Recommendations

 

Here is where you will find the most bias on this site.  These are purely the owner's recommendations.

 

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Author:  Timothy Snyder

Publisher:  Penguin Random House

Copyright:  2017

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This is the book that inspired me to create this website in the first place.  Its lessons are hard earned through the linves and deaths of millions and it feels like history is repeating itself.  There is also an expanded version and a graphic version.

Author:  Steve Crawshaw and John Jackson

Publisher:  Union Square Press

Copyright:  2010

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I haven't read a book in a single day in many years, but I couldn't put this down.  It's organized into categories of resistance techniques and then gives many examples for each one from the last one hundred or so years.  

PBS:  American Experience

Premiered: Oct 24, 2023

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This is a great documentary about the Gilded Age, the closing decades of the 19th century.  It pulls you in and shows how today is a parallel of that time.