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2026 Reading Goal

4% complete! hunterowens has read 4 of 85 books.

John Fabian Witt: The Radical Fund

From Pulitzer Prize finalist John Fabian Witt comes the captivating secret history of an epic …

Reimagine the wilderness years

Really incredible history that traces the financial origins of the ACLU, NAACP, IWW & more to the early philanthropy founded by a reclusive Charles Garland, who inherited 1M at 21 and gave it to "the American Fund" to distribute.- paints a portrait of the era but makes me more made about left-liberal divides and even more made that America basically missed out on social democracy for a number of reasons but internecine fighting inside labor was one of the big ones.

Daron Acemoglu, Daron Acemoğlu, James A. Robinson: Why nations fail (2012, Crown Publishers)

Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and …

Given my pro pro-democratic institutions bias, this was good. the title's a bit misleading but a very compelling book and avoid a lot of traps that similar books fall into

Keith McNally: I Regret Almost Everything (Gallery Books)

bad person, good memior

I felt bad reading this but it was tremondous content, although he's clearly been awful to so many people he's close to (the book does not hide it). portrait of a changing NYC, but his Instagram account remains best. For stroke-literature, Property of Thirst better