{"id":2284439,"date":"2024-06-27T08:00:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T12:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/12-books-to-take-on-your-road-trips-and-beachside-this-summer\/"},"modified":"2024-06-27T08:10:41","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T12:10:41","slug":"12-books-to-take-on-your-road-trips-and-beachside-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/12-books-to-take-on-your-road-trips-and-beachside-this-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"12 Books To Take On Your Road Trips And Beachside This Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F12-books-to-take-on-your-road-trips-and-beachside-this-summer%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2284439&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The text provided offers a detailed account of various rigorous and informative reads that the author, characterized as an avid\u2063 and voracious\u2062 reader, recommends and discusses \u2062briefly. The text is segmented by book titles, each preceding a concise review or reflection on the \u2064book&#8217;s themes, usefulness, and the\u200c author&#8217;s personal takeaways. <\/p>\n<p>Key\u2064 highlights\u200d include:<\/p>\n<p>1. **&#8221;The \u2064Smear&#8221; by Sharyl Attkisson** &#8211; Explores media impact on political narratives and character assassination techniques.<\/p>\n<p>2. **&#8221;Big Intel&#8221; by J.\u200b Michael Waller** &#8211; \u2064Discusses the transformation of U.S. intelligence \u200dagencies and alleges domestic manipulation resembling foreign \u2062regime change tactics.<\/p>\n<p>3. \u200c**&#8221;Informing Statecraft&#8221; by Angelo Codevilla** &#8211; Recommended for understanding\u2064 foreign policy and \u2062intelligence, reflecting on Codevilla\u2019s profound\u200b impact and lamenting\u2064 his untimely demise.<\/p>\n<p>4. **&#8221;Controligarchs&#8221; by Seamus Bruner** &#8211; Describes the pervasive influence of billionaires on global \u2062policies and individual \u200cfreedoms, calling it both\u200c compelling and concerning.<\/p>\n<p>5. **&#8221;Dominion&#8221; by Tom Holland** &#8211; A narrative on\u200d how Christianity shaped Western civilization, delving into the paradox of anti-Christian sentiments conveyed in Christian linguistic frameworks.<\/p>\n<p>6. **&#8221;Island \u2064of the World&#8221;\u2064 by Michael O\u2019Brien** &#8211; \u200bA profound novel\u2062 portraying the harsh realities of Communist oppression \u2064juxtaposed with spiritual \u2062and existential themes.<\/p>\n<p>7. **&#8221;The Saints of Whistle Grove&#8221; by \u200bKatie Schuermann**\u200c &#8211; A blend of ordinary American life stories spanning different eras,\u2064 focusing on the mingling \u2064of beauty and\u2064 pain.<\/p>\n<p>8. \u200b**&#8221;In the Days of Alfred the Great&#8221; by Eva March Tappan** &#8211; Chronicles the life of Alfred the Great,\u2063 linking historical perseverance with modern motivational \u200cnarratives.<\/p>\n<p>The text also touches upon\u2063 themes like perseverance \u200din adversity,\u2063 the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/did-ag-barr-create-durham-special-counsel-to-prevent-president-trump-from-releasing-information-related-to-crossfire-hurricane\/\" title=\"Did AG Barr Create Durham Special Counsel to Prevent President Trump from Releasing Information Related to Crossfire Hurricane?\">deep state<\/a>, and Christian ideological \u200dframeworks. Moreover, it presents these books as tools for intellectual and spiritual enrichment,\u2062 suitable for understanding complex issues and personal growth. The author encourages\u2062 using these reads for getting a profound grasp of \u2064politics, history, and moral challenges in contemporary contexts.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>I\u2019ll start with a little negging: This list is not of light reads. Traditionally, of course, people take those to the beach and poolside. One might think a magazine would be lighter reading for such occasions, but that\u2019s usually when I try to catch up on the Claremont Review, also not a light read. For me, it\u2019s light in its length, in providing articles instead of whole books.<\/p>\n<p>I always have been a book monster, voracious for words, words, words, words. There may be fewer of us now, but I think we\u2019re the true elite. Our ruling class that knows nothing is not truly elite; what\u2019s elite is to have the attention span to sustain long and complicated turns of argument and plot, and to hold an idea in your mind without immediately accepting or rejecting it. That takes practice and effort.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve also always felt that best friends give excellent book recommendations. So, in the spirit of bookish friendship, I pass on to you this list of books I\u2019ve been reading lately and am toting to family travels this summer. We start with nonfiction and end with fiction.