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Daniel Denvir Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Host Jacobin's @thedigradio podcast. Author of All-American Nativism from @versobooks. Organizing for housing justice @reclaimri.

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Book Cover for: Modern Housing for America: Policy Struggles in the New Deal Era, Gail Radford

Modern Housing for America: Policy Struggles in the New Deal Era

Gail Radford
Daniel DenvirDaniel Denvir

New Dig: Gail Radford on her '96 book Modern Housing for America, which has been rediscovered and treasured by new generation of housing and tenant organizers looking back to the 30s to explore how social housing might respond to today's escalating crisis. https://t.co/oURMm8JQoM

Paperback, 1997

$40.00$20.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Last Revolutionaries: The Conspiracy Trial of Gracchus Babeuf and the Equals, Laura Mason

The Last Revolutionaries: The Conspiracy Trial of Gracchus Babeuf and the Equals

Laura Mason
Daniel DenvirDaniel Denvir

New @thedigradio ep w Laura Mason on The Last Revolutionaries: The Conspiracy Trial of Gracchus Babeuf and the Equals. The fascinating story of Babeuf and the Directory through which Mason makes a good case that it's time to study how the French Rev ended https://t.co/01HKSSEz1u

Hardcover, 2022

$35.00$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Visions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976-1991 /]cpiero Gleijeses, Piero Gleijeses

Visions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976-1991 /]cpiero Gleijeses

Piero Gleijeses
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Jacobin just published an edited transcript of my Dig interview with Piero Gleijeses on Visions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria, and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976–1991. https://t.co/FgtXeIXz4a

Paperback, 2016

$40.00$20.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Combat Trauma: Imaginaries of War and Citizenship in Post-9/11 America, Nadia Abu El-Haj

Combat Trauma: Imaginaries of War and Citizenship in Post-9/11 America

Nadia Abu El-Haj
Daniel DenvirDaniel Denvir

Second of two-part interview w Nadia Abu El-Haj on her book Combat Trauma. In this ep we analyze culture of American militarism more generally—including what it means that agents of state violence across the board turn to the grammar of identity politics. https://t.co/92Ml89ygTF

Paperback, 2022

$29.95$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Emancipation Circuit: Black Activism Forging a Culture of Freedom, Thulani Davis

The Emancipation Circuit: Black Activism Forging a Culture of Freedom

Thulani Davis
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New @thedigradio ep! @temne on The Emancipation Circuit: Black Activism Forging a Culture of Freedom. A hugely expansive history of freedpeople organizing amid the Civil War and Reconstruction—and how its legacy transformed Black struggle and US history. https://t.co/CYqKe7WuxO

Hardcover, 2022

$119.95$94.95 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
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Book Cover for: The China Boom: Why China Will Not Rule the World, Ho-Fung Hung

The China Boom: Why China Will Not Rule the World

Ho-Fung Hung
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The China Boom by @hofunghung is just such a goddamn remarkable book. https://t.co/CaQiY6cPdh

Paperback, 2017

$26.00$13.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, David Graeber

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

David Graeber
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Another truly stellar Dig episode not hosted by me: @astradisastra interviews @davidwengrow on The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, his new book co-authored with the late David Graeber https://t.co/5A25OXSiAA

Paperback, 2023

$25.00$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Worldmaking After Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination, Adom Getachew

Worldmaking After Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination

Adom Getachew
Daniel DenvirDaniel Denvir

This week's Dig episode is from the archives and pairs really nicely with last week's @KojoKoram interview. It's Adom Getachew on her book Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination. https://t.co/WtCmZGQxFH

Paperback, 2020

$28.95$14.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che, Max Elbaum

Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che

Max Elbaum
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@SeoirseThomais I did Revolution in the air w Max Elbaum

Paperback, 2018

$29.95$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Brazil: Neoliberalism Versus Democracy, Alfredo Saad-Filho

Brazil: Neoliberalism Versus Democracy

Alfredo Saad-Filho
Daniel DenvirDaniel Denvir

I'll be discussing Brazil w Alfredo Saad-Filho and @safbf soon: What articles/essays in English or Spanish (can't read Portuguese) should I read to prep? My first interview w Alfredo was on what led up to Bolsonaro. This one will be on what's happened since and what may come next

Paperback, 2018

$31.95$15.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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