Recommended Books
The Anger Games: Who Voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 Election, and Why?
Picture a mass rally with banners flying and placards held high. A chant rises from the crowd: “We want a strong, determined leader who will crush evil and take us back to our true path.” Nearby another massive rally is underway, with a different chant: “We would rather have respectful children than independent children.”

How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America
While the North prevailed in the Civil War, ending slavery and giving the country a “new birth of freedom,” Heather Cox Richardson argues in this provocative work that democracy’s blood-soaked victory was ephemeral. The system that had sustained the defeated South moved westward and there established a foothold.

What’s the Matter with Kansas
The New York Times bestseller, praised as “hilariously funny . . . the only way to understand why so many Americans have decided to vote against their own economic and political interests” -(Molly Ivins)

Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America
Michael Eric Dyson’s Long Time Coming is a timely, heartfelt book that uses history to slice our nation open and show how racism is a sickness that has shaped our culture and society in a variety of insidious ways.

Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement
An award-winning national bestseller, Walking with the Wind is one of our most important records of the American Civil Rights Movement. Told by John Lewis, who Cornel West calls a “national treasure,” this is a gripping first-hand account of the fight for civil rights and the courage it takes to change a nation.

Across That Bridge: Life Lessons and a Vision for Change
In Across That Bridge, Congressman John Lewis draws from his experience as a prominent leader of the Civil Rights Movement to offer timeless wisdom, poignant recollections, and powerful principles for anyone interested in challenging injustices and inspiring real change toward a freer, more peaceful society.

Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man
In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald’s only niece, shines a bright light on the dark history of their family in order to explain how her uncle became the man who now threatens the world’s health, economic security, and social fabric.

Exercise of Power: American Failures, Successes, and a New Path Forward in the Post-Cold War World
From the former secretary of defense and author of the acclaimed #1 best-selling memoir, Duty, a candid, sweeping examination of power in all its manifestations, and how it has been exercised, for good and bad, by American presidents in the post-Cold War world.