<\/p>\n<h2><em>The Smear<\/em>, Sharyl Attkisson<\/h2>\n<p>I\u2019m on a Sharyl Attkisson back-catalog kick, jumpstarted by finding this 2018 book on a shelf at a conservative event a month ago. As many readers will know, her books are excellent. They\u2019re also highly useful media criticism and journalism history, especially useful to me professionally.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been mostly listening to <em><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/p\/books\/the-smear-how-shady-political-operatives-and-fake-news-control-what-you-see-what-you-think-and-how-you-vote-sharyl-attkisson\/6437853?ean=9780062468178\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Smear<\/a><\/em>  via audiobook, although I also have the hard copy so I can switch between formats. I find audiobooks more fact-dense than podcasts. It\u2019s therefore harder to half-listen to them while you do something else. They help fill in the long hours spent on the usual summer road trips and outside watering the garden in this year\u2019s unseasonable early heat and dryness.<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>The Smear<\/em> focuses on the communist tactic of going after a figure\u2019s character rather than his argument. Its review of Clinton camp skulduggery has been especially helpful to me as a millennial not old enough to have been politically aware in the \u201990s. It\u2019s been super interesting to see that the exact same Clinton allies who helped smear \u201cBill\u2019s bimbos\u201d also helped launch and launder the Spygate attacks on Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>I love Attkisson\u2019s reporterly neutrality between right and left. She reads much more evenhanded than most political writers, which is refreshing both as a change and as a model for expanding my own writing possibilities. I also love her strong moral compass, which is evident in her not putting up with smear operations, no matter which political team is fielding them. I also picked up <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/p\/books\/slanted-how-the-news-media-taught-us-to-love-censorship-and-hate-journalism-sharyl-attkisson\/15214116?ean=9780062974693\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">her 2020 book <em>Slanted<\/em><\/a><em> <\/em>and can\u2019t wait to get into it.<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<h2><em>Big Intel<\/em>, J. Michael Waller<\/h2>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/p\/books\/big-intel-how-the-cia-went-from-cold-war-heroes-to-deep-state-villains-michael-j-waller\/20172514?ean=9781684513536\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Big Intel<\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/p\/books\/big-intel-how-the-cia-went-from-cold-war-heroes-to-deep-state-villains-michael-j-waller\/20172514?ean=9781684513536\"> <\/a>explains how U.S. intel agencies \u2014 particularly the CIA and FBI \u2014 turned into Biden\u2019s brownshirts. This fascinating book came out earlier this year. J. Michael Waller \u2014 an occasional Federalist writer \u2014 goes over some of the history also explained by <a href=\"https:\/\/tuckercarlson.com\/uncensored-the-national-security-state-the-inversion-of-democracy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mike Benz in his big interview with Tucker Carlson<\/a> this year, about how the regime-change operations U.S. intelligence agencies began fomenting abroad after World War II have now come domestic.<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Waller adds deep knowledge of agency history, especially of the FBI and CIA being from their earliest days infiltrated by Communist Soviet agents. His history adds to my mental archive on the Communist infiltration of high-ranking American government positions from the New Deal to the Cold War to today. It turns out that actual Communist agents have been at the center of multiple significant and successful efforts at subverting the U.S. Constitution and its people, all the way back to FDR. If you want to read about that, dig out your M. Stanton Evans and Diana West.<\/p>\n<p>In a way, it\u2019s no surprise that the State Department and CIA were early infiltrated by Communists. Waller explains that it took longer for that transformation in the FBI and shows how the transformation is evidenced by the agencies\u2019 public allegiance to <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/p\/books\/false-colors-the-flag-of-our-occupation-joy-pullmann\/20707173?ean=9781684515875\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">what I describe<\/a> as the regime-change ideology of diversity, equity, and inclusion. It\u2019s an important backgrounder on the deep-state struggle sessions affecting our politics today.