I have put together a list of books about Green, socialist, and left politics, and  the Third-Party movement in the U.S.A.  They will give you a reading course in this topic.  If you would like to suggest other books for the list, please send me email:  jberg@world.std.com.

My main purpose is to promote these books and the politics behind them.  However, in order to help defray the expense of maintaining this site, I have made an arrangement with Amazon.com, the online bookstore.  If you choose to buy any of the listed books from Amazon.com, you can do so by clicking on the title of the book.  If you do so, Amazon.com will give you their regular discount, and will also pay me a commission.  There is no obligation on your part, of course--you are free to use the information on this page in any way you like (as long as any direct quotation of the reviews is attributed to me by name.)

Thanks for reading my book reviews!

•  Books about Green politics
•  Books about the Third Party movement
•  Books about election law reform
•  Books by my friends
•  Books with a Dorchester focus
•  Books about enjoying nature and the outdoors
•  Buy my books!

• Just released (Fall 2002) -- my edited book Teamsters and Turtles? U.S. Progressive Political Movements in the 21st Century with chapters on 10 contemporary political movements: global justice, labor, women, AIDS action, students, peace, environmental, disability, human rights, and the elderly.
• My own book, John C. Berg,  Unequal Struggle : Class, Gender, Race, and Power in the U.S. Congress (1995), is my attempt to develop a Marxist theory of the United States Congress.  There are chapters contrasting the Congressional power of big business with the weakness of organized labor (and still greater weakness of the unorganized working class), along with fascinating chapters on the representation of women and of African Americans in Congress.  The book is out of print, but Amazon says that they can supply it in 2-3 days, so perhaps they have some in stock.  I recommend it highly!
• Although Unequal Struggle is out of print, the chapter on Congress and Big Business has been reprinted in  Voices of Dissent : Critical Readings in American Politics, an anthology for classroom use edited by William F. Grover and Joseph G. Peschek.
• If you want more of my writing, you can find my chapter on Massachusetts politics, "Citizen Power vs. Corporate Power," in Ronald J. Hrebenar and Clive S. Thomas, eds.,  Interest Group Politics in the Northeastern States (1993).
• My article "Beyond a Third Party: The Other Minor Parties in the 1996 Elections" -- other meaning "other than the Reform party" in this context -- can be found in John C. Green and Daniel M. Shea, eds.,  The State of the Parties: The Changing Role of Contemporary American Parties (1999).
• Want more of my work?  You can find my report on Massachusetts legislative redistricting after the 1980 census in Leroy Hardy, ed.,  Redistricting in the Nineteen Eighties : A Fifty State Survey (1993), now out of print.
• For the true diehard fan, my article on Congressional reform--in which I argue that the dumping of three conservative chairs by the House Democractic Caucus in 1975 had little effect on policy--can be found in Leroy Rieselbach, ed.,  Legislative Reform: The Policy Impact (1986, first published 1977). (Yes, I have a thing for editors named Leroy).