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Message: [QUOTE="uconnphil2016, post: 2950262, member: 6328"] Empire of Cotton seemed good but I didn’t have time to finish it before starting back up with school. No Bars to Manhood by Daniel Berrigan and The Long Loneliness by Dorothy Day are both wonderful, but are for the spiritually inclined and left leaning so probably won’t respnate with many here. The New Jim Crow is great IMO, but again left leaning. Autobiography of Malcolm X was a great read. If there’s any one thing I’ve learned while studying my own niche kinda thing at the graduate level, it’s that popular nonfiction can often times be dangerously inaccurate in its sweeping generalizations for the sake of writing books that will interest folks at Barnes and Noble. If you’re gonna read history or anything more academic in the non fiction realm, really research the book and author. There’s a lot of garbage out there. For instance, I wouldn’t touch any of the books on the history of the church or really on anything regarding Christianity that are available at the book store, as they just tend to be brutally misinformed or agenda driven. Okay I’ll get off my soap box now [/QUOTE]