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Books 2020: Practical Ways to Fight Post-Pandemic Economic Insecurity

Book: The Wolf at the Door: The Menace of Economic Insecurity and How to Fight It Authors: M. Graetz and Ian Shapiro Review by: Professor Jeff Rosensweig, director, John Robson Program for Business, Public Policy, and Government at Emory University’s Goizueta Business School Written by two renowned academics with a rare talent for outlining detailed, practical solutions […]

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Books 2020: Cities as Characters in the Dramas of 2020

Book: The City We Became (A Novel)  Author: N.K. Jemisin Review by: Doug Shipman, former CEO of the Woodruff Arts Center This book was recommended during a conversation with my friend, the artist Jessica Caldas. The City We Became is the first of a new trilogy series from N.K. Jemisin, who has become a sensation […]

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Books 2020: Becoming More Agile to Lead in the Future of Work

Book: Wired for Disruption: The Five Shifts in Agility to Lead in the Future of Work Author: Henna Inam Review by: Soumaya Khalifa, president, Khalifa Consulting and founder of the Islamic Speakers Bureau of Atlanta In our lifetime, 2020 will be remembered as a year of severe disruption on the personal, health, work and global levels. […]

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Books 2020: How the Brain Affects Our Perception of the World

Book: The Brain: The Story of You Author: David Eagleman Review by: Jacobus Boers, senior lecturer in international business at Georgia State University’s Robinson College of Business Throughout this year, our country has struggled to find agreement about some very basic facts in ways that have challenged the very core institutions of our democracy. With […]

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Books 2020: How Churchill Taught ‘the Art of Being Fearless’ During the Blitz

Book: The Splendid And The Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz Author: Erik Larson Review by: Paul Varian, retired CNN senior editor, producer and writer  Winston Churchill became Britain’s prime minister at age 65 after decades of political combat and military adventure. His nation was again at war, bracing for attack […]

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Books 2020: Finding Resiliency in India’s Slums 

Book: The Bridge Home Author: Padma Venkatraman Review by: Sucheta Rawal, an award-winning food and travel writer, author of the ‘Beato Goes To’ series of children’s books, and founder of Atlanta-based nonprofit Go Eat Give.  I met author Padma Venkatraman at a children’s book writers conference in New York in February 2020, just before the […]

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Books 2020: Confronting Racial Myths in Canada and Beyond

Book: The Skin We’re In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power  Author: Desmond Cole  Review by: Kirk Duguid, Acting Consul General of Canada to the Southeast U.S.  I arrived in Atlanta in mid-December 2019, eager to start my new position managing the public affairs, consular and political sections of the Consulate General of Canada, and […]

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Books 2020: A Novel Explores the Universal Story of Trees

Book: The Overstory Author: Richard Powers Review by: Michael Manely, family law attorney at The Manely Firm P.C.  This is not a light read, but I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. Powers’s writing is literary, moving and evocative, with the novel tracking an unusual protagonist over more than a century: trees.   The central characters of […]

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Books 2020: Fostering Active Government, Engaged Society in Our Post Corona Economic Future

Book: Post Corona: From Crisis to Opportunity Author: Scott Galloway Review by: Phil Bolton, founder and publisher emeritus, Global Atlanta How about Joe Gebbia Jr., the Atlanta native, Brookwood High graduate, who with two friends launched the hotel disrupter Airbnb Inc, which earlier this month went public and currently has a market cap of nearly […]

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Books 2020: Towering Figures of 20th Century History, from Selma to Iowa to London

Book(s):  Hoover: An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times by Kenneth Whyte The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson His Truth is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope by Jon Meacham  Review by: Craig Lesser, founding partner, Pendleton Group, and former commissioner, […]

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