trump – Scott J. Pearson’s Book Review

The Art of Power: My Story as America’s First Woman Speaker of the House

By Scott J. Pearson | December 31, 2024December 31, 2024 by Scott J. Pearson

Social media has exposed what many women knew implicitly: Broad misogyny in American society is real… especially when a woman has a platform or power. Nancy Pelosi, the first woman Speaker of the US House of Representatives, has been a target for decades. Because she comes from a progressive district in San Francisco, she’s labeled as out of touch with most Americans. Her deep, religious faith rarely receives media airing. In this memoir, she demonstrates…

Society

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

By Scott J. Pearson | September 25, 2021September 25, 2021 by Scott J. Pearson

Recent events have caused many thoughtful Americans to reflect on our social cohesion and structures. In this book, Wilkerson performs this task through the educated lens of social theory and builds a compelling case for what needs to change in American culture. She does so by constructing a comprehensive, historical account of injustices done by “the dominant caste” to “the lower caste.” In so doing, she identifies how American society can still have enduring social…

History Society

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

By Scott J. Pearson | November 28, 2020November 28, 2020 by Scott J. Pearson

“You should read this.” Those simple words ran across my mind as I finished page 126 of this wonderful book. I am no political scientist though I follow current events tightly. This book, written in 2017 in the aftermath of the election of Donald Trump, reminds us how fragile history can be. By looking at the challenges of the present, it looks at how democracy was subverted by tyranny in the twentieth century. Snyder provides…