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History and Current Events July 2022 |
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| The Power of Crisis: How Three Threats -- and Our Response -- Will Change the World by Ian BremmerThe premise: "We need crises scary enough to make us forge a new international system that promotes effective cooperation on a few crucial questions."
The crises: COVID-19 and other pandemics, climate change, and the rise of digital technology.
Why you might like it: Political scientist Ian Bremmer's pragmatic yet hopeful latest offers clear-eyed solutions to tackle these three threats. |
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The Long Alliance : The Imperfect Union of Joe Biden and Barack Obama
by Gabriel Debenedetti
The true story of this relationship, from 2003 into 2022, is significantly more layered and consequential than is widely understood. The original mismatch between the veteran Washington traditionalist and the once-in-a-generation outsider has transformed repeatedly in ways that have molded not just four different presidential campaigns and two different political parties, but also wars, a devastating near-depression, movements for social equality, and the fight for the future of American democracy. The bond between them has been, at various times over the past two decades, tense, affectionate, nonexistent, and ironclad — but it has always been surprising. Now it is shaping a second presidential administration, and the future of the world as we know it.
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| African Founders: How Enslaved People Expanded American Freedom by David Hackett FischerWhat it's about: how enslaved Africans and their cultural practices shaped colonial America.
Author alert: Brandeis University historian David Hackett Fischer is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Washington's Crossing.
Reviewers say: "a comprehensive demographic history with a powerful and important corrective thesis" (Booklist). |
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The Fight of Our Lives : My Time With Zelenskyy, Ukraine's Battle for Democracy, and What It Means for the World
by Iuliia Mendel
In this frank and moving inside account, Zelenskyy’s former press secretary tells the story of his improbable rise from popular comedian to the president of Ukraine. Mendel had a front row seat to many of the key events preceding the 2022 Russian invasion. From attending meetings between Zelenskyy and Putin and other European leaders, visiting the front lines in Donbas, to fielding press inquiries after the infamous phone calls between Donald Trump and Zelenskyy that led to Trump’s first impeachment.
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A Resilient Crown : Canada's Monarchy at the Platinum Jubilee
by D. Michael Jackson
As Queen Elizabeth II marks her Platinum Jubilee in 2022 and nears the conclusion of her reign, much discussion and debate has taken place about the monarchy in Canada.
This engaging work examines a broad range of topics related to Canada''s constitutional monarchy, its present state, and its future. Topics include Crown-Indigenous relations; the foundational place of the Crown in Canada''s system of government; the viceregal offices and the role of the administrator; the Crown and francophone Canada; the prime ministers and the Queen; royal tours - and Queen Elizabeth herself.
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Putin's Trolls : On the Frontlines of Russia's Information War Against the World
by Jessikka Aro
A chilling account of Russian information warfare, Putin's Trolls exposes the individuals and organizations behind the Kremlin’s coordinated, military-style social media operations against the West.
In this courageous and unflinching book, award-winning journalist Jessikka Aro interweaves her own dramatic story as a target of Russian social media propaganda with accounts from many internationally known critics of the Kremlin, who share their own stories of being targeted by Russia’s multifaceted cyber warfare campaigns.
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Atoms and ashes : a global history of nuclear disasters
by Serhii Plokhy
This history of half a century of nuclear catastrophes includes discussions of the accidents at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania, the Chernobyl meltdown and the fallout from the Bikini Atoll testing in 1954.
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Against All Odds: A True Story of Ultimate Courage and Survival in World War II
by Alex Kershaw
What it's about: the wartime exploits of the United States Army's Third Infantry Division, whose soldiers were among the most decorated of World War II.
Featuring: profiles of four Medal of Honor recipients, including Audie Murphy, who found postwar success as an actor in Westerns.
Read it for: a richly detailed account of the unit's 635 days of combat.
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