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The People Are Going to Rise Like Waters Upon Your Shore by Jared Yates Sexton
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Here are my top three.
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, Or Self-Involved Parents (2015) by Lindsay Gibson
The Man They Wanted Me to Be: Toxic Masculinity and a Crisis of Our Own Making
(2019) by Jared Yates Sexton
All we can save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the climate crisis. (2020) Collection of essays edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson
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Jesus and John Wayne by Kristin Kobes du Mez is really great for explaining the religious right.
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On why America is the way it is?..
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Anything by Thomas Sowell will touch on this.
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Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History by Kurt Andersen.
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A People’s History of the United States – Howard Zinn
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To understand why America is the way it is, you probably need to study its entire history. I’d start with the Oxford History of the United States series, which is an ongoing multivolume narrative history of the United States published by Oxford University Press beginning from Colonial America.
If you truly want to understand America, you need to know America, and no single book will give you that in an unbiased way.
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A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
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A People’s History of the United States
Nickel and Dimed (On Not Getting My in America)
The 1619 Project
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
The Myth of American Idealism
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Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X Kendi was excellent and extremely illuminating.
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The big Myth, poverty by America, The Destructionists, The Sum Of Us.
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‘Democracy in America’: Alexis de Tocqueville
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The Hidden History of American Healthcare: Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich by Thom Hartmann
The Man Who Broke Capitalism: How Jack Welch Gutted the Heartland and Crushed the Soul of Corporate America―and How to Undo His Legacy by David Gelles
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer
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Killers of the flower moon
The devil in the grove
Just Mercy
Age of Betrayal
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How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States by Daniel Immerwahr
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
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The War State: The Cold War Origins of the Military-Industrial Complex and the Power Elite 1945-1963 by Michael Swanson.
To paraphrase Spock, the needs of the American Empire outweigh the needs of everything else.
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A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
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Poverty, by America – Matthew Desmond
The People Are Going to Rise Like Waters Upon Your Shore by Jared Yates Sexton
Here are my top three.
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, Or Self-Involved Parents (2015) by Lindsay Gibson
The Man They Wanted Me to Be: Toxic Masculinity and a Crisis of Our Own Making
(2019) by Jared Yates Sexton
All we can save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the climate crisis. (2020) Collection of essays edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson
Jesus and John Wayne by Kristin Kobes du Mez is really great for explaining the religious right.
On why America is the way it is?..
Anything by Thomas Sowell will touch on this.
Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History by Kurt Andersen.
A People’s History of the United States – Howard Zinn
To understand why America is the way it is, you probably need to study its entire history. I’d start with the Oxford History of the United States series, which is an ongoing multivolume narrative history of the United States published by Oxford University Press beginning from Colonial America.
If you truly want to understand America, you need to know America, and no single book will give you that in an unbiased way.
A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
A People’s History of the United States
Nickel and Dimed (On Not Getting My in America)
The 1619 Project
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
The Myth of American Idealism
Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X Kendi was excellent and extremely illuminating.
The big Myth, poverty by America, The Destructionists, The Sum Of Us.
‘Democracy in America’: Alexis de Tocqueville
The Hidden History of American Healthcare: Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich by Thom Hartmann
The Man Who Broke Capitalism: How Jack Welch Gutted the Heartland and Crushed the Soul of Corporate America―and How to Undo His Legacy by David Gelles
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer
Killers of the flower moon
The devil in the grove
Just Mercy
Age of Betrayal
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States by Daniel Immerwahr
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
The War State: The Cold War Origins of the Military-Industrial Complex and the Power Elite 1945-1963 by Michael Swanson.
To paraphrase Spock, the needs of the American Empire outweigh the needs of everything else.
A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
Drift by Rachel Maddow
The Brainwashing of my Dad
Caste: On the Origins of Our Discontent