Rage Against the Machine’s Recommended Reading List
by Karim on December 9, 2011
in Literature
This is Rage Against the Machine’s recommended reading list from the Album cover of “Evil Empire”.
Books from Cover of "Evil Empire"
- “International Terrorism and the CIA” – Mumia Abu-Jamal
- “Live From Death Row” – Mumia Abu-Jamal
- “Joe Hill” – Gibbs M. Smith
- “The Mau Mau War in Perspective” – Frank Furedi
- “The Aesthetic Dimension” – Herbert Marcuse
- “The Fire Last Time: 1968 and After ” – Chris Harman
- “The Media Monopoly” – Ben H. Bagdikian
- “50 Ways To Fight Censorship” – Dave Marsh
- “Hegemony and Revolution: A study of Antonio Gramsci’s Political & Cultural Theory” – Walter L. Adamson
- “The Mismeasure of Man” – Stephen Gould, Che Guevera
- “A New Society: Reflections for Today’s World” – David Deutschmann, Editor
- “The Marx-Engels Reader (2nd ed.)” – Robert C. Tucker, Editor
- “What Uncle Sam Really Wants” – Noam Chomsky
- “Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation” – Jonathan Kozol
- “Marxism and the New Imperialism” – Alex Callinicos, John Rees, Chris Harman, Mike Haynes
- “Rules for Radicals” – Saul D. Alinsky
- “A People’s History of the United States” – Howard Zinn
- “The Lorax” – Dr. Seuss
- “East Los Angeles, history of a barrio” – Richard Romo
- “Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II” – William Blum
- “Race for Justice: Mumia Abu-Jamal’s Fight Against The Death Penalty” – Leonard Weinglass
- “Guerilla Warfare” – Che Guevera
- “Zapata of Mexico” – Peter E. Newell
- “Malcolm X Speaks – Selected Speeches and statements” – George Breitman
- “Marxism and the Press: Oppression of Women, Toward a Unitary Theory” – Lise Vogel
- “Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America” – Walter LaFeber
- “The Chomsky Reader” – James Peck, Editor
- “Chicano Politics: Reality and Promise 1940-1990″ – Juan Gomez Quinones
- “The Wretched of the Earth” – Franz Fanon
- “What is Communist Anarchism?” – Alexander Berkman
- “Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson” – George Jackson
- “Fidel and religion: Conversations With Frei Betto” – Frei Betto
- “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave” – Frederick Douglass
- “Democracy is in the Streets” – James Miller
- “Capital, Volume One” – Karl Marx
- “The Black Panthers Speak” – Philip S. Foner, Editor
- “Keeping The Rabble in line Interviews with David Barsamian” – Noam Chomsky
- “Walden” and “Civil Disobedience” – Henry David Thoreau
- “Darkness at Noon” – Arthur Koester
- “The Culture of Narcissism: American Life of Diminishing Expectations” – Christopher Lasch
- “Play it as it lays” – Joan Didion
- “The State and Revolution” – V.I. Lenin
- “Soul on Ice” – Eldridge Cleaver
- “Kwame Nkrumah: The Conarky Years, His Life and Letters” – Compiled by June Milne
- “Revolutionary Suicide” – Huey P. Newton
- “The Anarchist Cookbook” – William Powell
- “Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media” – Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky
- “Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” – James Joyce
- “Another country” – James Baldwin
- “The Grapes of Wrath” – John Steinbeck
- “The Armies of the Night” – Norman Mailer
- “Invisible Man” – Ralph Ellison
- “Rebellion from the Roots: Indian uprising in Chiapas” – John Ross
- “First World Ha! Ha! Ha! – The Zapatista challenge” – Elaine Katzenberger, Editor
- “The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge” – Carlos Castaneda
- “Tropic of Cancer” – Henry Miller
- “Johnny Got His Gun” – Dalton Trumbo
- “Essays in existentialism” – Jean-Paul Sartre
- “How Real is Real? Confusion, disinformation, communication” – Paul Watzlawick
- “Ghost of a Chance” – William S.Burroughs
- “Popism :The Warhol Sixties” – Andy Warhol & Pat Hackett
- “Chicana falsa and other stories of death, identity, and Oxnard” – Michele M. Serros
