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Book Review: 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann This book blows the narrative taught in too many Western schools around the voyages of Columbus and their aftermath right out of the water. The author does this with well researched accounts of the civilizations that dominated the Americas for centuries …
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Book Review: The Seventh Power: One CEO’s Journey Into the Business of Shared Leadership by Kevin Hancock In this book Kevin Hancock presents the ethos of the song Imagine (John Lennon), with hints of Crack in the Cosmic Egg (Joseph Chilton Pearce), in the narrative style of A Pilgrimage to Eternity (Timothy Egan). It’s a …
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Book Review: I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump’s Catastrophic Final Year by Carol Leonnig, Philip Rucker This book is a narrative of real world events, presented in the unvarnished recollections of the persons directly involved. It is not hyperbole to say that this is a nerve wracking account of how close the US …
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Book Review: Inside Money: Brown Brothers Harriman and the American Way of Power by Zachary Karabell This book is well worth the read (by people of all economic perspectives)—it belies its title by providing (instead of investment advice as a casual observer might erroneously infer from a title such as Inside Money) valuable historical insights …
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Book Review: Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal by George Packer America, this is you; this is us decoded. No matter who you are, or what your socioeconomic perspective, George Packer provides in this book the most insightful explanation I have seen of why some people behave in inexplicable ways and believe in …
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Book Review: Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobes Du Mez This book clears up the reasons behind the baffling phenomena of people voting against their own interests and for authoritarians. Kristin Kobes Du Mez documents well the origins and evolution of the methodology used …
Book Review: Reprogramming the American Dream: From Rural America to Silicon Valley—Making AI Serve Us All by Kevin Scott This book might be the most accurate explanation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for popular consumption published to date. Kevin Scott’s empirical description of the relationship of everyday human experience and advanced computer technology provides an optimistic …
Book Review: The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee The attitude in this book is exactly what the conversation needs: An illumination of where the stakes are, thus providing indispensable context to the issue of race. Heather McGhee details in quantitative objectivity how racism against …
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Book Review: Freedom from the Market: America’s Fight to Liberate Itself from the Grip of the Invisible Hand by Mike Konczal This book is the best explainer I’ve seen in telling how neoliberal dogma gained a dominant foothold in American economic and social thinking; and in so doing it provides critical pointers for regaining lost …
Book Review: From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century by William A. Darity Jr., A. Kirsten Mullen This is the most convincing case for African American reparations I’ve ever heard—making this book well worth reading by everyone. It’s a bit of a tedious left-brain slog through quantitative data on purpose—to …