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Reviews of books by members of InspireSeattle:

Review  by  Dave Gamrath American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins -
Review  by  Dave Gamrath American Exception: Empire and the Deep State by Aaron Good -
Review  by  Dave Gamrath An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back by Elisabeth Rosenthal Published in Real Change
Feb. 28, 2020
Review  by  Dave Gamrath American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress by Wesley Lowery Published in Real Change
Nov. 3, 2023
Review  by  Dave Gamrath Apollo's Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live by Nicholas A. Christakis MD PhD Published in Real Change
Jan. 27, 2021
Review  by  Dave Gamrath Atomic Days: The Untold Story of the Most Toxic Place in America by Joshua Frank Published in Real Change
Dec. 7, 2022
Review  by  Dave Gamrath Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World by Anne Applebaum -
Review  by  Dave Gamrath Bright Green Lies: How the Environmental Movement Lost Its Way and What We Can Do About It by Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith & Max Wilbert Published in Real Change
Sept. 7, 2022
Review  by  Dave Gamrath Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson Published in Real Change
July 7, 2021
Review  by  Dave Gamrath The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World by Max Fisher Published in Real Change
Dec. 28, 2022
Review  by  Dave Gamrath Chaotic Neutral: How the Democrats Lost Their Soul in the Center by Ed Burmila Published in Real Change
Sept. 21, 2022
Review  by  Dave Gamrath Civilized to Death: The Price of Progress by Christopher Ryan Published in Real Change
Aug. 8, 2020
Review  by  Dave Gamrath Coffeeland: A History by Augustine Sedgewick Published in Real Change
May 3, 2023
Review  by  Dave Gamrath The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma by Mustafa Suleyman -
Review  by  Dave Gamrath A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution by Jennifer A. Doudna & Samuel H. Sternberg Published in Real Change
July 28, 2021
Review  by  Dave Gamrath Critical Race Theory: An Introduction by Richard Delgado & Jean Stefancic Published in Real Change
August 11, 2021
Review  by  Dave Gamrath Danger Zone: The Coming Conflict with China by Michael Beckley & Hal Brands -
Review  by  Dave Gamrath Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer -
Review  by  Dave Gamrath Dismantling Global White Privilege: Equity for a Post-Western World by Chandran Nair -
Review  by  Dave Gamrath Doppelganger: A Trip Into The Mirror World by Naomi Klein Published in Real Change
Nov. 29, 2023
Review  by  Jim Scanlan The End of Faith by Sam Harris -
Review  by  Dave Gamrath The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory by Adam H. Domby Published in Real Change
Mar. 3, 2021
Review  by  Dave Gamrath Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis by Annie Proulx Published in Real Change
July 19, 2023
Review  by  Dave Gamrath The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis Published in Real Change
Jan. 16, 2019
Review  by  Dave Gamrath Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy by Margaret Sullivan Published in Real Change
Aug. 10, 2022
Review  by  Dave Gamrath Homelessness is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns by Gregg Colburn & Clayton Page Aldern Published in Real Change
Sep. 13, 2023
Review  by  Dave Gamrath Homewaters: A Human and Natural History of Puget Sound by David B. Williams -
Review  by  Dave Gamrath How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them by Barbara F. Walter Published in Real Change
July 7, 2022
Review  by  Dave Gamrath How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them by Jason Stanley Published in Real Change
June 8, 2022
Review  by  Dave Gamrath How Population Change Will Transform Our World by Sarah Harper -
Review  by  Dave Gamrath How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America by Heather Cox Richardson -
Review  by  Dave Gamrath The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917--2017 by Rashid Khalidi Published in Real Change
Jan. 18, 2024
Review  by  Dave Gamrath Inequality Kills Us All: Covid-19's Health Lessons for the World by Dr Stephen Bezruchka Published in Real Change
Mar. 1, 2023
Review  by  Dave Gamrath Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City by Andrea Elliott Published in Real Change
Jan. 4, 2023
Review  by  Dave Gamrath Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle Over Islam is Reshaping the World by Shadi Hamid -
Review  by  Dave Gamrath Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobes Du Mez -
Review  by  Dave Gamrath John Quincy Adams: American Visionary by Fred Kaplan -
Review  by  Dave Gamrath The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism by Tim Alberta Published in Real Change
July 10, 2024
Review  by  Dave Gamrath Leadership: In Turbulent Times by Doris Kearns Goodwin -
Review  by  Dave Gamrath Messing with the Enemy: Surviving in a Social Media World of Hackers, Terrorists, Russians, and Fake News by Clint Watts Published in Real Change
