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Book Library

On the Building Local Power podcast we ask our guests “What is a book that has impacted the work you do today?” If one of our episodes influenced you, check out the book our guest recommended.

Keeping My Public Options Open 

Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients 

To End a Plague: America’s Fight to Defeat AIDS in Africa 

Broadband is Good for Your Health

From my Window: What it takes or takes out of you to educate our children

Farm Fresh Broadband: The Politics of Rural Connectivity

Housing is Where the Heart Is

The Art of War

Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership

Graying of the Fleet

The Sea-Wolf

The Fish Market: Inside the Big Money Battle for the Ocean and Your Dinner Plate

A Country with No Farmers 

In the Shadow of Man

Toledo Takes Dollar Stores to Church

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