David Dayen 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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Servants of the Damned: The Dark Side of American Law
David EnrichDavid DayenLove this review of @davidenrich's Servants of the Damned,which focuses on Jones Day as an avatar of the corruption of the legal profession. It's written by @BMillRep, who worked for Jones Day in 1977-78 while in law school, & saw its evolution first-hand. https://t.co/mNiPT1xoE9
Paperback, 2023
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Price Wars: How the Commodities Markets Made Our Chaotic World
Rupert RussellDavid DayenThis excellent review by Tim Sahay (@70sBachchan) of a new book about commodity markets, Price Wars, explains how Putin's aggression has coincided with oil price peaks in 2008, 2014, and today, inflated by the West's financial centers. https://prospect.org/culture/books/how-high-energy-prices-emboldened-putin-russell-review/
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Sports and Fitness
Virginia Loh-HaganDavid DayenCongratulations to @DerrickZJackson for winning the first-place prize for Sports and Fitness writing at the American Society of Journalists and Authors Annual Writing Awards for his @TheProspect piece from last year on Hank Aaron: https://prospect.org/culture/hank-aaron-still-stands-alone/
Hardcover, 2021
$32.07$16.03 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Bloggers on the Bus: How the Internet Changed Politics and the Press
Eric BoehlertDavid DayenTerrible news about Eric Boehlert. The first time I was ever mentioned in a book was in Boehlert's Bloggers on the Bus, where he told a story about a "MyDD blogger" (it me). RIP, just awful news https://t.co/cxlRze1EJl
Paperback, 2010
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The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens Our Businesses, Infantilizes Our Governments, and Warps Our Economies
Mariana MazzucatoDavid DayenAdam Lowenstein reviews Maria Mazzucato and Rosie Collington's The Big Con, on Big Consulting's capture-and-extract playbook: https://t.co/T67CfXNxVf
Hardcover, 2023
$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Power Play: Tesla, Elon Musk, and the Bet of the Century
Tim HigginsDavid DayenAll the world's secrets are in books, and Tim Higgins' Power Play showed a year ago that this is also exactly how Musk ran Tesla. He just lucked out with federal largesse. https://t.co/abr1JUEI5r
Paperback, 2022
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Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law
Leah RothsteinDavid DayenGot a Q&A here with Leah Rothstein about the book she wrote with her father, "Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law." @gurleygg conducts the Q&A. https://t.co/JF0lNZSKFv
Hardcover, 2023
$25.00$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Ulysses
James JoyceDavid Dayen@matthewstoller Every June the James Joyce Society of Philadelphia reads Ulysses cover to cover in a public 24-hour display Every September in Miami a guy in a muscle shirt loses his alimony money on crypto
Paperback, 1990
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Common Good Constitutionalism
Adrian VermeuleDavid DayenFrom our latest issue, Micah Schwartzmann and Richard Schragger review Adrian Vermeule's Common Good Constitutionalism, which fails to adequately explain what the "common good" is, masking his vision of a state subordinated to religious ends: https://prospect.org/culture/books/what-common-good-vermeule-review/
Hardcover, 2022
$69.95$44.95 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
The Privatization of Everything: How the Plunder of Public Goods Transformed America and How We Can Fight Back
Donald CohenDavid DayenNext we have a review of The Privatization of Everything, Donald Cohen and Allen Mikaelian's book about the hazards selling off the public commons. From Mark Levinson: https://t.co/7Qx7Fpyt6x
Paperback, 2023
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book