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The story is so much more complicated than I knew

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Revisado: 11-08-23

Not only was this story complicated, but it shows the danger we were in on January 6, 2021. Sund describes in detail his thorough view of what happened, and then explains why that wasn’t thorough. But wait! Even the part that he didn’t know may not have completed the story. Layers upon layers.

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Frightening

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Revisado: 10-26-23

So much more was going wrong than we heard about in the news. Especially chilling are the descriptions of what is likely with “the next Trump”.

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Great story, told beautifully

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Revisado: 02-17-23

This book, read by the author (always a plus), is a wonderful and thorough recounting of events personal, political, and civic. Cannot recommend it strongly enough.

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Wonder if an imperfect, but resolute man

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Revisado: 01-05-23

This story of Abraham Lincoln, spanning his entire life, makes me live and admire him more than ever. His dedication to the Union and eventually to emancipation, saved us all from the horror of continued slavery. Although the story is even now not finished, it never would have started without his commitment to end enslavement. If he had only survived, we might have also achieved universal (male) suffrage at the same time. His willingness to pass authority to his political opponent should he lose the 1864 election stands as an instructive lesson to this who would deny democratic processes today.

John Meacham tells a spellbinding story. I just wished didn’t include pauses between each phrase in his narration. It was an intrusive style.

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Women Power

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Revisado: 12-16-22

This is a description of the work of 5 women lawyers who address critical areas of our rights. Lithwick discusses the main issues, peripheral issues, major actors in the fight with her unfailingly logical and accessible voice.

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Brilliant.

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Revisado: 05-29-22

While she was told by her father “there is nothing for you here” in County Durham, she is actually writing about the effect of lack of opportunity on individual development and it’s effects on creating dangerous political disengagement and the rise of “populist” movements. These movements promise opportunity, but do not actually deliver. What they do deliver is governing bodies that exploit prejudice, enrich the wealthy, and allow corruption to flourish.

Dr. Hill draws parallels between Britain of the 80s, Russia after the dissolution of the USSR, and the US of the last 20 years. She points out the hurtful effects of the vanishing social safety nets in England and America under Thatcher and Reagan. She also weaves in the influence of place and class discrimination in England, racism in America, and gender discrimination everywhere, and their effect on opportunity.

She posits that if we cannot improve individual opportunity through government programs, public-private cooperation, philanthropy and everyone’s volunteer efforts, we will find “there is nothing for anyone, anywhere.” (This is the last sentence of the main text.)

Shiver me timbers.

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