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David Meyer

David N Meyer is a content editor at getAbstract and author of The 100 Best Films To Rent You've Never Heard Of, Twenty Thousand Roads: The Ballad of Gram Parsons and His Cosmic American Music, The Bee Gees: The Biography, and other books. You can find his essays on film and music at davidnmeyer.com

  • Review
    Reagan’s Deceptive Simplicity
    Reagan's War Stories
    Reagan's War Storiesby Benjamin Griffin Reagan’s Deceptive Simplicity

    Historian Benjamin Griffin deconstructs Ronald Reagan’s genius for turning complex political and social issues into simple good-guys-versus-bad-guys narratives – and the good guys always win.

  • Review
    Sister Jean Rules the Court
    Wake Up With Purpose!
    Wake Up With Purpose!by Sister Jean Schmidt and Seth Davis Sister Jean Rules the Court

    Sister Mary Jean Dolores Smith – better known as Sister Jean – details her (as of now) 104 years-long life of Catholic devotion and service…

  • Review
    Democracy Under Assault
    Democracy Awakening
    Democracy Awakeningby Heather Cox Richardson Democracy Under Assault

    Boston College history professor Heather Cox Richardson offers an articulate warning of the collapse of American democracy in the face of rising authoritarianism.

  • Review
    Threshold Leadership
    The Threshold
    The Thresholdby Nick Chatrath Threshold Leadership

    Executive coach Nick Chatrath details how to develop your essential humanity to forestall surrendering empathy and compassion to AI.

  • Review
    Putting It Bluntly
    The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
    The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ckby Mark Manson Putting It Bluntly

    Mark Manson wants the generations whom social media and consumer culture affect most to question what they see and believe, to grow up, and to…

  • Review
    No Time to Spare
    Blitzscaling
    Blitzscalingby Reid Hoffman and Chris Yeh No Time to Spare

    Toss what you know about strategy and start running.

  • Review
    A Sincere, Pugnacious Enigma
    Joe Biden
    Joe Bidenby Evan Osnos A Sincere, Pugnacious Enigma

    National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Evan Osnos examines President Joe Biden’s personality and history, both personal and political.

  • Review
    Swashbuckler, Turnaround Artist, and More
    Mean Business
    Mean Businessby Bob Andelman and Albert Dunlap Swashbuckler, Turnaround Artist, and More

    Liar, braggart and turnaround genius Al Dunlap reveals his hardheaded business strategies and successes in this entertaining and instructive – if not entirely true – memoir.

  • Review
    Secrets of Corporate Longevity
    Built to Last
    Built to Lastby Jerry I. Porras and Jim Collins Secrets of Corporate Longevity

    Jerry I. Porras and Jim Collins break down decades of research to discover how certain companies maintain success and market dominance over the long haul.

  • Review
    It’s Worse Than You Think
    Falter
    Falterby Bill McKibben It’s Worse Than You Think

    Leading environmentalist Bill McKibben offers a detailed presentation of the ongoing climate catastrophe and how humanity can forestall it.