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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.  Michelle Alexander. (Reviewed by Colin Grant in The Guardian 2019) In 2008, months before his election as president, Barack…

On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City.  Alice Goffman. Review by Tim Newburn, https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2014/07/10/book-review-on-the-run-fugitive-life-in-an-american-city-by-alice-goffman/ There are currently 2.3 million people incarcerated in American prisons and jails. There are…

Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America.  Kathleen Belew. (Edited review from the website Andrew: https://medium.com/@ahseeder/a-short-summary-of-kathleen-belews-bring-the-war-home-8ac4a74f3fe2) Belew’s book is a history of the white power movement’s…

The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels.  John Meacham. Reviewed by Sean Wilentz in the NY Times At the close of his First Inaugural Address, President Abraham Lincoln…

How the South Won the Civil War. Heather Cox Richardson. (Review by John S Gardner in The Guardian—US Edition, 2020) Heather Cox Richardson’s How the South Won the Civil War…