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History and Current Events May 2024
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The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis
by George Stephanopoulos
A former senior advisor to President Clinton, and for more than 20 years, the anchor of This Week and the co-anchor of Good Morning America, takes us into the White House Situation Room, the epicenter of crisis management where decisions are made that affect the lives of every person on this planet. Illustrations.
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| Who's Afraid of Gender? by Judith ButlerGroundbreaking gender studies scholar Judith Butler explores how right-wing ideologues weaponize gender to spread fear-mongering misinformation in this thought-provoking study named a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by ELLE, The New York Times, TIME, The Washington Post, and more. Further reading: He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters by Schuyler Bailar. |
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Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain
by Sathnam Sanghera
An award-winning journalist tracks the roots of the British empire and how imperial domination still continues to shape the modern-day United Kingdom as well as their former colonies, including the United States.
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1964: Eyes of the Storm
by Paul McCartney
"McCartney recalls the pandemonium of British concert halls, followed by the hysteria that greeted the band on its first American visit. Candid recollections preceding each city portfolio that form an autobiographical account of the period McCartney remembers as the "Eyes of the Storm," plus a coda with subsequent events in 1964"
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The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
by Ned Blackhawk
What it is: an incisive and richly detailed study exploring how Indigenous Americans were instrumental in the evolution of United States history.
Why you might like it: Penned by Western Shoshone Yale historian Ned Blackhawk, this sweeping account de-centers Eurocentric perspectives in its retelling of America's past.
Try this next: Indigenous Continent: The Epic Conquest for North America by Pekka Hämäläinen.
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Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class
by Blair LM Kelley
What it is: an insightful account of how the Black working class in 19th- and 20th-century America were instrumental in labor and civil rights movements.
Why you should read it: Historian Blair LM Kelley's persuasive latest explores how conversations about the working class reinforce racial hierarchies by centering white perspectives.
Food for thought: "the most active, most engaged, most informed, and most impassioned working class in America is the Black working class."
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Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany
by Donald L. Miller
Masters of the Air is the deeply personal story of the American bomber boys in World War II who brought the war to Hitler's doorstep. With the narrative power of fiction, Donald Miller takes you on a harrowing ride through the fire-filled skies over Berlin, Hanover, and Dresden and describes the terrible cost of bombing for the German people.
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