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History and Current Events September 2020
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Children of Ash and Elm : A History of the Vikings
by Neil Price
A Viking Age historian from Sweden’s Uppsala University traces the unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian populations between 750 and 1050 CE, drawing on archaeological and textual evidence to discuss their politics, culture, and beliefs.
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Caste : the origins of our discontents
by Isabel Wilkerson
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Warmth of Other Suns identifies the qualifying characteristics of historical caste systems to reveal how a rigid hierarchy of human rankings, enforced by religious views, heritage and stigma, impact everyday American lives.
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To start a war : how the Bush Administration took America into Iraq
by Robert Draper
“Draper has performed prodigious research, including conducting interviews with several hundred former national security officials and scrutinizing recently declassified government documents. . . [He] offers the most comprehensive account of the administration’s road to war . . . Draper provides a timely reminder of the dangers of embarking upon wars that can imperil America itself.” -- New York Times
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Caravaggio’s Cardsharps on Trial : Thwaytes V. Sotheby’s
by Richard E. Spear
"A masterwork of Tacitus-like force, clarity and precision. . . . Spear offers a short history of modern Caravaggiomania, comments on representative examples of the painter’s 60 or so known works, and takes us step by step through the legal case, in which he participated as an expert witness. . . . Enthralling." -- Washington Post
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The saddest words : William Faulkner's Civil War
by Michael Edward Gorra
"How do we read William Faulkner in the twenty-first century?' asks Michael Gorra, one of America's most preeminent literary critics. Should we still read William Faulkner in this new century? What can his works tell us about the legacy of slavery and the Civil War, that central quarrel in our nation's history? These are the provocative questions that Michael Gorra asks in this historic portrait of the novelist and his world.
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“[A] gifted writer who tells a compelling story of what the protesters have been up against, what they are fighting for, and how their tactics and goals have evolved over time… This is the definitive account of China’s biggest political crisis since Tiananmen." -- National Review
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Separated : inside an American tragedy
by Jacob Soboroff
The award-winning NBC News and MSNBC correspondent presents a deeply personal report from America’s borders on the wrenching human realities behind the Trump administration’s infamous decision to systematically separate thousands of children from their migrant families.
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The hardest job in the world : the American presidency
by John Dickerson
The author writes about presidents in history—such as Washington, Lincoln, FDR and Eisenhower—and in contemporary times—from LBJ and Reagan to Bush, Obama, and Trump—to show how a complex job has been done, and why we need to reevaluate how we view the presidency, how we choose our presidents, and what we expect from them once they are in office.
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