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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
    A Better World
    Factfulness
    Factfulnessby Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Rönnlund A Better World

    Hans Rosling, co-founder of Doctors Without Borders, and his coauthors prove that today's world is more benign than you would believe.

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    “Go High”
    The Light We Carry
    The Light We Carryby Michelle Obama “Go High”

    Former First Lady Michelle Obama provides warm, heartfelt advice for coping with life's difficulties, honoring your strengths and vesting in self-kindness.

  • Review
    Weinstein’s Fall
    Hollywood Ending
    Hollywood Endingby Ken Auletta Weinstein’s Fall

    Journalist Ken Auletta details Harvey Weinstein’s remarkable Hollywood rise and his sordid fall.

  • Review
    Pay For Play
    An Economist Goes to the Game
    An Economist Goes to the Gameby Paul Oyer Pay For Play

    Stanford business professor Paul Oyer reveals how money shapes sports and athletes’ dreams.

  • Review
    An Indigenous Consciousness
    Unreconciled
    Unreconciledby Jesse Wente An Indigenous Consciousness

    Anishinaabe tribe journalist Jesse Wente offers an insightful, sensitive journey through his developing understanding of his Indigenous identity.

  • Review
    Always Be Closing
    Never Sit in the Lobby
    Never Sit in the Lobbyby Glenn Poulos Always Be Closing

    Experienced B2B salesman Glenn Poulos offers a system for successful B2B sales.

  • Review
    A Towering Figure
    The Price of Peace
    The Price of Peaceby Zachary D. Carter A Towering Figure

    HuffPost reporter Zachary D. Carter’s biography of that titan of economics, John Maynard Keynes, eschews the theoretical to recount a human journey of intense emotion and moral combat.…

  • Review
    Someday Come Back with Books
    Leaving Microsoft to Change the World
    Leaving Microsoft to Change the Worldby John Wood Someday Come Back with Books

    Microsoft changed the world. Former Microsoft executive John Wood made it a better place to live: He gave up corporate life to deliver books and build…

  • Review
    Stop Burning Coal and Start Pricing Carbon
    The Climate Casino
    The Climate Casinoby William D. Nordhaus Stop Burning Coal and Start Pricing Carbon

    Nobel Prize winner William D. Nordhaus details the complexity of the political and economic responses to climate change.

  • Review
    “I’m Against It”
    Natural Causes
    Natural Causesby Barbara Ehrenreich “I’m Against It”

    Award-winning journalist and best-selling author Barbara Ehrenreich offers her stringent views of current American society and its discontents.