Say It Loud!: On Race, Law, History, and Culture
By: Randall Kennedy
4.11
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
In a magnum opus that spans two decades, Harvard Law School professor Randall Kennedy, one of our …
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1. They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
4.57
Format: 291 pages, Paperback
In an age of confusion, fear, and loss, Hanif Abdurraqib's is a voice that matters. Whether he's at… read more
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"We make our own music to celebrate our dead where we must."-Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
"Home is where the heart begins, but not where the heart stays."-Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
"It is a luxury to see some violence as terror and other violence as necessary."-Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
"It's in the spirit of male loneliness to imagine that someone has to suffer for it."-Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
2. Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
By: Edmund Conway
4.52
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed… read more
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"You can get anything you want from anywhere in the world at a bargain price, but don't [whatever you do] expect to understand how it was made or how it got to you."-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"Brothers and sisters,’ said the man. ‘I want to tell you this. The greatest thing on earth is to have the love of God in your heart, and the next greatest thing is to have electricity in your house.’…"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"To say that concrete is everywhere is hardly an exaggeration. Despite the fact that we only began mass producing this mixture of sand, aggregates and cement just over a century ago, there are now mor…"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"A few years ago some geologists sifted through the data [and] estimated that the amount of sand, soil and rock we humans mine and quarry and dredge each year is some 24 times greater than the amount …"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
3. King: A Life
By: Jonathan Eig
4.67
Format: 688 pages, Hardcover
The first full biography in decades, King mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk a… read more
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4. Liberation Day
By: George Saunders
4.00
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The "best short story writer in English" (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores i… read more
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"...or said some racist thing out loud at church..."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
" You are trapped in you, the beam said. Yeah, well, who isn’t? she thought."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
"It is always regrettable to have attracted the attention of adult son Mike."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
"It was always falling down around you, everything has always been falling down around us. Only we were too alive to notice."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
5. Poverty, by America
By: Matthew Desmond
4.27
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more
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"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
6. Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
By: Malcolm Harris
3.90
Format: 720 pages, Hardcover
The first comprehensive, global history of Silicon Valley, from railroad capitalists to microchip a… read more
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7. Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America
By: John McWhorter
3.94
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
People of good will on both the left and the right are secretly asking themselves the same question… read more
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"To tar America as insufficiently aware of slavery is more about smugness and noble victimhood than forging something new and needed."-John McWhorter, Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America
"Antiracism should focus strongly on ending the war on drugs, and there is no need for legions of whites to be instructed in how privileged they are for this to happen."-John McWhorter, Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America
"[P]rofound social change can happen without the entire populace being junior scholars about racist injustice. Such change has been happening world-wide for several centuries."-John McWhorter, Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America
"They are unreachable for the simple reason that they are arguing from religion rather than reason, trying to foist their dogma into the public square out of a misguided sense that they are the world'…"-John McWhorter, Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America
8. A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
4.60
Format: 301 pages, Hardcover
A stirring meditation on Black performance in America from the New York Times bestselling author of… read more
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- essays
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"When someone loves loudly, with everything they have in them, the withholding of that loud love, even briefly, feels impossible to endure."-Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
"If I am going to be afraid, I might as well do it honest. Arm in arm with everyone I love, adorned in blood and bruises, singing jokes on our way to the grave."-Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
"I have wanted to die enough times in my life to understand the idea that wanting to die is not a foolish thing... I don't mean to prop up the idea of wanting an exit, but for me, not to imagine it as…"-Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
"Of the many things America loves to pat itself on the back about, one of the things is an obsession with exploration, or the desire to seek places beyond the places you are from or the places you hav…"-Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
9. Vengeance Is Mine
By: Marie NDiaye
2.86
Format: 241 pages, Kindle Edition
From the best-selling author of Three Strong Women comes a thrilling novel about a triple homicide … read more
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10. What Strange Paradise
By: Omar El Akkad
4.05
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
More bodies have washed up on the shores of a small island. Another overfilled, ill-equipped, dilap… read more
