Book: Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know Author: Adam Grant Review by: Soumaya Khalifa, president, Khalifa Consulting and founder of the Islamic Speakers Bureau of Atlanta We’ve […]
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Books 2021: In 1776, Seeing the Glimmer of Hope Against the Odds
Book: 1776 Author: David McCullough Review by: John Parkerson, international attorney at Hall Booth Smith and honorary consul general of Hungary in Georgia Most of us, I would wager, have […]
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Books 2021: A White Journalist Crosses the Racial Divide
Book: Black Like Me Author: John Howard Griffin Review by: Trevor Williams, managing editor, Global Atlanta and publisher, Grounded Global Media. If 2020 was a year to reflect on white […]
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Books 2021: Rethinking the ‘Barbarians’ by Critiquing Our Cultural Arrogance
Book: Fuimos Muy Peores en Vicios: Barbarie Propia y Ajena entre la Caída de Constantinopla y La Ilustración Author: Nicolás Kwiatkowski Review by: Pablo Palomino, assistant professor of Latin American […]
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Books 2021: How the U.S. and Georgia Are Innovating to Gain Global Advantage
Book: Innovation Economics: The Race for Global Advantage Author: Robert D. Atkinson and Stephen J. Ezell, authors Review by: Al Hodge, founder of Hodge Consulting Services LLC and a 40-year […]
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Books 2021: First Black Cops in Jim Crow-Era Atlanta Foreshadow Black Lives Matter Demands
Book: Darktown: A Novel Author: Thomas Mullen Review by: Paul Varian, retired CNN executive producer “Darktown” by Thomas Mullen is a brilliantly woven template for the police procedural — a […]
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Books 2021: Women, Not Wallflowers, Helped Raise Up the United States
Book: Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation Author: Cokie Roberts Review by: Michael Manely, family law attorney at The Manely Firm P.C. As it turns out, women of the […]
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Books 2021: Literature’s Power to Provide Perspective Across Race, Gender
Book: The Other Black Girl Author: Zakiya Dalila Harris Review by: Oliver Gorf, executive director of the Goethe-Zentrum Atlanta Literature can either make you recognize yourself in others, or it […]
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Books 2021: Soccer as a Prism for Understanding Global Politics
Book: The Age of Football: Soccer and the 21st Century Author: David Goldblatt Review by: Kirk Bowman, Rise Up & Care Professor of Global Development and Identity, Sam Nunn School of […]
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Books 2021: ‘He Travels Alone’ to Restore Indigenous Dignity
Book: Peyakow: Reclaiming Cree Dignity Author: Darrel J. McLeod Review by: Kirk Duguid, acting consul general of Canada in Atlanta In “Peyakow,” award-winning Cree author Darrel J. McLeod shares weaves […]