(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Nonfiction Views: The grift behind Fauci’s persecution, plus this week’s notable new nonfiction [1] ['Chitown Kev', 'Angmar Barrow', 'Peter Olandt'] Date: 2026-08-04 Good evening, everyone. Back in June in Nonfiction Views, I wrote about the publishing houses that put out Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) propaganda of Health and Human Services anti-vax, anti-health, anti-science and anti-human services head Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. The New York Times has an interesting article on how the new efforts to rake medical hero Dr. Anthony Fauci over the coals once again not only are a desperate attempt to distract the public, but also have an element of grift to them. No surprise there, since it seems grift is the chief occupation of Trump and his enablers. Spotlight on Fauci Said to Boost Book Sales for Kennedy and His Publisher (free link) “Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., his son, and Senator Rand Paul have all written books criticizing Dr. Anthony S. Fauci. All were published by a company led by a close Kennedy adviser….A few hours after Dr. Anthony S. Fauci invoked his Fifth Amendment right in refusing to answer questions from Senate Republicans last week, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took to social media to plug a book he published about Dr. Fauci in 2021, declaring it “the #1 non-fiction hardcover best-seller.” Mr. Kennedy; Senator Rand Paul, the Kentucky Republican who chaired the hearing; and even Mr. Kennedy’s son Robert F. Kennedy III have all published critical books about Dr. Fauci whose sales may have gotten a boost from the negative public attention the men have helped generate against him….All three books are published by Skyhorse Publishing, whose founder Tony Lyons is a close adviser to Mr. Kennedy and runs a political action committee and other groups supporting the secretary’s agenda. Mr. Paul’s book was published in 2023 by Regnery Publishing, which was acquired by Skyhorse in December of that year. (Skyhorse also recently published a memoir by the actress Cheryl Hines, Mr. Kennedy’s wife.)” Tuesday morning’s Abbreviated Pundit Roundup highlighted an interesting op-ed in the New York Times offering a reading list on issues around artificial intelligence (the link embedded in this quote is a gift link to the NYT): Finally today, Tressie McMilliam Cottom of The New York Times offers up a reading list about AI and some of its creators as a primer, of sorts, about “data politics.” All of the speculation and hype around A.I. is hiding the fact that the technology isn’t just large language models or agents or data centers. It is the backbone of a superstructure that merges regressive politics with unchecked economic power in the guise of technological innovation. Put simply, there is too much money, some of it too untraceable, giving a small group of unelected people too much power over the people. That’s data politics. Data politics is the right’s answer to what’s next after Trump: more Trumpism, without the man who gave away the country’s store for personal gain. What should the left’s answer be? To figure that out, I’m proposing a bit of late-summer reading. I hope you’ll join me. I thought I would offer links to the books mentioned by Tressie McMillan Cottom in her op-ed: Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI, by Karen Hao The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World’s Most Coveted Microchip, by Stephen Witt Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed, by Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy, by Gil Durán Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, by Yanis Varoufakis Now, on to this week’s books! THIS WEEK’S NOTABLE NEW NONFICTION The People’s Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn, by Dave Zirin. The People’s Historian shows Zinn’s presence on the great canvases of the 20th century: from the Depression to World War II to the Civil Rights Movement to the war in Vietnam all the way until his death in 2010. With intimately researched stories from Zinn’s life and career, such as the way Atlanta’s small Spelman College, where Zinn taught as a young professor, helped launch the Civil Rights Movement, Zinn’s work traveling to Hanoi to engineer the release of POWs, and his continuing influence in the emerging Democratic Socialist movement, The People’s Historian explores Zinn’s past while also demonstrating how his 75 years of political engagement with the social struggles of his time informs our perilous present. With input from family and access to Zinn’s personal papers, The People’s Historian paints a picture of the man behind A People’s History of the United States, examining his work and legacy in the broader context of the United States. — Description from the publisher Dutton Books. CLICK HERE to watch an interview with the author by Democracy Now. “Dave Zirin’s biography of Howard Zinn, the great people’s intellectual, is a triumph…a measured, finely tuned narrative of an undeniably sweet but complicated scholar who transformed how we Americans see ourselves” —Kai Bird, Pulitzer Prize-winning coauthor of American Prometheus *************** Q: The Hidden Power of Questions in a World That Wants Answers, by Lani Watson. We live in a world that wants answers. Answers provide solutions to our problems, teach us about the world, and help us navigate our lives. But we rush toward answers forgetting that it is questions that set the course. Questions are a form of power, as well as a vital, everyday tool. After all, if