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“The People’s Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn by Dave Zirin (Dutton) 2 Rave • 3 Positive • 2 Mixed “Rousing … It’s a wonderful portrait of a historian who reshaped America’s understanding of its potential for change.” –Publishers Weekly Book Marks book reviews Days of Miracle and Wonder: Paul Simon and the Trials and Triumphs of Graceland nonfiction the best reviewed books of the month The Ego Trip: Psychedelic Toads The People's Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State Book Marks Visit Book Marks, Lit Hub's home for book reviews, at https://bookmarks.reviews/ or on social media at @bookmarksreads.”
“It well earns its place alongside other recent accounts of the misdeeds of Big Tech like Sarah Wynn-Williams’ Careless People and Anna Wiener’s Uncanny Valley … Books like Stapleton’s will at least arm people determined to reform them with information they’ll need to make that effort.” –Harvey Freedenberg ( BookPage ) 2.”
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“Don’t Be Evil: Bad Bosses, Fake Promises, and My Escape from Big Tech by Claire Stapleton (William Morrow and Company) 4 Rave • 1 Positive • 1 Mixed “A blunt account of one woman’s transformation from eager-to-please corporate striver to clear-eyed activist.”
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“The Ego Trip: Psychedelic Toads, a Trail of Deaths, and the Guru Who Peddled Transcendence by Kimon de Greef (Doubleday) 4 Rave • 1 Positive “A marvelous trip, exploring centuries of the Seris’ tribulations, the growth of commercial toad milking in a region dominated by narco gangsters, quarrels among rival gurus and competition between the sons of an English countess and a German baroness to develop 5-MeO-DMT into a pharmaceutical.” –Annie Bartlett ( BookPage ) 3.”
“The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State by Jill Lepore (Liveright) 3 Rave • 2 Positive • 1 Mixed “Staggering, sobering, yet essential reading for all who want to understand the arc of this increasingly digital, online, corporate, and out-of-control world.” –Carol Haggas ( Booklist ) 4.”
“Days of Miracle and Wonder: Paul Simon and the Trials and Triumphs of Graceland by Ahley Kahn (Atria) 4 Rave • 1 Mixed “What a welcome surprise … Has only made me appreciate the album’s intricacies and paradoxes all the more … Kahn lets his historical actors speak for themselves as often as possible, collecting a remarkably wide array of voices for so short a book.” –Mark Braude ( The New York Times Book Review ) 5.”