Political Books/Articles Still Worth Reading

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The only "political book" remotely worth reading is Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72.

I also would recommend a book called 'Divided They Stand', by a British journalist named David English, about the 1968 election.  as a 15 year old I thought it was the sh**t and even now am capable of appreciating it.  unfortunately it's long out of print; I got it from a used bookstore around here at age 13 that is long, long out of business.

EDIT: a brief look around the usual places (Amazon, eBay) suggests that it's easier and cheaper to track down than I'd thought.

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Stayin' Alive by Jefferson Cowie is a good read if you want to get a closer look at the cracking up of the New Deal coalition and the emergence of the New Right in the United States.

hah, I had a course with Cowie.  he is one of the most visible ILR professors.  I never read Stayin' Alive but the more orthodox-Marxian professors I came into contact with hated it (or begrudged him the attention he was getting from the bourgeois press - who knows).