David Schleicher Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

David Schleicher

Ooh, a weekend must read! Driver and Briker challenge "the standard account" of Brown v. Board by showing that arguments (like Derrick Bell's) that portray it "as a product of the Cold War" fail to see that segregationists also claimed to be Cold Warriors https://review.law.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2022/03/Briker-Driver-74-Stan.-L.-Rev.-447.pdf

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The one thing to add to this is that "machine v. reform" created a form of party competition, as Esther Fuchs argues in her classic book Mayors and Money. https://twitter.com/MarketUrbanism/status/1530007821927972882

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@AdamG_MB Hah! That would actually be a great gimmick for a 21st century piece of art, a choose your own adventure set in a spreadsheet. A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan used powerpoint in a novel. This may be next!

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Am very excited for the new edition of Ilya Somin's book, Free to Move, out today!!! Lots of new stuff on migration and pandemics, working from home and other things https://t.co/u4iAAB1VqM

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🚨🚨New Pod!🚨🚨Was there a neo-liberal era and is it over? Am I the worst? @samuelmoyn and I talk with @GaryGerstle about his new book The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order. https://t.co/lUU3fXUBzM

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You can buy it here Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It https://t.co/EBxF5hClS3

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Also, this captures the ideas of Paul Sabin’s Public Citizens almost perfectly - it’s a must read to understand the history of how we got to a place where a homeowner can sue and stop in its tracks the growth of one of our great public institutions https://t.co/qEWKY7U9OW https://t.co/8QIKn5CjTN

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🚨🚨New Pod!🚨🚨 The excellent @JulieCSuk joins @samuelmoyn and me on the Digging a Hole podcast to talk about her book “After Misogyny: How the Law Fails Women and What to Do about It”. Check it out! https://t.co/BTfIK78JYg

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🚨🚨New Pod!! 🚨🚨 The great @leah_boustan and Ran Abramitzky talk with @samuelmoyn and me about the economics of immigration and their terrific book “Streets of Gold.” https://t.co/3RHVnwEtCn

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Starting today, there will be a symposium on Balkinization about my new book, In a Bad State: Responding to State and Local Budget Crises! Thanks to the great @jackbalkin and all of the contributors. I'm so excited for this! https://t.co/cnAh4VotXo