you don’t ask the right questions, you won’t get the right answers. In Q, philosopher Lani Watson examines the history of question-asking, analyzes our answer-oriented present, and offers a path forward toward a question-oriented future. Along the way, she asks us to consider what a question is, why we ask the questions we do, when we first start asking questions, and where we want our questions to take us. Q also includes practical tips called Q Tools, inspired by the historical, philosophical, and cultural material of each chapter that offer readers exercises and advice for becoming better question-askers. — Description from the publisher Viking. CLICK HERE to read an article by the author in The Philosopher’s Magazine. “Somewhere along the way, we confused intelligence with knowing answers – and that confusion is holding us back. Lani Watson traces this mistake from the classroom to the boardroom, building a case that is both unsettling and oddly freeing. Q is one of those rare books that hands you back a capability you didn’t realize you’d lost.” —Daniel H. Pink, New York Times bestselling author of The Power of Regret *************** ReGen: A New Future for Farming, Food, and Health, by David R. Montgomery. A century of conventional farming has left our planet with sick soil. Once fertile farmlands are now dusty and degraded, accelerating food insecurity, biodiversity loss, and climate change. David Montgomery has devoted decades to investigating this damage. ReGen, his manifesto, lays out practical and productive solutions to recover the health of our land through soil-building regenerative agriculture. Drawing on the work of farmers, historians, and researchers, he forcefully articulates the power of combining cover cropping, no or low tillage, and crop diversity to rebuild soil health. The combination allows farmers to greatly reduce or eliminate synthetic fertilize and pesticide use, and can help address a number of today’s most pressing problems. Along the way, he takes apart common myths around conventional farming, animal agriculture, and plant-based diets. Charting a course for action, Montgomery lays out ten policy recommendations—from subsidizing young farmers to establishing a national network of demonstration farms—to safeguard the future of our food supply. Description from the publisher W. W. Norton & Company. “David R. Montgomery is a craftsman of literature and soil. ReGen combines both skills into a succinct and compelling book on how to regenerate our farms, soils, and food systems. I was once advised to read the one book that saves you from reading many others. This is that book. Regenerative agriculture will dominate the future, and David knows how and why.” — Paul Hawken, author of Carbon: The Book of Life *************** The Vanishing Earth: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Extraction, by James Crawford. Over the last half-century, humanity has taken more from the Earth than in all prior history combined. The planet is littered with the vast scars of extraction – yet, ironically, it is only by confronting the ruins of our ‘old’ world that we can find the path towards the ‘new’. In The Vanishing Earth, James Crawford, born into a landscape and family steeped in fossil fuels, takes readers to the literal and ideological frontiers of extraction. Beginning with the story of humanity’s decoupling from nature, Crawford embarks on an epic journey to five resource landscapes rapidly trending towards exhaustion: landscapes of rock, metal, sand, water and thought.From the salt flats of Chile’s Atacama Desert lithium mines to the ‘sacrifice zone’ of Florida’s phosphorus-rich Bone Valley, and even chillingly advanced attempts to harvest personal data from the brain itself, Crawford explores some of the most extreme scenes of the Anthropocene. Along the way, he asks what lies behind our insatiable appetites and explores emerging alternatives that might just spare our vanishing natural resources, transform our economies, and save our relationship with nature itself. — Description from the publisher Bloomsbury Publishing. “Beautifully written, surprising and (dare I say it) important, The Vanishing Earth explores the ragged edges and obscure interiors of capitalism’s relentlessly expanding territory and asks how we can stop commodifying and consuming everything from sand to our own minds before it really is too late. This book is worth your time and attention.” —Adam Welz, author of The End of Eden *************** United States of Oligarchy: How America’s Wealthiest Ally with Dictators, Weaken the U.S., and Destroy Democracy, by Casey Michel. For years, a small group of billionaires has amassed increasing power, steering American politics for their own benefit. Many of these figures are familiar. There’s Elon Musk, who has used his wealth to help place Donald Trump back in the White House. There’s Mark Zuckerberg, who has used his resources to transform America into his own digital playground. There’s Jared Kushner, who has used family connections to gain more political power than he ever dreamed of. There is only one word to describe such extreme levels of wealth, avarice, and political control: Oligarchy. But the oligarchs are not working alone. From China to Russia to Saudi Arabia and beyond, many of these men have cultivated alliances with America’s most notorious adversaries, opening the doors for autocrats around the world to sink their teeth into the U.S. Placing profit over patriotism, they have transformed into vectors of influence for some of the world’s most repulsive dictatorships, all of whom are trying to create