(CNN)02/21/2021 "The Wake Up Call" by John Micklethwait & Adrian Wooldridge
02/14/2021 "Losing the Long Game" by Philip H. Gordon
02/07/2021 "Homeland Elegies" by Ayad Akhtar
12/20/2020 This week Fareed offered up not one book of the week, but five drawn from his books of the week this year, which might make for good presents this holiday season. They are:
- "Billion Dollar Whale" by Tom Wright & Bradley Hope
- "Melting Pot or Civil War?" by Reihan Salam
- "The American Story" by David M. Rubenstein
- "Humankind" by Rutger Bregman
- "Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World" by Fareed Zakaria
Fareed and the GPS team hope you enjoy them.
12/06/2020 "The Weirdest People in the World" by Joseph Henrich
11/22/2020 "A Promised Land" by Barack Obama
10/04/2020 "Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World" by Fareed Zakaria
09/27/2020 "Which Country Has the World's Best Health Care?" by Ezekiel Emanuel
08/23/2020 "The Great Leveler" by Walter Scheidel
07/12/2020 "The Precipice" by Toby Ord
07/05/2020 "Humankind" by Rutger Bregman
06/28/2020 "The Inevitability of Tragedy" by Barry Gewen
06/07/2020 "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
05/17/2020 "The World: A Brief Introduction" by Richard Haass & "The New Class War" by Michael Lind
05/03/2020 "Has China Won?" by Kishore Mahbubani
04/26/2020 "The Plot Against America" on HBO
04/05/2020 "The Defining Moment" by Jonathan Alter
03/29/2020 "Less" by Andrew Sean Greer & "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
03/08/2020 "The Great Reversal" by Thomas Philippon
02/23/2020 "Trade Is Not a Four-Letter Word" by Fred P. Hochberg
02/16/2020 "The Decadent Society" by Ross Douthat
02/09/2020 "Erdogan's Empire" by Soner Cagaptay
01/26/2020 "City of Thieves" by David Benioff
01/12/2020 "All the Shah's Men" by Stephen Kinzer
01/05/2020 "A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves" by Jason DeParle
12/22/2019 "Impeachment: A Handbook" by Charles Black
12/08/2019 "Prisoners of Geography" by Tim Marshall
12/01/2019 "The American Story" by David Rubenstein
11/24/2019 "American Elections: Wicked Game" a podcast hosted by Lindsay Graham
11/17/2019 "The Invisible Bridge" by Rick Perlstein
11/10/2019 "Don't Be Evil" by Rana Foroohar
11/03/2019 "Succession" an HBO series
10/27/2019 "Safe Enough Spaces" by Michael Roth
10/20/2019 "Impeachment" by Jon Meacham, Timothy Naftali, Peter Baker & Jeffrey A. Engel
10/13/2019 "Age of Ambition" by Evan Osnos
10/06/2019 "The Meritocracy Trap" by Daniel Markovits
09/29/2019 "Education of an Idealist" by Samantha Power
09/22/2019 "Talking to Strangers" by Malcolm Gladwell
09/15/2019 "On Writing" by Stephen King
09/08/2019 "The Song of Achilles" by Madeline Miller
08/25/2019 "Our Boys" a new series on HBO
08/11/2019 "The Professor and the Madman" by Simon Winchester
07/28/2019 "Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe" by Sheri Berman
07/21/2019 "The Guarded Gate" by Daniel Okrent
07/14/2019 "Leadership" by Doris Kearns Goodwin
06/30/2019 "A Gentleman in Moscow" by Amor Towles
06/23/2019 "The Conservative Sensibility" by George F. Will
06/16/2019 "The Island of the Day Before" by Umberto Eco, "Longitude" by Dava Sobel, "Circe" by Madeline Miller
06/09/2019 "War and Peace" by Nigel Hamilton
06/02/2019 "The Shadow War" by Jim Sciutto
05/26/2019 "Against the Rules" a podcast by Michael Lewis
05/19/2019 "A Thousand Small Sanities" by Adam Gopnik
05/12/2019 "World Without Mind" by Franklin Foer
05/05/2019 "Our Man" by George Packer
04/28/2019 "Working" by Robert Caro
04/14/2019 "Accidental Presidents" by Jared Cohen
04/07/2019 "Open" by Kimberly Clausing
03/31/2019 "Melting Pot or Civil War?" by Reihan Salam
03/10/2019 "The Third Pillar" by Raghuram Rajan's
02/17/2019 "Billion Dollar Whale" by Tom Wright & Bradley Hope
02/10/2019 "A Foreign Policy for the Left" by Michael Walzer
02/03/2019 "Crude Nation" by Raul Gallegos
01/27/2019 "The Death of Truth" by Michiko Kakutani
01/13/2019 "Roma" a film by Alfonso Cuaron
12/16/2018 "Cultural Evolution" by Ronald Inglehart
2/09/2018 "21 Lessons for the 21st Century" by Yuval Harari
12/04/2018 "Presidents Under Fire: The History of Impeachment" (CNN documentary)
11/18/2018 "Revolution Française" by Sophie Pedder
10/07/2018 "Capitalism in America: A History" by Alan Greenspan and Adrian Wooldridge
09/30/2018 "Identity" by Francis Fukuyama
09/16/2018 "Detroit" (2017) directed by Kathryn Bigelow
08/19/2018 "Uncivil Agreement" by Lilliana Mason
08/12/2018 "The Summer Before the War" by Helen Simonson
