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Breadcream
For you Fox News nuts that don’t understand the left…and you CNN crazies that don’t understand the right, I can’t recommend this book enough. It does a great job explaining why people take sides on everything and feel they are right. The writing flows very well, it’s balanced, and it’ll change your thinking (might relieve some stress, too).
The Righteous Mind - Jonathan Haidt
Great book. Also from JH, The Coddling of the American Mind
1491: Great insight at new discoveries about the Americas pre-Columbus and how what we're taught is school is wrong
Mig Pilot: Soviet MiG-25 pilot hates it so much in the USSR that he defects to Japan. We get to see the Russian's fast new jet for the first time and get a sneak peek into the Iron Curtain for the first time in the Cold War.