- “Promisory Notes: Women in the Transition to socialism” – Sonia Kruks, Ranya Rapp, Marilyn B. Young, Editors
- “Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the making of a gay world” – George Chauncey
- “This bridge called my back: Writings by radical women of color” – Cherrie Monzaga, Gloria Anzaluda, Editors
- “Women of Color Subliminal Seduction” – Wilson Bryan Key, Editor
- “Power at Play: Sports and the Problem of Masculinity” – Michael A. Messner
- “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women” – Susan Faludi
- “90 Years of Ford” – George H. Dammann
- “Illustrated History of Ford” – George H. Damman
- “The Challenge of Local Feminisms: Women Movements in Global Perspective” – Amrita Basu
- “Miles, the Autobiography” – Miles Davis
- “The Sixties Papers: Documents of a Rebellious Decade” – Judith Clavir Albert and Stewart Edward Albert
- “The Graphic Work” – M. C. Escher
- “Bob Marley Spirit Dancer” – Bruce W. Talamon
- “Dali: The Paintings ” – Benedikt Taschen, Robert Taschen, Giles Neret
- “For Whom The Bell Tolls” – Ernest Hemingway
- “Eros And Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud” – Herbert Marcuse
- “Cheer Up Book for a Proud American” – Dan Valentine
- “The Way Things Aren’t” – Steve Rendall, Jim Naureckas, Jeff Cohen
- “War and an Irish Town” – Eamonn McCann
- “Moving the Center: The Struggle for Cultural Freedoms” – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
- “Interview With Chairman Gonzalo” – El Diario Newspaper
- “The Dust Rose Like Smoke: The Subjugation of the Zulu and the Sioux” – James O. Gump
- “The Last Mau Mau Field Marshalls” – David Njagi
- “God Dies By The Nile” – Naval El Saadawi
- “You Can’t Win” – Jack Black
- “Year 501: The Conquest Continues” – Noam Chomsky
- “Beyond Good and Evil” – Friedrich Nietzche
- “Deterring Democracy” – Noam Chomsky
- “Mau Mau Detainee” – Josiah Mwangi Kariuki
- “In the Spirit of Crazy Horse” – Peter Mathiessen
- “Marx’s Kapital for Beginners” – David Smith & Phil Evans
- “How the Other Half Lives” – Jacob A. Riis
- “The Weatherman” – Steve Thayer
- “U.S.A.” – John Dos Passos
- “The Naked and the Dead” – Norman Mailer
- “My Antonia” – Willa Cather
- “The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State” – Friedrich Engels
- “Slouching Towards Bethlehem” – Joan Didion
- “The Gypsy’s Curse” – Harry Crews
- “Basta! Land and the Zapatista – Rebellion in Chiapas” – George A. Collier
- “The State of Native America: Genocide, Colonization, Resistance” – Annette James, Editor
- “SNCC The New Abolitionists” – Howard Zinn
Not on the Cover but on the Recommended Reading List…
- “Always a Rebel: Ricardo Flores, Magon and the Mexican Revolution” – Ward S. Albro
- “Go Tell It On a Mountain” – James Baldwin
- “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” – Harriet Beecher Stowe
- “Black Boy” – James Baldwin
- “Animal Farm” – George Orwell
- “Steal This Book” – Abbie Hoffman
- “The Quiet American” – Graham Greene
- “Odes To Opposites” – Pablo Neruda
- “Giovanni’s Room” – James Baldwin
- “The Confessions of Nat Turner” – William Styron
- “O Pioneers” – Willa Cather
- “The Souls of Black Folk” – W.E.B. DuBois
- “Rights of Man” – Thomas Paine
- “The Bluest Eye” – Toni Morrison
- “Salvador” – Joan Didion
- “Savage Inequalities” – Jonathan Kozol
- “Between Hell and Reason” – Albert Camus
- “Women, Race, and Class” – Angela Y. Davis
- “Song of Solomon” – Toni Morrison
- “American Slavery, American Freedom” – Edmund S. Morgan
- “America’s Reconstruction” – Eric Foner & Olivia Mahoney
- “Parting the Waters” – Taylor Branch
- “Native Son” – Richard Wright
- “Dispatches” – Michael Herr
- “Ideas & Opinions” – Albert Einstein
- “Censored: The News that Didn’t Make the Newspapers and Why” – Carl Jensen
- “The Emperor Wears No Clothes” – Jack Herer
Original List from Everything 2. But I wanted to replicate it for my own sake. I love RATM.
