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Daniel Immerwahr Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Daniel Immerwahr is a historian. Historian, Northwestern U. | Author: How to Hide an Empire. ON TWITTER BREAK

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Book Cover for: Fantasy Island: Colonialism, Exploitation, and the Betrayal of Puerto Rico, Ed Morales

Fantasy Island: Colonialism, Exploitation, and the Betrayal of Puerto Rico

Ed Morales
Daniel ImmerwahrDaniel Immerwahr

@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

$32.00Member price:$16.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Puerto Rico in the American Century: A History Since 1898, César J. Ayala

Puerto Rico in the American Century: A History Since 1898

César J. Ayala
Daniel ImmerwahrDaniel Immerwahr

@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

$40.00Member price:$38.00 + Free shipping5% off
Book Cover for: Ridley Plays: 2, Philip Ridley

Ridley Plays: 2

Philip Ridley
Daniel ImmerwahrDaniel Immerwahr

Spielberg 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

$29.95Member price:$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Monument Wars: Washington, D.C., the National Mall, and the Transformation of the Memorial Landscape, Kirk Savage

Monument Wars: Washington, D.C., the National Mall, and the Transformation of the Memorial Landscape

Kirk Savage
Daniel ImmerwahrDaniel Immerwahr

@fired4horney @VBivar I do! Kirk Savage's Monument Wars is really, really good on this.

Paperback, 2011

$29.95Member price:$29.95 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
Book Cover for: Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis, Jared Diamond

Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis

Jared Diamond
Daniel ImmerwahrDaniel Immerwahr

My review of Jared Diamond's Upheaval for The New Republic. All thanks to my brilliant editor @lmlauramarsh. https://t.co/2oMsAD3fE7

Paperback, 2020

$22.99Member price:$11.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Oceans of Grain: How American Wheat Remade the World, Scott Reynolds Nelson

Oceans of Grain: How American Wheat Remade the World

Scott Reynolds Nelson
Daniel ImmerwahrDaniel Immerwahr

Nelson, 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

$32.00Member price:$16.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, Jared Diamond

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Jared Diamond
Daniel ImmerwahrDaniel Immerwahr

While 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

$19.95Member price:$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book