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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: Unauthorized: Portraits of Latino Immigrants by Marisol Clark-Ibáñez. |
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The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, The C.I.A., and The Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq
by Steve Coll
The definitive story of the decades-long relationship between the United States and Saddam Hussein, and a deeply researched and news breaking investigation into how human error, cultural miscommunication, and hubris led to one of the greatest geopolitical conflicts of our time.
Further reading: Leap of Faith: Hubris, Negligence, and America's Greatest Foreign Policy Tragedy by Michael J. Mazarr.
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Collisions: The Origins of the War in Ukraine and the New Global Instability
by Michael Kimmage
In a narrative history of the war in Ukraine, the author puts together the pieces of a complicated international puzzle to understand the origins of the current conflict that has brought the world to the brink of a new Cold War.
Further reading: Overreach: The Inside Story of Putin's War with Ukraine by Owen Matthews.
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| A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging by Lauren MarkhamJournalist Lauren Markham's "remarkable, unnerving, and cautionary portrait of a global immigration crisis" (Kirkus Reviews) chronicles the aftermath of the 2020 burning of a large refugee camp in Greece, in which young Afghan migrants were falsely accused of arson.
Try this next: The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You by Dina Nayeri. |
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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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Puerto Rico: A National History
by Jorell A. Meléndez Badillo
An overview of the unique history of Puerto Rico from the pre-Columbian societies and cultures that first inhabited the archipelago to the present day.
Further reading: Fantasy Island: Colonialism, Exploitation, and the Betrayal of Puerto Rico by Ed Morales
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Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York
by Ross Perlin
The linguist and co-director of the Endangered Language Alliance discusses his efforts to map little-known languages across the city of New York—the most linguistically diverse places that has ever existed—before they become extinct.
You may also enjoy: Babel : Around the World in Twenty Languages by Gaston Dorren
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| The Deerfield Massacre: A Surprise Attack, a Forced March, and the Fight for Survival in... by James L. SwansonHistorian James L. Swanson's fast-paced latest chronicles "one of the most dramatic episodes in colonial American history" -- the 1704 attack on the Deerfield settlement in Massachusetts conducted by a party of 204 Native and French raiders.
Try this next: Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America by Nicole Eustace. |
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Mortal Secrets: Freud, Vienna, and the Discovery of the Modern Mind
by Frank Tallis
A clinical psychologist, whose mystery novels form the basis of PBS's Vienna Blood series, illuminates Sigmund Freud and his times, chronicling the evolution of psychanalysis and opening up his life to embrace the Vienna he lived in and the lives of the people he associated with.
Further reading: The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain: From Vienna 1900 to the present by Eric R. Kandel.
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Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present
by Fareed Zakaria
The CNN host and best-selling author explores the revolutions—past and present—that define the polarized and unstable age in which we live. Illustrations.
Try this next: Democracy and dictatorship in Europe : from the Ancien régime to the present day by Sheri Berman.
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