Summer Reading, Reading Lists
Last December when thinking about what books to buy for people he knew in light of Mr. Trump’s election victory, Ross Douthat published piece titled “Books for the Trump Era” wherein he wrote “…the Trump era has already been god for political reading lists.” So it has. Thus, for this summer’s exercise in blogging about summer reading we will be sharing a variety of reading lists from a variety of points of view. Whatever evil the Internet may have done to our political discourse, it is really good for finding lists of books…so here we begin with some, starting with the books Mr. Douthat mentioned in his article from the New York Times on December 21st (2016):
- Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance
- Strangers in their Own Land: Aanger and Mourning on the American Right by Arlie Russell Hochschild
- Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
- Plot Against America by Philip Roth
- What is Populism by Jan-Werner Muller
- The Shipwrecked Mind: On Political Reaction by Mark Lilla
- Black Reconstruction in America by W.E.B. Du Bois
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations by Christopher Lasch
- The Revolt of the Elites: and the Betrayal of Democracy by Christopher Lasch
We have several of Mr. Douthat’s books including Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics…books in the SLU Libraries are linked here to the catalog record, for those not in our collection remember you can get ’em here through either ConnectNY or ILLiad, interlibrary loan runs year round! Happy reading…