Dec. 24, 2019
Review  by  Dave Gamrath The Ministry for the Future: A Novel by Kim Stanley Robinson Published in Real Change
Nov. 3, 2021
Review  by  Dave Gamrath No Is Not Enough by Naomi Klein -
Review  by  Dave Gamrath Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen -
Review  by  Dave Gamrath On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not by Robert A. Burton M.D. -
Review  by  Dave Gamrath One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy by Carol Anderson Published in Real Change
Oct. 9, 2019
Review  by  Dave Gamrath The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports by Michael Waters -
Review  by  Dave Gamrath The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy by Anand Giridharadas Published in Real Change
Mar. 22, 2023
Review  by  Dave Gamrath Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond Published in Real Change
Jan. 31, 2024
Review  by  Dave Gamrath The Power of Crisis: How Three Threats and Our Response Will Change the World by Ian Bremmer -
Review  by  Dave Gamrath Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism--and What Comes Next by Bradley Onishi -
Review  by  Dave Gamrath Rare: The High-Stakes Race to Satisfy Our Need for the Scarcest Metals on Earth by Keith Veronese -
Review  by  Dave Gamrath Ratf**ked: Why Your Vote Doesn't Count by David Daley -
Review  by  Dave Gamrath Republic, Lost: Version 2.0 by Lawrence Lessig Published in Real Change
Mar. 6, 2019
Review  by  Dave Gamrath The Return of Great Powers: Russia, China, and the Next World War by Jim Sciutto -
Review  by  Dave Gamrath The Revolt Against Humanity: Imagining a Future Without Us by Adam Kirsch Published in Real Change
Apr. 12, 2023
Review  by  Dave Gamrath Rough Sleepers: Dr. Jim O'Connell's urgent mission to bring healing to homeless people by Tracy Kidder Published in Real Change
Mar. 15, 2023
Review  by  Dave Gamrath The Schoolhouse Gate: Public Education, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for the American Mind by Justin Driver -
Review  by  Dave Gamrath Servants of the Damned: Giant Law Firms, Donald Trump, and the Corruption of Justice by David Enrich Published in Real Change
Dec. 6, 2023
Review  by  Dave Gamrath The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic by Stephen Vladeck Published in Real Change
July 31, 2024
Review  by  Dave Gamrath Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable by Joanna Schwartz Published in Real Change
July 12, 2023
Review  by  Dave Gamrath Shorting the Grid: The Hidden Fragility of Our Electric Grid by Meredith Angwin -
Synopsis  by  Dave Gamrath The Story of B by Daniel Quinn -
Review  by  Dave Gamrath Strangers In Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right by Arlie Russell Hochschild -
Review  by  Dave Gamrath Student Power, Democracy and Revolution in the Sixties by Nick Licata Published in Real Change
March 9, 2022
Review  by  Dave Gamrath Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know by Malcolm Gladwell Published in Real Change
May 6, 2020
Review  by  Dave Gamrath These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore -
Review  by  Dave Gamrath The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food by Dan Barber Published in Real Change
Aug.. 23, 2023
Review  by  Dave Gamrath This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race by Nicole Perlroth Published in Real Change
Nov. 23, 2022
Review  by  Dave Gamrath The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good? by Michael J. Sandel Published in Real Change
May 5, 2021
Review  by  Dave Gamrath Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth Kolbert Published in Real Change
October 7, 2021
Review  by  Dave Gamrath Unfair: The New Science of Criminal Justice by Adam Benforado -
Review  by  Dave Gamrath The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells -
Review  by  Dave Gamrath The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy by Mariana Mazzucato Published in Real Change
April 10, 2019
Review  by  Dave Gamrath Waste by Kate O'Neill Published in Real Change
June 10, 2020
Review  by  Dave Gamrath Wastelands: The True Story of Farm Country on Trial by Corban Addison Published in Real Change
March 13, 2024
Review  by  Dave Gamrath The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World by Jeff Goodell -
Review  by  Dave Gamrath White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Dr. Robin DiAngelo -
Review  by  Dave Gamrath Why We're Polarized by Ezra Klein Published in Real Change
January 6, 2021
Review  by  Dave Gamrath Wildland: The Making of America's Fury by Evan Osnos -
Review & Discussion  by  Newt Simmons Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas -
Review  by  Dave Gamrath Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America by John McWhorter -
Review  by  Dave Gamrath Written in the Snows: Across Time on Skis in the Pacific Northwest by Lowell Skoog Published in Real Change
January 5, 2022
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