Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation Kristin Kobes Du Mez May 2020 Jesus and John Wayne is an account of the last seventy-five years of white evangelicalism, and makes the compelling argument that American evangelicals have worked for decades to replace the Jesus of the Gospels with an idol of Christian nationalism and a s a result, they function largely as a political movement rather than a theologically driven religious community. Du Mez covers individuals and aspects of the Evangelical movement, from shows like VeggieTales to political figures like Oliver North . Editor's Note: Summarizing the 300-page research-based non-fiction is pretty difficult. In short, the historic overview may help you come to grips with the multitude of conflicting narratives pushed by what is now recognized as the new conservative mainstream. BUY NOW Previous Next

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The Lost City of Z David Grann February 2009 The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon is a 2009 nonfiction book by David Grann . It recounts the activities of the British explorer Percy Fawcett, who disappeared with his son in the Amazon rainforest in 1925 while looking for the ancient " Lost City of Z " or " El Dorado . " In the book, Grann recounts his own journey into the Amazon, where he discovers new evidence about how Fawcett may have died. For decades explorers and scientists have tried to find evidence of Fawcett's party and of the Lost City of Z. Grann, a New Yorker staff writer at the time, first wrote about Fawcett in 2005. The article documents how Grann, working from Fawcett's long-lost diaries, reconstructed the explorer's last journey, including visiting the Kalapalo tribe in the Xingu Indigenous Park region of the state of Mato Grosso , Brazil . The Kalapalo had preserved an oral history about Fawcett's small party of himself, his son Jack, and Jack's friend Raleigh Rimell, who were among the first Europeans the tribe had ever seen. As a result of Grann's own trek into the Amazon and consultations with archeologists, evidence of wooden structures and roads that cut through the jungle were uncovered. As well as Black Earth ( Terra preta) that showed evidence humans had added supplements to the soil to increase its fertility to support agriculture. Grann's work provides evidence that civilization across the Atlantic had been far more advanced than European conquerors and historians have led us to believe while taking you on a thrilling ride through exploration during the first quarter of the 20th century. Editors Note: Grann's book emphasizes just how little we know about the world we live in today. The era of Columbus and "New World" colonization has fed modern society with a multitude of misconceptions regarding what existed and thrived prior to European dominance in South America. Unpacking historical and cultural misconceptions such as these is critical to understanding how we move forward as human beings and nations in the future. BUY NOW Previous Next

Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury October 1953 Fahrenheit 451 is a dystopian novel by Ray Bradbury that presents a future American society where books have been outlawed and "firemen" burn any that are found . The novel follows the viewpoint of Guy Montag , a fireman who soon becomes disillusioned with his role of censoring literature and destroying knowledge, eventually quitting his job and committing himself to the preservation of literary and cultural writings. Fahrenheit 451 was written during the Second Red Scare and the McCarthy era , inspired by the book burnings in Nazi Germany and by ideological repression in the Soviet Union . Bradbury's claimed motivation for writing the novel has changed multiple times. In a 1956 radio interview, Bradbury said that he wrote the book because of his concerns about the threat of burning books in the United States . In later years, he described the book as a commentary on how mass media reduces interest in reading literature. In a 1994 interview, Bradbury cited political correctness as an allegory for the censorship in the book, calling it "the real enemy these days" and labeling it as " thought control and freedom of speech control". Upon its release, Fahrenheit 451 was a critical success, albeit with notable dissenters; the novel's subject matter led to its censorship in apartheid South Africa and various schools in the United States. BUY NOW Previous Next

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The Monkey Wrench Gang Edward Abbey August 1975 Written in shortly after his time working for the National Parks Service in Utah and Arizona , Edward Abbey's novel concerns the use of sabotage in the face of ecocide to protest environmentally damaging activities in the Southwestern United States . It was so influential that the term "monkeywrenching" , often used as a verb, has come to mean, besides sabotage and damage to machines, any sabotage, activism, law-making, or law-breaking to preserve wilderness, wild spaces and ecosystems. The book's four main characters are ecologically minded misfits—"Seldom Seen" Smith, a Jack Mormon river guide; Doc Sarvis, an odd but wealthy and wise surgeon; Bonnie Abbzug, his young feminist assistant; and a rather eccentric Green Beret Vietnam veteran , George Hayduke . Together, although not always working as a tightly knit team, they form the titular group dedicated to the destruction of what they see as the system that pollutes and destroys their environment, the American West . As the gang's attacks on deserted bulldozers and trains continue, the law closes in. BUY NOW Previous Next

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Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 Hunter S. Thompson 1973 Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 recounts and analyzes the 1972 presidential campaign in which Richard Nixon was re-elected. Illustrated by Ralph Steadman , the book was largely derived from Thompson's articles serialized in Rolling Stone throughout 1972. The book focuses on the Democratic Party 's primaries and the breakdown of the party as it splits between the different candidates such as Ed Muskie and Hubert Humphrey . Of particular focus is the manic maneuvering of George McGovern 's campaign during the Miami convention as they sought to ensure the Democratic nomination despite attempts by Humphrey and other candidates to block McGovern. Thompson began his campaign coverage in December 1971, just as the race toward the primaries was beginning, from a rented apartment in Washington, D.C. (a situation he compared to "living in an armed camp, a condition of constant fear"). Over the next twelve months, in voluminous detail, he covered every aspect of the campaign, from the smallest rally to the raucous conventions. An early fax machine was procured for Thompson after he inquired about the device while visiting venture capitalist Max Palevsky , who concurrently served as chairman of Xerox and Rolling Stone for several years in the early 1970s. Dubbing it "the mojo wire", Thompson used the nascent technology to capitalize on the freewheeling nature of the campaign and extend the writing process precariously close to printing deadlines, often haphazardly sending in notes mere hours before the magazine went to press. Fellow writers and editors would have to assemble the finished product with Thompson over the phone. Like his earlier book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas , Thompson employed a number of unique literary styles in On the Campaign Trail , including the use of vulgarity and the humorous exaggeration of events. Despite the unconventional style, the book is still considered a hallmark of campaign journalism and helped to launch Thompson's role as a popular political observer. BUY NOW Previous Next

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The Color Purple Alice Walker 1982 The Color Purple is a epistolary novel that Depicts the lives of two African American women, Celie and Nettie, separated as young girls in early twentieth-century rural Georgia prior to WWII and the civil rights movement . Both sisters sustain their loyalty and hope in each other across time, distance, and silence, Through a series of letters spanning twenty years, first from Celie to God, then from the sisters to each other. Walker's novel draws readers into a vivid first person portrayal of black women, their pain, struggle, companionship, growth, resilience and bravery. The Color Purple won both the Pulitzer Prize and National book awards for fiction in 1983. It is also frequently considered one of the 100 most influential books ever written. Sadly, the novel has also been the target of censors numerous times, and appears on the American Library Association list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books. Like many challenged and banned works in the United States though, it stands in a category of it's own. Alice Walker's work is not only a major contribution to literature, it's a major contribution to humanity and the marginalized that exist within it. Previous Next

Slouching Towards Bethlehem Joan Didion 1968 Slouching Towards Bethlehem is a collection of essays by Joan Didion that describe her experiences during the 1960's while living in California. The book came about while Didion was working a regular column for The Saturday Evening Post , and a senior editor suggested she had the works to put together a collection. From the Haight-Ashbury hippie scene, John Wayne movie sets, meetings with the American Communist Party , and self-reflection all over the country, Didion's collection takes you on a crystal-clear journey through the 1960s in America and the mind of one of America's greatest authors. Previous Next