Send us a text

John Professor Jeffrey Sachs and highly acclaimed author of An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, to discuss her latest novel, Not “A Nation of Immigrants.”   

Together they discuss settler colonialism, white supremacy, and the history of erasure and exclusion in the United States while urging the audience to embrace a more complex and honest history, which has typically been left out of traditional American textbooks.

The Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs is brought to you by the SDG Academy, the flagship education initiative of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. Learn more and get involved at bookclubwithjeffreysachs.org.

Footnotes

• An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States
• Immigration to the US
• Settler Colonialism 
• First Immigration Act  - Chinese Exclusion Act 
• Northwest Territory 
• Andrew Jackson 
• Irish Catholic Immigration to America
• Agrarian Civilizations 
•  John Smith 
• Alexander Hamilton 
• Slave Labor 
• Sugar Plantations in the Caribbean 
• Marriage of Elizabeth Schuyler and Alexander Hamilton 
• A Fiscal Military State 
• From Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 24 November 1801
• Doctrine of Discovery 
• City of Sherrill v. Oneida Indian Nation of New York
• Ethnic Cleansing in the US 

⭐️ Thank you for listening!

➡️ Sign up for the newsletter: https://bit.ly/subscribeBCJS

➡️ Website: bookclubwithjeffreysachs.org

🎉 Don't forget to subscribe and share your favorite episode with your friends!

📣 Leave a rating and tell us what you thought about this episode!

Send us a text

Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and historian Rick Perlstein for their discussion of Reaganland.
 
Together they discuss the "Southernization" of American politics, the causes behind U.S. President Ronald Reagan's rise to power in the 1970s, and the way that conservatives’ cutthroat strategies to gain power remain a powerful political force today.

The Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs is brought to you by the SDG Academy, the flagship education initiative of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. Learn more and get involved at bookclubwithjeffreysachs.org.

Footnotes

• Biography of Barry Goldwater
• Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus (2001)
• Biography of Richard Nixon
• Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America (2008)
• Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980 (2021)
• Biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Biography of Water Cronkite
• Biography of Walter Lippmann
• New Deal
• The End of Ideology
• Biography of Daniel Bell
• Biography Lyndon B. Johnson
• Civil Rights Act of 1964
• Biography of Dwight D. Eisenhower 
• Biography of Richard Rothstein
• Mason-Dixon Line
• Brown v. Board of Education
• Biography of Storm Thurmond
• Biography of Martin Luther King Jr.
• Housing discrimination in the USA
• Biography of Ronald Reagan  
• United Nations Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
• Make America great again
• Biography of Bill Clinton

⭐️ Thank you for listening!

➡️ Sign up for the newsletter: https://bit.ly/subscribeBCJS

➡️ Website: bookclubwithjeffreysachs.org

🎉 Don't forget to subscribe and share your favorite episode with your friends!

📣 Leave a rating and tell us what you thought about this episode!

Send us a text

In this month's episode of the Book Club, Jeffrey Sachs and Professor Patricia Sullivan, a leading civil rights historian, place Robert Kennedy at the center of the movement for racial justice of the 1960s—and show how many of today’s issues can be traced back to that pivotal time in US history.

Prof. Sullivan is the author of this month's featured book Justice Rising: Robert Kennedy’s America in Black and White.

The Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs is brought to you by the SDG Academy, the flagship education initiative of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. Learn more and get involved at bookclubwithjeffreysachs.org.

Footnotes:

• Biography of Robert F. Kennedy
• American Civil War
• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
• Brown vs. Board of Education
• Jim Crow Laws
• Biography of John F. Kennedy
• World War II
• New Deal
• Biography of Ralph Bunche
• Biography of Alexander Bickel
• Biography of Burke Marshall
• Biography of John Doar
• Biography of John M. Patterson
• John F. Kennedy’s televised address to the Nation on Civil Rights on 11 June 1963
• Biography of James Meredith
• Biography of Harry Belafonte
• Biography of James Baldwin
• Biography of Martin Luther King Jr.
• Biography of Lyndon B. Johnson
• Civil Rights Act of 1964
• Watts Riots
• Vietnam War
• Martin Luther King Jr. speech at New York’s Riverside Church on 4 Ap

⭐️ Thank you for listening!

