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NIGHTLY READING THREAD: Welcome to Edition #77 of #GMGReads. Every night through this weird time, I& #39;m tweeting out a list of my five favorite books around a general theme—and a link to an indie bookstore where you can order them online....
The events of this last week have underscored that America has a more complicated (and less all-around noble) history than the story we like to tell in elementary school. Here are my favorite surveys of American history, all available at @magersandquinn in troubled Minneapolis:
1) Jill Lepore& #39;s THESE TRUTHS is a massive book, but arguably one of the most important of this last decade—a frank assessment of a nation whose history on civil rights, human rights, and democracy is a lot more checkered than we like to admit: https://www.magersandquinn.com/product_info?products_id=8081590&isbn_id=10856494">https://www.magersandquinn.com/product_i...
2) America today will make more sense when you read Kurt Andersen& #39;s ( @KBAndersen) FANTASYLAND. Our current "fake news" era is more the norm than the exception, from the Salem witch trials to PT Barnum, America& #39;s long been home to fantasists and fabulists: https://www.magersandquinn.com/product_info?products_id=79881888&isbn_id=9907142">https://www.magersandquinn.com/product_i...
3) Colin Woodward& #39;s ( @WoodardColin) AMERICAN NATIONS argues remarkably convincingly that we& #39;re not a united land, split "only" by red-blue, but actually eleven distinct regions, with identifiable characteristics and unique values: https://www.magersandquinn.com/product_info?products_id=2804282&isbn_id=6278444">https://www.magersandquinn.com/product_i...
4) John Steele Gordon& #39;s AN EMPIRE OF WEALTH https://www.magersandquinn.com/product_info?products_id=1008577&isbn_id=3103045 and">https://www.magersandquinn.com/product_i... Michael Lind& #39;s LAND OF PROMISE both put our nation& #39;s economic desires—and our intrinsic greed—as the center of our national drive: https://www.magersandquinn.com/product_info?products_id=2884610&isbn_id=6385969">https://www.magersandquinn.com/product_i...
5) Heather Cox Richardson& #39;s ( @hc_richardson) HOW THE SOUTH WON THE CIVIL WAR follows how the nation& #39;s move westward kept alive the ideology defeated by the north& #39;s Civil War victory, taking root in the land of Barry Goldwater, and leading up to now: https://www.magersandquinn.com/product_info?products_id=7945952">https://www.magersandquinn.com/product_i...
Those are tonight& #39;s #GMGReads. What are your favorite histories of the United States? What books have helped you understand our country? What did you read this weekend? Share! #avidreadersunite
