Category: Popular Reading

Popular Reading: Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America’s Suburbs

Benjamin Herold’s Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America’s Suburbs tells the stories of five American families, providing a survey of how hope, history, and racial denial collide in the suburbs and their schools. Once you are finished, check out the rest of our Popular Reading collection. Titles range from commentary, fiction, historical fiction, Read More

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Popular Reading: The Vulnerables

Sigrid Nunez’s The Vulnerables offers a meditation on our contemporary era, as a solitary female narrator asks what it means to be alive at this complex moment in history and considers how our present reality affects the way a person looks back on her past. Once you are finished, check out the rest of our Read More

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Popular Reading: The mysterious case of Rudolf Diesel: genius, power, and deception on the eve of World War I

Douglas Brunt’s The mysterious case of Rudolf Diesel: genius, power, and deception on the eve of World War I explores the fate of Rudolf Diesel, the inventor of the internal combustion engine, who vanished without a trace on the steamship Dresden en route to London in 1913. Once you are finished, check out the rest Read More

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Lincoln’s God

Joshua Zeitz has written an excellent book on Abraham Lincoln and his faith. Lincoln’s God: How Faith Transformed a President and a Nation “chronicles Abraham Lincoln’s evolution from a spiritual skeptic to an evangelical Christian believer, which played an instrumental role on the battlefield of the Civil War and home front, and in the corridors Read More

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Making Better Decisions

Making better decisions is a concern we all have. In The Yellow Pad: Making Better Decisions in an Uncertain World, Robert Rubin, former U.S. Treasury Secretary and co-chairman of Goldman Sachs, offers this guide for anyone looking to make better decisions in life, work and public policy against the backdrop of a fundamentally uncertain world. Read More

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Life Worth Living: A Guide to What Matters Most

Convocation is almost here so we thought we would share with you an inspirational book. In Life Worth Living: A Guide to What Matters Most, Miroslav Volf, Matthew Croasmun, and Ryan McAnnally-Linz offer a guide to defining and creating a flourishing life. The book is based on their popular class at Yale. Religious thinkers and philosophers consulted include Jesus, Socrates, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the Dalai Lama, Ida B. Wells, Friedrich Nietzsche and others. The book provides readers with jumping-off points, road maps, and habits of reflection for determining the meaning in their lives and where things need to change.

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The Lincoln Miracle: Inside the Republican Convention That Changed History

In The Lincoln Miracle: Inside the Republican Convention That Changed History, Ed Achorn brings to life the most consequential presidential election in US history by chronicling Abraham Lincoln’s nomination to lead the Republican Party in the 1860 presidential election. Once you are finished, check out the rest of our Popular Reading collection. Titles range from Read More

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Do You Myth America?

In Myth America: Historians Take on the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past, two historians, Kevin Kruze and Julian Zelizer, replace myths with research and reality. Based on a firm foundation of historical scholarship, they debunk the narratives that portray the New Deal and Great Society as failures, immigrants as hostile invaders and feminists Read More

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Blueprint for the Future?

Storytelling is a skill that everyone can develop. In The Bezos Blueprint: Communication Secrets of the World’s Greatest Salesman, Carmine Gallo “reveals the communication and leadership secrets of the Amazon founder, showing readers how to sharpen their writing, storytelling and communication skills to build the company or career of their dreams.” Once you are finished, Read More

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Life Is Hard

In Life Is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way, Kieran Setiya writes a deeply personal and thought-provoking book, not only drawing on ancient and modern philosophy, but fiction, history, memoir, film, comedy, social science, and stories from his own experience. He offers a map for navigating rough terrain, from personal trauma to Read More

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