| 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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| 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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| We Refuse to Forget: A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power by Caleb GayleWhat it is: a compelling history exploring the enduring repercussions of the Creek Nation both enslaving Black Americans and accepting them as full tribal members.
Why it matters: Journalist Caleb Gayle's thought-provoking chronicle illuminates the complex (and often overlooked) relationship between Black and Indigenous Americans.
Further reading: An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States by Kyle T. Mays. |
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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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| Uncertain Ground: Citizenship in an Age of Endless, Invisible War by Phil KlayWhat it is: an incisive account of the war on terrorism's toll on soldiers and civilians alike, written by National Book Award-winning author and Iraq War veteran Phil Klay (Redeployment).
What's inside: essays written over the past decade exploring themes of trauma, grief, futility, and faith.
Try this next: Un-American: A Soldier's Reckoning of Our Longest War by Erik Edstrom. |
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