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The CNO-Professional Reading Program consists of 12 books and is a mix of writing genres including fiction, non-fiction, military, strategy, management, and technology, among others. The goal of the program is to contribute to a culture dedicated to warfighting and learning, while simultaneously supporting the personal and professional development of Sailors beyond that of their primary designator or rating.
A learning mindset is essential to accelerating our warfighting advantage. A Navy that learns, adapts, and improves the fastest will be the most successful. Knowledge sharing is essential to creating a learning culture. We are driving a fleet-wide campaign of self-improvement and we must foster an organization that supports and empowers Sailors to have an independent quest for knowledge through reading and information sharing. What you know and how fast you learn is relevant in this era of strategic competition.
Following the twelve, this lists the longer 2021 Chief of Naval Operations Reading List books by categories.
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CNO-Professional Reading Program 2021
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A Brief Guide to Maritime Strategy
James R. Holmes
Format: Book
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A compact introductory work aimed at junior seafarers, those who make decisions affecting the sea services, and those who educate seafarers and decision-makers. It introduces readers to the main theoretical ideas that shape how statesmen and commanders make and execute maritime strategy... |
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China As a Twenty-First Century Naval Power: Theory, Practice, and Implications
McDevitt, Michael A. - Naval Inst Pr
Format: Book
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McDevitt then explores the PLA Navy's role in the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean. He provides a detailed assessment of what the PLAN will be expected to do if Beijing chooses to attack Taiwan potentially triggering combat with America's "first responders" in East Asia, especially... |
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Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate
M. E. Sarotte
Format: Hardcover
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A leading expert on foreign policy reveals how tensions between America, NATO, and Russia transformed geopolitics in a Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2021 "Sarotte is the unofficial dean of 'end of Cold War' studies. . . . With her latest book, she tackles head-on the not-controversial-at-all... |
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The Sailor's Bookshelf: Fifty Books to Know the Sea
Stavridis, James - Nav Inst Pr
Format: Book
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Admiral Stavridis, a leader in military, international affairs, and national security circles, shares his love of the sea and some of the sources of that affection. The Sailor's Bookshelf offers synopses of fifty books that illustrate the history, importance, lore, and lifestyle of the oceans... |
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Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War
Paul Scharre - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Paperback
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"A tour de force of the future of war technology. ... A highly readable journey through the world of robots on the battlefield and beyond." -- P.W. Singer, author of Wired for War and Ghost FleetThe era of autonomous weapons has arrived. Today around the globe, at least thirty... |
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Fortune Favors Boldness: The Story of Naval Valor During Operation Iraqi Freedom
Barry M Costello - Fortis
Format: Book
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Documents the incredible professionalism of the Sailors and Marines who operated in harm's way in the dangerous waters of the Northern Arabian Gulf, on the ground in Iraq and in the air over the country in 2003. It tells a story of epic events and bravery from the perspective of retired... |
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World War II at Sea: A Global History
Craig L Symonds - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Author of Lincoln and His Admirals (winner of the Lincoln Prize) , The Battle of Midway (Best Book of the Year, Military History Quarterly) , and Operation Neptune (winner of the Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature) , Craig L. Symonds ranks among the country's finest... |
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Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.
Brené Brown - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Bren Brown has taught us what it means to dare greatly, rise strong, and brave the wilderness. Now, based on new research conducted with leaders, change makers, and culture shifters, she's showing us how to put those ideas into practice so we can step... |
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Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
Carol S Dweck - Random House
Format: Print book
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World-renowned Stanford University psychologist Carol Dweck, in decades of research on achievement and success, has discovered a truly groundbreaking idea - the power of our mindset. Dweck explains why it's not just our abilities and talent that bring us success - but whether we approach... |
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Readiness 2021
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Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal
James D. Hornfischer - Bantam; First edition
Format: Book
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No holdings.
Neptune's Inferno is at once the most epic and the most intimate account ever written of the contest for control of the seaways of the Solomon Islands Americarsquos first concerted offensive against the Imperial Japanese juggernaut and the true turning point of the Pacific... |
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Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War
P. W. Singer - Eamon Dolan/Mariner Books
Format: Paperback
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"A novel that reads like science fiction but bristles with rich detail about how the next World War could be fought." - Vice"A modern-day successor to tomes such as The Hunt for Red October from the late Tom Clancy." - USA Today What Will World War III Look Like?... |
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Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy
Ian W. Toll - W. W. Norton; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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How "a handful of bastards and outlaws fighting under a piece of striped bunting" humbled the omnipotent British Navy.Before the ink was dry on the U.S. Constitution, the establishment of a permanent military had become the most divisive issue facing the new government. Would... |
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Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War
Karl Marlantes - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover
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Intense, powerful, and compelling, Matterhorn is an epic war novel in the tradition of Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead and James Jones's The Thin Red Line. It is the timeless story of a young Marine lieutenant, Waino Mellas, and his comrades in Bravo Company, who are dropped into... |
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Red Star over the Pacific: China's Rise and the Challenge to U.S. Maritime Strategy
Toshi Yoshihara - Naval Institute Press
Format: Paperback
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Combining a close knowledge of Asia and an ability to tap Chinese-language sources with naval combat experience and expertise in sea-power theory, the authors assess how the rise of Chinese sea power will affect U.S. maritime strategy in Asia. They argue that China is laying the groundwork... |
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The Leader's Bookshelf
Adm. James Stavridis USN (Ret.) - Naval Institute Press
Format: Book
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No holdings. Adm. James Stavridis and his co-author, R. Manning Ancell, have surveyed over two hundred active and retired four-star military officers about their reading habits and favorite books, asking each for a list of titles that strongly influenced their leadership... |
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Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't
Simon Sinek - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestseller by the acclaimed, bestselling author of Start With Why and Together is Better. Now with an expanded chapter and appendix on leading millennials, based on Simon Sinek's viral video "Millenials in the workplace" (150+ million views)... |
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Mindset : the new psychology of success. Summary.
