Stories in Democracy: Recommended ReadingLike this list

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• Pachinko

  Lee, Min Jin,

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  "A sweeping saga of one Korean family in exile from its homeland and caught in the indifferent arc of history. Through desperate struggles and hard-won triumphs, its members are bound together by deep roots as they face enduring questions of faith,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Use the Power You Have

  a Brown Woman's Guide to Politics and Political Change

  Jayapal, Pramila, 1965-

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  "Use the Power You Have is Jayapal's account of the path from sixteen-year-old Indian immigrant to grassroots activist, state senator, and now progressive powerhouse in Washington, DC."

• Girl Waits With Gun

  Stewart, Amy,

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  Congressman Rick Larsen enjoys reading the Kopp Sisters series. The first volume is "an enthralling novel based on the forgotten true story of one of the nation's first female deputy sheriffs. Quick-witted and full of madcap escapades."

• Talking to Strangers

  What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know

  Gladwell, Malcolm, 1963-

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  "In this thoughtful treatise spurred by the 2015 death of African-American academic Sandra Bland in jail after a traffic stop, New Yorker writer Gladwell aims to figure out the strategies people use to assess strangers. Congressman Larsen highly…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Electric City

  the Lost History of Ford and Edison's American Utopia

  Hager, Thomas,

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  "Offers insight into the friendship between Henry Ford and Thomas Edison and their attempt to create a massive city on the Tennessee River powered by pollution-free renewable energy." Recommended by Congressman Larsen.

• These Truths

  a History of the United States

  Lepore, Jill, 1966-

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  "In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian, Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation, an urgently needed reckoning with the beauty and tragedy of American…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• On Democracy

  White, E. B. (Elwyn Brooks), 1899-1985,

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  "This concise collection of essays, letters, and poems from one of this country's most eminent literary voices sheds much-needed historical context on the state of the nation and offers a ray of hope for the future of our society."

• American Dialogue

  the Founders and Us

  Ellis, Joseph J.,

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  "The story of history is a ceaseless conversation between past and present, and in American Dialogue, Joseph Ellis uses the perspective of the present to shed light on the views of the Founding Fathers. "

• Become America

  Civic Sermons on Love, Responsibility, and Democracy

  Liu, Eric,

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  "What does it mean to be an engaged American in today's divided political landscape, and how do we restore hope in our country? In a collection of "civic sermons" delivered at gatherings around the nation, popular advocate for active citizenship…Read moreRead more of this annotation