Books - recommended reading

·          50 Ways to Love Your Country by MoveOn.org

·          A New Religious America by Diana L. Eck

·          Believe Again in America by Phyllis Stenerson

·          Call to Liberty by Anthony Signorelli

·          Conscience of a Liberal by Paul Krugman

·          Credo by William Sloane Coffin

·          Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville

·          Democracy Matters by Cornel West

·          Democracy's Edge, by Frances Moore Lappe

·          Don't Think of an Elephant by George Lakoff

·          Emotion Marketing by Scott Robinette and Claire Brand

·          Envisioning a Sustainable Society, learning our way out by Lester W. Milbrath

·          For Freedom's Sake, the life of Fannie Lou Hamer by Chana Kai Lee

·          Framing the Debate by Jeffrey Feldman

·          God's Politics by Jim Wallis

·          Moral Imagination by Mark Johnson

·          Moral Politics by George Lakoff

·          Moyers on America, a journalist and his times by Bill Moyers

·          Moyers on Democracy by Bill Moyers

·          Our Endangered Values by Jimmy Carter

·          Paideia, the ideals of Greek culture, Volumes I, II, III by Werner Jaeger

·          Race Matters by Cornel West

·          So Help Me God by Forrest Church

·          Soul of a Citizen, living with conviction in a cynical time by Paul Rogat Loeb

·          Start Making Sense published by AlterNet

·          The Age of American Unreason by Susan Jacoby

·          The American Creed by Forrest Church

·          The American Soul by Jacob Needleman

·          The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama

·          The Beloved Community, how faith shapes social justice by Charles Marsh

·          The Conscience of a Liberal by Paul Krugman

·          The Creativity Force by Dr. Berenice Bleedorn

·          The Cultural Creatives by Paul Ray, Ph.D. and Sherry Ruth Anderson, Ph.D.

·          The Experience Economy by B. Joseph Pine II and James H. Gilmore

·          The Future of Liberalism by Alan Wolfe

·          The Great Transformation by Karen Armstrong

·          The Great Turning, from empire to earth community by David C. Korten

·          The Impossible Will Take a Little While edited by Paul Rogat Loeb

·          The Influentials by Ed Keller and John Berry

·          The Left Hand of God, healing America's political and spiritual crisis by Rabbi Michael Lerner

·          The New American Story by Bill Bradley

·          The Passion of the Western Mind, understanding the ideas that have shaped our world view by Richard Tarnas

·          The Political Brain by Drew Westen

·          The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell

·          Thinking Points by George Lakoff

·          This Land is Their Land by Barbara Ehrenreich

·          Visionaries, the 20th century's 100 most important inspirational leaders edited by Satish Kumar and Freddie Whitefield

·          Voices of Protest edited by Frank Lowenstein, Sheryl Lechner and Erik Bruun

·          We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For, inner light in a time of darkness - by Alice Walker

·          Words That Work by Frank Luntz