Books by Isabel Wilkerson
“As she points out, the election of Obama was followed immediately by Trump and the birther movement. Race runs all the way through that. When Kamala Harris took over the Democratic nomination, the first thing Trump raised was race. He went to a gathering and started talking about whether she is Black. You can’t think about America without understanding that it is deeply built on race. For half of the American voting population, having a Black White House was just more than they could handle.” Read more...
Interviews where books by Isabel Wilkerson were recommended
The best books on The United States, recommended by Don Watson
For all its rugged individualism, frontier violence, and capitalist churn, there’s always a search for grace in America, argues Don Watson, author of the excellent The Shortest History of the United States of America. As the country celebrates the 250th anniversary of its Declaration of Independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain, we asked him for books to read to learn more about it.