➡️ Sign up for the newsletter: https://bit.ly/subscribeBCJS

➡️ Website: bookclubwithjeffreysachs.org

🎉 Don't forget to subscribe and share your favorite episode with your friends!

📣 Leave a rating and tell us what you thought about this episode!

Send us a text

Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and New York Times-bestselling author Dr. Robert Lustig for their discussion of Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine, Dr. Lustig's newest book about the interconnected strands of nutrition, health/disease, medicine, environment, and society.
Together, they discuss the relationship between nutrition and non-communicable disease, the dangers of processed foods, and the ways in which the entrenched interests of Big Food, Big Pharma, and Big Government influence our current healthcare paradigm.

The Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs is brought to you by the SDG Academy, the flagship education initiative of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. Learn more and get involved at bookclubwithjeffreysachs.org.

Footnotes:

• What is Leptin?
• The Role of Leptin in Human Physiology: Emerging Clinical Applications
• Noncommunicable diseases
• Global obesity rates
• Remarks by US First Lady Michelle Obama at the "Let's Move" Action Plan Announcement with Cabinet Secretaries
• Type 2 Diabetes in Children
• The sugar that saturates the American diet has a barbaric history as the ‘white gold’ that fueled slavery
• Fiber
• Activists Just Scored Bog Wins Against ExxonMobil, Chevron and Shell 
• PepsiCo working on reducing targets for salt, sugar in India
• Snacks for a Fat Planet: PepsiCo takes stock of the obesity epidemic
• How Denise Morrison Took Processed Food Icon Campbell’s On a Fresh Food Buying Spree
• $15 Million Settlement in Post Cereal Lawsuit 

⭐️ Thank you for listening!

➡️ Sign up for the newsletter: https://bit.ly/subscribeBCJS

➡️ Website: bookclubwithjeffreysachs.org

🎉 Don't forget to subscribe and share your favorite episode with your friends!

📣 Leave a rating and tell us what you thought about this episode!

Send us a text

In this episode, Professor Jeffrey Sachs speaks with Dr. Mariana Mazzucato, Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value and Founding Director of the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose at University College London, about her new book Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism.

Professors Sachs and Mazzucato discuss the history of public ambition embodied in the American moon landing and the importance of boldly reimagining the capacities and role of government to solve today's "wicked problems" and recover a sense of public purpose. 

The Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs is brought to you by the SDG Academy, the flagship education initiative of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. Learn more and get involved at bookclubwithjeffreysachs.org.

Footnotes:

• Moonshot 
• Apollo Program 
• Project Mercury
• Gemini Program
• President John F. Kennedy's address to Joint Session of Congress, 25 May 1961
• Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
• Biography of Gus Grissom
• Biography of Alan Shepard
• Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) program
• Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency 
• COVID-19 pandemic
• mRNA vaccines
• National Institutes of Health (NHI) 
• Biography of Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
• Bayh-Dole Act
• Gilead’s hepatitis C drug scandal
• Mondragon Corporation
• Trade and Labor Unions
• Fridays for the Future
• European Green Deal

⭐️ Thank you for listening!

➡️ Sign up for the newsletter: https://bit.ly/subscribeBCJS

➡️ Website: bookclubwithjeffreysachs.org

🎉 Don't forget to subscribe and share your favorite episode with your friends!

📣 Leave a rating and tell us what you thought about this episode!

Send us a text

Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and historian Rashid Khalidi as they discuss Khalidi's book The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017 and the long history of disenfranchisement against the Palestinian people.

The Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs is brought to you by the SDG Academy, the flagship education initiative of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. Learn more and get involved at bookclubwithjeffreysachs.org.

Footnotes:

• Edward Said (1984), Permission to Narrate
• Biography of Yusuf Diya al-Din Pasha al-Khalidi
• Khalidi Library
• Zionism Movement
• Biography of Theodor Herzl
• Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917 
• Mandate for Palestine, 29 September 1923
• Book of Joshua
• Right to Self Determination
• UN Votes for Partition of Palestine, 29 November 1947
• Nakba
• Israeli Declaration of Independence, 14 May 1948
• Biography of Abdullah I bin Al-Hussein
• Camp David Accords, 17 September 1978
• Siege of Beirut, 1982
• Sabra and Shatila massacre
• First Intifada
• Oslo Accords
• Second Intifada
• Camp David Summit, July 2000
• Biography of Bill Clinton
• Biography of Ehud Barak
• Biography of Yasser Arafat
• Wars in Gaza

⭐️ Thank you for listening!

