Here's a list of summer reading suggestions to inspire debate:
• A People's History of the United States
by Howard Zinn
• Confessions of an Economic Hitman
by John Perkins
• Dissent: Voices of Conscience, Government Insiders Speak Out Against the War in Iraq
by Colonel (Ret.) Ann Wright and Susan Dixon
• Hegemony or Survival
by Noam Chomsky
• All the Shaw's Men
by Stephen Kinzer
• Freakonomics
by Stephen D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner• Blink
by Malcolm Gladwell