p/thecontroversialbookclub

An example of the types of books I'm Interested in reading or have already read

Modern moral debate feels intense… but strangely empty.

The Wise Men by Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas.

Dark Alliance Into the Web: Gary Webb's Fight to Expose the CIA and America's Drug Empire

The First Book has been decided on for the Controversial Book Club

Good choices!!! You can’t go wrong with these selections. 🙌

Thanks. Which ones have you read? Do you have any other recommendations in this genre? I posted that in a pocha for a conpiracy book club I created today. Feel free to join!

Super cool! I’m familiar with the titles but I’ve only read Confessions of an Economic Hitman and Behold a Pale Horse. I’m open to reading any of them! 🙏

I recently finished Hidden History: The Secret Origins of the First World War. It was paradigm-shifting. I am currently in the middle of Prolonging the Agony, which is the sequel about how WWI was prolonged for the sake of profit and to utterly destroy Germany because Britain felt they must maintain their military and economic dominance over Europe. Two books really appeal to me right now regarding something new for a book club. Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties or Conjuring Hitler: How Britain and America Made the Third Reich (kind of the sequel to how the Anglo-American Elite brought about WWII as they did WWI). Which of the two seems most interesting to you?

Thanks for including me! Both sound really interesting for different reasons so I’ll read either. I’m sure I can learn a lot regardless. 🙏