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End This Depression Now!
by Paul Krugman
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Inventory: 16 Films Featuring Manic Pixie Dream Girls, 10 Great Songs Nearly Ruined by Saxophone, and 100 More Obsessively Specific Pop-Culture Lists
by A. V. Club
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The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America
by David A. Stockman
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Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer--And Turned Its Back on the Middle Class
by Jacob Hacker
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Bailout: An Inside Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street
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Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole
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Sweet Heaven When I Die: Faith, Faithlessness, and the Country in Between
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Bait and Switch
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
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It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism
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Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
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