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History and Current Events April 2024
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| Latinoland: A Portrait of America's Largest and Least Understood Minority by Marie AranaIn her incisive and accessible latest, National Book Award finalist and inaugural Literary Director of the Library of Congress Marie Arana (Silver, Sword, and Stone) explores the history and politics of Latine identity in the United States. Further reading: Finding Latinx: In Search of the Voices Redefining Latino Identity by Paola Ramos; Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism by Laura E. Gomez. |
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| 2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed by Eric KlinenbergSociologist and bestselling author Eric Klinenberg's (Palaces for the People) sobering study offers a compelling look at the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic through the experiences of seven New Yorkers. Try this next: The Plague Year: America in the Time of COVID by Lawrence Wright. |
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Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman RushdieThe internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner speaks out for the first time about the traumatic events of August 12, 2022, when an attempt was made on his life, in this deeply personal meditation on violence, art, loss, love and finding the strength to stand up again.
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| Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America by Barbara McQuadeMSNBC legal analyst Barbara McQuade's accessible debut explores how disinformation campaigns perpetuated by the Trump administration continue to play a detrimental role in undermining American democracy. Further reading: Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things by Dan Ariely. |
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| A Murder in Hollywood: The Untold Story of Tinseltown's Most Shocking Crime by Casey ShermanJournalist and screenwriter Casey Sherman revisits the 1958 murder of mobster Johnny Stompanato by Cheryl Crane, the 14-year-old daughter of his girlfriend, actress Lana Turner, in this dramatic true crime account. For fans of: Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood by William J. Mann. |
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The Age of Grievance by Frank BruniFrom bestselling author and longtime New York Times columnist Frank Bruni comes a lucid, powerful examination of the ways in which grievance has come to define our current culture and politics, on both the right and left.
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Native Nations: A Millennium in North America by Kathleen DuValAn award-winning historian tells the story of the Native nations, from the rise of ancient cities to the present, reframing North American history with Indigenous power and sovereignty at its center and showing how the influence of Native peoples remained a constant and will continue far into the future.
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