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Dreamland

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Dreamland, by Sam Quinones, is the story of a nation gone berserk, a harrowing, fear-inducing slog through the small towns and backwater alleys of what was once as American as baseball and apple pie. On the front lines are generations of hard-working ...

Dark Money

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The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right CITIZENS UNITED v. FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION opened the doors for an unlimited flood of outside spending by any United States citizen or corporation on everything ...

David and Goliath

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I don’t read books in any kind of order; I grab whatever piques my interest at the moment, though I do generally keep a fiction, non-fiction, and self-help/educational rolling at any given time. I don’t know where my copy of David and Goliath came ...

The Fire Next Time

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"The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.” - W.E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folks“Color is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.”- James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time The Fire Next Time by ...

The Long Emancipation

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As discussed by the scholar Ira Berlin in his monograph The Long Emancipation: The Demise of Slavery in the United States, the struggle for freedom is, at its core, about agency: Who accomplished it? How was it accomplished? Why? He provides an ...