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History and Current Events April 2025 |
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| The Lost and the Found: A True Story of Homelessness, Found Family, and Second... by Kevin FaganAward-winning San Francisco Chronicle reporter Kevin Fagan's moving and intimate social history explores homelessness through the experiences of a pair of individuals trying to get by in San Francisco, California. Further reading: Seeking Shelter: A Working Mother, Her Children, and a Story of Homelessness in America by Jeff Hobbs. |
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| Disposable: America's Contempt for the Underclass by Sarah JonesNew York magazine senior writer Sarah Jones' moving and impassioned debut examines how inequities during COVID-19 exacerbated the "social murder" of poor, disabled, and elderly Americans. Further reading: The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide by Steven W. Thrasher. |
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| Propaganda Girls: The Secret War of the Women in the OSS by Lisa RogakBestselling biographer Lisa Rogak's evocative blend of history and collective biography chronicles the courageous exploits of four women who worked for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II: American reporter Betty MacDonald, Czech polyglot Zuzka Lauwers, American navy wife Jane Smith-Hutton, and German American film star Marlene Dietrich. For fans of: Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II by Elyse Graham. |
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| Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America by Russell ShortoDrawing on never-before-seen archival materials, bestselling author Russell Shorto's (The Island at the Center of the World) lively social history explores the early days of New York City, from its 1626 purchase by the Dutch to its capture by the English four decades later. For fans of: The Village: 400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues, a History of Greenwich Village by John Strausbaugh. |
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| Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy by Katherine StewartJournalist Katherine Stewart's (The Power Worshippers) thought-provoking latest is an eye-opening exploration of the often disparate factions that comprise the American far right and "offers urgently needed background on the 2024 election results" (Publishers Weekly). Try this next: The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism by Tim Alberta. |
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| American Poison: A Deadly Invention and the Woman Who Battled for Environmental Justice by Daniel StoneIn this lively and unputdownable account, science writer Daniel Stone (Sinkable) spotlights physician and researcher Alice Hamilton's courageous but ultimately doomed efforts to ban leaded gasoline in the 1920s, a battle that pitted her against the booming automotive industry. Try this next: The Cancer Factory: Industrial Chemicals, Corporate Deception, and the Hidden Deaths of American Workers by Jim Morris. |
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