Claire Stapleton’s Don’t Be Evil, Kimon de Greef’s The Ego Trip, and Dave Ziren’s The People’s Historian all feature among the best reviewed nonfiction titles of the month.
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1. Don’t Be Evil: Bad Bosses, Fake Promises, and My Escape from Big Tech oleh Claire Stapleton
(William Morrow and Company)
4 Pujian • 1 Positif • 1 Campuran
“A blunt account of one woman’s transformation from eager-to-please corporate striver to clear-eyed activist. It well earns its place alongside other recent accounts of the misdeeds of Big Tech like Sarah Wynn-Williams’ Careless People dan Anna Wiener’s Uncanny Valley … Books like Stapleton’s will at least arm people determined to reform them with information they’ll need to make that effort.”
–Harvey Freedenberg (BookPage)
2. The Ego Trip: Psychedelic Toads, a Trail of Deaths, and the Guru Who Peddled Transcendence oleh Kimon de Greef
(Doubleday)
4 Pujian • 1 Positif
“A marvelous trip, exploring centuries of the Seris’ tribulations, the growth of commercial toad milking in a region dominated by narco gangsters, quarrels among rival gurus and competition between the sons of an English countess and a German baroness to develop 5-MeO-DMT into a pharmaceutical.”
–Annie Bartlett (BookPage)
3. The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State oleh Jill Lepore
(Liveright)
3 Pujian • 2 Positif • 1 Campuran
“Staggering, sobering, yet essential reading for all who want to understand the arc of this increasingly digital, online, corporate, and out-of-control world.”
–Carol Haggas (Booklist)
4. Days of Miracle and Wonder: Paul Simon and the Trials and Triumphs of Graceland oleh Ahley Kahn
(Atria)
4 Pujian • 1 Campuran
“What a welcome surprise … Has only made me appreciate the album’s intricacies and paradoxes all the more … Kahn lets his historical actors speak for themselves as often as possible, collecting a remarkably wide array of voices for so short a book.”
–Mark Braude (The New York Times Book Review)
5. The People’s Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn oleh Dave Zirin
(Dutton)
2 Pujian • 3 Positif • 2 Campuran
“ Menggugah … Ini adalah potret indah seorang sejarawan yang membentuk ulang pemahaman Amerika tentang potensi perubahan.”
–Publishers Weekly
