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INFORMATIVE, GALVANIZING BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE HOLIDAYS  
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Ralph Nader
December 13, 2022
Common Dreams
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_ Readers Think, Thinkers Read. _

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THE FOLLOWING RECENT BOOKS invite the application of the aphorism,
Readers Think, Thinkers Read. They also make good gifts for this
Holiday season.

1. _Fashionopolis: The Secrets Behind the Clothes We Wea_r by Dana
Thomas (Dial Books, 2022). I learned much from this eyewitness story
of the textile and fashion industry worldwide.

2. _Who’s Raising the Kids? The Big Tech, Big Business, and the
Lives of Children_ by Susan Linn (The New Press, 2022) and _You Are
Your Own Best Teacher! Sparking the Curiosity, Imagination and
Intellect of Tweens_ by Claire Nader (Essential Books, 2022). Both
books will encourage you to rescue youngsters from controlling
corporate hucksters and the addictive Internet Gulag.

3. _100% Democracy: The Case for Universal Voting_ by E.J. Dionne Jr.
and Miles Rapoport (The New Press, 2022). Even if you are skeptical
about universal voting, the authors make it easy for you to change
your mind.

4. _The Greatest Evil is War_ by Chris Hedges (Seven Stories Press,
2022) and _The Spoils of War: Power, Profit and the American War
Machine_ by Andrew Cockburn (Verso, 2021) and _War Virtually: The
Quest to Automate Conflict, Militarize Data and Predict the
Future_ by Roberto J. González (University of California Press,
2022). These clear writers may motivate you to join or create groups
that wage peace, starting with recapturing Congress, focusing first on
your two Senators and Representatives.

5. _The Destructionists: The Twenty-Five Year Crack-Up of the
Republican Party_ by Dana Milbank (Doubleday, 2022) and _Demolition
Agenda: How Trump Tried to Dismantle American Government, and What
Biden Needs to Do to Save It_ by Thomas O. McGarity (The New Press,
2022). These narratives show how Trumpsters adversely affected your
family and community’s livelihood, health and safety and favored
giant corporations.

6. _Wastelands: The True Story of Farm Country on Trial_ by Corban
Addison (Knopf, 2022) is likely to become a movie about brave local
people using tort law and jury trials to take on giant industrial Pig
Farms in North Carolina. _We Are the Middle of Forever: Indigenous
Voices from Turtle Island on the Changing Earth_ by Dahr Jamail and
Stan Rushworth (The New Press, 2022) gives voice to first
Natives. _Atomic Days: The Untold Story of the Most Toxic Place in
America_ by Joshua Frank (Haymarket Books, 2022) – exposes the
expanding deadly radioactive threats at the Hanford Washington Testing
Site. This three-book trilogy can be called The Poisoning of America.

7. _Servants of the Damned: Giant Law Firms, Donald Trump, and the
Corruption of Justice_ by David Enrich (Mariner Books, 2022)
and _American Cartel: Inside the Battle to Bring Down the Opioid
Industry_ by Sari Horwitz and Scott Higham (Twelve, 2022). Both books
report commercial ravages against justice and safety, and explain how
the corporate crooks were shielded by corporate law firms.

8. _Buyer Aware: Harnessing Our Consumer Power for a Safe, Fair, and
Transparent Marketplace_ by Marta L. Tellado (PublicAffairs, 2022).
The head of Consumer Reports highlights the tools you can use to
outfox tricky sellers.

9. In my two books on improving conditions for all
Americans, _Breaking Through Power: It’s Easier Than We
Think_ (City Lights Publishers, 2016) and _The Day the Rats Vetoed
Congress_ (Fantagraphics Books, 2020), I report how people made
change, how to make greater overdue advances and offer a Fable that
makes you laugh yourself serious and rejoice in the practical arousal
of the people to reclaim their Congress from the corporatists and then
get justice done pronto. We need to imagine so as to envision real
possibilities.

10. Between your reading feasts, maybe you will want to sit down to
delicious, nutritious food feasts, and use _The Ralph Nader and
Family Cookbook: Classic Recipes from Lebanon and Beyond_ includes
mostly my mom’s great, simple recipes (Akashic Books, 2020). Parents
looking for advice to convince children to be less picky eaters may
want to read the introduction. Bon Appétit!

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RALPH NADER [[link removed]] is a
consumer advocate and the author of "_The Seventeen Solutions: Bold
Ideas for Our American Future
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with Mark Green).

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