Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Tr*mp Reading List 2017

A reading list for this year, in order to educate myself about things I didn't realize were so important, and to be ready for the uncertain future. In no particular order.

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It Can't Happen Here - Sinclair Lewis (1935)

Trump: The Art of the Deal - Donald J. Trump (1987)

Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again - Donald J. Trump (2014) 

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States - Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (2015)

Hillbilly Elegy - J. D. Vance (2016)

The Sellout - Paul Beatty (2015)

Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (1931)

What It Takes: The Way to the White House - Richard Ben Cramer (1992)

Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil - Hannah Arendt (1963)

Globalization and Its Discontents - Joseph E. Stiglitz (2002)

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Examples of other reading lists:

http://www.fsgworkinprogress.com/2016/11/a-post-election-reading-list/

http://remezcla.com/lists/culture/stop-trump-reading-list/

https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2017/jan/20/recommended-reading-for-president-trump

and a collection of reading lists from vox:

http://www.vox.com/culture/2016/11/19/13676514/collection-reading-lists-prepare-age-trump

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