a world dominated by imperialism and tyranny. Connecting everything from the devastation in Ukraine to destruction in Gaza to destabilization in Greenland, these oligarchs have transformed American policy and American politics into their own private fiefdoms, regardless of what Americans actually want. — Description from the publisher St. Martin’s Press. CLICK HERE to read an excerpt of the book at the Zeteo website. “In searing detail and packed with revelatory (and relevant) history, United States of Oligarchy tackles the biggest political issue of our time—the poisonous concentration of wealth strangling American democracy. This is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand our present—or attempt to fix our future.” —Garrett M. Graff, New York Times bestselling author of The Devil Reached Toward the Sky *************** Animate: How Animals Shape the Human Mind, by Michael Bond. Acclaimed science writer Michael Bond explores how animals have profoundly influenced our minds and cultures. Drawing on cutting-edge insights from psychology, anthropology, literature and neuroscience, Bond traces the varied ways their lives have affected ours, from our hunter-gatherer ancestors whose brains were rewired by the prey they hunted and the predators they feared, to the medieval and Enlightenment thinkers who used animals to promote notions of human supremacy. Scientists today are challenging the assumption that we are separate from and superior to animals, showing that they too possess intelligence, empathy, creativity and even the ability to use tools. If everything that supposedly makes us human is shared with other creatures, where does that leave us? And if we are not as exceptional as we thought, how should we be treating the animals we live alongside? — Description from the publisher Pegasus Books. CLICK HERE to read an interview with the author in Psychology Today. “In this beautiful biography of humans’ evolution with animals Michael Bond explores how we can resolve our recent messy divorce from nature and ‘reanimate’ ourselves, returning to a place where we can learn, judge and find ourselves through the way we relate to the animal world. Full of wonders and insights, awash with compassion and self-reflection, Animate is an astonishing adventure into our own psychology expressed through our relationship with animals.” — Isabella Tree, author of Wilding *************** Daylight Come: Harry Belafonte and the World He Made, by Joshua Jelly-Schapiro. Even three years after his death, Harry Belafonte is everywhere. You can’t go to a wedding, or to a sports arena, without hearing “Day-O,” “Jump in the Line,” or “Jamaica Farewell.” The Harlem-born son of Caribbean immigrants, Belafonte turned the folk music of the islands into American pop—and shaped the fantasy of Caribbean life that endures as an ideal and as a multibillion-dollar tourist industry. Belafonte released the first million-selling LP in history. He was America’s first Black movie star, the first Black person to produce a prime-time special on network TV, and the first to win an Emmy Award. He was once the highest-paid Black performer of all time, beloved by Black and white fans alike, even under segregation. His artistic career helped create the pop culture of the twentieth century—and his political activism reshaped the course of American history. In this sparkling new biography, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro brings Belafonte’s personality and music vibrantly to life, following him from rags to riches and from Harlem to Jamaica to the March on Washington. Jelly-Schapiro takes us inside Belafonte’s lifelong brotherhood with Sidney Poitier, his friendship with Fidel Castro, his collaboration with Nelson Mandela, and the sometimes shocking therapeutic relationships his difficult upbringing necessitated. At the heart of the story is Belafonte’s bond with Martin Luther King Jr., whose cause Belafonte would champion for the rest of his life. That commitment to the greater good would sustain him and benefit untold numbers—and would come at a cost. Description from the publisher Penguin Press. “As graceful and arresting as its legendary subject, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro’s Daylight Come captures the sweep, majesty, barrier-breaking artistry and radical, grassroots dynamism of a pop culture icon who was also a Civil Rights change-maker and American visionary. Jelly-Schapiro’s deft ability to weave together large-scale history with an intimate and richly complex portrait of Harry Belafonte is a dazzling achievement. Reading Daylight Come is a reminder of just how singular and essential Belafonte was to both the making of our modern era and our ever-present dreams for a liberated Black world.” —Daphne A. Brooks *************** How the Internet Disrupted Science, by Kent Anderson and Joy Moore. Scientific evidence affects policies, business, health outcomes, and economies worldwide. But is that scientific claim you just read reliable? Or nonsense? More and more often, it’s unreliable. The global system managing scientific claims has been hacked by bad ideas, big money, and bad incentives, and is being flooded by sketchy papers. How the Internet Disrupted Science reveals the untold story of how science has been corrupted by digital information, academic and professional incentives, strange political ideologies, and big money interests. In this explosive expose, Kent Anderson and Joy Moore uncover how notions from the Big Tech world such as ‘move fast and break things’ and ‘information wants to be free’ have corrupted a scientific endeavor that