Readings 2022 - Nonfiction

The books of nonfiction for 2022. I really didn't read as many nonfiction books as I usually do in a year. Just 17 this year and only two were music related. I only read one book that would be considered a traditional history book which was more of a social and psychological study of how the public dealt with World War II. There were thirteen books that were either political or race related that were actually both. I seemed to be obsessed this past year on threat to our democracy by the maga republican fascist which seem to be everywhere on the political landscape. The trump era has indeed become The Misinformation Age which was one of the best books I read this year. 

I read many fascinating political books including a couple of interesting books by Rachel Maddow. The Tim Miller book was infuriating because of the utter cowardness of him and so many other republicans as was the Adam Shiff lame explanation for how the democrats dealt with the trump insurrection.

 The Divider by Peter Becker was much better.

• The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread - Cailin O'Connor, 2019
• The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021 – Peter Baker
• White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960’s – Joe Boyd, 2006
• Bag Man: The Wild Crimes, Audacious Cover-Up, and Spectacular Downfall of a Brazen Crook in the White House – Rachel Maddow, 2020
• White Fear: How the Browning of America is Making White Folks Lose Their Minds – Roland S. Martin, 2022
• Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents – Isabel Wilkerson, 2020
• Beeswing: Losing My Way and Finding My Voice 1967-1975 – Richard Thompson, 2021
• The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Minds of America – Greg Grandlin
• Wastelands: The True Story of Farm Country on Trial – Corban Addison, 2022
• Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence – Anita Hill, 2021
• Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500 Year History – Kurt Anderson, 2017
• This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America’s Future – Jonathan Martin, 2022
• Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth – Rachel Maddow, 2019
• Why We Did It: A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell – Tim Miller, 2022
• The American Experiment: Dialogues on a Dream – David M. Rubenstein, 2021
• Looking for the Good War: American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness – Elizabeth D. Samet, 2021
• Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could – Adam Schiff, 2021