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Wants to read The Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism Before Its Triumph

Wants to read The Senator Next Door: A Memoir from the Heartland

Wants to read Prisoners of Hate: The Cognitive Basis of Anger, Hostility, and Violence – The Father of Cognitive Therapy's Revolutionary Blueprint for Preventing Genocide, War, and Ethnic Conflict

Wants to read A Stone of Hope

Wants to read The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia

Wants to read Waking Up White: And Finding Myself in the Story of Race

Wants to read The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy

Wants to read Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets

Wants to read The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams

Wants to read A Grain of Wheat

Wants to read Superminds: The Surprising Power of People and Computers Thinking Together

Wants to read The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure

Wants to read The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect

Wants to read The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America

Wants to read Randomistas: How Radical Researchers Changed Our World

Wants to read The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

Wants to read Flesh

Wants to read The Theory of Moral Sentiments

Wants to read Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class

Wants to read The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Wants to read We

Wants to read Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society

Wants to read The Sympathizer

Rated Poonachi: Or the Story of a Black Goat 4/10

Rated The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined 10/10

Overall, an excellent book. By reading the last three chapters one can get a nice psychological overview of the decline of violence. However, Pinker writes of the history so well that you'd miss an excellent historical perspective. Worth a read.