Black Reconstruction in America - W.E.B. De Bois
This pioneering work is a classical treatise on the significance and importance of the role and status of Black people during the reconstruction period and beyond. Further, DuBois explores the status and relationships between the protagonists in the Economic System; free Blacks, White workers and the former slaveholders. Of critical importance is DuBois’ acknowledgement of the working-class division on the basis of racist propaganda. In this era of widescale voter suppression and disenfranchisement aimed at the Black electorate; this point should take center-stage among those engaged in social activism.
Fateful Triangle - Noam Chomsky
This can best be described as “classic Chomsky.” Detailed, surgically precise and clear. So far the most historically comprehensive and factual coverage of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict; it exposes the hypocrisy and intellectual dishonesty that exists among US politicians on both sides and their mouthpieces in the Corporate media. If the Israeli/Palestinian conflict is to be learnt and understood, this volume is a must read.