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A Promised Land
Fear: Trump in the White House
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
Rage
Becoming
Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
All the President’s Men
Peril
How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
107 Days
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America
Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime
The Color of Law by Richard RothsteinThe New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootMedical Apartheid by Harriet A. WashingtonWhen Affirmative Action Was White by Ira Katznelson
Breaking Brown Book Reads
114 books — 68 voters

John Adams by David McCulloughThe Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer1776 by David McCulloughThe Guns of August by Barbara W. TuchmanTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Best History Books
4,127 books — 4,767 voters
A People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnAmerica (The Book) by Jon   StewartMe Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris1776 by David McCulloughHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
The Daily Show Reading Club
385 books — 282 voters

“ We've been called radicals, terrorists. We've been dismissed as an impossible fringe movement. But now we are a multi-racial, multi-ethnic, multi-generational, multi-faith mass movement united in demanding change, in demanding accountability, in demanding that our police, our government, our country recognize that Black lives do indeed matter. (From election victory speech) ...more ”
― Cori Bush

Thomas E. Ricks
“ ...Populism tends to look good from a distance, but close up it can be frightening. ”
― Thomas E. Ricks, First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country

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The Pelicans’ Nest We are an unofficial discussion group of the American Solidarity Party. We welcome other interes…more
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A place for DA Book Club members to engage more deeply when reading the literature.
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