Two Book Recommendations: One On Racism and One On Dictators

Use your favorite search engine and search for The Sum Of Us by Heather McGhee and consider purchasing it from a small black-owned bookstore.

The book discusses how racism hurts everybody in society. This book should be required reading for kids in schools in the United States.


Book Two: The Dictators Handbook. It discusses the rules for rulers. It discusses how everyone in power, everyone from the president to dictators, to corporate CEOs, all have to follow the same sort of rules in order to stay in power.

It’s very difficult to get into power and even more difficult to stay in power. This book does a really good job of explaining why even if we elected a really amazing, well-intentioned person to be president, why they couldn’t just go in and fix all the problems in society and still be able to stay in power.

There’s a video on YouTube that does a really good job of summarizing this book, The Rules for Rulers by CGP Grey.