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Barack Obama II is an American attorney and politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the first African-American president of the United States.
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Battling the Big Lie
How Fox, Facebook, and the MAGA Media Are Destroying America
Dan Pfeiffer - 2022-06-07
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Disinformation Nation by a #1 New York Times bestselling author offers a guide on how to combat political truth decay and the Right Wing propaganda machine. The book exposes the tactics used by the Right Wing to amass power and prevent a shared understanding of reality. With step-by-step guides on spotting fake news and becoming your own fact checker, readers are equipped to fight back against disinformation. A compelling read for those interested in the truth behind the immense polarization and division in America.
Barack Obama
2022-08-10T16:42:47.000Z
Here’s the truth: @danpfeiffer’s latest book, Battling the Big Lie, is an important read for anyone who’s wondering how the far right traffics in lies and what we can all do to fight back. As we head into election season, it could not be more timely.      источник
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Nine Days
The Race to Save Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life and Win the 1960 Election
Paul Kendrick - 2021-01-12
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This book tells the story of Martin Luther King Jr.'s imprisonment in the days leading up to the 1960 presidential election, and the efforts of three of John F. Kennedy's civil rights staffers who went rogue to free him. This move changed the face of the Democratic Party and propelled Kennedy to the White House. The book covers the nine extraordinary days that followed King's arrest, which were integral in changing the course of one of the closest elections in American history. It's a gripping tale filled with electoral machinations, moral courage, and important lessons for our own time.
Barack Obama
2021-02-19T21:04:07.000Z
I want to share this inspiring book about the events leading up to the 1960 election, from Dr. King's imprisonment to student activism in Atlanta to JFK's campaign. It's a story we can all learn from—a story of overlooked heroes and the power each of us has to create change.      источник
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Министерство будущего
A Novel
Kim Stanley Robinson - 2020-10-06
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Двадцатые годы нашего века. Климат продолжает меняться и жертвы исчисляются миллионами. В 2025 году создается международная организация «Министерство будущего» со штаб-квартирой в Цюрихе. Министерство должно пытаться предотвратить глобальную катастрофу и дать надежду будущим поколениям. Наравне с принятием официальных мер организация быстро приходит к использованию тайных операций… Операций, которые включают в себя массовые диверсии, убийства, финансовые манипуляции, насилие, поддержку радикальных политических движений и идеологий. Ради спасения Земли от полного вымирания дозволено все. Ким Стэнли Робинсон, основываясь на существующих тенденциях, показывает свое видение возможных событий ближайшего будущего. Панорама, которую он рисует, охватывает все сферы: экономику, политику, технологии, экологию. И что особенно ценно – автор остается оптимистом и видит путь для спасения человечества.
Barack Obama
2020-12-20T00:00:00.000Z
As 2020 comes to a close, I wanted to share my annual lists of favorites. I’ll start by sharing my favorite books this year. I hope you enjoy reading these as much as I did.      источник
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Missionaries
A Novel
Phil Klay - 2020-10-06
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"Missionaries" by Phil Klay is a gripping novel that delves into the aftermath of America's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Set in Colombia, the book follows four lives that become entangled as they navigate the violence and power struggles of the region. Mason, a U.S. Army Special Forces medic, and Lisette, a foreign correspondent, are drawn to Colombia and the adrenaline of war despite their past traumas. Meanwhile, Juan Pablo, Mason's counterpart in the Colombian military, and Abel, a lieutenant in a local militia, grapple with their own perspectives and loyalties in the midst of chaos. As they navigate a landscape where drug cartels, militias, and the state are blurred, a power vacuum emerges, leaving all the characters vulnerable to forces they cannot control. With geopolitical sophistication and powerful insights into the human heart, "Missionaries" is an electrifying artistic reckoning with the unpredictable and devastating consequences of America's global projection of power.
Barack Obama
2020-12-20T00:00:00.000Z
As 2020 comes to a close, I wanted to share my annual lists of favorites. I’ll start by sharing my favorite books this year. I hope you enjoy reading these as much as I did.      источник
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Jack
A Novel
Marilynne Robinson - 2020-09-29
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"Jack" by a Pulitzer and National Humanities Medal-winning author Marilynne Robinson is a masterpiece of American contemporary fiction, exploring the themes of love, race, and religion. Set in segregated St. Louis after World War II, Jack's heart-wrenching love story with an African American teacher, the daughter of a preacher, is one of the author's greatest accomplishments. The novel delves into the dilemmas and promises of American history, the impact of racial inequality, and the deep-rooted religious belief that continues to resonate in our national character.
