July 04, 1976

The Beloved Republic

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, July 2023
Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence (Burrough)
Blood Meridian, or, The Evening Redness in the West (McCarthy)
The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives (Reed)
The Idea of Prison Abolition (Shelby)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, March 2023
Black Pride and Black Prejudice (Sniderman and Piazza)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, February 2023
Freedom Is an Endless Meeting: Democracy in American Social Movements (Polletta)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, June 2022
The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy (Clark)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, April 2022
Understanding the U.S. Government (Victor)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, December 2021
Stuck in Place: Urban Neighborhoods and the End of Progress toward Racial Equality (Sharkey)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, September 2021
Our Own Worst Enemy: The Assault from within on Modern Democracy (Nichols)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, August 2021
The Great Demographic Illusion: Majority, Minority, and the Expanding American Mainstream (Alba)
We Can't Go Home Again: An Argument About Afrocentrism (Walker)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, February 2021
Tangled Up in Blue: Policing the American City (Brooks)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, July 2020
W. E. B. Du Bois's Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America: The Color Line at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (Battle-Baptiste and Rusert, eds.)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, April 2020
Rights Gone Wrong: How Law Corrupts the Struggle for Equality (Ford)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, January 2020
Far Country: Scenes from American Culture (Moretti)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, April 2019
Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power (Merlan)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, September 2018
Identity in Democracy (Gutmann)
The Stammering Century (Seldes)
Alt-Right: From 4Chan to the White House (Wendling)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, May 2018
A Handful of Dust: Disappearing America (Plowden)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, March 2018
The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters (Nichols)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, February 2018
Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A. (Allen)
The Race Card: How Bluffing about Bias Makes Race Relations Worse (Ford)
Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration --- and How to Achieve Real Reform (Pfaff)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, September 2017
Paw Paw: In Search of America's Forgotten Fruit (Moore)
The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River (White)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, August 2017
A Political Economy of American Hegemony: Buildups, Booms, and Busts (Oatley)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, July 2017
Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America (Levoy)
Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West (Stegner)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, June 2017
Dispatches from Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta (Grant)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, May 2017
A Colony in a Nation (Hayes)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, October 2016
How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon (Brooks)
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Wilkerson)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, March 2016
Twilight of the Elites (Hayes)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, February 2016
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II (Blackmon)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, November 2015
Lafayette in the Somewhat United States (Vowell)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, September 2015
The Teacher Wars: A History of America's Most Embattled Profession (Goldstein)
An Uncommon Passage: Traveling through History on the Great Allegheny Passage Trail (Muller, ed.)
Unfamiliar Fishes (Vowell)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, August 2015
Between the World and Me (Coates)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, July 2015
Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality (Allen)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, April 2015
Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World (Davis)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, January 2015
The American Revolution: A History (Wood)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, December 2014
Brightsided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America (Ehrenreich)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, August 2014
The Moon and the Ghetto: An Essay on Public Policy Analysis (Nelson)
What Are Intellectuals Good For? Essays and Reviews and The Modern Predicament (Scialabba)
I Got Schooled: The Unlikely Story of How a Moonlighting Movie Maker Learned the Five Keys to Closing America's Education Gap (Shyamalan)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, July 2014
Democracy in America (de Tocqueville)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, March 2014
Caste and Class in a Southern Town (Dollard)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, January 2014
American Coup (Arkin)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, September 2013
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention (Marable)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, August 2013
The New Mind of the South (Thompson)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, January 2013
Gun Machine (Ellis)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, December 2012
The Submerged State: How Invisible Government Policies Undermine American Democracy (Mettler)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, September 2012
Gain (Powers)
On Left Turn
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, November 2011
The Age of Reform: Bryan to F.D.R. (Hofstadter)
"What Do We Want?" "Quantitative Data!" "When Do We Want It?" "Soon Would Be Good!"
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, October 2011
The Damned Highway: Fear and Loathing in Arkham: A Savage Journey into the Heart of the American Nightmare (Keene and Mamatas)
Friday Cat Blogging (The Violence Inherent in the System Edition)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, September 2011
The Mind of the South (Cash)
Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State (Priest and Arkin)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, June 2011
Assassination Vacation (Vowell)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, May 2011
The Big Ditch: How America Took, Built, Ran, and Ultimately Gave Away the Panama Canal (Maurer and Yu)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, March 2011
Modern Ruins: Portraits of Place in the Mid-Atlantic Region (O'Boyle)
The Souls of Black Folk (DuBois)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, July 2010
The Wordy Shipmates (Voell)
Variations on a Patriotic Theme
The Atlantic's Observance of Confederate History Month
The Republic Hath Need of Thee
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in your Fur, January 2010
Anti-Intellectualism in American Life (Hofstadter)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, November 2009
The Left at War (Bérubé)
The Bloody Shirt: Terror after Appomattox (Budiansky)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, January 2009
The Invention of Air: A History of Science, Faith, Revolution, and the Birth of America"To choose our better history"
Geoghegan for Congress
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, November 2008
The Great Depression and the New Deal: A Very Short Introduction (Rauchway)
Return of the Cartogram
Election Night
Supernatural Horror in Electoral Politics
Ghost Peaks, Buried in Ice
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, August 2008
Blessed Among Nations: How the World Made America (Rauchway)
Assorted Link Roundup, May 2008
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, April 2008
The Burned-Over District: The Social and Intellectual History of Enthusiastic Religion in Western New York, 1800--1850 (Cross)
American Liberalism (McGowan)
Putting the CART before the Horse-Race
Voting will continue until morale improves (Public Service Announcement)
"Thou Shalt Not Follow a Multitude to Do Evil"
Follow the Oil Money!
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, January 2008
"The object of torture is torture"
They have made their budget, now let them enforce it
"I Deeply Resent The Way This Administration Makes Me Feel Like a Nutbar Conspiacy Theorist"
A Joke My Grandfather Used to Tell
Thoughts on First Beholding McKeesport, PA
This, This Is My People
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, June 2006
The Conservative Nanny State: How the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay Rich and Get Richer (Baker)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, May 2006
River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West (Solnit)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, November 2005
Off Center: The Republican Revolution and the Erosion of American Democracy (Hacker and Pierson)
Cronyism, Corruption and Incompetence: A Network Analysis
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, August 2005
The Romance of American Communism (Gornick)
In Defense of Government: The Fall and Rise of Public Trust (Weisberg)
Two Paths
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, April 2005
The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind (Noll)
A Home Where the Meth Heads Roam
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, March 2005
The Unsteady March: The Rise and Decline of Racial Equality in America (Klinkner with Smith)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, December 2004
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith (Krakauer)
Racial Culture: A Critique (Ford)
Friday Cat Blogging (Cougars in Black Helicopters Issue of Science Geek Edition)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, November 2004
A Prayer for the City (Bissinger)
It Came from the Cartogram
Decided and Divided Americas
The Long March
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, October 2004
Is America Breaking Apart? (Hall and Lindholm)
Up from Conservatism: Why the Right Is Wrong for America (Lind)
It's Going to Be Just Like the Old Country
The Electrification of the Whole Country
Conservatism, the Enemy of Reason, Democracy and Modern Civilization
Great Americans
The Paranoid Style in American Politics

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