deborah_m_foster's read books


Expand filter menu Filter list (81 books)

81 books

The Conscience of a Liberal: Reclaiming the Compassionate Agenda by Paul Wellstone

The Conscience of a Liberal: Reclaiming the Compassionate Agenda

Paul Wellstone

216 pages • first pub 2001 (editions)

5.0deborah_m_foster's review
nonfiction autobiography memoir politics reflective slow-paced
The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule by Thomas Frank

The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule

Thomas Frank

384 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

5.0deborah_m_foster's review
nonfiction economics history politics challenging reflective slow-paced
Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs by Johann Hari

Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs

Johann Hari

400 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

5.0deborah_m_foster's review
nonfiction history politics psychology science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward E. Baptist

The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism

Edward E. Baptist

498 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

5.0deborah_m_foster's review
nonfiction economics history race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

Elizabeth Kolbert

319 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

5.0deborah_m_foster's review
nonfiction history science challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Road Not Taken: A History of Radical Social Work in the United States by Janice Andrews, Michael Reisch

The Road Not Taken: A History of Radical Social Work in the United States

Janice Andrews, Michael Reisch

290 pages • first pub 2001 (editions)

5.0deborah_m_foster's review
nonfiction education challenging informative slow-paced
Dividing Classes: How the Middle Class Negotiates and Rationalizes School Advantage by Ellen A. Brantlinger

Dividing Classes: How the Middle Class Negotiates and Rationalizes School Advantage

Ellen A. Brantlinger

262 pages • missing pub info (editions)

5.0deborah_m_foster's review
nonfiction education philosophy medium-paced
The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap by Matt Taibbi

The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap

Matt Taibbi

416 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

5.0deborah_m_foster's review
nonfiction economics history politics challenging informative slow-paced
Bright Radical Star: Black Freedom and White Supremacy on the Hawkeye Frontier by Robert R. Dykstra
Bright Radical Star: Black Freedom and White Supremacy on the Hawkeye Frontier
—
Robert R. Dykstra

Bright Radical Star: Black Freedom and White Supremacy on the Hawkeye Frontier

Robert R. Dykstra

348 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)

3.0deborah_m_foster's review
nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
Bright Radical Star: Black Freedom and White Supremacy on the Hawkeye Frontier by Robert Dykstra
Bright Radical Star: Black Freedom and White Supremacy on the Hawkeye Frontier
—
Robert Dykstra

Bright Radical Star: Black Freedom and White Supremacy on the Hawkeye Frontier

Robert Dykstra

360 pages • missing pub info (editions)

3.0deborah_m_foster's review
nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced