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Wasn’t that the point? A journalistic foray into unknown territory, reporter’s notebook blazing bright, à la George Plimpton, or more close to home, Colson Whitehead?* But the me who has now traveled this far can’t help but feel a little differently.
Maria Konnikova • The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win
the more he is like a punch-drunk pug fighting himself in the movies.
A. Scott Berg • Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
Crystallizing Public Opinion
Rich Cohen • The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King
Hill genuinely cared about quality rail service and about public opinion.
Michael P. Malone • James J. Hill: Empire Builder of the Northwest (The Oklahoma Western Biographies Book 12)
Thursday
Marc Milstein • The Age-Proof Brain
Lillian Li • An introduction to Bilibili
Alexis de Tocqueville
Nathan Schneider • Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life
He’d go and find the most underserved school in the area—the kind of school that made seven-year-olds line up in the cold at 7:15 a.m. for a security check that took almost an hour to pass through, making them late to class, only to then expel them for tardiness. The kind of school that turned a blind eye to school security officers who maced kids
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