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"Today you are the only boy in the world and tomorrow it will be as though you never existed."-Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise
"And what do you think the prerequisite for kindness is? Have you ever tried to be kind to someone better off than you?"-Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise
"Farther out, the water sheds its sandy complexion and turns a turquoise of such clarity that the tourists’ sailboats seem to float atop their own shadows."-Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise
"Because that's how we take the future from them," Walid said, animated now. "Look at Stockholm, look at Munich, look at New York-- who's picking up the garbage, cleaning the toilets? Who's doing the …"-Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise
11. The Netanyahus
By: Joshua Cohen
3.80
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Corbin College, not-quite-upstate New York, winter 1959-1960: Ruben Blum, a Jewish historian - but … read more
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12. How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
By: Clint Smith
4.71
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Poet and contributor to The Atlantic Clint Smith’s revealing, contemporary portrait of America as a… read more
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"How do you tell a story that has been told the wrong way for so long?"-Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
"Just as he did during the Slavery at Monticello tour, David did not mince words. "There’s a chapter in Notes on the State of Virginia ,"-Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
"Jefferson believed himself to be a benevolent slave owner, but his moral ideals came second to, and were always entangled with, his own economic interests and the interests of his family."-Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
"But not enough people spoke about the reasons so many black children grow up communities saturated with poverty and violence. Not enough people spoke about how these realities were the result of deci…"-Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
13. We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland
By: Fintan O'Toole
4.34
Format: 616 pages, Hardcover
A quarter-century after Frank McCourt’s extraordinary bestseller, Angela’s Ashes, Fintan O’Toole, o… read more
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- history
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"They opened a place in Irishness for the diasporas that were, in many ways, the truest products of its history. It brought home the reality that had been obscured in the idea of emigration as tragedy…"-Fintan O'Toole, We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland
14. Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment
By: Daniel Kahneman
3.66
Format: 454 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Thinking, Fast and Slow and the co-author of Nudge, a groundbreaking… read more
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- sociology
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15. Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal
By: George Packer
4.07
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Acclaimed National Book Award-winning author George Packer diagnoses America’s descent into a faile… read more
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16. Scenes from My Life: A Memoir
By: Michael K. Williams
4.49
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
A moving, unflinching memoir of hard-won success, struggles with addiction, and a lifelong mission … read more
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17. Justice on the Brink: The Death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Rise of Amy Coney Barrett, and Twelve Months That Transformed the Supreme Court
By: Linda Greenhouse
4.03
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The gripping story of the Supreme Court’s transformation from a measured institution of law and jus… read more
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- historical
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"It was always about abortion. (185)"-Linda Greenhouse, Justice on the Brink: The Death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Rise of Amy Coney Barrett, and Twelve Months That Transformed the Supreme Court
18. Loot
By: Tania James
3.82
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding historical novel set in the eighteenth century - a hero’s quest, a love story, the s… read more
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"She is reading; he loves the lost expression on her face when she reads."-Tania James, Loot
19. Teaching White Supremacy: America's Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of Our National Identity
By: Donald Yacovone
4.09
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A powerful exploration of the past and present arc of America’s white supremacy—from the country’s … read more
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20. Doing Justice: A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law
By: Preet Bharara
4.27
Format: 333 pages, Kindle Edition
By the one-time federal prosecutor for the Southern District of New York, an important overview of … read more
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"You can’t ever really know someone else’s mind or someone else’s heart, what someone else is capable of."-Preet Bharara, Doing Justice: A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law
"Go out there and try to be good. If you go out there and try to be good, you've got a chance to be great."-Preet Bharara, Doing Justice: A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law
"You will not find God or grace in legal concepts, in formal notions of criminal justice. Certain values and ideals are beyond justice. These include mercy, forgiveness, redemption, dignity. Also love."-Preet Bharara, Doing Justice: A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law
"One's understanding of the truth—whether that's the correctness of a fact or the guilt of a person—should never be unalterable. Think of a strongly held, defensible point of view as a block of ice, f…"-Preet Bharara, Doing Justice: A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law
21. Say It Loud!: On Race, Law, History, and Culture
By: Randall Kennedy
4.11
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
In a magnum opus that spans two decades, Harvard Law School professor Randall Kennedy, one of our … read more
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