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Category Archives: Politics and Civic Interest
I Am Malala
I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World© 2014 Malala Yousafzai240 pages In 2012, Islamic fundamentalists shot a girl in the face for refusing to be cowed by their forceful attempt to impose … Continue reading
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Tagged Asia, human rights, Islam, politics, Politics-CivicInterest
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Green is the New Red
Green is the New Red: An Insider’s Account of a Social Movement Under Siege© 2011 Will Potter256 pages Is passing out flyers the moral equivalent of flying a plane into a skyscraper and killing thousands of people? Well, in some … Continue reading
Nullification
Nullification: How to Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century© 2011 Thomas E. Woods, Jr309 pages In a game of word association, chances are that ‘nullification’ would not meet with flattering replies. Nullification is a word associated with the Civil … Continue reading
The Strange Career of Jim Crow
The Strange Career of Jim Crow© 1955, 1965 C. Van Woodward245 pages Fifty years ago, racial and civil unrest swept the United States as organized resistance to the morally outrageous and legally dodgy practice of … Continue reading
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Tagged America, American South, Civil Rights, history, law, politics, Politics-CivicInterest, race
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Race with the Devil
Race with the Devil: My Journey from Racial Hatred to Rational Love© 2013 Joseph Pearce264 pages How does a neo-Nazi become a Catholic literary critic? An act of God? Joseph Pearce would surely make the claim, his life having … Continue reading
They Thought They Were Free
They Thought they Were Free: the Germans, 1933-1945346 pages© 1955 Milton Mayer How could ordinary, decent people abide the Nazis for the span of twelve years — to allow a baby born at the NSDAP’s seizure of power to practically … Continue reading
Seeing like a State
Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition have Failed© 1999 James Scott464 pages Seeing like a State scrutinizes the organizational approach of state governments and other large institutions from the … Continue reading
Thank You For Smoking
Thank You for Smoking© 1994 Christopher Buckley272 pages Nick Naylor may be one of the most hated men in America, because his job is to serve as the legal guardian and advocate of Big Tobacco –and he is very, very … Continue reading
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Tagged humor, politics, Politics-CivicInterest
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Fighting Traffic
Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City© 2008 Peter Norton396 pages Stroll into the middle of any American city today, and provided you are not in Detroit, odds are better than not you will be … Continue reading
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Tagged automobiles, cities, economics, history, law, politics, Politics-CivicInterest, social change, social history, transportation
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The Small Mart Revolution
The Small-Mart Revolution: How Local Businesses Are Beating the Global Competition© 2007 Michael Shuman285 pages Independence has long ceased to be the American credo, supplanted by another: efficiency. Throughout the 20th century, small businesses supporting towns and families were devoured … Continue reading
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