Book List

A selection of books I am reading or have read recently, in no particular order.

Placement on this list indicates an endorsement of the book’s reading experience alone, not necessarily its author or its contents

No, these are not affiliate links. Last Updated on December 16th, 2023.

 
 

The Kingdom, The Power, and The Glory American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

Tim Alberta 2023

ISBN-10 006322688X

ISBN-13 978-0063226883

 

The Power Broker Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

Robert A. Caro 1974

ISBN-10 0394480767

ISBN-13 978-0394480763

 

Streets of Gold America’s Untold Story of Immigrant Success

Ran Abramitzky & Leah Boston 2022

ISBN-10 1541797833

ISBN-13 978-1541797833

 

Going Infinite The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

Michael Lewis 2023

ISBN-10 1324074337

ISBN-13 978-1324074335

 

Mistrust Why Losing Faith in Institutions Provides the Tools to Transform Them

Ethan Zuckerman 2021

ISBN-10 1324002603

ISBN-13 978-1324002604

 
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The Cruelty Is The Point The Past, Present and Future of Trump’s America

Adam Serwer 2021

ISBN-10 0593230809

ISBN-13 978-0593230800

 
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The New Geography of Jobs

Enrico Moretti 2013

ISBN-10 0544028058

ISBN-13 978-0544028050

 
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After the Fall Being American in the World We’ve Made

Ben Rhodes 2021

ISBN-10 1984856057

ISBN-13 978-1984856050

 
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Twitter and Tear Gas The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest

Zeynep Tufecki 2018

ISBN-10 0300234171

ISBN-13 978-0300234176

 
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The Sum of Us What Racism Costs Everyone and How We can Prosper Together

Heather McGhee 2021

ISBN-10 0525509569

ISBN-13 978-0525509561

 
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The Scout Mindset Why Some People See Things Clear and Others Don’t

Julia Galef 2021

ISBN-10 0735217556

ISBN-13 978-0735217553

 
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Dont Blame Us Suburban Liberals and the Transformation of the Democratic Party

Lily Geismer 2017

ISBN-10 069117623X

ISBN-13 978-0691176239

 
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One Billion Americans The Case For Thinking Bigger

Matthew Yglesias 2020

ISBN-10 0593190211

ISBN-13 978-0593190210

 
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Lords of the Realm The Real History of Baseball

John Heylar 1999

ISBN-10 0345465245

ISBN-13 978-0345465245

 
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No Filter The Inside Story of Instagram

Sarah Frier September 2021

ISBN-10 1982126817

ISBN-13 978-1982126810

 
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Give People Money How a Universal Basic Income would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World

Annie Lowrey July 2019

ISBN-10 1524758779

ISBN-13 978-1524758776

 
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The Righteous Mind Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

Jonathan Haidt February 2013

ISBN-10 0307455777

ISBN-13 978-0307455772

 
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The Decadent Society How We Became Victims Of Our Own Success

Ross Douthat February 2020

ISBN-10 1476785244

ISBN-13 978-1476785240

 
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Why We’re Polarized

Ezra Klein February 2020

ISBN-10 147670032X

ISBN-13 978-1476700328

 
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Scarcity The New Science of Having Less and How It Defines Our Lives

Sendhil Mullainathan & Eldar Shafir November 2014

ISBN-10 125005611X

ISBN-13 978-1250056115

 
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A Thousand Small Sanities The Moral Adventure of Liberalism

Adam Gopnik May 2019

ISBN-10 154169936X

ISBN-13 978-1541699366

 
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The Second Mountain The Quest for a Moral Life

David Brooks April 2019

ISBN-10 0812993268

ISBN-13 978-0812993264

 
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The Algebra of Happiness Notes on the Pursuit of Success, Love, and Meaning

Scott Galloway May 2019

ISBN-10 0593084195

ISBN-13 978-0593084199

 
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of PoweR

Shoshana Zuboff January 2019

ISBN-10 1610395697

ISBN-13 978-1610395694

 
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Dear America Notes of an Undocumented Citizen

Jose Antonio Vargas September 2018

ISBN-10 0062851357

ISBN-13 978-0062851352

 
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Identity Crisis The 2016 Presidential Campaign and the Battle for the Meaning of America

John Sides, Michael Tesler, Lynn Vaverick October 2018

ISBN-10 0691174199

ISBN-13 978-0691174198

 
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Sapiens A Brief History of Humankind

Yuval Noah Harari May 2014

ISBN-10 0062316095

ISBN-13 978-0062316110

 
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Fear Trump in the White House

Bob Woodward September 2018

ISBN-10 1501175513

ISBN-13 978-9526532998

 
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We Were Eight Years In Power An American Tragedy

Ta-Nehisi Coates October 2017

ISBN-10 0241325234

ISBN-13 978-0-399-59056-6

 

Bad Blood Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

John Carreyrou May 2018

ISBN-10 152473165X

ISBN-13 978-1524731656

 

Becoming Steve Jobs The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader

Brent Schlender, Rick Tetzeli, Marc Andreessen June 2016

ISBN-10 0385347421

ISBN-13 978-0385347426

 
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The World Is Flat 3.0 A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

Thomas L. Friedman July 2007

ISBN-10 0312425074

ISBN-13 978-0312425074