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Book Recommendations

Dee Brown

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

Referenced in:

They Were Just in the Way | Indian Removal

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Mary Crow Dog

Lakota Woman

Referenced in:

They Were Just in the Way | Indian Removal

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Allan M. Brandt

The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America

Referenced in:

Light up a Torch of Freedom | Cigarettes

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Greg Grandin

Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City

Referenced in:

Un-American and yet, totally American | Company Towns

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Joe Haldeman

The Forever War

Referenced in:

If Veterans Ruled the World | Starship Troopers

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Norman Vincent Peale

The Power of Positive Thinking: A Practical Guide to Mastering the Problems of Everyday Living

Referenced in:

What Are You So Afraid Of? | Self-Help

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Anthony James

'Knock Knock' Who's There?: 'The Truth' About Jehovah's Witnesses

Referenced in:

Temporary Residents in this World | Jehovah's Witnesses

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Noliwe Rooks

Cutting School: Privatization, Segregation, and the End of Public Education

Referenced in:

Segregation by Any Other Name | American Education

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Ayn Rand

Atlas Shrugged

Referenced in:

Redefining American Capitalism | Libertarianism

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Joanna Brooks

Mormonism and White Supremacy: American Religion and the Problem of Racial Innocence

Referenced in:

American Exceptionalism but as a Religion | Mormons

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Devin Leonard

Neither Snow Nor Rain: A History of the United States Postal Service

Referenced in:

Delivering our Democracy | US Postal Service

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Alex Epstein

The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels

Referenced in:

Extracting Black Gold | History of Oil

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Yuval Noah Harari

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Referenced in:

Acknowledging the Past | Columbus in Context

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BBC Radio

Paradise Lost & Paradise Regained

Referenced in:

Losing Paradise | Angels and Demons

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John Green

Paper Towns

Referenced in:

Imaginary Friends | Parasocial Relationships

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Laura Hillenbrand

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

Referenced in:

Playing the Victim | Historical Revisionism and Japan

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Thomas Cahill

How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role From the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe

Referenced in:

Ireland: Europe's Appendix

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Claudio Saint

Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory

Referenced in:

They Were Just in the Way | Indian Removal

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Naomi Shaeffer Riley

The New Trail of Tears: How Washington is Destroying American Indians

Referenced in:

They Were Just in the Way | Indian Removal

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Douglas A. Blackmon

Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II

Referenced in:

The Part of History You've Always Skipped | Neoslavery

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Michael D'Antonio

Hershey: Milton S. Hershey's Extraordinary Life of Wealth, Empire, and Utopian Dreams

Referenced in:

Un-American and yet, totally American | Company Towns

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Sarah Berman

Don't Call It a Cult: The Shocking Story of Keith Raniere and the Women of NXIVM

Referenced in:

What Are You So Afraid Of? | Self-Help

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Jennie Allen

Get Out of Your Head: Stopping the Spiral of Toxic Thoughts

Referenced in:

What Are You So Afraid Of? | Self-Help

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Amber Scorah

Leaving the Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life

Referenced in:

Temporary Residents in this World | Jehovah's Witnesses

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Erich von Däniken

Chariots of the Gods

Referenced in:

Graduating to the Next Level | Ancient Aliens

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Rick Perlstein

The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan

Referenced in:

Redefining American Capitalism | Libertarianism

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Smedley Butler

War is a Racket

Referenced in:

A Veteran's Warning | Smedley Butler

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Radley Balko

Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces

Referenced in:

The Quartering of Troops | Police Militarization

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Phil Knight

Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

Referenced in:

Manufacturing a Better Foot | Running Shoes

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James D. Hornfischer

The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors

Referenced in:

A Veteran's Story on Veterans Day

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Jonathan Haidt

The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

Referenced in:

Hitting Rock Bottom | Just World and Shattered Assumptions

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Lawrence Wright

Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief

Referenced in:

Clearing the Planet | Scientology

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Iris Chang

Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II

Referenced in:

Playing the Victim | Historical Revisionism and Japan

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Eric Schlosser

Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety

Referenced in:

The Time Winter Almost Came: A Brief History of the Cold War (Patreon Exclusive)

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David Treuer

Rez Life

Referenced in:

They Were Just in the Way | Indian Removal

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Keith Wailoo

Pushing Cool: Big Tobacco, Racial Marketing, and the Untold Story of the Menthol Cigarette

Referenced in:

Light up a Torch of Freedom | Cigarettes

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Hardy Green

The Company Town: The Industrial Edens and Satanic Mills that Shaped the American Economy

Referenced in:

Un-American and yet, totally American | Company Towns

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Robert A. Heinlein

Starship Troopers

Referenced in:

If Veterans Ruled the World | Starship Troopers

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Tony Robbins

Unlimited Power : The New Science Of Personal Achievement

Referenced in:

What Are You So Afraid Of? | Self-Help

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M. James Penton

Apocalypse Delayed: The Story of Jehovah's Witnesses

Referenced in:

Temporary Residents in this World | Jehovah's Witnesses

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Lloyd Evans

How to Escape from Jehovah's Witnesses

Referenced in:

Temporary Residents in this World | Jehovah's Witnesses

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Lisa Duggan

Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed

Referenced in:

Redefining American Capitalism | Libertarianism

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Alex Beam

American Crucifixion: The Murder of Joseph Smith and the Fate of the Mormon Church

Referenced in:

American Exceptionalism but as a Religion | Mormons

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Stephen Kinzer

Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq

Referenced in:

A Veteran's Warning | Smedley Butler

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Stephen Kinzer

All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror

Referenced in:

Extracting Black Gold | History of Oil

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Chris McDougall

Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

Referenced in:

Manufacturing a Better Foot | Running Shoes

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Marco Polo

The Travels of Marco Polo

Referenced in:

Accidentally Inspiring Colonialism | Marco Polo

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Dante Alighieri

The Divine Comedy

Referenced in:

Abandoning All Hope | Heaven and Hell

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Sarah Vowell

Unfamiliar Fishes

Referenced in:

Overthrowing a Kingdom | Hawaii

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Viktor Frankl

Man's Search For Meaning

Referenced in:

Death Anxiety | Death Comes for All

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My Equipment

Canon 80D

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Zoom H1n

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Rode VideoMic Pro

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Logitech C922x

Streaming Webcam

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Canon EF-S USM

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Rode smartLav+

Lavaliere Microphone

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Rode NT-USB

Condenser Microphone

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