Shelf Talk posted: " Kick off the summer with the latest nonfiction! From politics, current events and history to sports, entertainment and travel, July has something for everyone. The state of the Republican Party is the subject " Shelf Talk
Kick off the summer with the latest nonfiction! From politics, current events and history to sports, entertainment and travel, July has something for everyone.
The state of the Republican Party is the subject of three books this month: Jonathan Lemire examines the unprecedented attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in The Big Lie; Mark Leibovich looks at how the GOP enabled Trump's worst instincts in Thank You For Your Servitude; and Malcolm Nance considers how homegrown terrorists are a threat to more than democracy in They Want to Kill Americans. Stories on reproductive freedom from 28 contributors are revealed through essays, fiction, poems and plays in I Know What's Best for You, while Ken Auletta seeks to understand how complicit the entertainment industry was in Harvey Weinstein's sexual predation in Hollywood Ending, and Paul Pringle delivers a nonfiction thriller about corruption and cover-ups at USC in Bad City. Scott Higham looks at the culpability of drug companies related to the opioid epidemic in American Cartel; Brett Scott uncovers the fusion between big finance and big tech in the war for our wallets in Cloudmoney; and Matthew Ball predicts the radical reshaping of society when The Metaverse succeeds the Internet as we know it.
Studies of leadership feature prominently in this month's history releases. Henry Kissinger examines the strategies of six 20th century figures in Leadership; Dominic Lieven looks at the emperor in world history with In the Shadow of the Gods; and Philip Short weaves 60 years of Russian history with biography in a deeply researched account of the world's most dangerous man, Putin.
Looking for some enlightenment? Be sure to check out The Light We Give, where Simran Jeet Singh embraces the wisdom of the Sikh religion. Stephanie Sarkis helps survivors recover from gaslighting, narcissism and emotional abuse in Healing from Toxic Relationships, while Jessica Baum provides a road map to becoming more secure in life and love in Anxiously Attached. In Quarterlife, Satya Doyle Byock helps twentysomethings search for self in early adulthood, and Lecia Michelle gives allies the tools to join the racial justice fight for Black women in The White Allies Handbook.
July is rich with a wide range of memoirs. In The World's Worst Assistant, Sona Movsesian, Conan O'Brien's longtime assistant, reveals how she succeeded as a terrible - yet unfireable - employee, while rapper and actor Ice-T collaborates with his former partner-in-crime Spike to narrate the different paths their lives took in Split Decisions. CJ Hauser takes a nontraditional look at romantic love in the 21st century in The Crane Wife and Carmen Rita Wong's understanding of family and identity are turned upside down when secrets are revealed in Why Didn't You Tell Me? Phillip Done shares what he's learned from more than 30 years in the classroom in The Art of Teaching Children.
Sports fan? July is the month for you. Trailblazing NBA player and coach Ray Scott recounts his basketball career in The NBA in Black and White; Marshall Jon Fisher looks at the 1972 Miami Dolphins and and the NFL's only perfect season in Seventeen and Oh; and Nancy Schwartzman reports on the normalization of sexual assault in football culture in Roll Red Roll.
Movie fans will enjoy The Church of Baseball, where director Ron Shelton talks about the making of the beloved movie Bull Durham; Edward Gross's oral history of the John Wick trilogy and the new age of action films, They Shouldn't Have Killed His Dog; and Nina Nesseth's exploration of the science of horror films, and why they scare us, in Nightmare Fuel. Finally, Ben Riggs unveils the secret history of Dungeons & Dragons in Slaying the Dragon.
Travelers - inveterate or armchair - have four outstanding books to choose from this month. Francophile Graham Robb takes an entertaining journey through French history in France; Matthew Green tours Britain's lost cities and vanished villages in Shadowlands; and pilot Mark Vanhoenacker conjures the beauty of cities from the air in Imagine a City. Lastly, hit the road with Ellen Jovin, the Roving Grammarian, who traveled the U.S. answering people's questions about the English language in Rebel With a Clause.
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