once prided itself on truth-seeking, accountability, and transparency. Soon after that, scientific publishers were abdicating their responsibilities to practitioners and the public, while organized crime rings and conspiracy theorists took over. — Description from the publisher Prometheus Books. “Being a scientist, academic, and public health advocate, I’ve known science is under attack from several angles. This book astounded me. It reveals the ugly truths about the exploitation of scientific publishing by tech-bros and tricksters, and how the idea of greater access to scientific papers crashes head-on into profit through deception. An eye-opening must read.” — Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD, Founder, Defend Public Health *************** It Could Be Otherwise: Science in the Age of Uncertainty, by Stuart Firestein. The search for certainty is embedded deep in the mythos of science. Science is expected to provide definitive answers based on immutable and universal laws. In It Could Be Otherwise, however, neuroscientist Stuart Firestein challenges this idea, extending the reach of science beyond merely discerning what must be to encompassing what may yet be possible. The classic view of science, Firestein argues, reduces the world to bland predictability and us to our fates. Instead, modern discoveries of deep uncertainty, even unknowability, in evolution, complexity, physics, and all sciences, show that our actions are not strictly governed—and that science is an agent of freedom. In our contemporary age, suspicion of science and its certainties runs deep. It Could Be Otherwise argues that science isn’t about deciphering what the universe has already determined—instead, science offers possibilities. It invites us not to be prisoners of destiny but navigators of our own futures. — Description from the publisher Basic Books. CLICK HERE to read a short interview with the author at Publisher’s Weekly. “If you love science, you’ll read this book with pleasure. And if you are still fairly new to science—still just getting acquainted—you may find yourself falling in love. That is the power of the special kind of sophisticated optimism that Stuart Firestein celebrates here.”—Jonathan Weiner, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Beak of the Finch *************** Don’t Be Evil: Bad Bosses, Fake Promises, and My Escape from Big Tech, by Claire Stapleton. When Claire Stapleton joined Google in 2007, it felt like stepping into a worldview as much as a job. The company offered not just a career, but a moral project. In the heady early years of Big Tech and when Google’s in-house slogan was “Don’t be evil,” it was easy to believe that technology wasn’t just changing the world—it was going to fix it. Stapleton quickly became known as the “Bard of Google,” pulled into the rooms where the company narrated itself—writing speeches, blog posts, and executive communications for leaders including Larry Page. As she rose through increasingly rarefied roles, from the storied Creative Lab to YouTube marketing, she helped shape the myth from the inside. But as the gap between Google’s ideals and its reality widened, the dissonance became impossible to ignore. In 2018, amid outrage over the company’s handling of sexual harassment, Stapleton helped organize the 20,000-employee Google Walkout—a defining rupture in Silicon Valley’s self-image that The New York Times called a “watershed moment in tech.” Overnight, she became a public face of employee revolt—and no longer someone the company could neatly fold back into its story. –– Description from the publisher William Morrow Books. CLICK HERE for a long New Yorker article by the author based on her book. “Don’t Be Evil takes us through Claire Stapleton’s disillusionment with a company that claimed to champion progressive and utopian values, but ultimately put profit and power above all else. This book is an absolute must-read for anyone interested not just in big tech, but in what it takes to not lose your soul in modern-day America. I loved it.” – Naomi Fry, staff writer at The New Yorker *************** The Ego Trip: Psychedelic Toads, a Trail of Deaths, and the Guru Who Peddled Transcendence, by Kimon de Greef. In 2012, a Mexican doctor announced that he had revived a forgotten indigenous ritual: smoking the secretions of the Sonoran Desert toad, which releases a potent psychedelic substance known as “the God molecule.” The drug, which often induced states of ego death and the sensation of being directly connected with the divine, had remarkable effects on those suffering from PTSD, depression, and drug addiction. As the doctor’s fame grew, however, stories emerged of extreme dosing, abusive behavior, and even dramatic deaths. In this gripping and deeply reported book, Kimon de Greef explores the promise and the peril of “toad medicine” and captures the defining tensions of this new era of psychedelics. As the notoriety of this powerful drug rose, psychonauts, spiritual seekers, and sufferers of innumerable conditions flocked to Sonora, giving rise to a bourgeoning economy of psychedelic tourism. Many of the Seri people, who had once lent their imprimatur to the doctor’s narrative of indigenous tradition, conspicuously avoided using the substance at all, and evidence of ancestral use appeared questionable. Impoverished toad collectors chased after the animals in drug cartel territory and risked their lives in the process. And pharmaceutical companies raced against one another to harness the therapeutic potential of the toad’s chemical wonders and develop a world-altering breakthrough in mental