Aaron (Paternity Leave Posting Schedule) Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Isabel WilkersonAaron (Paternity Leave Posting Schedule)If The Warmth of Other Suns was a Renaissance painting with every line perfectly placed, then Caste by Isabel Wilkerson is an impressionist piece that can be messy up close but beautiful when you zoom out. That said, there was a line in the conclusion that was so cringe I lol'ed
Paperback, 2023
$21.00Member price:$10.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Beautiful Fall: Fashion, Genius, and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris
Alicia DrakeAaron (Paternity Leave Posting Schedule)The Beautiful Fall by Alicia Drake was pretty good, taught me lot about a subject (haute couture) I basically knew nothing about. If you're a single guy in New York pick up a copy, it'll give you something to talk about with all those women who work in fashion.
Paperback, 2010
$24.99Member price:$12.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
Barbara DemickAaron (Paternity Leave Posting Schedule)Barbara Demick's Eat the Buddha (Tibet) and Nothing to Envy (North Korea) aren't just great for learning about two places we don't know a lot about, but what it's like to live through societal collapse (very bad!)
Paperback, 2010
$20.00Member price:$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
Robert KolkerAaron (Paternity Leave Posting Schedule)Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker was a triumph, a nonfiction John Irving novel mashed up with science journalism
Paperback, 2021
$19.00Member price:$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Waco Rising: David Koresh, the Fbi, and the Birth of America's Modern Militias
Kevin CookAaron (Paternity Leave Posting Schedule)Waco Rising by Kevin Cook did a great job of telling the story of the Branch Davidians and how they became far right martyrs (they set the fire btw)
Hardcover, 2023
$29.99Member price:$14.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
Robert D. PutnamAaron (Paternity Leave Posting Schedule)@daveweigel Robert Putnam could’ve written about how they reflect a pre-Bowling Alone America
Paperback, 2020
$21.99Member price:$10.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
One Summer: America, 1927
Bill BrysonAaron (Paternity Leave Posting Schedule)If you like Bill Bryson’s loose and conversational books then One Summer is for you. My favorite anecdote of many is King George V asking Charles Lindbergh if he pissed himself over the Atlantic
Paperback, 2014
$22.00Member price:$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Savages
Joe KaneAaron (Paternity Leave Posting Schedule)Savages by Joe Kane is so cool. It packs all these different themes - what it’s like for hunter gatherers, the price of development, what a piece of shit RFK Jr. is - into one relatively short book
Paperback, 1996
$19.00Member price:$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David GrannAaron (Paternity Leave Posting Schedule)If these words send a chill down your spine read The Wager by David Grann. If these words do not send a chill down your spine you should still read The Wager by David Grann https://t.co/czgLdh1385
Hardcover, 2023
$30.00Member price:$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
Greg GrandinAaron (Paternity Leave Posting Schedule)I just finished The End of The Myth by Greg Grandin, a book about what happened to America when it lost its physical frontier, and part of his thesis is that we now have a permanent Blood Meridian for vigilantes https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/11/unsurprising-outcome-rittenhouse-trial/620742/
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