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

Modern Housing for America: Policy Struggles in the New Deal Era
Gail Radford
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
The Last Revolutionaries: The Conspiracy Trial of Gracchus Babeuf and the Equals
Laura Mason
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![Book Cover for: Visions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976-1991 /]cpiero Gleijeses, Piero Gleijeses](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9781469628325.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1752520616)
Visions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976-1991 /]cpiero Gleijeses
Piero Gleijeses
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
Combat Trauma: Imaginaries of War and Citizenship in Post-9/11 America
Nadia Abu El-Haj
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
The Emancipation Circuit: Black Activism Forging a Culture of Freedom
Thulani Davis
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)
The China Boom: Why China Will Not Rule the World
Ho-Fung Hung
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
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
David Graeber
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
Worldmaking After Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination
Adom Getachew
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
Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che
Max Elbaum
@SeoirseThomais I did Revolution in the air w Max Elbaum
Paperback, 2018
$29.95$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Brazil: Neoliberalism Versus Democracy
Alfredo Saad-Filho
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