Carol S Dweck; Soundview Executive Book Summaries. - Soundview Executive Book Summaries ; [Norwood
Format: Paperback
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Now updated with new research - the book that has changed millions of livesAfter decades of research, world-renowned Stanford University psychologist Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D., discovered a simple but groundbreaking idea: the power of mindset. In this brilliant book, she shows how success in school,... |
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What It Is Like to Go to War
Karl Marlantes - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Print book
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From the author of the award-winning, best-selling novel Matterhorn, comes a brilliant nonfiction book about warIn 1968, at the age of twenty-three, Karl Marlantes was dropped into the highland jungle of Vietnam, an inexperienced lieutenant in command of a platoon of forty Marines... |
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Capabilities
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Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War
Paul Scharre - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Paperback
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"A tour de force of the future of war technology. ... A highly readable journey through the world of robots on the battlefield and beyond." -- P.W. Singer, author of Wired for War and Ghost FleetThe era of autonomous weapons has arrived. Today around the globe, at least thirty... |
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Burn-In: A Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution
P. W. Singer - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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An FBI agent teams up with the first police robot to hunt a shadowy terrorist in this gripping technothriller - and fact-based tour of tomorrow - from the authors of Ghost Fleet America is on the brink of a revolution. AI and robotics have realized science fiction's dreams, but have... |
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The Future of War: A History
Lawrence Freedman - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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Questions about the future of war are a regular feature of political debate, strategic analysis, and popular fiction. Where should we look for new dangers? What cunning plans might an aggressor have in mind? What are the best forms of defense? How might peace be preserved or conflict resolved?From... |
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The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century
George Friedman - Doubleday
Format: Print book
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"Conventional analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-term shifts taking place in full view of the world." - George Friedman In his long-awaited and provocative new book, George Friedman... |
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The New Rules of War: Victory in the Age of Durable Disorder
- William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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"Stunning. Sean McFate is a new Sun Tzu." -Admiral James Stavridis (retired) , former Supreme Allied Commander at NATOAn urgent, fascinating exploration of warfare - past, present and future - and what we must do if we want to win today from an 82nd Airborne veteran, former... |
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The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage, and Fear in the Cyber Age
DAVID E SANGER - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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The Perfect Weapon is the startling inside story of how the rise of cyberweapons transformed geopolitics like nothing since the invention of the atomic bomb. Cheap to acquire, easy to deny, and usable for a variety of malicious purposes, cyber is now the weapon of choice for democracies,... |
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Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins
Garry Kasparov - PublicAffairs
Format: Print book
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In May 1997, the world watched as Garry Kasparov, the greatest chess player in the world, was defeated for the first time by the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue. It was a watershed moment in the history of technology: machine intelligence had arrived at the point where it could best human intellect.... |
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Genius Weapons: Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Weaponry, and the Future of Warfare
Louis A. Del Monte - Prometheus Books
Format: Paperback
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A technology expert describes the ever-increasing role of artificial intelligence in weapons development, the ethical dilemmas these weapons pose, and the potential threat to humanity.Artificial intelligence is playing an ever-increasing role in military weapon systems. Going beyond the bomb-carrying... |
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Capacity 2021
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The Fleet at Flood Tide: America at Total War in the Pacific, 1944-1945
James Hornfischer - Bantam Books
Format: Print book
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The extraordinary story of the World War II air, land, and sea campaign that brought the U. S. Navy to the apex of its strength and marked the rise of the United States as a global superpower One of America s preeminent military historians, James D. Hornfischer has written his most expansive... |
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Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations
Michael Walzer - Basic Books
Format: Print book
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Just and Unjust Wars forever changed the way we think about the ethics of conflict. First published in 1977 and now brought up to the present with a new preface and postscript, this classic work by political philosopher Michael Walzer examines the moral issues that arise before, during,... |
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Sea Power: The History and Geopolitics of the World's Oceans
JIM STAVRIDIS - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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From one of the most admired admirals of his generation - and the only admiral to serve as Supreme Allied Commander at NATO - comes a remarkable voyage through all of the world's most important bodies of water, providing the story of naval power as a driver of human history and a crucial... |
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Our Robots, Ourselves: Robotics and the Myths of Autonomy
David A Mindell - Viking
Format: Print book
