This week we focus on book recommendations for listeners interested in learning more about our current democracy, warts and all! The books are:

The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, by John Perkins

The Politics Industry: How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy, by Katherine Gehl and Michael Porter

Shadow Network: Media, Money, and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right, by Anne Nelson

Let them Eat Tweets: How the Right Rules in an Age of Extreme Inequality, by Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson