Daniel Immerwahr Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Daniel Immerwahr on XDaniel Immerwahr is a historian. Historian, Northwestern U. | Author: How to Hide an Empire. ON TWITTER BREAK

Fantasy Island: Colonialism, Exploitation, and the Betrayal of Puerto Rico
Ed Morales@JacksonHignite @bradleyrsimpson Ed Morales is coming out with one soon, Fantasy Island, that's a nice overview of PR politics. It deals with the hurricane, debt crisis, and so on.
Hardcover, 2019
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Puerto Rico in the American Century: A History Since 1898
César J. Ayala@JacksonHignite @bradleyrsimpson Ayala and Bernabe's Puerto Rico in the American Century is a terrific history that gets you pretty close to the present.
Paperback, 2009
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Ridley Plays: 2
Philip RidleySpielberg makes alien films (Close Encounters, E.T.), Scorsese options Philip K. Dick stories. De Palma tries to film Alfred Bester’s Demolished Man. George Lucas has some weird space opera idea. John Carpenter makes the Dark Star. And Ridley Scott does Alien. 2/ https://t.co/Xuwae0gMVL
Paperback, 2009
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Monument Wars: Washington, D.C., the National Mall, and the Transformation of the Memorial Landscape
Kirk Savage@fired4horney @VBivar I do! Kirk Savage's Monument Wars is really, really good on this.
Paperback, 2011
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Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
Jared DiamondMy review of Jared Diamond's Upheaval for The New Republic. All thanks to my brilliant editor @lmlauramarsh. https://t.co/2oMsAD3fE7
Paperback, 2020
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Oceans of Grain: How American Wheat Remade the World
Scott Reynolds NelsonNelson, an award-winning scholar, is quite serious about the world-ordering power of wheat. Moreover, his grain obsession is infectious. You begin the book a sober reader, calmly appreciating the complexity of historical causation, and you finish it a raving wheat monomaniac.
Hardcover, 2022
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Jared DiamondWhile researching Jared Diamond’s new book, one thing I found startled me. Guns, Germs, and Steel starts when Diamond happening on man named Yali, who had “never been outside New Guinea,” on the beach. Yali’s question—why do whites have so much?—is what launches the book. 1/ https://t.co/dMlz7yY64V
Paperback, 2017
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