The latest Campfire Fellows created quite a reading list before leaving Savage River Lodge. We’re pleased to share their list:
What You are Getting Wrong About Appalachia by Elizabeth Catte
The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives by Sasha Abramsky
How The Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. Riis
The People of the Abyss by Jack London
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right by Arlie Russell Hochschild
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty by Abhijit Banarjee and Esther Duflo
Teeth: The Story of Beauty, Inequality, and the Struggle for Oral Health in America by Mary Otto
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America by Beth Macy
Love Your Enemies: How Decent People can Save America from the Culture of Contempt by Arthur C. Brooks
The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt and the Golden Age of Journalism by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Leadership in Turbulent Times by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein
Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall by Anna Funder
Alienated America: Why Some Places Thrive While Others Collapse by Timothy P. Carney
The Fabric of Character: A Wise Giver’s Guide to Supporting Social and Moral Renewal by Anne Snyder
Community: The Structure of Belonging by Peter Block
Seven Types of Atheism by John Gray
The Happiness Advantage: How a Positive Brain Fuels Success in Work and Life by Shawn Achor
Great Revolt: Inside the Populist Coalition Reshaping American Politics by Salena Zito and Brad Todd
Robert D. Putnam
Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us
Better Together: Restoring the American Community
Jonathan Haidt
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas are Setting up a Generation for Failure
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion