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David Friend 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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An editor @VanityFair; author, The Naughty 90s; Watching the World Change; The Meaning of Life; Emmy-winning producer, “9/11,” @MLKFBI @lakotanationdoc

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Book Cover for: Healing After Loss:: Daily Meditations for Working Through Grief, Martha W. Hickman

Healing After Loss:: Daily Meditations for Working Through Grief

Martha W. Hickman
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@seahorsebend Jenn, this book is invaluable. Healing After Loss By Martha Witmore Hickman. One meditation a day, 365 of them. Sending 🙏🏼 prayers https://t.co/48LJ3baDdx https://t.co/50VAYX2e6I

Paperback, 1994

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

James Joyce
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“History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake”—Stephen Dedalus in “A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man,” by James Joyce https://t.co/AomEp599ux

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Book Cover for: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Illustrated: Young Man, James Joyce

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Illustrated: Young Man

James Joyce
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“History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake”—Stephen Dedalus in “A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man,” by James Joyce https://t.co/AomEp599ux

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Book Cover for: The Society of the Spectacle, Guy Debord

The Society of the Spectacle

Guy Debord
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“What is false creates taste, and reinforces itself by knowingly eliminating any possible reference to the authentic. And what is genuine is reconstructed as quickly as possible, to resemble the false.” — Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle, 1967 https://t.co/WYzXRjsEqu

Paperback, 2021

$9.99$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House, Mark Felt

Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House

Mark Felt
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On the 50th anniv of Watergate, I’m honored to have spearheaded the 2005 @VanityFair exclusive, by John O’Connor, in which revealed a 33-yr-old secret: that “Deep Throat”—the confidential source for the @washingtonpost—had been none other than the FBI’s Mark Felt https://t.co/mAjvowet5O

Paperback, 2017

$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, Col Choat

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

Col Choat
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“History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake”—Stephen Dedalus in “A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man,” by James Joyce https://t.co/AomEp599ux

Paperback, 2018

$13.99$6.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Haywire: A Memoir, Brooke Hayward

Haywire: A Memoir

Brooke Hayward
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Rollicking review of Mark Rozzo’s book on 1960s LA & the collision of art, film, & rock through the prism of the marriage-gone-haywire of Dennis Hopper & Brooke Hayward & their counterculture clique https://t.co/sthsey1xr8

Paperback, 2011

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Fight of His Life: Inside Joe Biden's White House, Chris Whipple

The Fight of His Life: Inside Joe Biden's White House

Chris Whipple
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Man of the Hour. Chris Whipple at NYC book party for his great new Biden Admin tome “The Fight of His Life” @ccwhip @ScribnerBooks @WHCOS https://t.co/dqvxPR76XD

Paperback, 2023

$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: James Joyce (Historical, Literature) [Annotated], James Joyce

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: James Joyce (Historical, Literature) [Annotated]

James Joyce
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“History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake”—Stephen Dedalus in “A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man,” by James Joyce https://t.co/AomEp599ux

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Book Cover for: 1984: 75th Anniversary, George Orwell

1984: 75th Anniversary

George Orwell
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George Orwell, from “1984,” speaks volumes about America’s current totalitarian drift on the far-right. (Cited in Louis Menand’s “The Free World”) https://t.co/x5b0iQI9gZ

Paperback, Mass Market, 1950

$10.99$5.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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