Books that impacted your worldview?

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31. What a great topic!

The Cry and the Covenant, novel by Morton Thompson (1949).

"...a fictionalized story of Ignaz Semmelweis, an Austrian-Hungarian physician known for his research into puerperal fever and his advances in medical hygiene."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cry_and_the_Covenant

This book broke my heart.



Red Notice, A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice, by Bill Browder (2015).

"...focusing on his years spent in Russia and the Russian government's attacks on Hermitage Capital Management. Browder's responses to Russian corruption and his support of the investigation into the death of his attorney Sergei Magnitsky are at the heart of the book."

"Magnitsky's death was the catalyst for passage by the U.S. Congress, of the Magnitsky Act, signed into law by President Barack Obama on 14 December 2012. "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Browder

This book broke me.


So many others, innumerable.