Harvard University Press Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Born #OTD in 1854, Oscar Wilde famously said that The Picture of Dorian Gray “contains much of me”: Basil Hallward is “what I think I am,” Lord Henry “what the world thinks me,” and “Dorian what I would like to be—in other ages, perhaps.” https://t.co/SH4VlJwb8s

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James Hankins sat down with @heymiller to discuss his new book, Political Meritocracy in Renaissance Italy on @NRO's The Bookmonger: Listen here: https://t.co/tDUIrSo2w7

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Spotted at Barbara's Bookstore at Chicago's @fly2ohare: Traveling Black by @mia__bay Fearless Women by @Elizabeth_Cobbs #ReadUP in the friendly skies! 📚✈️ https://t.co/FQts4ndqWJ

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In Iron and Blood, Peter H. Wilson offers a masterful reappraisal of German militarism and warfighting over the last five centuries, leading to the rise of Prussia and the world wars. We talked with him about the book: https://t.co/neHXl5y3uF

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In his new book, The Brethren, Brendan McConville takes us inside the plot undertaken by a group of North Carolina "loyalists" to kill their state's Governor. Read an excerpt from the book in @TIME: https://t.co/WkvyAEcAWt

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In A Full-Value Ruble, @kristy_ironside has done a great service in illuminating this little-known [Soviet] experience. It should be required reading for anyone contemplating MMT. Read a review in @CentralBanking_: https://www.centralbanking.com/central-banks/currency/7948221/book-notes-a-full-value-ruble-by-kristy-ironside

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Marcel Proust died #OTD in 1922. Discover the early drafts of In Search of Lost Time for the first time in English. The Seventy-Five Folios and Other Unpublished Manuscripts is coming to a bookseller near you in April. #Proust100 https://t.co/9dCVWqqknA https://t.co/N5aO2I7CB3

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In The Loss of Hindustan, @sepoy explores the historical concept of Hindustan and reveals how, through the colonial era, it came to be replaced with the modern idea of India. He discussed his @CundillPrize shortlisted book with @HistoryExtra. Listen: https://www.historyextra.com/period/victorian/how-hindustan-became-india-podcast-manan-ahmed-asif/

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Today marks John Keats birthday and the publication date of Susan J. Wolfson’s book, A Greeting of the Spirit: Selected Poetry of John Keats with Commentaries. We’d like to honor both by sharing Keats’s poem “To Autumn" along with Wolfson's commentary: https://t.co/8RF6F5xmzL https://t.co/vhZ5zc9ZIE

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One reason it’s so timely to learn about Black political leaders during Reconstruction is because we have an unprecedented wave of new laws that are meant to suppress voters—specifically African-American voters, says Hattiesburg's @william_sturkey. @TIME https://t.co/56njFjuDXx

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