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History and Current Events May 2019
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American moonshot : John F. Kennedy and the great space race
by Douglas Brinkley
The historian author of Cronkite draws on new primary source material and firsthand interviews in a reassessment of the space program that examines the political, cultural and scientific factors that launched NASA and the space race.
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| Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do by Jennifer L. Eberhardt, PhDWhat it's about: supplemented with research and the author's own experiences with prejudice, this eye-opening work explores how readers can combat unconscious racial bias in their everyday lives.
Author alert: MacArthur fellow Jennifer L. Eberhardt is a Stanford University psychology professor and an expert on the topic of racial bias.
Book buzz: Just Mercy author Bryan Stevenson calls Biased "groundbreaking." |
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The Canadian Manifesto
by Conrad Black
By transforming itself into a controlled and sensible public policy laboratory, Canada can forge new solutions to the problems of welfare, education, health care, foreign policy, and other governmental sectors, and make an enormous contribution to the welfare of mankind. Canada has no excuse not to lead in this field, argues Black, who offers nineteen visionary policy proposals of his own. He claims that this “is the destiny, and the vocation, Canada could have, not in the next century, but in the next five years of imaginative government.” -- sutherlandhousebooks.com
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Marx and Marxism
by Gregory Claeys
A leading historian of socialism examines the leadership and ideas of Karl Marx and shows why Marx and Marxism still matter today.
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| The Trial of Lizzie Borden: A True Story by Cara RobertsonA fast-paced account of the notorious 1893 Lizzie Borden murder trial that utilizes court transcripts, newspaper accounts, and recently discovered letters written by Borden herself to argue that the jury who acquitted her got it wrong.
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