A few years ago, when I was marching against the outcome of the election, I joined the march at the New York Public Library.  I also happened to take a picture of a guy wearing clothes with Bernie Sanders' face everywhere.   When I shared photos of the library and the marchers on social media, I urged people to read more books.

I've been trying to keep up my end of the bargain since.  Seeing as how this month is 1/20, inauguration is clearly this month's poetry.  Thus, although I have more novels awaiting on my pile, I've spent much of the past month reading up on the political situation.

I will give more details about my opinions of these books in a few days, but seeing as how I only have five minutes left in the month, here's who I've been learning from:

1776 by David McCullough
A Fighting Chance by Elizabeth Warren
Our Revolution by Bernie Sanders
Eaarth by Bill McKibben
On Fire by Naomi Klein
The Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith
Education and Experience by John Dewey
Leadership In Turbulent Times by Doris Kearns Goodwin

I also began reading essays from Noam Chomsky's Who Rules the World?, and I have just begun Paul Krugman's Arguing With Zombies.

I also look forward to reading Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, Richard Wright and Alice Walker next month.