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Progress: How One Idea Built Civilization and Now Threatens To Destroy It

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By Samuel McDonald
| Library Journal Verified
Geographer McDonald’s first book excoriates what he terms the false narrative of progress, spurning the Steven Pinker school of optimism. For 5,000 years, belief in the collective, progressive improvement of humanity has inspired peasants and kings, undergirded belief systems, contributed to the rise of complex societies, and justified extractive economies.
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Three Roads to Gettysburg: Meade, Lee, Lincoln, and the Battle That Changed the War, the Speech That Changed the Nation

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By James Cheshire, Samuel McDonald, Christine Kuehn, Jeff Schuhrke
| Publishers Weekly Verified
Tim McGrath. Dutton Caliber, $38 (528p) ISBN 978-0-593-18439-4 McGrath (James Monroe) takes the long road to Gettysburg in this rambling group biography of Gen. George G. Meade, Gen. Robert E. Lee, and President Abraham Lincoln. McGrath first focuses on the men’s early lives; the breezy biographical details on Lincoln and Lee do not reveal much that’s new, whereas the innovative and meticulous lighthouse builder Meade is more robustly explored.
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Dirty Lies About Clean Energy

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By Samuel McDonald
| Current Affairs Verified
Originally published in our magazine’s hallowed print edition 2025 May/June Details Building “alternative” energy infrastructure isn’t enough. To avert climate disaster, fossil fuels need to be restricted, and energy consumption overall needs to fall. In 1917, Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor most famous for developing the first practical model of the telephone, gave a graduation speech that became a meandering National Geographicarticle.
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