b-boy bouiebaisse Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
b-boy bouiebaisse on XMy name is Jamelle Bouie. @nytopinion columnist. Co-host of @UnclearPod. Upgrade your grey matter, ‘cuz one day it may matter.

Illiberal America: A History
Steven HahnI read Steven Hahn, a historian, his new book, “Illiberal America,” which stretches back to America’s... colonial origins to the present, to think through the illiberal political tradition in American life. It’s wide ranging, and very interesting, and worth reading.
Hardcover, 2024
$35.00Member price:$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Polyarchy: Participation and Opposition
Robert A. DahlAnyway as @un_a_valeable just pointed out, Hamid seems to just be describing Robert Dahl’s “polyarchy,” a term Dahl coined in 1956.
Paperback, 1972
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Classic Indian Cooking
Julie Sahni@likaluca oh boy. i highly recommend "At Home with Madhur Jaffrey," "Vegetarian Indian" by Madhur Jaffrey, "660 Curries" by Raghavan Iyer, and "Classic Indian Cooking" by Julie Sahni
Hardcover, 1980
$32.00Member price:$16.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, with a New Preface
Khalil Gibran Muhammadmy semi-regular reminder that one of most powerful and enlightening books I've ever read is @KhalilGMuhammad 's "The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America", which among other things is a history of crime statistics. https://t.co/YujUvrv8XW
Paperback, 2019
$21.00Member price:$10.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Public Opinion
Walter Lippmanna great essay about walter lippmann's public opinion and let me recommend that if you decide to read public opinion, follow it up with john dewey's "the public and its problems" https://t.co/fLjBZbpLwT
Paperback, 2017
$7.99Member price:$3.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
JFK: The Book of the Film
Oliver Stonejust put on oliver stone’s JFK and excited to rewatch this bug nuts movie for the podcast
Paperback, 2000
$20.99Member price:$19.94 + Free shipping5% off
Souls of Black Folk
W. E. B. Du Boisalso my regular reminder that "souls of black folk" was written at the *beginning* of du bois' career and he has sixty years of writing after that — essays, fiction, non-fiction — which is worth your time to read
Paperback, 2004
$54.99Member price:$52.24 + Free shipping5% off
The Age of Federalism: The Early American Republic, 1788-1800
Stanley M. Elkins@DouglasLukasik @Laurence1084 @Regan_Smart In The Age of Federalism, Stanley Elkins, Eric McKitrick attach great significance to an early meeting of Washington and the Senate where the former makes a direct appeal to the latter in their chamber. Are they leftists for doing so? Are they wrong?
Paperback, 1995
$26.99Member price:$26.99 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
W.E.B. Du Bois: Black Reconstruction (Loa #350): An Essay Toward a History of the Part Whichblack Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstructdemocracy i
W. E. B. Du Boisyou should read this wonderful review and retrospective on Black Reconstruction from gerald horne https://www.thenation.com/article/society/web-du-bois-black-reconstruction/
Hardcover, 2021
$45.00Member price:$22.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Report of The Joint Select Committee to Inquire into the Condition of Affairs in The Late Insurrectionary States
AnonymousElaine Frantz Parsons makes extensive use of the 1872 “Report of the Joint Select Committee to Inquire into the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States,” which spans 13(!) volumes and thousands of pages. https://t.co/cZNxXxhx7i
Paperback, 2012
$31.95Member price:$28.75 + Free shipping10% off