Salon put up a post about DC’s own Politics & Prose.

Among other things, the bookstore was asked to create a list of recommended books that fit the arbitrary theme of ‘American Spring.’

Well, at least their list looked pretty good.

Ill Fares the Land by Tony Judt

Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber

The Price of Civilization: Reawakening American Virtue and Prosperity by Jeffrey D. Sachs

Death of the Liberal Class by Chris Hedges

The Change I Believe In by Katrina Vanden Heuvel

Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer – And Turned Its Back on the Middle Class by Jacob S. Hacker & Paul Pierson

Were You Born on the Wrong Continent? How the European Model Can Help You Get a Life by Thomas Geoghegan

The Enigma of Capital And the Crises of Capitalism by David Harvey

I can definitely vouch for Ill Fares the Land as being an amazing, though heartbreaking book.