How America Lost Its Mind: The Assault on Reason That’s Crippling Our Democracy (Volume 15) (The Julian J. Rothbaum Distinguished Lecture Series)
By: Thomas E. Patterson
4.12
Format: 193 pages, Hardcover
Americans are losing touch with reality. On virtually every issue, from climate change to immigrati…
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1. Gideon's Trumpet
By: Anthony Lewis
3.91
Format: 277 pages, Paperback
Gideon's Trumpet is the story of this extraordinary case, from the night of June 3, 1961, when the … read more
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2. A Well-Regulated Militia: The Founding Fathers and the Origins of Gun Control in America
By: Saul T. Cornell
4.00
Format: 270 pages, Hardcover
Americans are deeply divided over the Second Amendment. Some passionately assert that the Amendment… read more
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3. A Streetcar Named Desire
By: Tennessee Williams
3.98
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
The Pulitzer Prize and Drama Critics Circle Award winning play—reissued with an introduction by Art… read more
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"Never inside, I didn't lie in my heart..."-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
"And funerals are pretty compared to deaths."-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
"I think you have a great capacity for devotion,"-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
"I want to rest. I want to breathe quietly again."-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
4. Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
By: Neil Postman , Andrew Postman
4.15
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
Television has conditioned us to tolerate visually entertaining material measured out in spoonfuls … read more
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"The written word endures, the spoken word disappears"-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
"We rarely talk about television, only about what’s on television"-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
"Writing is defined as "a conversation with no one and yet with everyone."-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
"With television, we vault ourselves into a continuous, incoherent present."-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
5. The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
By: Tom Nichols
3.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The rise of the internet and other technology has made information more easily-accessible than ever… read more
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6. Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
By: Bryan Stevenson
3.93
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our bro… read more
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7. Creative People Must Be Stopped: 6 Ways We Kill Innovation
By: David A. Owens
4.01
Format: 30 pages, Hardcover
A framework for overcoming the six types of innovation killersEverybody wants innovation--or do the… read more
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8. The Art of Racing in the Rain
By: Garth Stein
3.99
Format: 273 pages, Hardcover
Enzo knows he is different from other dogs: a philosopher with a nearly human soul (and an obsessio… read more
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9. The Things They Carried
By: Tim O'Brien
4.10
Format: None pages,
They carried malaria tablets, love letters, 28-pound mine detectors, dope, illustrated bibles, each… read more
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10. Women in Love (Brangwen Family, #2)
By: D.H. Lawrence
3.34
Format: None pages, Paperback
"An analytical study of sexual depravity" and "an epic of vice" were two of the critical expression… read more
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11. The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
By: Jonathan Haidt
4.24
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
A timely investigation into the campus assault on free speech and what it means for students, educa… read more
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"Virtues become vices when they are carried to an extreme."-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
"Avoiding triggers is a symptom of PTSD, not a treatment for it."-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
"Practice the virtue of "intellectual humility." Intellectual humility is the recognition that our reasoning is so flawed, so prone to bias, that we can rarely be certain that we are right."-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
"The college admissions process nowadays makes it harder for high school students to enjoy school and pursue intrinsic fulfillment. The process "warps the values of students drawn into a competitive f…"-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
12. And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
By: Jon Meacham
4.46
Format: 676 pages, Hardcover
The life and moral evolution of Abraham Lincoln, exploring why and how Lincoln confronted secession… read more
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13. Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
By: Anne Applebaum
3.91
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author, professor, and historian offers an expert guide to understanding… read more
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"Unity is an anomaly. Polarization is normal. Skepticism about liberal democracy is also normal. And the appeal of authoritarianism is eternal."-Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
"Given the right conditions, any society can turn against democracy. Indeed, if history is anything to go by, all of our societies eventually will."-Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
"Olga Tokarczuk, 2019: We horen niet langer de harmonie van de wereld, maar de kakofonie van geluiden, een ondraaglijke ruis waarin we wanhoping een een rustiger melodie proberen te ontdekken, al is h…"-Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
"Throughout history, pandemics have led to an expansion of the power of the state: at times when people fear death, they go along with measures that they believe, rightly or wrongly, will save them—ev…"-Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
14. Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point
By: Steven Levitsky
4.43
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A call to reform our antiquated political institutions before it’s too late—from the New York Times… read more
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15. On Juneteenth
By: Annette Gordon-Reed
4.18
Format: 148 pages, Hardcover
Weaving together American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annet… read more
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"History is always being revised, as new information, comes to light and when different people see known documents and have their own responses to them, shaped by their individual experiences."-Annette Gordon-Reed, On Juneteenth
"Origin stories matter, for individuals, groups of people, and for nations. They inform our sense of self; telling us what kind of people we believe we are, what kind of nation we believe in. They usu…"-Annette Gordon-Reed, On Juneteenth
"Why would White Texans be more obstreperous than other White southerners? It has been suggested that this was because, unlike other Southern states, Texas had not been defeated militarily. They had w…"-Annette Gordon-Reed, On Juneteenth
16. How America Lost Its Mind: The Assault on Reason That’s Crippling Our Democracy (Volume 15) (The Julian J. Rothbaum Distinguished Lecture Series)
By: Thomas E. Patterson
4.12
Format: 193 pages, Hardcover
Americans are losing touch with reality. On virtually every issue, from climate change to immigrati… read more
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17. Four Threats: The Recurring Crises of American Democracy
By: Suzanne Mettler
3.99
Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition
An urgent, historically-grounded take on the four major factors that undermine American democracy, … read more
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18. It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump
By: Stuart Stevens
4.13
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
"A brilliant, unflinching look at the descent of the GOP - backed up with data, historic sweep & fi… read more
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19. The Bitter End: The 2020 Presidential Campaign and the Challenge to American Democracy
By: John Sides
3.83
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
What an intensely divisive election means for American politics The year 2020 was a tumultuous tim… read more
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