Read NPI contributor Joel Connelly’s review of Big River: Resilience and Renewal in the Columbia Basin, by David Moscowitz and Eileen Delehanty Pearkes.
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Book Review: The Holocaust — An Unfinished History is intense, disturbing, and necessary
Read NPI’s review of The Holocaust: An Unfinished History by Dan Stone, a historian of modern Europe with particular interests in the Holocaust, comparative genocide, fascism, race theory, and the history of anthropology.
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Book Review: Democracy Awakening explores how elites have subverted American ideals
Read NPI’s review of Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America, by Heather Cox Richardson.
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Book Review: Getting Elected is the Easy Part offers practical advice and political wisdom
Read NPI’s review of Getting Elected is the Easy Part: Working and Winning in the State Legislature, by Washington State Senator Karen Keiser.
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“The Boys in the Boat” adds to the visual arts depicting the 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany
George Clooney’s latest film, based on the non-fiction novel by Daniel James Brown, joins films like “Olympia” in taking audiences back to the 1930s, a time when American athletes competed for Olympic gold against a backdrop of rising fascism.
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Book Review: Collision of Power examines the Bezos/Trump years at The Washington Post
Read NPI’s review of Collision of Power: Trump, Bezos, and The Washington Post by Martin Barton.
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Book Review: Kim Kelly’s Fight Like Hell is a useful synthesis of American labor history
Slowly at first, and then with increasing energy, Fight Like Hell brings together radical themes from our nation’s past that make the book a worthwhile read.
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Book Review: “What Are You Gonna Do About It?” presents the wisdom of Jolene Unsoeld
Read NPI contributor Joel Connelly’s review of “What Are You Gonna Do About It? Stories of a Hopeless Meddler,” from Jolene Unsoeld, completed after her death by her son Krag Unsoeld.
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Book Review: An assault on American democracy and our responsibility to stop it
Read NPI contributor Joel Connelly’s review of The Age of Insurrection: The Radical Right’s Assault on American Democracy, by renowned journalist David Neiwert.
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Book Review: 100% Democracy makes the case for adopting universal voting in the U.S.
Read NPI’s review of 100% Democracy: The Case for Universal Voting, by writer E. J. Dionne Jr. and Miles Rapoport, a former Secretary of State.
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Book Review: It Was Vulgar & It Was Beautiful relates how art helped combat AIDS
Lowery chronicles the art installations by the collective Gran Fury, including Kissing Doesn’t Kill and All People With Aids are Innocent, while also describing the tragic consequences AIDS was having on the members themselves.
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Book Review: Flipped recounts Georgia progressives’ big 2020 breakthrough
The thrilling victories of the Reverend Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, which were followed within hours by the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol, are richly chronicled in Flipped, a recently published book by the chief political reporter of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Greg Bluestein.
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Book Review: Left Behind puts the DLC’s failed track record under a microscope
Read NPI’s review of Left Behind: The Democrats’ Failed Attempt to Solve Inequality, by historian Lily Geismer, an associate professor of history at Claremont McKenna College.
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Book Review: Laboratories of Autocracy puts Republican-run statehouses under a spotlight
Read NPI’s review of Laboratories of Autocracy: A Wake-Up Call from Behind the Lines, by Ohio Democratic Party Chair David Pepper.