Dan Vergano 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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Democracy Against Liberalism: Its Rise and Fall
Aviezer TuckerDan Vergano"Facing illiberal democracies" Review of Democracy Against Liberalism: Its Rise and Fall, by Tucker, Aviezer. Polity. 204 pp. https://t.co/mr8dMZcbO0 "A final chapter sees a future for liberal democrats, but with conditions." https://t.co/NYRII0nxCm
Paperback, 2020
$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Wildland: The Making of America's Fury
Evan OsnosDan Vergano"Living (and dying) in America" - https://t.co/xeOkcuCOXr A review of Wildland: The Making of America’s Fury, by Evan Osnos
Paperback, 2022
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth
Sam QuinonesDan VerganoRT @ReginaLabelle: Review of ”The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth” in @washingtonpost points…
Paperback, 2022
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Dark Persuasion: A History of Brainwashing from Pavlov to Social Media
Joel E. DimsdaleDan VerganoReview of A History of Brainwashing, from Pavlov to Social Media by Joel E. Dimsdale "a useful historical overview of controversies about brainwashing, from the Cold War to fake news spread by supporters of Donald Trump."
Paperback, 2023
$22.00$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Contagion Next Time
Sandro GaleaDan VerganoA good thread by Ed. A good recent book on this is Sandro Galea's The Contagion Next Time -- https://t.co/QSxM1dGUbH A BU dean, Galea has been writing about the systemic weakness in US public health for decades. https://t.co/mSK1QkMvZ2
Hardcover, 2021
$27.99$13.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Hysteria: Crime, Media, and Politics
Marc SchuilenburgDan VerganoBook Review: Marc Schuilenburg, Hysteria: Crime, Media and Politics - https://t.co/4oqxfm2vzs "social media enables the spread of hysteria" "... the enigma that hysteria still keeps popping up, gripping us with excessive emotions, when we have never had it so good."
Paperback, 2021
$52.99$27.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Dream Park
Larry NivenDan Verganolooks like a first step toward Larry Niven & Steven Barnes' 'Dream Park' a sci-fi murder mystery long begging to be made into a CGI movie Disney Takes Visitors to a Galaxy Far, Far Away https://t.co/x2JL5f5JN6
Paperback, 2010
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Winnie-The-Pooh
A. A. MilneDan VerganoRT @PublicDomainRev: Entering the public domain in 2022: A. A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh published in 1926. More info behind window 1 of ou…
Paperback, 2023
$14.99$7.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis
Adam HochschildDan VerganoReading Adam Hochschild’s American Midnight, out last year. A terrific history of the Espionage Act, Palmer Raids, and look into the hate-filled, still festering, heart of anti-immigrant Amerika. https://t.co/0qfnTusuAx
Paperback, 2023
$24.99$12.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Sunbelt Blues: The Failure of American Housing
Andrew RossDan VerganoRT @daniel_dsj2110: Saritha Ramakrishna reviews: Andrew Ross's "Sunbelt Blues: The Failure of American Housing": https://t.co/4CCd5unoj0
Paperback, 2022
$20.99$10.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book