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Doug Saunders 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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International-Affairs Columnist, The Globe and Mail. Richard von WeizsÀcker Fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy. Author of Arrival City, Maximum Canada, etc.

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Book Cover for: City of Nets, Otto Friedrich

City of Nets

Otto Friedrich
Doug SaundersDoug Saunders

@foxyforecaster @chribreuer If you get the chance, you have to read the book City of Nets by Otto Friedrich, about how all of them adjusted to living in LA and (in most of their cases) working for the studios. Spoiler: Not well

Paperback, 2019

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Book Cover for: All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs, Elie Wiesel

All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs

Elie Wiesel
Doug SaundersDoug Saunders

@ChristieMacFad @Znapkel_Zeppo Why, instead of Primo Levi or Elie Wiesel or Irene Nemirovsky or one of the many well-regarded memoirs of that horror, does the list choose the one that’s often viewed askance by survivors for being loaded with misleading self-help bromides? It’s a right-wing tech blogger’s list

Paperback, 1996

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Book Cover for: Abraham Lincoln, John D. Long

Abraham Lincoln

John D. Long
Doug SaundersDoug Saunders

The pop-music equivalent of learning that one of the witnesses to Abraham Lincoln’s assassination lived long enough to talk about it on TV is learning that the musicians on Tom Jones’s 1965 hit “It’s Not Unusual” included Jimmy Page and the future Elton John

Paperback, 2019

$13.95$6.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: 2001: A Space Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke

2001: A Space Odyssey

Arthur C. Clarke
Doug SaundersDoug Saunders

@Znapkel_Zeppo I like all Arthur C Clarke. In fact he once wrote me an angry letter from Sri Lanka when I called 2001 a “novelization” (but it was)

Paperback, Mass Market, 2000

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Book Cover for: Kiss the Red Stairs: The Holocaust, Once Removed, Marsha Lederman

Kiss the Red Stairs: The Holocaust, Once Removed

Marsha Lederman
Doug SaundersDoug Saunders

I’ve been reading ⁊@marshalederman⁩’s KISS THE RED STAIRS: THE HOLOCAUST, ONCE REMOVED, a deeply engaging and surprisingly funny account of how the Nazi genocide messes with Jewish family lives a generation on. Here she talks about what’s left out https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-what-the-holocaust-took-from-us/

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