2018 Book Club Options

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* 1. Please review the following list of proposed books for the 2018 book discussions. Rate each book on your level of interest in reading it. You will only be able to chose each rating level once. Links will take you to Goodreads where you can read book descriptions and reviews. Please cast your vote by October 31.

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Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America by Nancy MacLean
This Is an Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping the Twenty-First Century by Mark Engler, Paul Engler
Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman by Leslie Feinberg
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
Why the Right Went Wrong: Conservatism-From Goldwater to the Tea Party and Beyond by E.J. Dionne Jr.
Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year Historyby Kurt Andersen
The Captured Economy: How the Powerful Enrich Themselves, Slow Down Growth, and Increase Inequality by Brink Lindsey, Steven Teles
It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism by Thomas E. Mann, Norman J. Ornstein
A World of Three Zeros: The New Economics of Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment, and Zero Net Carbon Emissions by Muhammad Yunus
Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy by John Bowe
Healing the Heart of Democracy: The Courage to Create a Politics Worthy of the Human Spirit by Parker J. Palmer
Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond by Marc Lamont Hill
Illegal People: How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants by David Bacon
Climate of Hope: How Cities, Businesses, and Citizens Can Save the Planet by Michael R. Bloomberg, Carl Pope
When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor...and Yourself by Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert
The Paradox of Tar Heel Politics: The Personalities, Elections, and Events That Shaped Modern North Carolina by Rob Christensen
The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics by Mark Lilla

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