![]() ![]() ![]() And from Laila Lalami, “Conditional Citizens” traces her path to American citizenship as an Arab Muslim immigrant, and asks what it means to “belong” to a country anyway. Brennan’s “Undaunted” recounts his career at the highest levels of the intelligence community. There’s “The Kidnapping Club,” Jonathan Daniel Wells’s history of a gang that sold New Yorkers into slavery in the decades before the Civil War. ![]() There’s “Bland Fanatics,” Pankaj Mishra’s essay collection urging a re-evaluation of the country’s role in the world. ![]() This week we recommend four works that get to the heart of the American experiment in all its fits and starts. (Or should I call it Election Week? Election Month? Is it possible to read a book when you’re dosed on Xanax?) Books about America’s history and national identity are nothing new, but they land with particular impact around Election Day. ![]()
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