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Confessions of a Recovering Engineer Transportation for a Strong Town
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Charles L. Marohn
Walker
, September 25, 2021
Chuck Marohn is the name assumed by the spirit of Richard Feynman returned to earth. Feynman was the Nobel winning physicist who cloaked immense genius under very plain language and a total lack of pompousness and zero affectation. Feynman was someone willing to follow the evidence, no matter where it lead him, and who, through careful thought and insistence on not fooling himself, revolutionized physics and created an actual, practical way to work with the bizarre zoo and behaviors of subnuclear particles. Just as Feynman did before him, Chuck Marohn is someone who refuses to let his preconceptions and learning blind him to the evidence, in this case the evidence that the way we design and build our transportation systems is failing us and bankrupting us. As physics faced with the failure of classical physics, urban planning (or traffic engineering, since they are virtually overlapping) is failing us and we desperately need a new way to think about the problems. That’s what Chuck Marohn and Strong Towns is providing us. Why the MacArthur Foundation has not given Chuck his award yet is a mystery. Confessions of a Recovering Engineer is not at all as deep and profound as that might make it sound — it’s actually deeper and more profound, because it is expressed in plain, Midwestern, non-jargon, non-gobbledegook English, laced with wry self-deprecation. This is a book that should sell into the hundreds of thousands of copies, a copy for every single public official in the US.
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How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
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Clint Smith
Walker
, September 23, 2021
In the torrent of new titles attempting to deal with our attitudes about race and slavery in the US, here’s a standout that will last. It is very well-written, with clear, direct clean prose, taking you along as the author visits the places where our history is revealed or presented in phony disguises. A pleasure to read and reflect on.
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Economism Bad Economics & the Rise of Inequality
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James Kwak
Walker
, April 25, 2018
This is a really important book that is way under-rated and under-appreciated, probably because it is perceived as a book about economics instead of media and political literacy. It's really a good book for an intellectual self-defense course, because it teaches you to spot the common fallacious arguments espoused habitually by corporate media chains and their elected minions. There is a good recent documentary called "You're Soaking In It" about online surveillance/advertising, and that title could equally be a subtitle to this book -- we're soaked and saturated with Economism.
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We the Corporations How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights
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Adam Winkler
Walker
, April 25, 2018
No one should call themself a student of American history until they have read this book, and no one should be admitted to practice law who has not studied it closely and read the cases discussed. Fills a long-standing need for a history of the corporate hijacking of the constitution that will actually grab and hold the interest of any reader while serving as a solid introduction and guide for further research for the attorney who wants to challenge corporate dominance over people in the 21st Century.
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
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Douglas A. Blackmon
Walker
, January 13, 2018
Incredibly painful and important book to read, I found it very hard to put down. Along with Edward Baptist's "The Half Has Never Been Told," this may be one of the most important books of the 21st C. America so far for white people to read. If an outspoken and proudly racist president surprises you, read "Slavery by Another Name" and learn a huge hidden (in plain sight, never actually hidden, really, just never acknowledged) chapter in American history. Reading this over Martin Luther King's birthday weekend in 2018, just after the Toddler President made profanely clear his preference for blonde and blue eyed Norwegians over people with more melanin, I think I am just starting to see how much courage it took for people of color to fight back in the Civil Rights Movement, and how much it still takes today to insist that Black Lives Matter in a society that became a world power and the world's largest economy precisely by savagely and systematically stealing the lives and bodies and children of African-Americans and converting their suffering into wealth for whites.
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