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Non-Fiction

ExWhoDoesntCare

(4,741 posts) Sun Jan 7, 2024, 08:55 AM Jan 2024

NonFiction of the week 7 January 2024

Another light non-fiction week for me.

Just wrapped up Poverty, America by Matthew Desmond. A very good and compassionate analysis of the causes of poverty, and realistic solutions to resolving many issues regarding how to deal with it. V. recommended.

Later this week, I'll get to James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time. Baldwin uses the epistolary form to address, first, his early years in Harlem, and then a second 'letter' as a searing attack on America's racial injustices, historically and through to the (then) Civil Rights movement of his day. Should be a good one.

So what non-fiction is everyone else reading this week?

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