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I've just finished this after being directed here from The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward E Baptist, and I must recommend both very highly. If you, like me had a typical American public education than your conception of the making of America and the Industrial Revolution involves some vaguely-remembered fight to escape British tyranny and then the cotton gin and spinning jenny. If you were fortunate to have a history teacher brave enough to dip into semi-recent history than you might recall sit-ins, the brilliance of MLK and the disappointing evil/violence of Malcolm X and the Black Panthers. If that is the case, then these two books should immediately jump to the top of your reading list. Clear, measured, well-researched and relentless are just a few adjectives that I would apply to both books. I would recommend them both to those who consider themselves interested in equality and anti-racism, those who were starry-eyed with Obama's Hope and Change, and those who have been appalled by Tamir Rice, Trayvon Martin, Philando Castile, Sandra Bland, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Alton Sterling and far too many others. I would recommend them to those who want to understand the fear and fury of black people in America.