<\/p>\n<h2><em>Informing Statecraft<\/em>, Angelo Codevilla<\/h2>\n<p>Waller\u2019s book recommended several others I then picked up, starting with <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/p\/books\/informing-statecraft-angelo-m-codevilla\/951669?ean=9780743244848\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Angelo Codevilla\u2019s <em>Informing Statecraft<\/em><\/a>. Codevilla, a Claremont Institute fellow and Boston University professor, among other things, was one of the Federalist and many other right-wing outlets\u2019 contributors I always read with great eagerness until his <a href=\"https:\/\/americanmind.org\/salvo\/the-great-and-good-angelo-codevilla\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">untimely and surprising death<\/a> from a car accident in 2021.<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Many readers will know Codevilla from his 2010 book, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/8863775-the-ruling-class\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Ruling Class<\/a><\/em>, expanded from an <a href=\"https:\/\/spectator.org\/americas-ruling-class\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">essay of the same name in The American Spectator<\/a> that year. In it, Codevilla explicated the chasm between ruling and the ruled that has given us Trump and the public awareness of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/2-in-3-southern-republicans-want-to-secede-from-union-nearly-half-of-pacific-nw-democrats-poll\/\" title=\"2 In 3 Southern Republicans Want To Secede From Union; Nearly Half Of Pacific NW Democrats: Poll\">cold civil war<\/a> in which we\u2019ve been engaged in the century since self-styled progressives broke the U.S. Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>A longtime skilled foreign policy hand with much practical wisdom to offer, Codevilla\u2019s archive is well worth rereading. Waller gave me a place to start by recommending <em>Informing Statecraft<\/em>. It\u2019s wonderful that Codevilla left enough behind that we can still learn from him while waiting to meet him in eternity.<\/p>\n<h2><em>Controligarchs<\/em>, Seamus Bruner<\/h2>\n<p>This is the latest in a series of books from the investigative researchers at the Government Accountability Institute. <em><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/p\/books\/controligarchs-exposing-the-billionaire-class-their-secret-deals-and-the-globalist-plot-to-dominate-your-life-seamus-bruner\/19975933?ean=9780593541593\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Controligarchs<\/a><\/em>  came out in November 2023. I found it a gripping and readable overview of the many current ways the ruling class Codevilla defined is attempting to control every aspect of American \u2014 and Western and even global \u2014 life. It honestly kept me up at night so much that I had to stop reading it before bedtime, my usual reading opportunity.<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Bruner gives eye-opening insight into the way global multigazillionaires are attempting to revert the rest of us to the historic norm of serfdom. His deeply researched chapters cover the massive \u201chealth\u201d industry, big ag and the centralization of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-most-humane-goal-for-ukraine-is-the-quickest-negotiated-settlement-possible\/\" title=\"The Most Humane Goal For Ukraine Is The Quickest Negotiated Settlement Possible\">global food supplies<\/a>, pharmaceutical and nutritional experiments on unsuspecting populations, \u201cbiometric surveillance,\u201d the Great Reset, technocratic environmentalist doomsday cults, BlackRock and other mega-financier attempts at controlling entire economies, and more. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s part thriller, part investigative expos\u00e9, and it will keep you on the edge of your chair while also informing you of massive global schemes designed to erase self-government. Exposure is the first way to fight back.<\/p>\n<h2><em>Dominion<\/em>, Tom Holland<\/h2>\n<p>It was thanks to Federalist colleague John Davidson\u2019s new book, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Pagan-America-Decline-Christianity-Dark\/dp\/1684514444\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pagan America<\/a><\/em>, and our staff discussions about it that I picked up this history of Christianity\u2019s creation of the West. <em><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/p\/books\/dominion-how-the-christian-revolution-remade-the-world-tom-holland\/9244263?ean=9781541675599\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dominion<\/a><\/em>  tells a story educated Christians already know, but it\u2019s one I want to see more deeply documented and in greater detail.<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>I\u2019m especially interested in this book\u2019s development of a theme I picked up on in my latest book: that God-haters even express their anti-Christian religion in Christian terms. It\u2019s like no other language is available than the Christian language for understanding the world, even in the mouths of people attempting to blaspheme. Is that a cosmic joke? Yet another proof that Christianity is true? Perhaps both, and more.