08/05/2018 "Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think" by Hans Rosling
07/22/2018 "The China Mission" by Daniel Kurtz-Phelan
07/15/2018 "Our Towns: A 100,000 mile journey into the Heart of America" by James & Deborah Fallows
07/01/2018 "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
06/24/2018 "American Immigration: A Very Short Introduction" by David Gerber
06/17/2018 "Origin Story" by David Christian
05/27/2018 "Goodbye, Columbus" by Philip Roth
05/20/2018 "Breaking the Bee" a film directed by Sam Rega and produced by Chris Weller
05/13/2018 "Us vs. Them: The Failure of Global Capitalism" by Ian Bremmer
05/06/2018 "Fair Shot: Rethinking Inequality and How we Earn." by Chris Hughes
04/22/2018 "How to Read a Book" by Mortimer Adler
04/15/2018 "Post Truth" by Lee McIntyre
04/08/2018 "The Death of Democracy" by Benjamin Carter Hett
04/01/2018 "The Ordinary Virtues" by Michael Ignatieff
03/11/2018 "Five Days in London, May 1940" by John Lukacs
03/04/2018 "How to Think" by Alan Jacobs
02/25/2018 "The Second Amendment: A Biography" by Michael Waldman
02/18/2018 "Trumpocracy" by David Frum
02/11/2018 "How Democracies Die" by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt
02/04/2018 "White Working Class" by Joan C. Williams
01/28/2018 "Twilight of the Elites" by Christopher Hayes
01/21/2018 "The Road not Taken" by Max Boot
01/14/2018 "Devil's Bargain" by Joshua Green
01/07/2018 "Kings and Presidents" by Bruce Riedel
12/10/2017 "Rescue" by David Miliband
12/03/2017 "The Vanity Fair Diaries" by Tina Brown
11/19/2017 "Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine" by Anne Applebaum
10/29/2017 "Novitiate" a film from Sony Pictures Classics
10/22/2017 "Leonardo da Vinci" by Walter Isaacson
10/08/2017 "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
10/01/2017 "The Vietnam War" by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick for PBS
09/24/2017 "27 Articles" by T. E. Lawrence
09/17/2017 "Unaccustomed Earth" by Jhumpa Lahiri
08/20/2017 "The Once and Future Liberal" by Mark Lilla
07/23/2017 "Superfast Primetime Ultimate Nation" by Adam Roberts
07/16/2017 "VICE Special Report: A World In Disarray " by VICE on HBO
07/09/2017 "Seven Brief Lessons on Physics" by Carlo Rovelli
07/02/2017 "I Am Not Your Negro" a documentary from Magnolia Pictures
06/25/2017 "The Retreat of Western Liberalism" by Edward Luce
06/18/2017 "Churchill & Orwell: The Fight for Freedom" by Thomas E. Ricks
06/11/2017 "Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap?" by Graham Allison
06/04/2017 "Start the Week Podcast" by BBC Radio
05/28/2017 "Can't We All Disagree More Constructively?" by Jonathan Haidt
05/14/2017 "Do I make Myself Clear? Why Writing Well Matters" by Harold Evans
05/07/2017 "The Islamic Enlightenment" by Christopher de Bellaigue
04/23/2017 "Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow" by Yuval Noah Harari
04/16/2017 "Hit Maker: The Science of Popularity in an Age of Distraction" by Derek Thompson
04/09/2017 "Easternization: Asia's Rise and America's Decline" by Gideon Rachman
04/02/2017 "On Tyranny" by Timothy Snyder
03/19/2017 "The Body Builders: Inside the Science of the Engineered Human" by Adam Piore
03/12/2017 "War in European History" by Michael Howard
02/26/2017 "Commander in Chief: FDR's Batle with Churchill, 1943" by Nigel Hamilton
02/12/2017 "The Best and the Brightest" by David Halberstam
02/05/2017 "The Undoing Project" by Michael Lewis
01/15/2017 "A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order" by Richard Haass
01/08/2017 "Deutschland 83" airing on SundanceTV
12/18/2016 "In Defense of a Liberal Education" by Fareed Zakaria
12/11/2016 "Shoe Dog" by Phil Knight
12/04/2016 "Thank You for Being Late: an Optimist's Guide to Excelling in the Age of Accelerations" by Thomas L. Friedman
11/27/2016 "Who Are We?: The Challenges to America's National Identity" by Samuel Huntington
11/20/2016 "The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan" by Sebastian Mallaby
11/13/2016 "Hillary Clinton and the Populist Revolt" by George Packer in the New Yorker
10/30/2016 "The Conservative Heart" by Arthur Brooks
10/16/2016 "The Populist Explosion" by John Judas
10/02/2016 "His Final Battle: The Last Months of Franklin Roosevelt" by Joseph Lelyveld
09/25/2016 "The Fix" by Jonathan Tepperman
09/04/2016 "The Underground Railroad" by Colson Whitehead and "Sapiens" by Yuval Harari
08/14/2016 "Hillbilly Elegy" by J.D. Vance
08/07/2016 "ISIS: A History" by Fawaz Gerges
07/31/2016 "Eye in the Sky" a film by Bleeker Street Media