This is a short list of book suggestions that originated as suggestions for additions to the webpage "readings for radicals".

Radical thinking:

• Flatland (spatial dimensions and intellectual conformity)
• The First Physicists (Galeleo's, Kepler's, and Netwon's contributions to the overthrow of the mideval world-view)

The American Revolution (Part I)

• Common Sense by Thomas Paine
• The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

The American Revolution (Part II)

• The Autobiography of Frederick Douglas 
• Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

The American Revolution (Part III)

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