<\/p>\n<p>The same inability to express themselves without Christian terms and understandings is true of ideologies that compete with and reject Christianity, including atheism and identity politics. As a Christian, this makes perfect sense to me, but I\u2019d still like to learn more and see more applications. I\u2019ve just started <em>Dominion, <\/em>but the writing is also gripping, making this thick book yet another page-turner.<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<h2><em>Island of the World<\/em>, Michael O\u2019Brien<\/h2>\n<p>This 800-page novel is as hard to describe as it is to read and put down. The back cover aptly says that this story of a Yugoslavian born 90 years ago as World War II and the Cold War are set to brutalize his country is about \u201cthe crucifixion of a soul\u201d and its \u201cresurrection.\u201d Halfway through, the book has put me in heaven and hell already twice.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Plot spoilers!)<\/em><strong> <\/strong>The main character, Josip Lasta, grows up in an idyllic mountain village destroyed before his eyes before he hits puberty. After university and about a year into his marriage, Josip is discovered to be writing poems without Communist government approval. After a show trial, he\u2019s beaten nearly to death and sent to a labor camp where inmates are forced to pick through their own droppings for undigested food to eat again. It\u2019s a true account of Communism\u2019s hellish degradations and the transcendent beauty of the human soul. <em>(End spoilers)<\/em><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>It was chilling how many \u2014 although thankfully currently less brutal \u2014 parallels I saw between Josip\u2019s Communist days and our own. Josip published what we now call samizdat, and so, in our Internet Iron Curtain days, do we at The Federalist. Even when the circulation was far reduced by its publication under totalitarian conditions, his work still irritated the regime and provoked a response, proving its value. That was encouraging even though it led to unfathomable suffering for Josip.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s hard to imagine how an author could suffer such a story into existence. <em><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/p\/books\/the-island-of-the-world-michael-d-o-brien\/6729160?ean=9781586174903\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Island of the World<\/a><\/em>  is both hauntingly beautiful and deeply terrifying. It challenges the reader and deepens his understanding of life, history, humanity, suffering, love, and God. Truly a better classic than many listed on \u201cclassic books lists\u201d from worthless universities, professors, and publications. I\u2019d recommend this to every serious reader.<\/p>\n<h2><em>The Saints of Whistle Grove<\/em>, Katie Schuermann<\/h2>\n<p>Katie Schuermann recommended <em>The Island of the World<\/em> to me, and reading it reminds me of her latest book out in December, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/kloria.com\/products\/the-saints-of-whistle-grove\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Saints of Whistle Grove<\/a><\/em>. That\u2019s because, while <em>Whistle Grove <\/em>is thankfully not as hard to read as an account of a Communist concentration camp inmate, it similarly blends the transcendent and terrorizing in ways that leave me sucking in my breath.<\/p>\n<p>I keep rereading this book, giving away my copy to friends, and then buying another. It\u2019s easier to do because the book is so inexpensive at just $15.<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>Whistle Grove <\/em>is a tale of how everyday American lives can incorporate both incredible beauty and incredible pain. Schuermann tells a series of stories from different eras set in one rural American town. She moves readers back and forth in time, making this book also somewhat of a mystery as readers connect the names and their stories through time. Just about all of us, I think, have experienced grief and loss like we watch <em>Whistle Grove\u2019s<\/em> characters do. Katie doesn\u2019t spare the sword, but she also doesn\u2019t spare the transcendent comforts that encircle and sustain through times of the inevitable suffering we all face at some point in our lives.<\/p>\n<p><em>Whistle Grove <\/em>is now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Saints-of-Whistle-Grove\/dp\/B0CWCKNHGD?_encoding=UTF8&#038;sr=8-1&#038;linkId=ad4062dc260ef822e922248e862d65ef&#038;language=en_US&#038;ref_=as_li_ss_tl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">available in an audiobook<\/a>, for those of you who listen as you wash dishes, fold laundry, mow lawns, and weed gardens. Have a corner of your T-shirt or a tissue handy, though, for when <em>Whistle Grove\u2019s<\/em> people are dragged into personal Gethsemanes that all of us  who have encountered our own will recognize.<\/p>\n<p>Do sign up for <a href=\"https:\/\/katieschuermann.