➡️ Sign up for the newsletter: https://bit.ly/subscribeBCJS

➡️ Website: bookclubwithjeffreysachs.org

🎉 Don't forget to subscribe and share your favorite episode with your friends!

📣 Leave a rating and tell us what you thought about this episode!

Send us a text

Prof. Sachs speaks with historian Richard Rothstein about his groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, in which Rothstein explodes the myth that America’s cities came to be racially divided through individual prejudices, income differences, or the actions of private institutions. Rather, he makes clear that it was the laws and policy decisions of local, state, and federal governments that actually promoted the discriminatory patterns that continue to affect Black Americans to this day.

The Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs is brought to you by the SDG Academy, the flagship education initiative of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. Learn more and get involved at bookclubwithjeffreysachs.org.

Footnotes:

• Richard Rothstein. (2020, Jan. 20). The Neighborhoods We Will Not Share. The New York Times. 
• Richard Rothstein. (2020, Aug. 14). The Black Lives Next Door. The New York Times.  
• Richard Rothstein. (2004), Modern Segregation.
• Federal Housing Administration (FHA)
• Levittown, NY
• Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution
• Thirteenth Amendment to the US Constitution
• Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution
• Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School Dist. No. 1, 551 U.S. 701 (2007)
• Braden v. United States :: 365 U.S. 431 (1961)
• Princeton’s decision to remove Woodrow Wilson’s name from its school of public policy  and residential college
• The Warren Court (1953 – 1969)
• American Apartheid
• Black Lives Matter
• The First Step Towards Reparations in Evanston, Illinois. The Takeaway. 

⭐️ Thank you for listening!

➡️ Sign up for the newsletter: https://bit.ly/subscribeBCJS

➡️ Website: bookclubwithjeffreysachs.org

🎉 Don't forget to subscribe and share your favorite episode with your friends!

📣 Leave a rating and tell us what you thought about this episode!

Send us a text

Welcome to the Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs!

In this first episode, world-renowned economist and Columbia University Professor Jeffrey Sachs speaks with Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Martin J. Sherwin about his book Gambling with Armageddon: Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis, which explores the origins, scope, and consequences of the evolving place of nuclear weapons in the post-World War II world.

Professors Sachs and Sherwin discuss the choices of the Truman and Eisenhower administrations over the course of the nuclear arms race, Khrushchev’s and Kennedy’s positions during the Bay of Pigs debacle, and the often-overlooked role of US Ambassador to the United Nations Adlai Stevenson—and luck—in preventing a nuclear world war.

The Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs is brought to you by the SDG Academy, the flagship education initiative of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. Learn more and get involved at bookclubwithjeffreysachs.org.

Footnotes:

• Biography of John F. Kennedy
• President John F. Kennedy, Address before the UN General Assembly, 25 Sep. 1961
• Biography of Nikita Khrushchev 
• American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
• Biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer 
• Biography of Frank Oppenheimer
• The Day After Trinity (1981)
• Biography of Harry S. Truman
• Biography of James F. Byrnes
• Biography of Joseph Stalin
• Biography of Dwight Eisenhower
• President Dwight Eisenhower, Address before the UN General Assembly, 8 Dec. 1953
• Missives between Khrushchev and Kennedy
• Executive Committee Meeting of the National Security Council on the Cuban Missile Crisis
• Biography of Adlai Stevenson II 
• Biography of U Thant
• Biography of Robert F. Kennedy

⭐️ Thank you for listening!

➡️ Sign up for the newsletter: https://bit.ly/subscribeBCJS

➡️ Website: bookclubwithjeffreysachs.org

🎉 Don't forget to subscribe and share your favorite episode with your friends!

📣 Leave a rating and tell us what you thought about this episode!