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Book Review: We Are Indivisible by Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin

by Barbara the Bibliophage | May 23, 2020 | RESIST: Politics

We are Indivisible: A Blueprint for Democracy After Trump is all politics. Authors Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin started a grassroots movement in the wake of the 2016 election results. In this book, they explain what led to those results, and what the potential...

Book Review: Hiding in Plain Sight by Sarah Kendzior

by Barbara the Bibliophage | May 7, 2020 | RESIST: Politics

Sarah Kendzior has done it again with Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America. This is 320 pages of hard truths, and may or may not feel like healthy quarantine reading. Especially considering how much scarier everything has...

Book Review: Notorious RBG by Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Apr 13, 2020 | RESIST: Feminism, RESIST: Politics

Look no further than Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg if you’re hungry for inspiration in difficult times. The authors, Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik, pull together stories, photos, drawings, and even text from Supreme Court decisions. The...

Book Review: The Road to Unfreedom by Timothy Snyder

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Mar 4, 2020 | RESIST: Politics

I discovered Timothy Snyder, professor and author, in the spring of 2017. When my heart sank deeper, and my protesting voice felt hoarse, I dove into political books looking for answers. Snyder delivered. I reread that small book, On Tyranny, earlier this year. Even...

Book Review: Yes We (Still) Can by Dan Pfeiffer

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Jan 25, 2020 | RESIST: Politics

Dan Pfeiffer is coming soon to a bookstore near me, promoting his new book, Un-Trumping America: A Plan to Make America a Democracy Again. Since I’m attending that event, I decided it was high time I read his first book. And I think I’ll be glad I read them closer...

Book Review: Strangers in Their Own Land by Arlie Russell Hochschild

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Jan 19, 2020 | RESIST: Politics

Arlie Russell Hochschild opens the doors of my liberal bubble and bursts its walls in Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right. She’s a professor of sociology at University of California in Berkeley, and this does have an instructional...

Book Review: An Unlikely Journey by Julián Castro

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Oct 19, 2019 | RESIST: Politics

Julián Castro is another of the 2020 Democratic Presidential candidates. But his 2018 book, An Unlikely Journey, isn’t about the campaign. It contains no specific platforms or policies. Instead, it’s one man’s unique origin story. Unless you count that his identical...

Book Review: Blowout by Rachel Maddow

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Oct 12, 2019 | RESIST: Politics

When I finished Blowout by Rachel Maddow, I had to wash all the residual oil slick off my skin. The book is just that immersive in the oil industry. Not to mention a different kind of Kremlin-based, Putin-esque oiliness. Wow, this book contains nothing less than a...

Book Review: The View From Flyover Country by Sarah Kendzior

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Aug 20, 2019 | RESIST: Politics

Sarah Kendzior has been blogging, writing, and working as a journalist since the early 2010s. Her book, The View from Flyover Country, gained prominence after the 2016 election because of her insightful tweets about the rise of the 45th President. Clearly, I’m just...

Book Review: The Threat by Andrew McCabe

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Aug 2, 2019 | RESIST: Politics

Andrew McCabe tells the story of his FBI career in The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump. And the last two main elements of the title are the salient points in his story. First, he fills us in on the way the FBI changed in order to...

Book Review: Proof of Collusion by Seth Abramson

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Jul 12, 2019 | RESIST: Politics

I confess. It wasn’t easy to read this Seth Abramson book. I spent a lot of it feeling down, depressed, and angry. But what we need is clarity, and Proof of Collusion: How Trump Betrayed America is absolutely crystal clear.It explains exactly how Trump has been...

Book Review: A Fighting Chance by Elizabeth Warren

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Jun 29, 2019 | RESIST: Politics

Elizabeth Warren is a fighter, whether in her personal life or for middle class Americans. From the very beginning of her law career, she’s been researching and making a difference for regular folks like you and me.As the author of many books, Warren has plenty of...

Book Review: Where We Go From Here by Bernie Sanders

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Jun 26, 2019 | RESIST: Politics

Bernie Sanders writes and publishes unabashedly campaign-related books. Where We Go From Here is definitely that, although it was published before he officially entered the 2020 Presidential race. Essentially, it discusses his activities from the time of the 2016...

Book Review: Shortest Way Home by Pete Buttigieg

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Apr 1, 2019 | RESIST: Politics

Mayor Pete Buttigieg (pronounced “boot-edge-edge”) is just five days younger than our youngest son. If that doesn’t make me feel old, I don’t know what would. But I think he makes up for lack of years in genuine smarts and concrete executive experience. (Mayors and...

Book Review: We Are The Change We Seek: The Speeches of Barack Obama

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Mar 23, 2019 | RESIST: Politics

E.J. Dionne and Joy-Ann Reid edited this volume of selected speeches by President Barack Obama. The 27 speeches date from 2002 to 2017, and include some well-known and some more obscure moments. Each speech has an introduction from the editors that puts in context,...

Book Review: The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, edited by Bandy X. Lee

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Mar 20, 2019 | RESIST: Politics

I purchased this group of essays, edited by Bandy X. Lee, M.D., M. Div., in 2017. However, this month was the perfect time to read them. The issue of President Donald Trump’s psychological makeup has been making more headlines and tweets than ever. In fact, it was his...
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