Power readings

…for the making of future presidents…
– Niccolo Machiavelli’s “The Prince,” which describes the ways by which a leader needs to be respected, feared, etc…, and puts forth in characteristically pragmatic terms how a leader can and should be great.
– Naomi Klein, THE SHOCK DOCTRINE
– Howard Zinn, A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES
– Kim Michaels, THE ART OF NON-WAR
– Jared Diamond, COLLAPSE
– Chalmers Johnson, BLOWBACK triology
– Tom Paine, COLLECTED WORKS/COMMON SENSE
– Al Gore, ASSAULT ON REASON/AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH
– David Cay Johnston, FREE LUNCH
– George Orwell, 1984/ANIMAL FARM
– Naomi Wolff, THE END OF AMERICA: LETTERS TO A YOUNG PATRIOT
– Greg Mortenson, THREE CUPS OF TEA
– Barbara Ehrenreich, NICKLE AND DIMED
– Barbara Tuchman, MARCH OF FOLLY
– Doris Kearns Goodwin, TEAM OF RIVALS
– David Korten, THE GREAT TURNING
– John Steinbeck, THE GRAPES OF WRATH
– Ayn Rand, ATLAS SHRUGGED
– John Dean, BROKEN GOVERNMENT
– John Perkins, CONFESSIONS OF AN ECONOMIC HITMAN
– James Carroll, HOUSE OF WAR
– Thomas Friedman, THE WORLD IS FLAT
– Lao Tzu, TE TAO CHING
– Tim Weiner, LEGACY OF ASHES
– Naomi Klein, THE SHOCK DOCTRINE
– Howard Zinn, A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES
– Kim Michaels, THE ART OF NON-WAR
– Jared Diamond, COLLAPSE
– Chalmers Johnson, BLOWBACK triology
– Tom Paine, COLLECTED WORKS/COMMON SENSE
– Al Gore, ASSAULT ON REASON/AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH
– David Cay Johnston, FREE LUNCH
– George Orwell, 1984/ANIMAL FARM
– Naomi Wolff, THE END OF AMERICA: LETTERS TO A YOUNG PATRIOT
– Greg Mortenson, THREE CUPS OF TEA
– Barbara Ehrenreich, NICKLE AND DIMED
– Barbara Tuchman, MARCH OF FOLLY
– Doris Kearns Goodwin, TEAM OF RIVALS
– David Korten, THE GREAT TURNING
– John Steinbeck, THE GRAPES OF WRATH
– Ayn Rand, ATLAS SHRUGGED
– John Dean, BROKEN GOVERNMENT
– John Perkins, CONFESSIONS OF AN ECONOMIC HITMAN
– James Carroll, HOUSE OF WAR
– Thomas Friedman, THE WORLD IS FLAT
– Lao Tzu, TE TAO CHING
– Tim Weiner, LEGACY OF ASHES
– Nickled and Dimed
– The Guilded Age by Mark Twain

Power reading recommendations at

These power reading recommendations came from Bill Moyer’s blog. It was sent in by one of our edn-in-jpn@yahoogroups.com members, who suggested that they would make excellent reading for any high schooler headed for a course in political studies at college. I agree they are such good choices (source) and to post them here. 

Bill Moyer’s journal page also had lesson plans for educators of highschoolers:
Check out the lesson plans for “Buying the War” here: The Role of Journalists  See URL link.

Also see lesson plan herefor “Revisiting Rachel Carson” profiled here an inspiring writer for naturalists and environmentalists.

Other high school lesson plans one might be interested in looking at are  BILL MOYERS ON FAITH & REASON and MOYERS ON AMERICA, “Capitol Crimes,” “Is God Green?” at “The Net and Risk.”