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What are some good non-fiction books? Pic maybe related, I never
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What are some good non-fiction books?
Pic maybe related, I never read it.
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I was thinking of reading it. I'm not too interested in partisan polemics though, I hope it's a bit meatier.
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>>8269136
probably the antithesis of this one
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>>8269222
>Zinn

This guy is (well was) a living /pol/ caricature.
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Bowling Alone - Robert Putnam
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>>8269136

Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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>>8269136
Ha. I was just rereading some Harold Bloom and caught a jab at a man named "Pat Buchanan."

Sounds pretty bad.
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>>8269247
In a good or bad way?
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>>8269222
No, this book is more the antithesis of this (excellent) book.
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>>8269746
Zinn gets a lot of shit for being extremely biased, but Zinn himself wrote in the introduction that his book is extremely biased (something about a mountain of books leaning into one direction, he wanted to write a book that leans extremely into the other direction). It's an interesting perspective and pretty well-written but he has to bend reality a bit to make his perspective work. I'd still recommend reading it, but take it with several grains of salt.
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>>8269136
>>8269222
Ignore both, Buchanan is a /pol/-lite conspiracy theorist and Zinn is a generic liberal.
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