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The Rest of It: Hustlers, Cocaine, Depression, and Then Some, 1976–1988

by Martin Duberman

bookshelves: 1970s, archives, checked-out-of-public-library, memoir, queer, work, currently-reading, libraries, new-york, queer-history, death, 1980s, addiction, mental-illness, activism

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Culture and Imperialism

by Edward W. Said

bookshelves: politics, race, work, currently-reading

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Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

by Tim Weiner (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: american-history, government, spies, currently-reading, audio-book, history, archives

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“History as a discipline began as a confrontation with war propaganda. In the first history book, The Peloponnesian Wars, Thucydides was careful to make a distinction between leaders' accounts of their actions and the real reasons for their decisions.”
― Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America

tags: history, propaganda

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“Authoritarianism arrives not because people say that they want it, but because they lose the ability to distinguish between facts and desires.”
― Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America

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“Authoritarianism begins when we can no longer tell the difference between the true and the appealing. At the same time, the cynic who decides that there is no truth at all is the citizen who welcomes the tyrant.”
― Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America

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“Right before the election, Russia placed three thousand advertisements on Facebook, and promoted them as memes across at least 180 accounts on Instagram. Russia could do so without including any disclaimers about who had paid for the ads, leaving Americans with the impression that foreign propaganda was an American discussion. As researchers began to calculate the extent of American exposure to Russian propaganda, Facebook deleted more data. This suggests that the Russian campaign was embarrassingly effective. Later, the company told investors that as many as sixty million accounts were fake.”
― Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America

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