Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America | 
pickThis is a great read as the US elections get underway. This book brings to light the foundations America was built on and how we got to where we are today. It was like a crash course in government. Curious what parts of this my book club will want to bring up to discuss next week. 😬
pick⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This was excellent . I expected it to be sort of “rah rah—if we all get out the vote it will all be fine” but instead it was a history of our uniquely American history and flirtations with and reactions to facism. I was familiar with a lot of the discrete bits of history but she connected things in ways I hadn‘t before. Highly recommend.
pickIf you follow HCR‘s Letters from an American a lot of this will be familiar, and the last 1/4 or so repeats some of the first half (as well as some of HCR‘s previous book, tagged below); but this is still an amazing book and everyone should read it. How we got into this political mess and why it all matters.
Starting this today (or trying to) while #DannyBoy wants very much to have ALL THE SNUGGLES and kiddo fights off a cold. I‘ve fallen behind on reviews again, and will get around to them…eventually.
pickRe-posting my book+sock pic because I like it so much—and because I forgot to take a picture before the book went back to the library.😆
I‘m conflicted about how to rate this. I went in with super-high expectations because of how much I get out of HCR‘s daily “Letters from an American.” But because I‘ve been following those daily letters, the content here—especially the middle section focusing on the Trump years—didn‘t have much that was new.⤵️
HCR speed signing books after flight delays had her rushing to her talk at the LBJ Library in Austin tonight. My friend and I really enjoyed the event.
I picked this up from the library yesterday and am really excited to dive in. Heather Cox Richardson‘s daily “Letters from an American” have been providing a much needed dose of sanity, clarity, and hope for me (and so many others!) over the past few years. She takes current news and places it in perspective, using historical context. I‘m really looking forward to reading her take on the present and future state of our nation.
It‘s here! Today‘s #bookmail is making me very excited. BRB, gotta adjust my reading plans for October.
HCR just announced the mid-September release of her new book! I‘ve had her previous book for…um, a while…and will definitely get to it one of these days, but I‘m even more excited about this one. She says it is about how the last years have made her reconceive the meaning of history.
