Dave Mandl’s Recommended Reading List
  1. •Archigram: A Guide to Archigram, 1961-1974
  2. •Eugène Atget: Atget Paris
  3. •Paul Avrich: Anarchist Voices: An Oral History of Anarchism in America
  4. •Nicholson Baker: Double Fold
  5. •James Bamford: The Puzzle Palace
  6. •Gabriele Basilico: Cityscapes
  7. •Bernd and Hilla Becher: Industrial Facades
  8. •John Beecher: Charles Fourier: The Visionary and His World
  9. •Hakim Bey: T. A. Z.
  10. •Bob Black: The Abolition of Work
  11. •Pierre Bourdieu: Distinction
  12. •Robert Caro: The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
  13. •Noam Chomsky: Language and Politics
  14. •Pierre Clastres: Society Against the State
  15. •Claudia: I, Claudia
  16. •Daniel and Gabriel Cohn-Bendit: Obsolete Communism: The Left-Wing Alternative
  17. •Chris Cutler: File Under Popular
  18. •Guy Debord: The Society of the Spectacle
  19. •William Eggleston: 2 1/4
  20. •Walker Evans: Polaroids
  21. •Paul Feyerabend: Against Method
  22. •Jim Fleming and Peter Lamborn Wilson (eds.): Semiotext(e) USA
  23. •Mary Mix Foley: The American House
  24. •H. W. Fowler: A Dictionary of Modern English Usage
  25. •Thomas Frank: One Market Under God
  26. •Nelson Goodman: Languages of Art
  27. •Benjamin Graham: The Intelligent Investor
  28. •Jonathon Green: Days in the Life
  29. •Patrick Hamilton: Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky
  30. •Doug Henwood: Wall Street
  31. •Todd Hido: Outskirts
  32. •Richard Hofstadter: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
  33. •Michael Jackson: The New World Guide to Beer
  34. •Jane Jacobs: The Death and Life of Great American Cities
  35. •Ken Knabb (ed.): The Situationist International Anthology
  36. •William Labov: Sociolinguistic Patterns
  37. •Paul Lafargue: The Right to Be Lazy
  38. •George Lakoff: Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things
  39. •Mark Lewisohn: The Beatles: Recording Sessions
  40. •John Litweiler: The Freedom Principle: Jazz After 1958
  41. •P. M.: bolo'bolo
  42. •Jerry Mander: Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television
  43. •George Orwell: Down and Out in Paris and London
  44. •Vance Packard: The Waste Makers
  45. •Eric Partridge: A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
  46. •Fredy Perlman: Against His-story, Against Leviathan!
  47. •Tom Philips: A Humument
  48. •Bart Plantenga: Wiggling Wishbone
  49. •Francois Rabelais: The Most Horrific Life of the Great Gargantua
  50. •Marcus Rediker: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
  51. •Lawrence S. Ritter: The Glory of Their Times
  52. •Wilhelm Reich: The Sexual Revolution
  53. •Marshall Sahlins: Stone Age Economics
  54. •Ron Sakolsky and James Koehnline (eds.): Gone to Croatan: Origins of American Dropout Culture
  55. •William Shakespeare: Twelfth Night
  56. •Rupert Sheldrake: Dogs that Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home
  57. •Cindy Sherman: Untitled Film Stills
  58. •Lysander Spooner: No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority
  59. •Leslie D. Stroebel et al.: Basic Photographic Materials and Processes
  60. •Nasim Nicholas Taleb: Fooled by Randomness
  61. •E. P. Thompson: The Making of the English Working Class
  62. •B. Traven: The White Rose
  63. •Edward Tufte: The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
  64. •Raoul Vaneigem: The Revolution of Everyday Life
  65. •Various: Theory of the Derive and Other Situationist Writings on the City
  66. •Amos Vogel: Film as a Subversive Art
  67. •C. S. Walton: Ivan Petrov: Russia Through a Shot Glass
  68. •J. C. Wells: Accents of English
  69. •Oscar Wilde: The Soul of Man Under Socialism
  70. •Howard Zinn: A People's History of the United States
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