Lie Machines
How to Save Democracy from Troll Armies, Deceitful Robots, Junk News Operations, and Political Operatives
By Philip N. Howard
Lie Machines is full of behind-the-scenes stories from the world’s biggest and most damagingly successful misinformation initiatives.
Howard, not only shows how these campaigns evolved from older propaganda operations but also exposes their new powers, gives us insight into their effectiveness, and explains how to shut them down. Howard is a sociologist and communication researcher who studies the impact of information technologies on democracy and social inequality. Book Here:
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The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
By Ned Blackhawk, Western Shoshone.
Professor of History and American Studies at Yale University
A sweeping and overdue retelling of U.S. history that recognizes that Native Americans are essential to understanding the evolution of modern America.
Winner of the 2023 National Book Award in Nonfiction. A New Yorker Best Book of 2023. A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2023. Book here:
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The Struggle for a Decent Politics: On “Liberal” as an Adjective
by Michael Walzer
Walzer itemizes the characteristics described by “liberal” in an inventory of his own deepest political and moral commitments—among other things, to the principle of equality, to the rule of law, and to a pluralism that is both political and cultural.
Unabashedly asserting that liberalism comprises a universal set of values (“they must be universal,” he writes, “since they are under assault around the world”), Walzer reminds us in this inspiring book why those values are worth fighting for.
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Nuclear War: A Scenario
By Annie Jacobsen
Jacobsen’s new book, Nuclear War: A Scenario, is a lightning-fast read intended to put the nuclear threat squarely back on everyone’s radar. Her narrative thread, as the title suggests, is a fact-based (though thankfully fictional) scenario that shows how a nuclear launch can escalate into World War III at dizzying speed.
Pulitzer Prize finalist
Read Jacobsen interview at MotherJones.com
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Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class
By Blair Kelley, Ph.D.
Named one of Smithsonian‘s Best Books of 2023.
Award-winning historian Blair LM Kelley illuminates the adversities and joys of the Black working class in America through a stunning narrative centered on her forebears. Here…
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