Books to Help You Understand Today’s World
United
By Cory Booker
In this New York Times bestseller, United States Senator Cory Booker makes the case that the virtues of empathy, responsibility, and action must guide our nation toward a brighter future.
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Zucked
By Roger McNamee
The story of how a noted tech venture capitalist, an early mentor to Mark Zuckerberg and investor in his company, woke up to the serious damage Facebook was doing to our society and set out to try to stop it.
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Our Towns
By James Fallows and Deborah Fallows
For five years, James and Deborah Fallows have travelled across America in a single-engine prop airplane. Our Towns is the story of their journey—and an account of a country busy remaking itself.
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The World as It Is
By Ben Rhodes
From one of Barack Obama’s most trusted aides comes a revelatory behind-the-scenes account of his presidency—and how idealism can confront harsh reality and still survive.
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The Perfect Weapon
By David E. Sanger
Moving from the White House Situation Room to the dens of Chinese government hackers to the boardrooms of Silicon Valley, New York Times national security correspondent David Sanger—who broke the story of Olympic Games in his previous book—reveals a world coming face-to-face with the perils of technological revolution.
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How Democracies Die
By Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt
Drawing on decades of research and a wide range of historical and global examples, from 1930s Europe to contemporary Hungary, Turkey, and Venezuela, to the American South during Jim Crow, Levitsky and Ziblatt show how democracies die—and how ours can be saved.
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