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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
    Space Is the Place
    The Case for Space
    The Case for Spaceby Robert Zubrin Space Is the Place

    Robert Zubrin, author of Mars Direct, provides heartfelt boosterism for space exploration and exploitation.

  • Review
    To Lead, First Become Yourself
    Total Leadership
    Total Leadershipby Stewart D. Friedman To Lead, First Become Yourself

    Stewart D. Friedman provides a detailed, conscious journey for leaders and aspiring leaders seeking great personal integration and more effective application of their strengths.

  • Review
    The History of ADHD
    ADHD Nation
    ADHD Nationby Alan Schwarz The History of ADHD

    New York Times journalist and Pulitzer-Prize nominee Alan Schwarz presents the definitive history of attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), the battles over identifying and…

  • Review
    Identity in a Small Sack
    All That She Carried
    All That She Carriedby Tiya Miles Identity in a Small Sack

    US National Book Award winner Tiya Miles relates the heartbreaking saga of a young enslaved girl being separated from her mother and sold in pre-Civil…

  • Review
    To the Barricades!
    Fight Like Hell
    Fight Like Hellby Kim Kelly To the Barricades!

    New Republic journalist Kim Kelly offers a fervid, impassioned history of the United States’ labor movements and the tactics owners used against workers.

  • Review
    Death at Sea
    The Wager
    The Wagerby David Grann Death at Sea

    New Yorker staff writer David Grann — author of Killers of the Flower Moon — recounts the 1741 shipwreck, mutiny, depravation, and survival of the HMS Wager's crew.

  • Review
    A One-Man Whirlwind
    The Thank You Economy
    The Thank You Economyby Gary Vaynerchuk A One-Man Whirlwind

    Marketing guru and speaker Gary Vaynerchuk believes if your firm isn’t already using social media, it doesn’t care about its customers. To change that, he suggests…

  • Review
    Unimaginable Destruction
    The Great Influenza
    The Great Influenzaby John Barry Unimaginable Destruction

    John Barry details how a world war, a mutating virus and mismanaged government responses made the 1918 influenza pandemic so deadly.

  • Review
    The Death of Discourse
    Antisocial
    Antisocialby Andrew Marantz The Death of Discourse

    New Yorker staff writer Andrew Marantz explores the impact that an untruthful, unfettered, hate-filled online world has on American democracy and discourse.

  • Review
    A Guaranteed Income
    Fair Shot
    Fair Shotby Chris Hughes A Guaranteed Income

    Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes proposes a practical solution to widespread inequality: a guaranteed income for all Americans who earn less than $50,0000 annually.