Annette Gordon-Reed 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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Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America
Keisha N. BlainRT @KeishaBlain: ✨UNTIL I AM FREE dropped on October 5 & I have enjoyed engaging all of you on every stop of my book tour. My tour comes to…
Paperback, 2022
$16.95Member price:$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Thirteen Clocks: How Race United the Colonies and Made the Declaration of Independence
Robert G. ParkinsonThis will be great. @rzhist and Robert Parkinson! Thirteen Clocks: How Race United the Colonies and Made the Declaration of Independence | Wilson Center https://t.co/RirUV7N4Bl
Paperback, 2021
$23.00Member price:$21.85 + Free shipping5% off
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
David W. BlightFun evening with Akhil Amar and David Blight at the New-York Historical Society. We talked about Jefferson and Frederick Douglass, with Akhil as the moderator.
Paperback, 2020
$23.99Member price:$11.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History (Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award Winner)
Norman MailerI liked Mailer’s “The Armies of the Night” when I read it as a teenager. But this is a scene from a film of his book Tough Guys Don’t Dance that he directed. Worst Line Reading Ever https://youtu.be/Y9KyBdPeKHg via @YouTube
Paperback, 1995
$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Freedom Bound
Christopher Tomlins@jbouie In Constitutions,Law and Empire, the class I’m doing with Peter Onuf, we just read Chris Tomlin’s Freedom Bound: Law, Labor, and Civic Identity in Colonizing English America, 1580–1865. Your piece is a nice complement to that, and I will send it to the class.
Paperback, 2010
$45.00Member price:$22.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Minutes of the Last Meeting
Gene Fowler@JRakove @JoeNBC Did you ever read Gene Fowler’s Minutes of the Last Meeting? Great portrait of the very complicated W. C. “Bill” Fields.
Hardcover, 2013
$32.95Member price:$32.95 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
The Broken Constitution: Lincoln, Slavery, and the Refounding of America
Noah FeldmanI load a great conversation last night @HarvardBooks with my colleague Noah Feldman about his new book,The Byoken Constitution: Lincoln Slavery and the Refounding of America. Lots to think about from the book. https://twitter.com/noahrfeldman/status/1466504616196001793
Paperback, 2022
$20.00Member price:$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Jeffersons at Shadwell
Susan Kern@woodyholtonusc Interesting. Jefferson’s mother, Jane Randolph Jefferson, and his sister had spinning wheels. He sent his mother wool and cotton over the years until her death in 1776. Susan Kern writes about this in The Jeffersons at Shadwell.
Paperback, 2012
$42.00Member price:$42.00 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
On Juneteenth
Annette Gordon-ReedRT @Lincolniana: Annette Gordon-Reed's @agordonreed On #Juneteenth continues to get the raves we knew it deserved. @nytimes Critics think i…
Hardcover, 2021
$15.95Member price:$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Family, Slavery, and Love in the Early American Republic: The Essays of Jan Ellen Lewis
Jan Ellen LewisRT @OIEAHC: Family, Slavery, and Love in the Early American Republic: The Essays of Jan Ellen Lewis, edited by @agordonreed, @BarryBienstoc…
Hardcover, 2021
$42.50Member price:$40.38 + Free shipping5% off