FEATURED AUTHOR - Roy Huff is a Hawaii-based best-selling author, peer-reviewed research scientist, and teacher. After overcoming significant childhood poverty in the US mainland, he moved to the islands and hasn't looked back. Despite his challenges, which include a family stricken by mental illness and the loss of a father to HIV/AIDS, he’s earned five degrees, trained on geostationary satellites for NASA's GOES-R Proving Ground, and has written numerous bestsellers. Roy embraces optimism, science, and…
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Another great book is one by Jessamyn Conrad called What You Should Know About Politics, But Don't: A Nonpartisan Guide To The Issues That Matter. It's one hell of a long title, but delve into it and you will find a well written and well presented look at a very complicated subject. Once again, it doesn't matter what your political stance is, whether you are a Democrat or a Republican, or even somewhere in the middle like most Americans. The book has a wealth of topics and you can either work your way through everything or just brush up on the ones that you are unfamiliar with. I know it helped me a lot to understand why so many people are at each others throats over climate change and immigration. The book is obviously based on American politics, but it really cuts through the clutter. Hope you enjoy my recommendations and that I managed to help you correctly with your question!
Fascism: A Warning by Madeleine Albright - Madeleine Albright is the first woman to ever serve as U.S. secretary of state, so she isn't just someone who studied history, but also had an active role in shaping it. She was born in Czechoslovakia just before the second World War and in her lifetime she not only had to flee from Hitler, but also from Stalin at the start of the Cold War. She lost loved ones in the Holocaust, so we are talking her about a woman who has personal experiences with the horrors that politics can cause. This is not her first book, but it deals with fascism, which is a topic I see cropping up more and more in political discussions. Albright does a great job explaining what fascism really is, how it got started and also what the warning signs are for the rise of it in our current political climate. I feel like the word is lately being used by everyone to simply describe anyone who disagrees with their political views, which is a dangerous precedent.