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  • White Hot Hate: A True Story of Domestic Terrorism in America’s Heartland
  • The Storm Is Here: An American Crucible
  • I’m Glad My Mom Died
  • Depart, Depart!
  • The World As We Knew It: Dispatches From a Changing Climate
  • The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War
  • The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
  • Radicalism in the Mountain West, 1890-1920: Socialists, Populists, Miners, and Wobblies
  • The Red Corner: The Rise and Fall of Communism in Northeastern Montana
  • Zapatista Spring: Anatomy of a Rebel Water Project & the Lessons of International Solidarity
  • The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet
  • Fire, Storm Flood: The Violence of Climate Change
  • The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
  • The Sphinx: Franklin Roosevelt, the Isolationists, and the Road to World War II
  • Sea of Tranquility
  • The Revivalists
  • The Fated Sky
  • The New Wilderness
  • Project Hail Mary
  • The Greatest Polar Expedition of All Time: The Arctic Mission to the Epicenter of Climate Change
  • I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
  • Denial (by Jon Raymond)
  • America City
  • The 2084 Report: An Oral History of the Great Warming
  • The Best of Times, The Worst of Times: Futures from the Frontiers of Climate Science
  • The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World
  • Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
  • Megafire: The Race to Extinguish a Deadly Epidemic of Flame
  • Modern Sudanese Poetry: An Anthology
  • Columbine (by Dave Cullen)
  • The Vortex: A True Story of History’s Deadliest Storm, an Unspeakable War, and Liberation
  • California Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric–and What It Means for America’s Power Grid
  • I Hate You-Don’t Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality
  • The Man Who Caught the Storm: The Life of Legendary Tornado Chaser Tim Samaras
  • Sandy Hook (by Elizabeth Williamson)
  • Roll Red Roll: Rape, Power, and Football in the American Heartland
  • Fire and Flood (by Eugene Linden)
  • Nomad Century: How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World
  • The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration
  • Choked: Life and Breath in the Age of Air Pollution
  • Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History
  • The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption
  •  alyaza [they/she]   ( @alyaza@beehaw.org ) OP
    3•6 months ago

    commentary for a few of these: White Hot Hate

    even though it’s functionally a true crime book,[1] White Hot Hate: A True Story of Domestic Terrorism in America’s Heartland is probably the book that sucked me in the most this year. the ultimate story being told here is effectively copaganda—almost definitionally it has to be, since it revolves around the FBI successfully navigating an infamous domestic terror plot from the past few years. but in between that story this book also really goes intimate into how such plots manifest and take form. you get a real sense of the sort of person who would follow through with white supremacist terrorism—and, perhaps indirectly, how many of these people are pushed to act (or hasten how willing they are to act) with the cajoling of the FBI. i’m not sure a book has ever felt like a peek behind the curtain for me without just actively being a political tract in the way this one was

    1. and i very much dislike true crime as a genre—looking at you I’ll Be Gone In The Dark ↩︎