Friday, December 27, 2019

Recommended Books of the Year 2019: A great way to spend your Visa and Amazon Gift Cards

Robert Bartholomew and Anja Reumschussel: American Intolerance: Our Dark History of Demonizing Immigrants

Tim Marshall: The Age of Walls

Anti-Pluralism: The Populist Threat to Liberal Democracy (Politics and Culture) 1st Edition by William Galston

The Government-Citizen Disconnect Paperback  by Suzanne Mettler



Thomas Friedman: Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why we need a Green Revolution and How it Can Renew America Release 2.0

Power, Pleasure, and Profit: Insatiable Appetites from Machiavelli to Madison by David Wootton


Winter War: Hoover, Roosevelt, and the First Clash over the New Deal by Eric Rauchway


Merchants of Truth: The Business of News and the Fight for Facts by Jill Abramson

The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy by Michael Mann

It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism by Norman Ornstein and Thomas Mann

A Foreign Policy for the Left by Michael Walzer

The Mueller Report:

Why Learn History (When It's Already on your I Phone) by Sam Wineburg


Douglas Brinkley American Moonshot: John Kennedy and The Great Space Race

Open: The Progressive Case for Free Trade, Immigration, and Global Capital by Kimberly Clausing

Accidental Presidents: Eight Men Who Changed America by Jared Cohen


It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis

1984 by George Orwell

All the King’s Men by Robert Warren Penn

All the Presidents Men by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein


The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood


Michael Lewis The Fifth Risk

Nancy Isenberg and Andrew Burstein: The Problem of Democracy: The Presidents Adams Confront the Cult of Personality

War and Peace: FDR's Final Odyssey: D-Day to Yalta, 1943–1945 (FDR at War) by Nigel Hamilton

The Shadow War: Inside Russia's and China's Secret Operations to Defeat America by Jim Sciutto

Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America by Chris Arnade

Songs of America: Patriotism, Protest, and the Music That Made a Nation  by John Meacham and Tim McGraw

Jim Acosta: The Enemy of the People: A Dangerous Time to Tell the Truth in America

Vicky Ward: Kushner Inc

Margaret McMillian’s 1919: Six Months that Changed the World
David Andelman’s A Shattered Peace: Versailles 1919 and the Price We Pay Today.
David Fromkin’s A Peace to End All Peace
David Fromkin’s In the Time of the Americans

The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America
 by Daniel Okrent

Space, Centennial, Hawaii, Texas and the Source by James Michener

It's Time to Fight Dirty: How Democrats Can Build a Lasting Majority in American Politics by David Faris

Among the Righteous: Lost Stories from the Holocaust's Long Reach into Arab Lands by Robert Satloff

The Death of Expertise: The Campaign against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters by Tom Nichols

The New Silk Road by Peter Frankopan

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein.

The Republican War on Science by Chris Mooney

Behold, America: The Entangled History of "America First" and "the American Dream" by Sarah Churchwell


Naomi Klein: On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal


El Norte: The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America by Carrie Gibson


Richard Stengel: Information Wars: How We Lost the Global Battle Against Disinformation and What We Can Do About It

Giles Milton: Paradise Lost Smyrna 1922 The Destruction of Islam's City of Tolerance

Raymond Sontag: A Broken World 1919 to 1939


David Gergen: Eyewitness to Power

Impeachment: An American History by Jon Mecham, Peter Baker, Timothy Naftali, and Jeffrey Engel.

Desk 88: Eight Progressive Senators who Changed America by Sherrod Brown.

Andrew Yang: The War on Normal People: The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future

The Impeachment Report: There are two versions with different commentaries: One with attorney Alan Dershowitz and the other with Historian Jon Meacham.














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