2021 Suggested Resources for League Meetings & Discussion: Books, Movies, etc. Books: Civil Discourse ● Why we are Polarized by Ezra Klein ​ Criminal Justice: ● Charged by Emily Bazelon ​ ● Just Mercy by Bryan Stephenson ​ ● Open Season: Legalized Genocide Of Colored People by Ben Crump ​ ● Waiting for an Echo by Christine Montross ​ ● Caught: The Prison State and the Lockdown Of American Politics by Marie Gottschalk ​ ● Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead ​ ● The Sun Does Shine by Ray Hinton ​ ● The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander ​ ● Uneasy Peace by Patrick Sharkey ​ ● The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale ​ ● Rise of the Warrior Cop by Radley Balko ​ Democracy Reform: ● Dark Money by Jane Mayer ​ ● The Politics Industry: How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy by Gehl and Porter ​ ● Wedged by Erik Fogg and Nat Greene ​ ● Unrigged: How Americans are Battling Back to Save Democracy by David Daley ​ ● Unrig: How to Fix our Broken Democracy by Daniel Newman ​ Economics, Journalism and Democracy ● The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age by Tim Wu ​ ● Goliath: The 100 Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy by Matt Stoller ​ ● Democracy without Journalism?: Confronting the Misinformation Society by Victor Pickard ​ Environment ● The End of Nature by Bill McKibben ​ ● The Water will come by Jeff Goodell ​ ● The Great Lakes Water Wars by Peter Annin ​ ● The Death and Life of the Great Lakes byDan Egan ​ Suggested Resources for League Meetings & Discussion: Books, Movies, etc. page 2 ​ ● Laboratory Earth by Stephen H. Schneider, PhD ​ ● Carbon Democracy by Timothy Mitchell ● The Case for a Carbon Tax by Shi-Ling Hsu ​ ● Nature’s Trust by Mary Christina Wood ​ ● Silent Spring by Rachel Carson ​ ● On Care for our Common Home Pope Francis encyclical letter ​ ● The Big Burn by Timothy Egan ​ ● The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan ​ Equity and Diversity ● Evicted by Mathew Desmond (housing policy and poverty) ​ ● Caste by Isabel Wilkerson (racial justice) ​ ● The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein (housing policy and segregation) ​ Gun Violence Prevention ● Democracy In Chains by Nancy MacLean ​ ● Living With Guns by Craig R Whitney ​ Health and Public Health ● The Plague by Albert Camus, 1947 ​ ● The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History by John M. Barry ​ ● And the Band Played On: Politics, People and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts ​ ● Pharma: Greed, Lies, and the Poisoning of America by Gerald Posner ​ ● The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (TV Movie also) ​ ● Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande ​ ● When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi ​ ● The Story of Jane: The legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service by Laura Kaplan ​ Immigration ● Separated: Inside an American Tragedy by Jacob Soboroff ​ ● The Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli ​ ● I am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sanchez ​ ● Once I Was You by Maria Hinojosa ​ ● And the Earth Did Not Devour Him by Tomás Rivera ​ ● Latino Americans: The 500-Year Legacy That Shaped a Nation by Ray Suarez ​ ● Tell Me How It Ends - An Essay in Forty Questions by Valeria Luiselli ​ ● Borderlands: La Frontera-the New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldúa ​ ● The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros ​ ● How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez ​ ​ ● The Devil’s Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea ​ ● Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henriquez ​ ● Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario ​ Mental health ● The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Washing, by Judith L Rapoport (OCD) ​ ● Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker (schizophrenia) ​ ● Lincoln's Melancholy by Joshua Wolf Shenk (Abe Lincoln) ​ ● The Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nas (schizophrenia) ​ LWVIL published 12/10/2020 Suggested Resources for League Meetings & Discussion: Books, Movies, etc. page 3 ​ ● An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison (bipolar) ​ ​ ● I'm Not Sick; I Don't Need Help by Xavier Amador (why someone may not seek help for mental illness) ​ ● Surviving Schizophrenia by E. Fuller Torrey ​ ● Crazy: a Father's Search through America's Mental Health Madness, by Pete Earley ​ (incarceration of mentally ill. Note: Crazy refers to the system) ● No One Cares about Crazy People, by Ron Powers (Perceptions and public policies) ​ ● Divided Minds: Twin sisters and their journey through schizophrenia, by Pamela Spiro Wagner and ​ Carolyn Spiro ● Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care about Has Borderline Personality Disorder by Paul T. Mason, Randi Kreger ​ ● The Bipolar Child : The Definitive and Reassuring Guide to Childhood's Most Misunderstood Disorder ​ ​ by Demitri Papolos, Janice Papolos ● The Out-of-Sync Child by Carol Stock Kranowitz (Sensory Processing Disorder) ​ ​ ​ ​ ● The Explosive Child by Ross W. Greene ​ ​ ● Driven to Distraction: Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder from Childhood Through ​ Adulthood by Edward M. Hallowell, M.D ​ Redistricting ● Ratf**ked : The True Story Behind the Secret Plan to Steal America's Democracy by David Daley ​ ● Unrigged: How Americans are Battling Back to Save Democracy by David Daley ​ Representative Government ● Fault Lines in the Constitution: The Framers, Their Fights, and the Flaws that Affect Us Today by ​ Cynthia and Sanford Levinson Tax Policy ● Taxes Are A Woman's Issue: Reframing the Debate by Mimi Abramovitz and Sandra Morgen ​ Movies: Civil Discourse: ● Braver Angels: Reuniting America ● Resetting the Table has a short video and a discussion guide ​ Congressional Candidates: ● (Women winning in 2018) https://www.surgethemovie.com/ ​ Criminal Justice: See resources HERE ​ ​ ​ (https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5eb87706d3837677cd92bc85/t/5f2f08280ab7286b700eb0fe/159 ​ 6917800779/criminal-justice-video-resources_2020-06-12.pdf) ​ Environment: ● Jonathan Scott’s Power Trip (Nov. 16, 2020) LWVIL published 12/10/2020 Suggested Resources for League Meetings & Discussion: Books, Movies, etc. page 4 ​ ● Chernobyl ● Dark Waters ● Before the Flood ● Deepwater Horizon ● Erin Brockovich ● An Inconvenient Truth ● The Biggest Little Farm ● The Story of Plastic ● Gasland ● Plastic Wars from Frontline ​ Fight Corruption with Ethics Reform: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fm9zGhkkTMw ​ ​ Immigration: ● Cuban Rafters (Balseros - 2002 documentary) ● Sin Nombre (2009) ● El Norte (1983) ● Under the Same Moon (La misma luna - 2007) ● The Undocumented (2013 documentary) ● Immigrant Prisons (Brave New Films) ​ ● Human Flow (2017 documentary) ​ ● Immigration Nation (Netflix 2020 documentary miniseries) ​ ● Living Undocumented (Netflix 2019 documentary) ​ Mental Illness: ● The Aviator - A biopic about Howard Hughes, an OCD sufferer ​ ● The Soloist - story of Nathaniel Ayers, a musician who developed schizophrenia and became homeless. ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ● Girl Interrupted - follows a young woman who, after a suicide attempt, spends 18 months at ​ a psychiatric hospital between 1967 and 1968. ​ ​ Redistricting ● Slay the Dragon - End Gerrymandering or Democracy Dies: We Can Stop It Podcast (sound only) Affordable Housing: Opportunity Starts at Home – access on iTunes podcasts, Soundhound, iHeartradio ​ ​ Or HERE: ​ https://soundcloud.com/user-551236523/sets/opportunity-starts-at-home Mixed Media Immigration: https://www.raicestexas.org/immigration-and-the-arts/ ​ LWVIL published 12/10/2020 .