study of recent American foreign
policy and the origins of the Iraq War.
Krugman, Paul. The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008 (2009).
A leading economist explains the origins of the Great Recession.
Lakoff, George. Whose Freedom? The Battle over America’s Most Important Idea
(2006). Describes how conservatives and liberals continue to interpret
freedom in very different ways.
Lansley, Stewart. Divided We Stand: Why Inequality Keeps Rising (2011).
A prominent economist explains the reasons for rising economic
inequality.
Levitas, Mitchell, ed. A Nation Challenged: A Visual History of 9/11 and Its After-
math (2002). Presents striking photographs of the terrorist attacks and the
days that followed.
Little, Douglas. American Orientalism: The United States and the Middle East since
1945 (2003). A careful study of American relations with a volatile region
since World War II.