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If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future by Jill Lepore
BUY Amazon | Bookshop Featured on The Thread: Collect data, influence votes: 'If Then' traces the genesis of data-driven politics The Simulmatics Corporation, launched during the Cold War, mined data, targeted voters,...
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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
BUY Amazon | Bookshop Featured on The Thread: Talking Volumes 2020 season guide “As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down...
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Just Us: An American Conversation by Claudia Rankine
BUY Amazon | Bookshop Featured on The Thread: Talking Volumes 2020 season guide As everyday white supremacy becomes increasingly vocalized with no clear answers at hand, how best might we approach one...
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How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them by Jason Stanley
BUY Amazon | Bookshop Featured on The Thread: Fascism scholar says U.S. is 'losing its democratic status' As the child of refugees of World War II Europe and a renowned philosopher and...
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World of Wonders by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
BUY Amazon | Bookshop Featured on The Thread: 'World Of Wonders' urges us to take a breath and look around As a child, Nezhukumatathil called many places home: the grounds of a...
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How You Say It by Katherine D. Kinzler
BUY Amazon | Bookshop Featured on The Thread: Often, it's not what you say, but 'how you say it' We gravitate toward people like us; it’s human nature. Race, class, and gender...
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Disloyal: A Memoir by Michael Cohen
BUY Amazon | Bookshop Featured on The Thread: Trump fired a 'faux-Bama,' Michael Cohen says in tell-all memoir Once Donald Trump’s fiercest surrogate, closest confidant, and staunchest defender, Michael Cohen knows where...
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Rage by Bob Woodward
BUY Amazon | Bookshop Featured on The Thread: Woodward addresses criticism that he should've detailed Trump interviews earlier Featured on The Thread: Woodward defends decision to withhold Trump's virus comments Woodward, the #1...
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The Last Million by David Nasaw
BUY Amazon | Bookshop In May 1945, German forces surrendered to the Allied powers, putting an end to World War II in Europe. But the aftershocks of global military conflict did not...
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