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This Past Was Waiting for Me: A Chronicle at Quarter Century
By Sarah Trembath
An astute, multi-genre analysis of gentrification’s destructiveness.
Centennial: The Great Fair of 1876 and the Invention of America’s Future
By Fergus M. Bordewich
An able account of the nation’s 100th-birthday spectacle.
Death of a Racehorse
By Katie Bo Lillis
Did we really think a for-profit industry would benefit the animals it uses up?
After the Fall: From the End of History to the Crisis of Democracy, How Politicians Broke Our World
By Ian Shapiro
An astute, sobering assessment of lawmakers’ blundering.
What They Stole: A Familicide Rooted in Intercountry Adoption
By Paige Towers
A brutal crime reveals the rot inside the Holt adoption agency.
A Terrible Intimacy: Interracial Life in the Slaveholding South
By Melvin Patrick Ely
The boundaries between the enslaved and the free were blurry but never invisible.
Conspirator in Chief: The Long Tradition of Conspiracy Theories in the American Presidency
By Stephen F. Knott
The rumor mill is as old as our boisterous republic.
Given No Choice: A History of Abortion Rights
By Cody McDevitt
An edifying look at the fight for bodily autonomy.
