Aaron Freedman Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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PhD student @CUHistoryDept, grad worker @UAW @SW_Columbia. Labor, finance, political economy in postwar US. Words @washingtonpost @theprospect @jewishcurrents.
The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window
Lorraine HansberryAaron FreedmanThe Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window felt surprisingly fresh for a play about radicals from the 60s, which I think is a testament to just how prescient Black Communists like Lorraine Hansberry were
Paperback, 2021
$18.95$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Silverview
John Le CarréAaron FreedmanLate to the party on this, but @jake_bittle’s essay on Le Carré, Silverview, and surveillance is masterful https://newrepublic.com/article/163965/john-le-carres-genius-surveillance-silverview-review
Paperback, 2022
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class
Jefferson CowieAaron FreedmanThe Bernie-as-McGovern (and Hilary-as-McGovern!) comparison that actually holds up (Jefferson Cowie, Stayin' Alive, pp. 95) https://t.co/uS3fNCZgmZ
Paperback, 2012
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Hawaii
James A. MichenerAaron FreedmanJames Michener -Hawaii -Texas -Space -Poland https://t.co/KrhG9q3Y4D
Paperback, 2002
$22.00$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War
Alan BrinkleyAaron FreedmanThe End of Reform, or, what if all those left policy substackers you follow got to run the government, by Alan Brinkley
Paperback, 1996
$22.00$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida
N. D. B. ConnollyAaron FreedmanTIL William Jennings Bryan took $100k in the 1920s to talk up Miami’s real estate market. His condition? Being allowed to teach Bible every Sunday in a park downtown (Connolly, A World More Concrete)
Paperback, 2016
$29.00$14.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage
Todd GitlinAaron FreedmanAnother parlor game: who from the 2010s US left scene is most likely to do a Todd Gitlin “The Sixties” type book in 15 years?
Paperback, 1993
$23.00$11.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Beautiful World, Where Are You
Sally RooneyAaron FreedmanAlways read @tonytula https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/sally-rooney-beautiful-world-where-are-you/
Paperback, 2022
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Truth is Stranger than Fiction
Celeste WilsonAaron FreedmanTrue to the maxim that truth is stranger than fiction, How to with John Wilson does what High Maintenance tried but failed—to capture the enduring idiosyncrasy of New York https://t.co/oT77HJyJyU
Out of stock
The Road to Mecca
Athol FugardAaron Freedman“Mr. Musk, what is your favorite play by Athol Fugard?” “Well I have to say THE ROAD TO MECCA” “The only one without any Black people, very interesting…”
Paperback, 2015
$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book