illness treatment—a drug that could rival Prozac in its impact on psychopharmacology. — Description from the publisher Doubleday Books. CLICK HERE to read a New York Times review of this book. “A one-of-a-kind book. I loved it. A gripping, meticulous journey through the rise and commercialization of a ferocious new psychedelic. Kimon de Greef is indefatigable. At his story’s heart is a charismatic doctor from Guadalajara, who becomes an addled villain on the order of Raskolnikov or Walter White—a character for the ages.” —William Finnegan, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Barbarian Days *************** Empire and Frontier: Colonel Peter Schuyler and the Valiant Iroquois in King William’s War: 1689-1701, by Samuel Marquis. Empire and Frontier presents a powerful episode of early American history, revealing the very human story of friendship and alliance between Colonel Peter Schuyler and the Iroquois during King William’s War (1689–1701). Like Philbrick’s Mayflower and Gwynne’s Empire of the Summer Moon, this new book reveals how fragile alliances and cross-cultural diplomacy changed the course of empires in North America. At the heart of the book is Peter Schuyler, a Dutch-American mayor of Albany, Indian Affairs commissioner, and militia colonel who earned deep trust among the Iroquois. Decades ahead of his time in his respect for Native diplomacy and sovereignty, Schuyler helped forge and sustain a fragile alliance between English colonists and the Haudenosaunee (Five Nations of the Iroquois) during a decade of brutal warfare. That alliance, known as The Covenant Chain, not only blocked French ambitions in the region, but also shaped the political and military landscape of the American frontier for the next one hundred years. Told through multiple perspectives, the book also follows two unforgettable Indigenous figures during the conflict. Lawrence, a Mohawk war captain, serves as Schuyler’s compatriot on the battlefield, working for and navigating the survival of his people. Hilletie van Olinda, a biracial Mohawk-Dutch woman, becomes a key translator and diplomatic go-between, using her language skills and cultural fluency to mediate between the Iroquois and English. — Description from the publisher Pegasus Books. “Fascinating and richly detailed, Empire and Frontier vividly brings back to life an eighteenth century America where wars were fought with tomahawks and smooth-bore muskets, and combatants travelled by snowshoes and in birchbark canoes. But out of this polyglot and often brutal frontier came the beginnings of a new kind of politics, for a brand-new kind of nation.” — Scott Ellsworth, author of Midnight on the Potomac *************** Empire of Ashes: Truman, Hirohito, and the Descent into Total War, by James M. Scott. At 9:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, an American bomber pierced the skies over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The single bomb it dropped unleashed an atomic hurricane that toppled homes, vaporized birds in flight, and carbonized humans. Three days later, a second bomb flattened the port city of Nagasaki. In the span of a mere 75 hours, the United States—a nation once morally opposed to the bombing of civilians—killed 120,000 men, women, and children, dooming tens of thousands more to agonizing death in the weeks and months ahead. Empire of Ashes explores the final brutal months of the war in the Pacific, featuring the voices of never-before-heard victims of the atomic bombs. Through interviews with survivors and accounts gleaned from Japanese sources, New York Times best-selling author James M. Scott combines the attacks’ heart-wrenching details with their causes and consequences, from debates within the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, Oakridge, and Hanford to the fallout that would alter decades of life in Japan. Scott also delves into the political maneuvering in Washington and Tokyo between two seemingly unlikely leaders—President Harry S. Truman and Emperor Hirohito—that led to unprecedented violence and, eventually, surrender. –– Description from the publisher W. W. Norton & Company. This week also brings the publication by Modern Library of a newly discovered firsthand account of the Hiroshima bombing and its aftermath from one of the survivors, discovered in 2022: Hiroshima, 8:15: The Lost Memoir, by Kiyoshi Tanimoto. From the publisher: At approximately 8:15 on the morning of August 6, 1945, Kiyoshi Tanimoto was on the outskirts of Hiroshima when a flash in the sky signaled the birth of a horrifying new world. In an instant, tens of thousands of Hiroshima residents had been vaporized or crushed to death. As Tanimoto, a thirty-six-year-old Methodist minister, raced back to the city center in search of his wife and infant daughter, he encountered unimaginable devastation: structures leveled; fires everywhere; uncountable injured suffering from burns, broken bones, and the effects of radiation. In the days, weeks, and months that followed this unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe, he invested body and soul in helping his living congregants obtain food, shelter, and medical care, as well as identifying and burying with as much dignity as possible those who had perished. He dedicated himself to rebuilding not only his church, but his city and his nation. Tanimoto went on to gain renown as one of the survivors featured in John Hersey’s New Yorker piece and book, Hiroshima, which changed the American public’s understanding of the event. But Tanimoto also wrote his own story. 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