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My 5 Top Picks for New Books on the Climate Crisis

July 28, 2021 By Erik Curren

Best books on climate crisis

Out-of-control wildfires, heatwaves, and storms show that we all need to care about climate. We already have enough books about science. Here are some about people, conflict, and power.

Filed Under: Book Reviews Tagged With: Bill McKibben, environmental justice, Green New Deal, Michael Mann, Naomi Klein

Four Stories Compete to Rule America. We Need them All.

July 19, 2021 By Erik Curren

If your hero is Ronald Reagan, then you’re in Free America. But if you admire Elon Musk, you’re in Smart America. Just America rejects heroes, but likes BLM. And Real America, bless their souls, is still all in for Trump. Can we at least agree on something?

Filed Under: Book Reviews Tagged With: Donald Trump

[Book Review] ‘The Third Reconstruction’ by Rev. William J. Barber II

May 20, 2021 By Erik Curren

Rev. William J. Barber II

When it comes to the God who hates poor people, immigrants, and gay people, Rev. William J. Barber says he’s an atheist too.

Filed Under: Book Reviews Tagged With: Reconstruction

[Book Review] ‘Stop Saving the Planet!’ by Jenny Price

May 6, 2021 By Erik Curren

Stop Saving the Planet! by Jenny Price

A slim, easy-reading guide full of fun short lists and snark that packs a punch meant to shatter your ideas of what it means to help the environment.

Filed Under: Book Reviews Tagged With: Cancer Alley, environmental justice

[Book Review] ‘Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880’ by WEB DuBois

April 27, 2021 By Erik Curren

Black Reconstruction in America by WEB DuBois

A classic that’s more relevant today than ever. By busting the myth of the failure of post-Civil War Reconstruction, DuBois gives us a history of the amazing time when America first tried to create a truly multiracial democracy.

Filed Under: Book Reviews Tagged With: abolition of slavery, Reconstruction, WEB DuBois

[Book Review] ‘How the South Won the Civil War’ by Heather Cox Richardson

January 6, 2021 By Erik Curren

How the South Won the Civil War by Heather Cox Richardson

Heather Cox Richardson, a historian of 19th-century America with a popular daily politics blog, argues that today’s conservatives owe a large debt to yesterday’s Confederates.

Filed Under: Book Reviews Tagged With: Civil War, Reconstruction

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