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A Lot Going On Here

Dear Madam President by Jennifer Palmieri

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Best for: Those looking for a quick read that’s mostly about Hillary Clinton’s run for president. In a nutshell: This is “An Open Letter to the Women Who Will Run the World.” But it’s more a short retelling of some parts of the Clinton 2016 Presidential Campaign framed around the idea that it’s a letter to the first woman to be US President. Worth quoting: “I have always thought that I could do any job a man can do just as well as him. Only recently have I come to realize that I don’t want to. I want to do the […]

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4/5/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:24 |

A personal memoir from former congressman and mayor of Compton

FROM COMPTON TO CONGRESS: His Grace For My Race (Volume Book 1) by Walter R. Tucker III and Martha Tucker

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From Compton to Congress: His Grace For My Race is Walter R. Tucker III’s autobiography about his political rise and fall in the 1990s. The book introduces us to Tucker when he was sworn into Congress, a great achievement at 35 since he was the youngest African-American to hold a congressional seat. Unfortunately, during his first term, Tucker became the focus of an FBI bribery investigation and indictment! The narration pauses on the scandal to trace Walter’s upbringing while slowly revealing the court case. Tucker comes from a well-respected family in the Los Angeles black community of Compton. His father, Walter […]

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2/24/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:4 |

Can We Talk About What Happened?

What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton

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I didn’t want to read Hillary Clinton’s take on the 2016 election.  I didn’t want to relive November 9th, 2016, the day I woke up with tears in my eyes and my stomach in my throat because I knew that an unmitigated jackass had won the U.S. presidency the night before.  I didn’t want to relive the gut-churning fear I felt for my children and the grief I felt for my country that day. But I’ve admired Hillary Clinton since I was in elementary school, so I wanted to see what she had to say.  And you know what? She […]

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2/8/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:6 |

That Timeline Would Have Been Better

What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton

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Best for: Anyone who is a fan of Secretary Clinton; anyone who isn’t a fan of Secretary Clinton; anyone interested in learning more about how we can prevent something like Trump from happening again. In a nutshell: First major-party woman nominee for President of the US loses to an ignorant charlatan and seeks to figure out why. Worth quoting: “Throughout the 2016 campaign, my staff would come to me wide-eyed. ‘You’ll never believe what Trump said today. It was vile.’ I always believed it. Not just because of who Trump is but because of who we can be at our […]

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1/31/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:4 |

Not the president we want, but possibly the president we deserve

Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff

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In all the madness of 2016, I forgot that so much of the talk in the first month was about how deeply Trump didn’t want to be in the White House. That the campaign was all a ruse to create a new media organization run by Roger Ailes and Steve Bannon, with Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly, and Satan (citation needed) at the helm. That view is reaffirmed, here, and gives me flashbacks to how terrible a prospect that would’ve been. Look, Donald Trump looked like he very well could’ve been the worst president we’ve had since at least Warren G. […]

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1/12/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:1 |

Fight the Power

Women and Power: A Manifesto by Mary Beard

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This short (115 page) treatise comprises two lectures which noted Cambridge academic and classicist Mary Beard delivered in 2014 and 2017. In these lectures, “The Public Voice of Women” and “Women in Power,” Beard examines the classical roots of the silencing of women’s voices and its effect on women in the modern Western world. Ultimately, in considering how women might truly become “voices of authority,” Beard suggests a reconsideration of “power” itself. In the first essay, Beard takes the reader back 3,000 years to demonstrate the deep roots of western culture’s silencing of the female voice. For ancient Greeks and […]

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1/2/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:2 |

B@*!@*ds!

The Establishment: And How They Get Away With It by Owen Jones

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In The Establishment: And How They Get Away With It, journalist Owen Jones takes a look at who and what exactly make up The Establishment in Britain and lays out the long con that has been played on a British public that has swallowed hook, line and sinker, the lie that the Establishment only wants the best for our country and that the blame for all of our problems lies squarely with the disabled, unemployed and immigrants, rather than the shower of greedy shits at the top who continue to line their pockets even as large swathes of Britain line […]

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12/29/2017 's CBR9 Review No:61 |

How flattering, I said, meaning the opposite

Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich

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Hey you. You. I’m talking to you. A human living in the world in 2017 who takes things like The Handmaid’s Tale incredibly personally. A human living in the world in 2017 who is horrified by what has been happening for centuries in a very real, cold-blooded, and methodical way to the Native American community. A human living in the world in 2017 who cannot believe that people don’t believe in science and climate change. A human living in the world in 2017 who still finds solace in community and beautiful art. Run, don’t walk, to your nearest bookstore or library […]

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12/7/2017 's CBR9 Review No:44 |


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