CRRL Picks: Read Across America - Non-fiction | Central Rappahannock Regional Library

African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights

by Sorin, Gretchen Sullivan

Book - 2020

"Melding new archival research with her family’s story, Gretchen Sorin recovers a lost history, demonstrating how, when combined with Black travel gu...Show more "Melding new archival research with her family’s story, Gretchen Sorin recovers a lost history, demonstrating how, when combined with Black travel guides—including the famous Green Book—the automobile encouraged a new way of resisting oppression." Show less

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Heartland

A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth

by Smarsh, Sarah

Book - 2018

"Sarah Smarsh was born a fifth-generation Kansas wheat farmer on her paternal side and the product of generations of teen mothers on her maternal sid...Show more "Sarah Smarsh was born a fifth-generation Kansas wheat farmer on her paternal side and the product of generations of teen mothers on her maternal side. Through her experiences growing up on a farm 30 miles west of Wichita, we are given a unique and essential look into the lives of poor and working class Americans living in the Heartland." Show less

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Hillbilly Elegy

A Memoir of A Family and Culture in Crisis

by Vance, J. D.

Book - 2016

"Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—that of white working-class Americans. The disintegration of this group...Show more "Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—that of white working-class Americans. The disintegration of this group, a process that has been slowly occurring now for more than 40 years, has been reported with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside." Show less

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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

by Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne

eBook - 2014

"Spanning more than four hundred years, this classic bottom-up peoples’ history radically reframes US history and explodes the silences that have haunted our national narrative." "Spanning more than four hundred years, this classic bottom-up peoples’ history radically reframes US history and explodes the silences that have haunted our national narrative." Show less

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The Left Behind

Decline and Rage in Rural America

by Wuthnow, Robert

Book - 2018

"Drawing on more than a decade of research and hundreds of interviews, Robert Wuthnow brings us into America’s small towns, farms, and rural communit...Show more "Drawing on more than a decade of research and hundreds of interviews, Robert Wuthnow brings us into America’s small towns, farms, and rural communities to paint a rich portrait of the moral order—the interactions, loyalties, obligations, and identities—underpinning this critical segment of the nation." Show less

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The Lost Continent

Travels in Small-town America

by Bryson, Bill

Book - 1990

HIs hometown of Des Moines couldn't hold him, "...but it did lure him back. After ten years in England he returned to the land of his youth and drove...Show more HIs hometown of Des Moines couldn't hold him, "...but it did lure him back. After ten years in England he returned to the land of his youth and drove almost 14,000 miles in search of a mythical small town called Amalgam, the kind of smiling village where the movies from his youth were set. He discovered a continent that was doubly lost: lost to itself because he found it blighted by greed, pollution, mobile homes, and television; lost to him because he had become a foreigner in his own country." Show less

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One Day

The Extraordinary Story of An Ordinary 24 Hours in America

by Weingarten, Gene

Book - 2019

Sunday, December 28, 1986. A day randomly chosen and examined, revealing "comedy, tragedy, implausible irony, cosmic comeuppances, kindness, cruelty,...Show more Sunday, December 28, 1986. A day randomly chosen and examined, revealing "comedy, tragedy, implausible irony, cosmic comeuppances, kindness, cruelty, heroism, cowardice, genius, idiocy, prejudice, selflessness, coincidence, and startling moments of human connection, along with evocative foreshadowing of momentous events yet to come." Show less

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Our Towns

A 100,000-mile Journey Into the Heart of America

by Fallows, James M.

Book - 2018

"For five years, James and Deborah Fallows have travelled across America in a single-engine prop airplane. Visiting dozens of towns, the America they...Show more "For five years, James and Deborah Fallows have travelled across America in a single-engine prop airplane. Visiting dozens of towns, the America they saw is acutely conscious of its problems—from economic dislocation to the opioid scourge—but it is also crafting solutions, with a practical-minded determination at dramatic odds with the bitter paralysis of national politics." Show less

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The Soul of America

The Battle for Our Better Angels

by Meacham, Jon

eBook - 2018

"Our current climate of partisan fury is not new, and in The Soul of America, Meacham shows us how what Abraham Lincoln called the 'better angels of our nature' have repeatedly won the day." "Our current climate of partisan fury is not new, and in The Soul of America, Meacham shows us how what Abraham Lincoln called the 'better angels of our nature' have repeatedly won the day." Show less

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Tales of Two Americas

Stories of Inequality in A Divided Nation

Book - 2017

"Thirty-six major contemporary writers examine life in a deeply divided America—including Anthony Doerr, Ann Patchett, Roxane Gay, Rebecca Solnit, He...Show more "Thirty-six major contemporary writers examine life in a deeply divided America—including Anthony Doerr, Ann Patchett, Roxane Gay, Rebecca Solnit, Hector Tobar, Joyce Carol Oates, Edwidge Danticat, Richard Russo, Eula Bliss, Karen Russell, and many more." Show less

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