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Katie\u2019s free email list<\/a>, because she sends truly useful, conversational discussions of books that teach how to read well.<\/p>\n<h2><em>In the Days of Alfred the Great<\/em>, Eva March Tappan<\/h2>\n<p>Now for something a little different yet still in keeping with our apparent theme of triumph through suffering. I recently read this with my oldest son for a mother-son book club. <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livingbookpress.com\/product\/in-the-days-of-alfred-the-great\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">In the Days of Alfred the Great<\/a><\/em>  is a classic young person\u2019s biography recovered by the wonderful Australian small business Living Book Press.<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>My 13-year-old son and I enjoyed reading and discussing this dramatic tale of King Alfred the Great of England before it was England. He, too, faced seemingly insurmountable difficulties yet refused to give up. His choice to take on his people\u2019s suffering \u2014 primarily through constant Viking raids that involved church desecration, village mass murder, and unspeakable violence \u2014 miraculously united and saved his tribal people from medieval terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>LBP has a 20 percent sale now through July 9, so head on over and scoop up some books for the whole family. I haven\u2019t been disappointed with anything I\u2019ve bought from them. This sale I bought <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livingbookpress.com\/product\/the-odyssey-for-boys-and-girls\/?attribute_pa_format=hardcover\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Odyssey for Boys and Girls<\/a><\/em>  by Alfred Church (his paraphrases of ancient epics are excellent for young readers); <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livingbookpress.com\/product\/the-story-of-the-great-republic\/?attribute_pa_format=hardcover\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Story of the Great Republic<\/a><\/em>  and <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livingbookpress.com\/product\/the-story-of-the-thirteen-colonies\/?attribute_pa_format=hardcover\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Story of the Thirteen Colonies<\/a><\/em>  by Helene Guerber (another classic historian for younger readers); and <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livingbookpress.com\/product\/the-men-who-found-america\/?attribute_pa_format=hardcover\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Men Who Found America<\/a><\/em>  by Frederick Winthrop Hutchinson. <\/p>\n<p>When I want a truly lighter read, I pick up children\u2019s classics \u2014 another great beachside choice. Here\u2019s another Schuermann recommended to me: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gutenberg.net.au\/ebooks02\/0200881h.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jane of Lantern Hill<\/a><\/em>, by <em>Anne of Green Gables <\/em>author Lucy Maud Montgomery. It\u2019s a book about divorce\u2019s effect on children, with a happy ending.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div>\n<p>      Joy Pullmann is executive editor of The Federalist. Her new book with Regnery is &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/p\/books\/false-colors-the-flag-of-our-occupation-joy-pullmann\/20707173?ean=9781684515875\">False Flag: Why Queer Politics Mean the End of America<\/a>.&#8221;  A happy wife, and the mother of six children, her ebooks include &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/payhip.com\/b\/R1JL\">Classic Books For Young Children<\/a>,&#8221; and &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/payhip.com\/b\/a2Jzp\">101 Strategies For Living Well Amid Inflation<\/a>.&#8221;      An 18-year education and politics reporter, Joy has testified before nearly two dozen legislatures on education policy and appeared on major media from Fox News to Ben Shapiro to Dennis Prager. Joy is a grateful graduate of the Hillsdale College honors and journalism programs who identifies as native American and gender natural.     Her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/professor-banned-from-christian-campus-for-criticizing-identity-politics-settles-case\/\" title=\"Professor settles case after criticizing identity politics on Christian campus\">traditionally published books<\/a> also include &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Education-Invasion-Parents-Control-American\/dp\/1594038813\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1486730068&#038;sr=8-1&#038;keywords=education+invasion\">The Education Invasion: How Common Core Fights Parents for Control of American Kids<\/a>,&#8221; from Encounter Books.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll begin with a slight critique: this list doesn&#8217;t feature light reads. Typically, light reads accompany beach and poolside lounging. 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