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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
    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…

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    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.

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    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.

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    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…

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

  • Review
    Accept Yourself
    Daring Greatly
    Daring Greatlyby Brené Brown Accept Yourself

    Brené Brown’s intelligent sincerity and easy prose welcome readers to her informed, supportive counsel.

  • Review
    China and the World Trade Organization
    Schism
    Schismby Paul Blustein China and the World Trade Organization

    International financial and political journalist Paul Blustein breaks down the pros and cons – and consequences – of China joining the WTO.

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    Human Machines
    Homo Deus
    Homo Deusby Yuval Noah Harari Human Machines

    Best-selling public intellectual Yuval Noah Harari argues that free will doesn’t exist, that people worship themselves and that AI will destroy you.