Palo Alto University Rotary Club – Civil Discourse Committee
Recommended Books & Background Materials
Civil Discourse 101 – Part 1
October 2022 – Listed alphabetically by author’s last name
Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay
How to Have Impossible Conversations: A Very Practical Guide (2019)
David Brooks
The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life (2019)
Paul Chappell
Soldiers of Peace: How to Wield the Weapon of Nonviolence (2017)
Adam Grant
Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know (2021)
Katherine Hayhoe
Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World (2021)
Ezra Klein
Why We’re Polarized (2020)
Steven Levitsky and Danial Ziblatt
How Democracies Die (2018)
More in Common (Stephen Hawkins, Director of Research)
Hidden Tribes: A Study of America’s Polarized Landscape (2018)
George Packer
Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal (2021)
Colin Woodward
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America (2011)