Some of the more (digestible) important books:

MEDIA: "Four Arguments For The Elimination of Television" by Jerry Mander; and "The Image" by Daniel Boorstein. Also "Orwell Rolls In His Grave" (DVD) and "William Schaap" (eight parts) on youtube.

NATIONAL SECURITY STATE: "American Adventurism Abroad" by Michael Sullivan; "The CIA And The Cult Of Intelligence" by Victor Marchetti; "The Praetorian Guard" by John Stockwell; "Killing Hope" by William Blum; and "The CIA's Black Ops" by John Nutter.; "1984" by George Orwell. "Books That Have Made History" by Rufus Fears (a DVD set).

SECOND WORLD WAR: "Bodyguard of Lies" by Anthony Cave Brown; "Day of Deceit" by Stinnett; "Ivan's War" by Catherine Merridale; Any number of books on the life of Winston Churchill.

1963 COUP: "JFK Conspiracy of Silence' by Charles Crenshaw; "Let Justice Be Done" by William Davy; "Act of Treason" by Mark North; "Sons and Brothers" by Richard Mahoney; "On The Trail Of The Assassins" by Jim Garrison.

AFGHANISTAN/IRAQ: "The Sorrows of Empire" by Chalmers Johnson; "The New Great Game" by Kleveman; "To Afghanistan And Back" by Ted Rall; "Web of Deceit" by Lando; "Iraqi Power And U.S. Security In The Middle East" by Stephen Pelletier.

2001 COLLAPSE OF WTC 1, 2 and 7: "911 Mysteries", "911: Blueprint For Truth", "September 11 Revisited" and "A New Standard For Deception", all DVDs. 

ECONOMICS OF WAR: "Empire of Debt" by Bonner

The following books whose covers are illustrated are primarily to give a little graphic zing to the page, but they are worthwhile books and exemplify the hundreds of books I have read on matters affecting the national security state. In this matter, the most knowledgeble man I ever listened to (and spoke with once) was Harry Browne, now deceased. Harry was on a remote Pacific island during military service and passed the time by reading, and I don't mean reading trash. Harry was very calm and he could afford to be, because he had figured it out.