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	"Superclass: The Global Power Elite & The World They Are   Making" [2008] by David Rothkopf There are just 6,000 people in the superclass of the XXth Century, one out of every million humans on the planet. FS&G hardcover [3/2008] for $17.16
	"The Bottom Billion: Why The Poorest Countries Are Failing & What Can Be Done About It" [2007] by Paul Collier Oxford Univ Press pb [9/2008] for $10.85   Oxford Univ Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [4/2007] for $18.48
	"Why America Lost The War On Poverty - and How To Win It" [2007] by Frank Stricker Univ NC Press 9¼x6 pb [7/2007] for $19.95 Univ NC Press 9¼x6½ hardcover [7/2007] for $59.95
	"The Syndicate: The Story of The Coming World Government" [2004] by Nicholas Hagger O Books 8¾x6 pb [11/2004] for $13.46
	"Free Lunch: How The Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves At Government Expense (and Stick You With The Bill)" [2007] by David Cay Johnston Portfolio 9x6 hardcover [12/2007] for $16.47 Penguin ABR audio CD read by the author [12/2007] for $19.77
	"The Squandering of America: How The Failure of Our Politics Undermines Our Prosperity" [2007] by Robert Kuttner {co-founder of The American Prospect & of The Economic Policy Institute} Knopf 9x6½ hardcover [11/2007] for $17.79
	"The New Golden Age: The Coming Revolution Against Political Corruption & Economic Chaos" [2007] by Ravi Batra Projecting from the work of his mentor, P.R. Sarkar of India, the author describes the likely outcome of the excesses of the Age of Acquisitors: Today's economic and political corruption will continue to escalate and worsen until the Working Class eventually rises up like warriors against the Oligarchy. {Optimistic? We shall see.} Palgrave Macmillan 9¼x6 hardcover [1/2007] for $18.45 Blackstone UNABR audio CD [1/2007] for $22.76
	"Are The Rich Necessary?: Great Economic Arguments & How They Reflect Our Personal Values" [2007] by Hunter Lewis Axios Press hardcover [9/2007] for $13.60 official booksite
	"Falling Behind: How Rising Inequality Harms The Middle Class" [2007] by Robert H. Frank Univ CA Press 8x5 pb [7/2007] for $13.57 Univ CA Press 8½x5½ hardcover [7/2007] for $50.00
	"The Hegemony of Common Sense: Wisdom & Mystification In Everyday Life" [2006] by Dean Wolfe Manders examines how deeply embedded 'class' is in American society, thru paroemiology, the study of popular sayings Peter Lang Publg pb [8/2006] for $34.95

	"Planet of Slums" [2006] by Mike Davis Verso 8½x6 hardcover [3/2006] for $15.60
	"The Global Class War: How America's Bipartisan Elite Lost Our Future - and What It Will Take To Win It Back" [2006] by Jeff Faux Wiley 9½x6½ hardcover [1/2006] for $18.45 author's E.P.I. bookpage
	"War On The Middle Class: How The Government, Big Business & Special Interest Groups Are Waging War On The American Dream - and How To Fight Back" [2006] by Lou Dobbs Penguin 8½x5½ pb [9/2007] for $9.00 Viking 9½x6½ hardcover [10/2006] for $14.97 author's official C.N.N. website
	"Power and Powerlessness" [2006] by Susan Rosenthal Trafford pb [9/2006] for $18.23 official booksite
	"Screwed: The Undeclared War Against The Middle Class - And What We Can Do About It" [2006] by Thom Hartmann, Foreword by Mark Crispin Miller Berrett-Koehler expanded 8x5½ pb [4/2007] for $10.17 Berrett-Koehler hardcover [8/2006] for $15.61 publisher bookpage author website
	"Inequality Matters: The Growing Economic Divide In America & Its Poisonous Consequences" [2006] Edited by Jim Lardner & David Smith; Foreword by Bill Moyers New Press 8x5½ hardcover [1/2006] for $16.35
