NIGHTLY READING THREAD: Welcome to Edition #74 of #GMGReads. Every night through this weird time, I'm tweeting out a list of my five favorite books around a general theme—and a link to an indie bookstore where you can order them online....
I, like many, have just been heartbroken by the events this week in Minneapolis, one of my favorite cities in the US. Tonight, I want to feature the best books I've read on race and policing—most of which are available at @magersandquinn, my favorite bookstore in Minneapolis:
1) Radley Balko's (@radleybalko) RISE OF THE WARRIOR COP was a prescient early warning about a militant Rubicon America's police quietly slipped across without the country noticing: magersandquinn.com/product_info?p…
2) DON'T SHOOT, by my former college professor David Kennedy (@davidkennedynyc), recounts his story in combatting violence in Boston and a national-path-not-taken in how police there worked with the community to stop inner-city violence and save lives: bookshop.org/books/don-t-sh…
3) Michelle Alexander (@thenewjimcrow) painted an indelible portrait of a broken, racist system in THE NEW JIM CROW: magersandquinn.com/product_info?p…
4) Joe Domanick chronicled the attempted reform of the LAPD in BLUE: bokononbooks.secure-chrislands.com/quicksearch/al…
5) James Forman Jr. (@jformanjr) won the Pulitzer Prize in 2018 for his portrait of the complicated, interconnected history of mass incarceration and the rise of a generation of black mayors, LOCKING UP OUR OWN: magersandquinn.com/product_info?p…
Those are tonight's #GMGReads. What books on race, mass incarceration, and policing most affected you? Share! I'd love to order a couple books from @magersandquinn to support them right now. #avidreadersunite
PS: This is actually #GMGReads #75. typo!
