Tropics' 2018 Non-Fiction Books Read

1. The Vietnam War: An Intimate History - Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns

2. American Family: A Memoir Of Hope And Sacrifice - Khizr Khan

3. Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History - Kurt Andersen

4. Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, And How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win - Luke Harding

5. Twilight Of American Sanity: A Psychiatrist Analyses The Age Of Trump - Allen Frances, M.D.

6. Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal Of Appalachia - Steven Stoll

7. The Plot To Hack America - Malcolm Nance

8. Horsemen Of The Trumpocalypse: A Field Guide To The Most Dangerous People In America - John Nichols

>8 tropics: How was this book?

9. Far In The Waste Sudan: On Assignment In Africa - Nicholas Coghlan

JulietLill

Horrifyingly informative.

10. The Great Derangement - Matt Taibbi

Reread in audio format.

11. Crossing With The Virgin: Stories From The Migrant Trail - Kathryn Ferguson

Have just finished Dunces, Gourmands, and Petticoats and am mentioning it because someone here--anna, maybe?--seemed interested in a book I mentioned previously about word usage. A good & a fascinating collection of selected English words whose meanings have changed over the centuries. You want a 'snack'? Whyever would you want to be bitten by a dog? e.g.

Hi Bluepiano: Did you mean to post this on the general Non-Fiction site?

12. The Dangerous Case Of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists And Mental Health Experts Assess A President - Bandy Lee, M.D., M.Div.

13. Alt-America: The Rise Of The Radical Right In The Age Of Trump - David Neiwert

>15 tropics: Nope.

I've seen here & elsewhere several references to books about Trump but never one to Trump and Me, an enjoyable book written 10 or so years ago. Author's conclusion was that Trump has no interior life. In any case I'm reading a very good, thought-provoking extended philosophical essay I suppose you'd call it: The Encyclopaedia of Stupidity.

>17 tropics:

Neiwert is a sage observer of reactionaries and racists in the US. I'd expect that book to be scary.

Paradoxosalpha: You're right; the information contained therein is quite disturbing.

14. Savage Harvest: A Tale Of Cannibals, Colonialism, And Michael Rockefeller's Tragic Quest For Primitive Art - Carl Hoffman

15. The Road To Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America - Timothy Snyder

16. Barracoon: The Story Of The Last Black Cargo - Zora Neale Hurston

17. The Road To Sleeping Dragon - Michael Meyer

18. War In 140 Characters: How Social Media Is Reshaping Conflict In The Twenty-First Century - David Patrikarakos

19. Arguably - Christopher Hitchens

20. Born A Crime: Stories From A South African Childhood - Trevor Noah

21. How Democracies Die - Steven Levitsky & Daniel Ziblatt

22. Border Patrol Nation: Dispatches From The Front Lines Of Homeland Security - Todd Miller

Hello
New here You have some fascinating sounding books on Trump

I have to buy most of my books from charity stalls and garage sales, these days, so might have to wait a while in Oz, to find them.

I havent seen many people listing mainly non fiction and I have a particular interest in Bomber Command /WW2

23. Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler And Stalin - Timothy Snyder

24. Twilight Of American Sanity: A Psychiatrist Analyses The Age Of Trump - Allen Frances

Reread.

25. The Four: The Hidden DNA Of Apple, Amazon, Facebook, And Google - Scott Galloway

26. The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction Of The Classical World - Catherine Nixey

27 - Fascism: A Warning - Madeleine Albright

28. The Line Becomes A River: Dispatches From The Border - Francisco Cantu

29. Somebody Else: Arthur Rimbaud In Africa 1880-91 - Charles Nicholl

30. Reconstructing The Gospel: Finding Freedom From Slaveholder Religion - Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

31. Traveling On The Edge: Journeys In The Footsteps Of Graham Greene - Julia Llewellyn Smith

32. The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases From A State Hospital Attic - Darby Penney

33. Everything Trump Touches Dies - Rick Wilson

34. The Way Of The World: From The Dawn Of Civilizations To The Eve Of The Twenty-First Century - David Fromkin

35. What A Fish Knows: The Inner Lives Of Our Underwater Cousins - Jonathan Balcombe

36. Fire And Fury: Inside The Trump White House - Michael Wolff

37. Sex In The Sea: Our Intimate Connection With Sex-Changing Fish, Romantic Lobsters, Kinky Squid, And Other Salty Erotica Of The Deep - Marah J. Hardt

38. The Plot To Destroy Democracy: How Putin And His Spies Are Undermining America And Dismantling The West - Malcolm Nance

39. Lands Of Lost Borders: A Journey On The Silk Road - Kate Harris

40. The Saudis - Sandra Mackey

41. Eye Of The Shoal: A Fishwatcher's Guide To Life, The Ocean And Everything - Helen Scales

42. The Silk Roads: A New History Of The World - Peter Frankopan

43. Putin's Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia? - Karen Dawisha

44. How Fascism Works: The Politics Of Us And Them - Jason Stanley

45. In Search Of Lost Frogs: The Quest To Find The World's Rarest Amphibians - Robin Moore

50. Cooking In Other Women's Kitchens - Rebecca Sharpless