	"The Undercover Economist: Exposing Why The Rich Are Rich, The Poor Are Poor – and Why You Can Never Buy a Decent Used Car!" [2005] by Tim Harford Oxford Univ Press 9½x6½ hardcover [11/2005] for $17.16
	"The Battle For The Soul of Capitalism: How The Financial System Under- mined Social Ideals, Damaged Trust In The Markets, Robbed Investors of Trillions – and What To Do About It" [2005] by John C. Bogle Yale Univ Press hardcover [11/2005] for $16.50
	"Empire of Debt: The Rise Of An Epic Financial Crisis" [2005] by Bill Bonner & Addison Wiggin Wiley 9½x6 hardcover [11/2005] for $18.45 their 'Agora Financial' website their 'Daily Reckoning' website
	"An End To Poverty?: A Historical Debate" [2005] by Gareth Stedman Jones Columbia Univ Press 7x6½ hardcover [10/2005] for $29.50
	"Restoring The American Dream: A Working Families' Agenda For America" [2005] by Thomas A. Kochan M.I.T. Press 9x6 pb [10/2006] for $11.16 M.I.T. Press 9x6 hardcover [9/2005] for $21.24 publisher's bookpage
	"Short ¢hanged: Life & Debt In The Fringe Economy" [2005] by Howard Karger Berrett-Koehler 9½x6¼ hardcover [9/2005] for $16.47 official booksite
	"Class Matters" [2005] by correspondents of the New York Times; Introduction by Bill Keller Times Books 8x6½ pb [8/2005] for $10.78
	"Winning" [2005] by Jack Welch, with Suzy Welch "No other management book will ever be needed." — Warren E. Buffett 2005 bestseller at the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal HarperBusiness 9x6¼ hardcover [4/2005] for $19.56 HarperAudio UNABR audio CD [4/2005] 10 disks for $26.37 official booksite
	"The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities For Our Time" [2005] by Jeffrey D. Sachs Penguin 9½x6½ hardcover [3/2005] for $18.45 official bookpage author's page at The Earth Institute of Columbia University United Nations Millennium Project website Time Magazine cover story / book excerpt [March 2005] listed as one of the Time Magazine 100 (April 2005)
	"Shadow Cities: A Billion Squatters, A New Urban World" [2004] by Robert Neuwirth Routledge 9¼x6½ pb [3/2006] for $18.95 Routledge 9¼x6¼ hardcover [11/2004] for $33.87
	"Pay It Down!: From Debt To Wealth On $10 A Day" [2004] by Jean Chatzky Portfolio 7¼x5 pb [1/2006] for $10.36 Portfolio 7½x5¼ hardcover [9/2004] for $13.57 author website
	"The Fortune At The Bottom of The Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits" [2004] by C.K. Prahalad Wharton School 9x6¼ pb [1/2006] for $11.04 Wharton School hardcover {book & CD-ROM} [8/2004] for $18.89
	"The Business of America: How Consumers Have Replaced Citizens & How We Can Reverse The Trend" [2004] by Saul Landau Routledge 8¼x5½ pb [6/2004] for $12.57 Routledge 8¼x5½ hardcover [7/2004] for $75.00 author's website
	"Running On Empty: How The Democratic & Republican Parties Are Bankrupting Our Future & What Americans Can Do About It" [2004] by Peter G. Peterson "It's a rare pleasure to see both political parties chastised equally." — Howard S. Marks, Los Angeles Times Book Review Picador 8½x5½ pb [6/2005] for $10.20 FS&G hardcover [7/2004] for $16.32
	"Greed and Good: Understanding & Overcoming The Inequality That Limits Our Lives" [2004] by Sam Pizzigati CIPA-Apex Press 6¼x9 hardcover [5/2004] for $29.71 official booksite
	"Who Shot Goldilocks?: How Alan Greenspan Did In Our Jobs, Savings & Retirement Plans" [2004] by William D. Rutherford Crown Point Press 9x5½ hardcover [5/2004] for $13.27
	"Take The Rich Off Welfare" [1996; rev 2004] by Mark Zepezauer South End Press 8½x5½ pb [4/2004] for $10.50 South End Press 8x6½ hardcover [4/2004] for $40.00
