Steve Inskeep Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Airplane reading: advance copy of the great historian Allen C. Guelzo’s new book on Lincoln. A meditation on the sixteenth president and our democracy. The first page is breathtaking.

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Recent dispatches include this one on reading aloud some American texts: our Declaration(s) of Independence, and Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick: https://t.co/bdI4ldJhEL

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First page of “Scenes From My Life,” the posthumously published memoir of Michael K. Williams. https://t.co/CGbODxghjr

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An episode late in Stalin’s life, as recounted by Orlando Figes in “The Story of Russia.” https://t.co/5YaF5bCWgS

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This post on the reading of Declaration includes a bonus post on another great American document: Herman Melville's Moby Dick. I've been listening while running. https://t.co/0s7hV5KmFx

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Here, @nicolesjchung and I read aloud her list of things her mother sent her when Nicole left home — and another list of things Nicole sent her mother as she was dying. Both lists are in her memoir, “A Living Remedy.” @NPR @MorningEdition https://t.co/lgmdE3WgCp

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In “The Crimean War,” historian Orlando Figes writes of the 1850’s, when Russia’s Tsar Nicholas I fought other European powers—driven by a mix of imperial self-interest, Eastern Orthodox religious fervor, and a feeling of grievance that Western powers were so, so unfair. https://t.co/T7cu5S3Qb3

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A.I. has captured the world’s imagination and concern... Ajunwa’s book is not about computers setting up shop and taking over the world in a kind of Matrix scenario. It raises questions about what human beings are doing to other human beings using the power of AI right now.

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"One line of thinking is that teaching slavery in schools is going to make white kids feel bad. Should white people feel bad about this story you tell?" Author Ilyon Woo answers that question about "Master Slave Husband Wife." @MorningEdition @NPR https://t.co/vHFPvCqjfP

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@SeanASaldana Caro’s third volume, “Means of Ascent” is the shortest and most focused. A scene in Uvalde. “Black Water Rising” by Attica Locke. Fiction that contains some truth. “No Country for Old Men,” Cormac McCarthy. “Eagles and Empire,” by David Clary, because you’re in Latin America.