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.

City of Nets
Otto Friedrich
@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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All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs
Elie Wiesel
@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 thatâs often viewed askance by survivors for being loaded with misleading self-help bromides? Itâs a right-wing tech bloggerâs list
Paperback, 1996
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Abraham Lincoln
John D. Long
The pop-music equivalent of learning that one of the witnesses to Abraham Lincolnâs assassination lived long enough to talk about it on TV is learning that the musicians on Tom Jonesâs 1965 hit âItâs Not Unusualâ included Jimmy Page and the future Elton John
Paperback, 2019
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2001: A Space Odyssey
Arthur C. Clarke
@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 ânovelizationâ (but it was)
Paperback, Mass Market, 2000
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Kiss the Red Stairs: The Holocaust, Once Removed
Marsha Lederman
Iâve been reading âŠ@marshaledermanâ©âs 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 whatâs left out https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-what-the-holocaust-took-from-us/
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