The Realignment: Summer 2023 Reading List
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Summer Reading List
And…We’re back from last week’s booking/technical difficulties.
For this issue, I’d like to share The Realignment’s summer reading list for the next eight weeks. I’ve divided them between books that I’ll listen to on Audible vs. those that I’ll physically read.
Two books I particularly enjoyed this month:
Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life by William Deresiewicz
Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America's Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941 by Lynne Olson
Audio
This Hallowed Ground: A History of the Civil War by Bruce Catton
Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents — and What They Mean for America’s Future by Jean M. Twenge
What’s Our Problem? A Self-Help Book for Societies by Tim Urban
Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World by Joshua B. Freeman
The Washington War: FDR’s Inner Circle and the Politics of Power That Won World War II by James Lacey
The Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 by Adam Hochschild
Engines of Change: A History of the American Dream in Fifteen Cars by Paul Ingrassia
Paper
Custer’s Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America by T.J. Stiles
What It Takes: The Way to the White House by Richard Ben Cramer
Freedom’s Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II by Arthur Hermann
The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History by Serhii Plokhy
Heavy Metal: The Hard Days an Nights of the Shipyard Workers Who Build America’s Supercarriers by Michael Fabey
Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush by Robert Draper
Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made by David Halberstam
The Nineties: A Book by Chuck Klosterman
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June 27 | Ambassador Robert Lighthizer on No Trade Is Free: Changing Course, Taking on China, and Helping Helping America’s Workers
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