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"[An] essential book ... it is required reading as we seriously engage one of the most important debates of our time." - Sherry Turkle, author of Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital AgeFrom drones to Mars rovers - an exploration of the most innovative... |
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The End of Grand Strategy: US Maritime Operations in the Twenty-First Century
Reich, Simon/ Dombrowski, Peter - Cornell University Press
Format: Book
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No holdings. In The End of Grand Strategy, Simon Reich and Peter Dombrowski challenge the common view of grand strategy as unitary. They eschew prescription of any one specific approach, chosen from a spectrum that stretches from global primacy to restraint and isolationism, in favor... |
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Sailors 2021
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Ego Is the Enemy
Ryan Holiday - Portfolio Penguin
Format: Print book
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"While the history books are filled with tales of obsessive visionary geniuses who remade the world in their image with sheer, almost irrational force, I've found that history is also made by individuals who fought their egos at every turn, who eschewed the spotlight, and who put their... |
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How to Be an Antiracist
Ibram X. Kendi - One World
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning comes a "groundbreaking" (Time) approach to understanding and uprooting racism and inequality in our society... |
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Tiny Habits: The Small Changes that Change Everything
BJ Fogg Ph.D - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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The world's leading expert on habit formation shows how you can have a happier, healthier life: by starting small. Myth: Change is hard. Reality: Change can be easy if you know the simple steps of Behavior Design. Myth: It's all about willpower. Reality: Willpower... |
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A Tactical Ethic: Moral Conduct in the Insurgent Battlespace
Couch, Dick - Naval Institute Press
Format: Book
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No holdings. Following the success of his recent book on Navy SEALs in Iraq, The Sheriff of Ramadi, bestselling author and combat veteran Dick Couch now examines the importance of battlefield ethics in effectively combating terrorists without losing the battle for the hearts of the local... |
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Fed Up: Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward
GEMMA HARTLEY - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover
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A rousing call to arms, packed with surprising insights, that explores how carrying "the mental load" - the thankless day-to-day anticipating of needs and solving of problems large and small - is adversely affecting women's lives and feeding gender inequality, and shows the way forward... |
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Military Ethics: What Everyone Needs to Know
George R Lucas - Oxford University Press
Format: Print book
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What significance does "ethics" have for the men and women serving in the military forces of nations around the world? What core values and moral principles collectively guide the members of this "military profession?" This book explains these essential moral foundations,... |
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Sexual Minorities and Politics: An Introduction
Jason Pierceson - Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc.
Format: Print book
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The political representation and involvement of sexual minorities in the United States has been highly contested and fiercely debated. As recent legislative and judicial victories create inroads towards equality for this growing population, members and advocates of these minorities navigate... |
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Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
Simon Sinek
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The inspiring, life-changing bestseller by the author of LEADERS EAT LAST and TOGETHER IS BETTER.
In 2009, Simon Sinek started a movement to help people become more inspired at work, and in turn inspire their colleagues and customers. Since then, millions have been touched... |
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The Character Gap : How Good Are We?
Miller, Christian - Oxford University Press
Format: Book
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No holdings. We like to think of ourselves, our friends, and our families as decent people. We may not be saints, but we are still honest, relatively kind, and mostly trustworthy. Miller argues here that we are badly mistaken in thinking this. Hundreds of recent studies in psychology tell... |
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Fortune Favors Boldness: The Story of Naval Valor During Operation Iraqi Freedom
Barry M Costello - Fortis
Format: Book
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Documents the incredible professionalism of the Sailors and Marines who operated in harm's way in the dangerous waters of the Northern Arabian Gulf, on the ground in Iraq and in the air over the country in 2003. It tells a story of epic events and bravery from the perspective of retired... |
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The Road to Character
David Brooks - Random House
Format: Print book
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE ECONOMIST * "I wrote this book not sure I could follow the road to character, but I wanted at least to know what the road looks like and how other people have trodden it." - David Brooks With the wisdom,... |
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The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone--Especially Ourselves
Dan Ariely - Harper
Format: Paperback
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Dan Ariely, behavioral economist and the New York Times bestselling author of The Upside of Irrationality and Predictably Irrational, examines the contradictory forces that drive us to cheat and keep us honest, in this groundbreaking look at the way we behave: The (Honest) Truth About... |
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Michelle Alexander - The New Press
Format: Hardcover
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A tenth-anniversary edition of the iconic bestseller - "one of the most influential books of the past decade," according to the Chronicle of Higher Education - with a new preface by the author Seldom does a book have the impact of Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow.Since... |
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