Related Readings

Ïf you find yourself inspired by Somebodies and Nobodies, All Rise, and Dignity for All, you may also enjoy these related readings.

 

Anita Allen, The New Ethics: A Guided Tour of the Twenty-First Century Moral Landscape (New York: Miramax Books, 2004).

 

Mark Ames, Going Postal: Rage, Murder, and Rebellion: From Reagan’s Workplaces to Clinton’s Columbine and Beyond (Brooklyn: Soft Skull Press, 2005).

 

Walter Truett Anderson, The Next Enlightenment: Integrating East and West in a New Vision of Human Evolution (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2003).

 

Kwame Anthony Appiah, The Ethics of Identity (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004).

 

Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon, The Next Attack: The Failure of the War on Terror and a Strategy for Getting it Right (New York: Times Books/Henry Holt & Co., 2005).

 

Alain de Botton, Status Anxiety (New York: Vintage, 2005).

 

Samuel Bowles, et al (eds.), Unequal Chances: Family Background and Economic Success (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005).

 

George Chauncey, Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 (New York: Basic Books, 1995).

 

Gwynne Dyer, Future: Tense: The Coming World Order? (McClelland and Stewart, 2004).

 

Esther Dyson, Release 2.1 (New York: Broadway, 1998).

 

Robert Frank and Phillip J. Cook, The Winner-Take-All Society: Why the Few at the Top Get So Much More Than the Rest of Us (New York: Penguin, 1996).

 

Richard Haass, Intervention: The Use of American Military Force in the Post-Cold War World (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 1994).

 

Morton H. Halperin, The Democracy Advantage: How Democracies Promote Prosperity and Peace (Oxford: Routledge 2004).

 

Chauncey Hare and Judith Wyatt, Work Abuse: How to Recognize and Survive It (Rochester, VT: Schenkman Books Inc. 1997).

 

Stephanie Heuer, I Feel Like Nobody When… I Feel Like Somebody When (Bloomington: Authorhouse 2005).

 

Albert O. Hirschman, Exit Voice and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1970).

 

Adam Hochschild, Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves (Boston: Houghton Mifflin 2005).

 

Mary Johnson, Make Them Go Away: Clint Eastwood, Christopher Reeve and the Case Against Disability Rights (Louisville, KY: The Advocado Press, 2003). See also the online magazine www.ragged-edge-mag.com.

 

Paul W. Kingston, The Classless Society (Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2000).

 

Annette Lareau, Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003).

 

Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Respect: An Exploration (New York: Perseus, 2000).

 

S. M. Miller and Anthony J. Savoie, Respect and Rights: Class, Race and Gender Today (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002).

 

Jay Ogilvy, Many Dimensional Man: Decentralizing Self, Society, and the Sacred (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971).

 

Kevin Phillips, Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich (New York: Broadway, 2003).

 

Sam Roberts, Who We Are Now: The Changing Face of America in the 21st Century (New York: Times Books, 2004).

 

James C. Scott, Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987).

 

Richard Sennett, Respect in a World of Inequality (New York: Norton, 2003).

 

Beth Shulman, The Betrayal of Work: How Low-Wage Jobs Fail 30 Million Americans (New York: New Press, 2003).

 

William Talbott, Which Rights Should Be Universal? (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005).

 

Charles Taylor, Philosophical Arguments (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995).

 

William H. Thomas, What Are Old People For?: How Elders Will Save the World (Acton, MA: Vanderwyk & Burnham, 2004).

 

Mark Twain, What Is Man? (Los Angeles: Green Integer, 2000).

 

Michael Walzer, Arguing About War (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004).

 

Rosalind Wiseman, Queen Bees and Wannabes (New York: Three Rivers Press, 2003) and Queen Bee Moms & Kingpin Dads (New York: Crown, 2006).

 

Kenji Yoshino, Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights (New York: Random House, 2006).

 

Correspondents of The New York Times, Class Matters (New York: Times Books/Henry Holt & Co., 2005).