Dan Leahy included a two-page article as part of his preparatory documents for most of his classes and trainings. “How to Read a Book” by Historian Susan Strasser provides tools for how to engage a text with rigor and critical thinking. The instructional essay directs the reader to pay attention to everything and stop to think about it – the title, the author, the context in which the book was written, the statement of the problem, and the central thesis.
Dan’s books are filled with notes and underlines, mapping the questions, the references, and the analysis. He worked the book and then reflected on its most useful lessons and arguments. He shared that documentation as a gift towards our collective understanding.
An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the U.S. – by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Class Warfare: The Assault on Canada’s Schools – by Maude Barlow & Heather Jane Robertson
Dark Money – by Jane Mayer
Devil’s Bargain – by Joshua Green
Laudato Si’ – by Pope Francis
October – by China Mieville
Origins of the Civil Rights Movement – by Aldon Morris
People’s History of the U.S. – by Howard Zinn
Revolutions and History – by Noel Parker
Sand Talk – by Tyson Yunkaporta
Sociological Imagination – by C. Wright Mills
The Grand Chessboard – by Zbigniew Brzezinski
The Populist Moment – by Laurence Goodwyn
The Wretched of the Earth – by Franz Fanon
Uninhabitable Earth – by David Wallace-Wells
Warriors & Citizens – Edited by Kori Schake & Jim Mattis