Barack Obama
2020-12-20T00:00:00.000Z
As 2020 comes to a close, I wanted to share my annual lists of favorites. I’ll start by sharing my favorite books this year. I hope you enjoy reading these as much as I did.      источник
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Homeland Elegies
A Novel
Ayad Akhtar - 2020-09-15
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"Homeland Elegies" is a thought-provoking exploration of hope and identity in a nation that is falling apart, blending fact and fiction to tell an epic story of belonging and dispossession in the aftermath of 9/11. This gripping book is part family drama, part social essay, and part adventure, following a father and son as they navigate a changing world. Author Ayad Akhtar has created a powerful new narrative voice that captures a country where debt and finance have taken over, a TV star is president, and immigrants live in fear. Through the lens of a gripping family story, Akhtar makes sense of this chaotic new reality, sparing no one in the process.
Barack Obama
2020-12-20T00:00:00.000Z
As 2020 comes to a close, I wanted to share my annual lists of favorites. I’ll start by sharing my favorite books this year. I hope you enjoy reading these as much as I did.      источник
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Robert Benzie
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Касты
Истоки неравенства в XXI веке
Isabel Wilkerson - 2020-08-04
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Лауреат Пулитцеровской премии Изабель Уилкерсон исследует истоки кастового общества в современном мире и доказывает: в XXI веке людей продолжают делить на касты высших и низших. • Книгу рекомендуют ОПРА УИНФРИ и БАРАК ОБАМА • ГЛАВНЫЙ НОН-ФИКШН 2020 ГОДА по версии TIME, People, The Washington Post и Publishers Weekly • Победитель премий PEN, Los Angeles Times Book Prize и National Book Critics Circle Award • Будущий хит NETFLIX Америка, Индия и Третий Рейх — что общего между этими странами? В каждой из них зародилась своя уникальная кастовая система, разделившая людей на низшие и высшие сорта, и подготовившая почву для современных шовинистических движений по всему миру. В своей книге лауреат Пулитцеровской премии, журналистка Изабель Уилкерсон рассматривает способы угнетения и ограничения людей в правах на основании их национальности, цвета кожи или места рождения, а также показывает, какой ущерб это наносит и их качеству жизни, и экономике в целом. Ее книга доказывает: даже несмотря на прогресс, кастовая система все еще существует, лишая людей равных прав и возможностей, убивая заложенный в них человеческий потенциал. Сплетенная из множества человеческих историй, пронизанных несправедливостью, гневом и болью, книга «Касты» наглядно показывает несостоятельность искусственных правил и предрассудков, которые привели к холокосту, протестам Ганди и законам Джима Кроу — а в XXI веке к масштабным расовым протестам в Америке. Это также противоядие от идей шовинизма и ксенофобии, которые до сих пор овладевают умами людей по всему миру. Подробное исследование расизма, неравенства и несправедливости. Это болезненно резонансная книга, и она вышла в нужное время. The Guardian Книга Уилкерсон — мощный и поучительный отчет о том, как иерархия воспроизводит саму себя, а также призыв к нелегкой работе по ее устранению. The Washington Post Потрясающе смело как на уровне идеи, так и в подаче… Экстраполяция идей Уилкерсон на современную Америку наводит на тревожные мысли о том, как глубоко кастовая система укоренилась в современном обществе. San Francisco Chronicle Сила этой книги — в человеческих историях, связанных между собой, словно жемчуг. «Касты» — это запоминающееся чтение, несущее огонь праведного гнева в острой, как алмаз, прозе, которую станут изучать будущие поколения журналистов. Minneapolis Star Tribune
Barack Obama
2020-12-20T00:00:00.000Z
As 2020 comes to a close, I wanted to share my annual lists of favorites. I’ll start by sharing my favorite books this year. I hope you enjoy reading these as much as I did.      источник
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Luster
A Novel
Raven Leilani - 2020-08-04
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A young black woman navigates contemporary sexual and racial politics while stumbling her way through her twenties and trying to make it as an artist. When she meets Eric, who is in an open marriage, Edie becomes embroiled in his family life and becomes a friend to his wife and a role model to his adopted daughter. This sharp, darkly comic, sexually charged, and socially disruptive debut novel is a haunting and aching portrayal of the challenges of self-discovery in a tumultuous era.
Barack Obama
2020-12-20T00:00:00.000Z
As 2020 comes to a close, I wanted to share my annual lists of favorites. I’ll start by sharing my favorite books this year. I hope you enjoy reading these as much as I did.      источник
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Caitlin MoranMarian Keyes
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Memorial Drive
A Daughter's Memoir
Natasha Trethewey - 2020-07-28
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"Memorial Drive" is a memoir that delves into how the author's teenage years were upended when her former stepfather killed her mother. Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natasha Trethewey shares her journey through grief and explores how this traumatic event shaped her as an artist. She reflects on her own upbringing as a "child of miscegenation" in Mississippi and her mother's history in the deeply segregated South. This book is an intimate portrayal of pain, loss, and resilience.
