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Read more: Beyond The Big Lie
Thank you, Atria Books, for providing this book for review consideration via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own. Mr. Book just finished Beyond The Big Lie: The Epidemic of Political Lying, Why Republicans Do It More, and How It Could Down Our Democracy, by Bill Adair. The author is…
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Read more: Preparing For War
Thank you, 1517 Media, for providing this book for review consideration via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own. Mr. Book just finished Preparing For War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism—and What Comes Next, by Bradley Onishi. The author was a former christian nationalist who has turned his…
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Read more: Final Days
Mr. Book just finished The Final Days, by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. This book was Woodward and Bernstein’s sequel to All The President’s Men. It covered the final 100 days of the Nixon presidency. We now know a lot more about what happened than we did at the time the book was written, but…
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Read more: All The President’s Men
Mr. Book just finished All The President’s Men, by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. As I’m sure everyone who is reading this would already know, this is Woodward and Bernstein’s account of them covering Watergate for the Washington Post. We now know a lot more about what happened than we did at the time the…
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Read more: Yesterday’s Man
Mr. Book just finished Yesterday’s Man: The Case Against Joe Biden, by Branko Marcetic. Surprisingly, at this moment Joe Biden has been the best president of my 53-year lifetime—not that there have been many good candidates for that top spot. But, throughout the entirety of his political career, he has had a terrible record. This…
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Read more: Welcome To Pawnee
Mr. Book just finished Welcome to Pawnee: Stories of Friendship, Waffles and Parks and Recreation, by Jim O’Heir. I made the mistake of never seeing Parks and Recreation when it was on the air, but I got caught up by binge watching it during the COVID pandemic. So I was unaware of the backstory about…
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