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The Battle of Versailles: The Night American Fashion Stumbled into the Spotlight and Made History
Between the World and Me
“This might be the Whitest thing I could ever say, but I just didn’t get it. I understand the point of this book – it’s a cry of protest, meant to be a reminder of how far we have to go as a society in terms of racial equity, lest we get too impressed with ourselves. Stylistically, the book can be a…”
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
Faster: How a Jewish Driver, an American Heiress, and a Legendary Car Beat Hitler’s Best
“I had trouble connecting with this book. It describes Grand Prix and rally racing of the 1930s – the ‘Golden Age of Auto Racing,’ this era is called. Racing, especially then, is, by nature, visceral and sensory, and I felt disconnected from it. The central theme is that Hitler and the Nazis used…”
Taboo: Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports And Why We’re Afraid To Talk About It
“This book explains (it doesn’t ‘claim,’ it just explains) that Black humans are generally better athletes than White humans. It goes deep into the different regions of Africa, and shows how significant portions of athletics are simply dominated by athletes from those regions. In particular, the…”
Their Eyes Were Watching God
“One of those books which you know is Very Significant, but that which you wouldn’t read for any other reason. The dialect (emancipated slaves in Florida at the turn of the century) is hard to read, and the story moves slowly. It gets a little more compelling toward the end, when there’s a crisis…”
The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
“This is a novel from 1851 designed to reveal the horrors of slavery. And it worked – it caused outrage across the United States and pushed the country toward the Civil War. The author, Harriet Beecher Stowe, was prompted to write the novel by the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which…”
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Jew