January 2020 list by Elizabeth Hanby
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The Fall of Richard Nixon: A Reporter Remembers Watergate by Tom BrokawThe Presidential Medal of Freedom-winning former NBC host and author of the best-selling The Greatest Generation draws on his experiences as a young White House correspondent to recount the endgames of the Watergate scandal and the Nixon presidency.
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Genius & Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947 by Norman LebrechtAn expert on Jewish intellectuals, writers, and scientists describes the many visionaries who changed the world, from the well-known—like Marx, Freud, Einstein, and Kafka—to the lesser known—like Karl Landsteiner, Paul Ehrlich, and Rosalind Franklin.
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Good Economics for Hard Times by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Ester DufloTwo award-winning economists demonstrate how economics, correctly applied, may help solve the most difficult social and political problems of today’s world, from migration and unemployment to free trade and political polarization.
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Great Society: A New History by Amity ShlaesThe best-selling author of Coolidge offers a provocative reassessment of Lyndon B. Johnson’s “Great Society” and how its failures to improve life quality for the nation’s dispossessed citizens reverberate in today’s world.
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Jay-Z: Made in America by Michael Eric DysonExamines the biggest themes of JAY-Z’s career, including hustling, and it recognizes the way that he’s always weaved politics into his music, making statements about race, criminal justice, and black wealth.
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They Don't Represent Us: Reclaiming Our Democracy by Lawrence LessigWritten with insight and urgency, a Harvard Law professor, while examining our failing political culture, offers a far-reaching platform for reform that could save our democracy and make it work for all of us.
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Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country by Sierra Crane MurdochYellow Bird is both an exquisitely written, masterfully reported story about a search for justice and a remarkable portrait of a complex woman who is smart, funny, eloquent, compassionate, and--when it serves her cause--manipulative. Ultimately, it is a deep examination of the legacy of systematic violence inflicted on a tribal nation and a tale of extraordinary healing.
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