Barack Obama
2020-12-20T00:00:00.000Z
As 2020 comes to a close, I wanted to share my annual lists of favorites. I’ll start by sharing my favorite books this year. I hope you enjoy reading these as much as I did.      источник
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Margaret AtwoodSimon Schama
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Twilight of Democracy
The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
Anne Applebaum - 2020-07-21
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Explore the resurgence of authoritarianism in the 21st century with Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Anne Applebaum's Twilight of Democracy. As liberal democracy wanes and populism and nationalism gain traction across the globe, Applebaum offers insight into the appeal of the strongman leader and political systems that prioritize loyalty above all else. Through historical examples and investigative reporting in several countries, she sheds light on the practical motivations that drive individuals toward authoritarianism and highlights the dangers of a one-party state. Discover the seductive power of totalitarian thinking in this thought-provoking and timely book.
Barack Obama
2020-12-20T00:00:00.000Z
As 2020 comes to a close, I wanted to share my annual lists of favorites. I’ll start by sharing my favorite books this year. I hope you enjoy reading these as much as I did.      источник
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Trust Exercise by Susan Choi
Что-то не так с Гэлвинами by Robert Kolker
Сколько золота в этих холмах by C Pam Zhang
Стеклянный отель by Emily St. John Mandel
The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
Дьякон Кинг-Конг by James McBride
Sharks in the Time of Saviors by Kawai Strong Washburn
Страх и надежда by Erik Larson
Алая река by Liz Moore
A Different Way to Win by Jim Rooney
Tough Love by Susan Rice
The Topeka School by Ben Lerner
The Education of an Idealist by Samantha Power
The Anarchy by William Dalrymple
Без воды by Téa Obreht
The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom
Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino
Мальчишки из «Никеля» by Colson Whitehead
The Sixth Man by Andre Iguodala
Florida by Lauren Groff
Furious Hours by Casey Cep
Выдох by Ted Chiang
Девушка, женщина, иная by Bernardine Evaristo
Момент взлета by Melinda Gates
Нормальные люди by Sally Rooney
How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell
Finding My Voice by Valerie Jarrett
Джентльмен в Москве by Amor Towles
Lot by Bryan Washington
Solitary by Albert Woodfox
Ничего не говори by Patrick Radden Keefe
The Source of Self-Regard by Toni Morrison
Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli
American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson
Maid by Stephanie Land
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee by David Treuer
Эпоха надзорного капитализма by Shoshana Zuboff
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Frederick Douglass by David W. Blight
Heartland by Sarah Smarsh
Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
American Prison by Shane Bauer
Arthur Ashe by Raymond Arsenault
Immigrant, Montana by Amitava Kumar
Там мы стали другими by Tommy Orange
The World as It Is by Ben Rhodes
Warlight by Michael Ondaatje
Futureface by Alex Wagner
Фактологичность Десять причин наших заблуждений о мире – и почему все не так плохо, как кажется by Hans Rosling
In the Shadow of Statues by Mitch Landrieu
Ученица by Tara Westover
Feel Free by Zadie Smith
Брак по-американски by Tayari Jones
Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday
How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky
The Largesse of the Sea Maiden by Denis Johnson
Truth Decay by Jennifer Kavanagh
Why Liberalism Failed by Patrick J. Deneen
Сила by Naomi Alderman
Grant by Ron Chernow
Basketball by Shea Serrano
Five-Carat Soul by James McBride
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
Жизнь 3 by Max Tegmark
Coach Wooden and Me by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Men Without Women by Haruki Murakami
The Broken Ladder by Keith Payne
Anything Is Possible by Elizabeth Strout
Джейнсвилл by Amy Goldstein
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
Дорога в тысячу ли by Min Jin Lee
Подземная железная дорога by Colson Whitehead
The Return by Hisham Matar
Dying by Cory Taylor
Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
Evicted by Matthew Desmond
Barbarian Days by William Finnegan
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
Девушка в поезде by Paula Hawkins
Шестое вымирание by Elizabeth Kolbert
«Я» значит «Ястреб» by Helen MacDonald
Весь невидимый нам свет by Anthony Doerr
The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
Американха by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
We Live in Water by Jess Walter
Сын повелителя сирот by Adam Johnson
The New Geography of Jobs by Enrico Moretti
Пустышка by Nicholas Carr
How to Read the Air by Dinaw Mengestu
Washington by Ron Chernow
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Волчий зал by Hilary Mantel
The Shadow of Sirius by W. S. Merwin
Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Галаад by Marilynne Robinson
Песнь Соломона by Toni Morrison
Сто лет одиночества by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Mobi Dick Or The Whale by Herman Melville
A House for Mr. Biswas by V. S. Naipaul
Four Great Tragedies by William Shakespeare
Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
New American Standard Bible by The Lockman Foundaiton
И пришло разрушение… by Chinua Achebe
A Grain of Wheat by Ngugi Wa Thiong'O
Abraham Lincoln by Abraham Lincoln
Parting the Waters by Taylor Branch