Tropics' 2020 Non-Fiction Books

1. United States Of Distraction: Media Manipulation In Post-Truth America - Mickey Huff

2. Dying Of Whiteness: How The Politics Of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland - Jonathan M. Metzl

>2 tropics: Wow! Based on the three reviews posted that looks like a worthy book to have read. Your take on it?

2wonderY: I encourage you to read numerous, well-reasoned reviews on other sites.

3. Homewreckers - Aaron Glantz

4. Masterless Men: Poor Whites And Slavery In The Antebellum South - Keri Leigh Merritt

5. No Is Not Enough - Naomi Klein

6. America: The Farewell Tour - Chris Hedges

7. Ireland: Smithsonian Natural History - Michael Viney

8. Capital In The Twenty-First Century - Thomas Piketty

9. House Of Trump House Of Putin: The Untold Story Of Trump And The Russian Mafia - Craig Unger

10. A History Of Pi - Petr Beckmann

11. Symphony In C: Carbon And The Evolution Of (Almost) Everything - Robert M. Hazen

12. Confessions Of An Economic Hit Man - John Perkins

13. Black Earth: The Holocaust As History And Warning - Timothy Snyder

14. The Sixth Extinction - Elizabeth Kolbert

15. The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage To The Dawn Of Life - Richard Dawkins

Reread.

16. Failed States: The Abuse Of Power And The Assault On Democracy - Noam Chomsky

Reread.

17. The Politics Of Petulance: America In An Age Of Immaturity - Alan Wolfe

18, Requiem For The American Dream: The 10 Principles Of Concentration Of Wealth And Power - Noam Chomsky

Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong - The "Lies" are mostly lies of omission. It's more about what is left out of information on historical sights. It amused me to find out that a horse an a statue had to be male (even though the man's favorite mount was a mare) to protect the subject's dignity.

19. Who Rules The World? - Noam Chomsky

20. The Management Of Savagery - Max Blumenthal

21. Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders And Pills Have Shaped The History Of Medicine - Thomas Hager

22. Leaving The Wild - Gavin Ehringer

23. No One Cares About Crazy People: The Chaos And Heartbreak Of Mental Health In America - Ron Powers

24. Separated: Inside An American Tragedy - Jacob Soboroff

25. Too Much And Never Enough - Mary L. Trump

26. Waiting For An Echo: The Madness Of American Incarceration - Christine Montross

27. Black Potatoes: The Story Of The Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850 - Susan Campbell Bartoletti

28. A Hole In The Wind: A Climate Scientist's Bicycle Journey Across The United States - David Goodrich

29. Surviving Autocracy - Masha Gessen

30. Life Of A Klansman: A Family History In White Supremacy - Edward Ball

31. 14 Miles: Building The Border Wall - DW Gibson

32. Compromised - Pater Strzok

33. Rise Of The Warrior Cop: The Militarization Of America's Police Forces - Radley Balko

34. Let Them Eat Tweets: How The Right Rules In An Age Of Extreme Inequality - Hacker and Pierson

35. The Violence Inside Us: A Brief History Of An Ongoing American Tragedy - Chris Murphy

36. Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, And The Dangerous Distortion Of Truth - Brian Stelter

37. Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War In Vietnam - Nick Turse

38. Our Malady: Lessons In Liberty From A Hospital Diary - Timothy Snyder

39. Traitor: A History Of American Betrayal, From Benedict Arnold To Donald Trump - David Rothkopf

40. The Death Of Politics - Peter Wehner

41. Donald Trump V. The United States - Michael S. Schmidt

42. The United States Of War: A Global History Of America's Endless Conflicts, From Columbus To The Islamic State - David Vine

43. Empire Of Resentment: Populism's Toxic Embrace Of Nationalism - Lawrence Rosenthal

Oops, way off topic.

44. Ex-Libris - Michiko Kakutani

45. Dreams From My Father - Barack Obama

46. Modern Man In Search Of A Soul - C.S. Jung