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History and Current Events July 2022 |
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| The Power of Crisis: How Three Threats -- and Our Response -- Will Change the World by Ian BremmerThe premise: "We need crises scary enough to make us forge a new international system that promotes effective cooperation on a few crucial questions."
The crises: COVID-19 and other pandemics, climate change, and the rise of digital technology.
Why you might like it: Political scientist Ian Bremmer's pragmatic yet hopeful latest offers clear-eyed solutions to tackle these three threats. |
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| Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution by Eric Jay Dolin
What it is: a spirited maritime history chronicling American privateers' efforts during the Revolutionary War.
Read it for: profiles of figures whose exploits have been forgotten or ignored by history, including Black sailmaker and abolitionist James Forten, and master-at-arms John Greenwood, who later became George Washington's personal dentist.
About the author: Historian Eric Jay Dolin is the bestselling author of Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates. |
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| African Founders: How Enslaved People Expanded American Freedom by David Hackett FischerWhat it's about: how enslaved Africans and their cultural practices shaped colonial America.
Author alert: Brandeis University historian David Hackett Fischer is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Washington's Crossing.
Reviewers say: "a comprehensive demographic history with a powerful and important corrective thesis" (Booklist). |
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Free speech : a history from Socrates to social media
by Jacob Mchangama
Traces the legal, political and cultural history of free speech from the orators of the ancient world to todays digital activists, and examines how it has advanced both freedom and equality worldwide. 20,000 first printing.
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| Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington by James KirchickWhat it's about: how LGBTQIA government employees in 20th-century Washington, D.C. were forced to remain closeted or risk their livelihood.
Read it for: an inspiring and fast-paced chronicle of perseverance in the face of oppression.
Featuring: recently declassified documents; interviews with more than 100 people; a cast of characters grouped by presidential administration; a historical map featuring important LGBTQIA landmarks in D.C. |
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Those we throw away are diamonds : a refugee's search for home
by Mondiant Dogon
A Congolese author, human rights activist and refugee ambassador who has lived in refugee camps since 1996 and has faced the very worst of humanity speaks up for forever refugees everywhere, in this heartbreaking lens on the global refugee crisis.
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| Resistance: The Underground War Against Hitler, 1939-1945 by Halik KochanskiWhat it's about: the diverse array of resistance efforts against the Nazi regime in both Eastern and Western Europe.
Why it matters: British historian Halik Kochanski's sweeping and demythologizing account examines the complex (and often conflicting) motives exhibited by resistance movements.
Is it for you? At nearly 1,000 pages, this exhaustively researched history is best suited to readers already interested in the subject. |
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