	"The Coming Generational Storm: What You Need To Know about America's Economic Future" [2004] by Laurence J. Kotlikoff & Scott Burns "On balance, the book does an excellent job of preaching two economic basics. First, our promise of Social Security & Medicare benefits in their current form to all retired Americans, regardless of means, is unsustainable. ... Second, individuals & families need to save more for their futures." — Los Angeles Times Book Review M.I.T. Press 9x6¼ pb [1/2005] for $11.53 M.I.T. Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [4/2004] out of print/used
	"The Working Poor: Invisible In America" [2004] by Pulitzer-winning former N.Y. Times reporter David K. Shipler Vintage 8x5¼ pb [1/2005] for $10.50 Knopf 9.6x6.6 hardcover [2/2004] for $16.50
	"Perfectly Legal: The Secret Campaign To Rig Our Tax System To Benefit The Super Rich - and Cheat Everybody Else" [2003] by New York Times reporter David Cay Johnston Portfolio 8½x5½ pb [1/2005] for $10.20 Portfolio 9¼x6.4 hardcover [12/2003] for $16.35 official booksite
	"The New Ruthless Economy: Work & Power In The Digital Age" [2003] by Simon Head Oxford Univ Press 8x5½ pb [3/2005] for $10.17 Oxford Univ Press 9½x6¼ hardcover [11/2003] for $18.48
	"Poverty In America: A Handbook" [2003] by John Iceland Univ CA Press 9x6 2nd edition pb [2/2006] for $19.76 Univ CA Press 9¼x6 hardcover [10/2003] for $50.00
	"The Soul of Capitalism: Opening Paths To A Moral Economy" [2003] by William Greider S&S 9¼x6 pb [8/2004] for $11.20 S&S hardcover [9/2003] for $17.64 Highbridge ABR audio CD [9/2003] for $32.95 Highbridge ABR audio [9/2003] for $32.95 author website & blog
	"The Betrayal of Work: How Low-Wage Jobs Fail 30 Million Americans & Their Families" [2003] by Beth Shulman New Press 7&frav34x5½ hardcover [9/2003] for $16.35
	"Low-Wage America: How Employers Are Reshaping Opportunity In The Workplace" [2003] Edited by Eileen Appelbaum, Annette Bernhardt & Richard J. Murnane "Nearly 24 percent of the labor force earn less than $8.70 an hour, not enough to keep a family of four out of poverty, even working full-time year-round." Russell Sage Fndtn 9½x6.3 hardcover [9/2003] for $45.00 publisher's bookpage
	"Take Back Your Time: Fighting Overwork & Time Poverty In America" [2003] Edited by John de Graaf Berrett-Koehler 9x6 pb [7/2003] for $10.17 official website
	"Eco-Nomics: What Everyone Should Know About Economics & The Environment" [2003] by Richard L. Stroup Cato Institute 9x6 pb [5/2003] for $3.98
	"Work To Live: The Guide To Getting A Life" [2003] by Joe Robinson Perigee 9¼x6 pb [1/2003] for $10/47 author booksite
	"UNequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate Dominance & The Theft of Human Rights" [2002] by Thom Hartmann Rodale 8¾x6 pb [4/2004] for $10.85 Rodale 9.4x6.4 hardcover [10/2002] for $16.98 author website official booksite
	"Wealth and Democracy: How Great Fortunes & Government Created America's Aristocracy" [2002] by Kevin Phillips listed in 'Los Angeles Times 100 Best Books of 2002' Broadway Books 9¼x6¼ pb [4/2003] for $11.87 Broadway Books hardcover [5/2002] for $20.97
	"Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of The All-American Meal" [2001] by Eric Schlosser a hundred years after Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle", and here we go again... HarperCollins 8x5¼ pb [1/2002] for $9.77 Houghton Mifflin 9x6 hardcover [1/2001] for $17.50 Bantam ABRIDGED audio [1/2002] for $20.97 feature film announced for 2006: web-article • latest info at IMDb
	"Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America" [2001] by Barbara Ehrenreich winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize April 2002 Owl Books 9x5 pb [5/2002] for $7.80 Metropolitan 9x5¾ hardcover [5/2001] for $16.10 author's website • "Nickel & Dimed: The Play" [2002]
