Category: History

Seek and Hide: The Tangled History of the Right to Privacy by Amy Gajda
Requirements: .ePUB reader, 1.3 MB
Overview: This brilliant and thought-provoking book shows how America’s well-known emphasis on freedom of the press has long been balanced by a deep legal tradition that protects an individual’s right to privacy. Amy Gajda shows how battles over the right to privacy are nothing new, but they are particularly relevant in this era of digital media and social networks.”—Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs

An urgent book for today’s privacy wars: the surprising history of the fitful development of the right to privacy—and its battle against the public’s right to know.

The battle between an individual’s right to privacy and the public’s right to know has been fought for centuries. The founders demanded privacy for all the wrong press-quashing reasons. Supreme Court jus­tice Louis Brandeis famously promoted First Amend­ment freedoms but argued strongly for privacy too; and presidents from Thomas Jefferson through Don­ald Trump confidently hid behind privacy despite intense public interest in their lives.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History

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Adriatic: A Concert of Civilizations at the End of the Modern Age by Robert D. Kaplan
Requirements: .ePUB reader, 4 MB
Overview: [An] elegantly layered exploration of Europe’s past and future . . . a multifaceted masterpiece.”—The Wall Street Journal

“A lovely, personal journey around the Adriatic, in which Robert Kaplan revisits places and peoples he first encountered decades ago.”—Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads

In this insightful travelogue, Robert D. Kaplan, geopolitical expert and bestselling author of Balkan Ghosts and The Revenge of Geography, turns his perceptive eye to a region that for centuries has been a meeting point of cultures, trade, and ideas. He undertakes a journey around the Adriatic Sea, through Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro, Albania, and Greece, to reveal that far more is happening in the region than most news stories let on. Often overlooked, the Adriatic is in fact at the center of the most significant challenges of our time, including the rise of populist politics, the refugee crisis, and battles over the control of energy resources. And it is once again becoming a global trading hub that will determine Europe’s relationship with the rest of the world as China and Russia compete for dominance in its ports.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History

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Death or Canada: The Irish Famine Migration to Toronto, 1847 by Mark G. McGowan
Requirements: .ePUB reader, 6 MB
Overview: This important book about the Irish famine of 1847 and its impact on the city of Toronto tells a story that is still relatively unknown to most of Toronto’s citizens. Historian Mark McGowan delves beneath the surface of statistics and brings to light the stories of men and women who had to face a desperate choice: almost certain death from starvation in Ireland, or a perilous sea voyage to a faraway place called Canada.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History

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Arctic Front: Defending Canada in the Far North by Ken S. Coates, P. Whitney Lackenbauer, William R. Morrion, Greg Poelzer
Requirements: .ePUB reader, 6 MB
Overview: Arctic Front arises out of our collective frustration. Recently, debate about Arctic sovereignty has filled the nation’s newspapers. It’s an old, old story, dating back many decades. This time around, the challenge of global warming, the retreat of the polar ice cap, and the race for Arctic oil and gas have given the discussion a twenty-first-century twist. But the underlying issue—does and can Canada exercise effective control over its High Arctic islands and the Northwest Passage—has changed little since the nineteenth century.

Canada has had this debate before, notably during the Klondike gold rush, the Second World War, the Cold War, and the voyage of the Manhattan. Our motivation in joining it was a desire to change the national debate on Arctic sovereignty. Questions about Canadian control of the Arctic—and national responsibilities in the Far North—have bedevilled this country since the 1880s. Canadians have yet to get it right, and, equally important, our nation continues to forget the history of early episodes when Canadian sovereignty in the North came into question. We see the issue as a classic example of the truism that those who do not know their history are doomed to repeat it. Arctic Front is our attempt to explain the origins of the contemporary debate and to challenge long-standing Canadian assumptions about its northern role and commitments.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History

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Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe by Keith O’Brien
Requirements: .ePUB reader, 45 MB
Overview: The staggering story of an unlikely band of mothers in the 1970s who discovered Hooker Chemical’s deadly secret of Love Canal—exposing one of America’s most devastating toxic waste disasters and sparking the modern environmental movement as we know it today.

Lois Gibbs, Luella Kenny, and other mothers loved their neighborhood on the east side of Niagara Falls. It had an elementary school, a playground, and rows of affordable homes. But in the spring of 1977, pungent odors began to seep into these little houses, and it didn’t take long for worried mothers to identify the curious scent. It was the sickly sweet smell of chemicals.

In this propulsive work of narrative storytelling, NYT journalist Keith O’Brien uncovers how Gibbs and Kenny exposed the poisonous secrets buried in their neighborhood. The school and playground had been built atop an old canal—Love Canal, it was called—that Hooker Chemical, the city’s largest employer, had quietly filled with twenty thousand tons of toxic waste in the 1940s and 1950s. This waste was now leaching to the surface, causing a public health crisis the likes of which America had never seen before and sparking new and specific fears. Luella Kenny believed the chemicals were making her son sick.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History

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