E. J. McCarthy 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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The Learning Tree
Gordon Parks
RT @Criterion: With THE LEARNING TREE, Gordon Parks not only became the first Black American director to make a Hollywood studio film, he a…
Hardcover, 1987
$20.40$10.20 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Learning Tree
Gordon Parks
RT @Criterion: With THE LEARNING TREE, Gordon Parks not only became the first Black American director to make a Hollywood studio film, he a…
Paperback, Mass Market, 1987
$8.99$4.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Happiness: Essential Mindfulness Practices
Thich Nhat Hanh
Thich Nhat Hanh on Life, War, and Happiness https://t.co/cIFxmhOIUu
Paperback, 2009
$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"My grandfather Scott had died in 1940. During the Depression his books had essentially fallen out of print. A Fitzgerald revival began in the 1940s, when special armed services editions of The Great Gatsby were distributed to U.S. troops in World War II." https://t.co/y3HU57ioqF
Paperback, 2004
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Ulysses: Second Edition
James Joyce
How Random House publisher Bennett Cerf got James Joyce's Ulysses into the United States https://t.co/O42HXABnOm via @IrishCentral
Paperback, 2022
$12.95$6.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga
Hunter S. Thompson
Sonny Barger, figurehead of Hells Angels, dies at 83. He served as the main character in Hunter Thompson's 1966 expose “Hell's Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs.” https://t.co/bywn2mryIA
Paperback, 1996
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The War of Words: How America's GI Journalists Battled Censorship and Propaganda to Help Win World War II
Molly Guptill Manning
Starred review! PW praises @MGManning1's THE WAR OF WORDS: "An eye-opening account....Manning's vital study draws liberally and poignantly on soldiers’ own words. It’s an essential contribution to the history of WWII." Coming in September from Blackstone. https://t.co/MeVpJjA2Rh
Hardcover, 2023
$25.99$12.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Catch-22
Joseph Heller
RT @jeromenicolas76: 7) In Joseph Heller's 1952 novel Catch 22, there's a character who is just called "the Texan" who felt that "people of…
Paperback, 2011
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Great Gatsby *
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"My grandfather Scott had died in 1940. During the Depression his books had essentially fallen out of print. A Fitzgerald revival began in the 1940s, when special armed services editions of The Great Gatsby were distributed to U.S. troops in World War II." https://t.co/y3HU57ioqF
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The Panzer Killers: The Untold Story of a Fighting General and His Spearhead Tank Division's Charge Into the Third Reich
Daniel P. Bolger
Daniel Bolger interview on The Panzer Killers: "There were those that eschewed publicity and wanted nothing more than to stop the Nazi scourge. Enter General Maurice Rose, the son of a Rabbi, he led the 3rd Armored Division from the front, in a jeep." https://t.co/FhQL3SIA9o
Paperback, 2022
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book