	"Class War In America: How The Economic & Political Conservatives Are Exploiting Low- & Middle-Class Americans" [2000] by Charles M. Kelly Fithian Press 9x6 pb [9/2000] for $15.95
	"The Working Class Majority: America's Best Kept Secret" [2000] by Michael Zweig "[a] pungent critique of class and economics in the U.S. ... an insightful, radical analysis that will make many readers rethink commonly held but unexamined beliefs" – Publishers Weekly Cornell Univ Press 9x6 pb [2/2001] for $0.00 Cornell Univ Press 9x5¾ hardcover [4/2000] out of print/used
	"The Coming Class War & How To Avoid It: Rebuilding The American Middle Class" [1999] by Frederick R. Strobel & Wallace C. Peterson M.E. Sharpe 8½x5¾ hardcover [6/99] for $35.95
	"The Overspent American: Upscaling, Downshifting & The New Consumer" [1998] by Juliet B. Schor Perennial 8x5¼ pb [5/99] for $10.40 Basic Books 9¾x6½ pb [5/98] out of print/used

	"Class War: The Attack On Working People" [1996] by Noam Chomsky Epitaph audio CD [11/98] for $14.99
	"Bogle On Mutual Funds: New Perspectives For The Intelligent Investor" [1993] by John C. Bogle Dell 9x6 pb [9/94] for $12.24 McGraw Hill 9¼x6¼ hardcover [9/93] for $16.50
	"Dynamite: A Century of Class Violence In America, 1830-1930" [1984] by Louis Adamic A.K./Rebel Press 8¼x6 pb [6/84] for $12.99

"Class Act: America's Last Dirty Secret" [1983]
by Benita Eisler
FWatts/Scholastic hardcover [11/83] out of print/many used

"Not Working: An Oral History of The Unemployed" [1979] by Harry Maurer
Plume mass pb [3/81] out of print/used
Holt, Rinehart & Winston hardcover [12/79] out of print/used

	"How To Be Rich: His Formulas" [1965] by J. Paul Getty [1892-1976] Jove pb [9/86] for $6.99 Playboy Press hardcover [1965] out of print/used
	"The Making of The English Working Class" [1963 classic] by E.P. Thompson [1924-93] Vintage 8x5¼ pb [2/66] for $15.75 Peter Smith Publr 8½x5¾ hardcover [6/99] for $36.49
	"The Other America: Poverty In The United States" [1962 classic] by Michael Harrington Scribner 8½x5½ pb [8/97] for $13.00 Collier pb [1/94] out of print/many used MacMillan hardcover [6/70] out of print/used
	"The Power Elite" [1956] by C. Wright Mills Oxford Univ Press pb [1/2000] for $13.27 Oxford Univ Press pb [2/93] out of print/used Oxford Univ Press pb [1/60] out of print/used more C. Wright Mills at Maison d'Être Philosophy Bookstore
	"Native Land" b&w docu film [Frontier Films 1942] Co-written & co-produced & co-directed by Leo Hurwitz & Paul Strand, co-written by Ben Maddow; narrated by Paul Robeson "a scathing leftist critique of violence, racism & working class oppression" Kino Video b&w VHS [3/94] for $59.95 full credits from IMDb
	"War of The Classes" [1905] by Jack London Synergy Intl 8x5 pb [11/2000] for $13.97 IndyPublish 9x6 pb [1/2003] for $17.99 IndyPublish 9x6 hardcover [1/2003] for $22.99 Quiet Vision CD-ROM [7/99] for $5.98
	"Wealth Against Commonwealth" [1894 classic] by muckraker Henry Demarest Lloyd [1847-1903] Greenwood Press hardcover [3/76] for $45.00 Reprint Services hardcover [11/99] for $126.99
	"Caesar's Column: A Story of The Twentieth Century" [1890] by Ignatius Donnelly, edited by Nicholas Ruddick Classic early dystopian science fiction novel: A Swiss from Africa visits New York City at the time that American labor revolts against their rich bosses. Wesleyan Univ Press 8½x5½ pb [12/2003] for $17.90 Fredonia Books 8x5 pb [11/2004] for $29.95

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