Hidden Persuaders 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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Hidden Persuaders: Brainwashing, Culture, Clinical Knowledge and the Cold War Human Sciences, funded by the Wellcome Trust and based at Birkbeck

Birkbeck: 200 Years of Radical Learning for Working People
Joanna Bourke
Joanna Bourke @bourke_joanna on Cold War intelligence, Uri Geller and Birkbeck College @Birkbeck1 in the 1970s. @theparamuseum #parapsychology https://t.co/bT0LeVFCRq
Hardcover, 2022
$51.00$26.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control
Stephen Kinzer
@MikeJayNet reviews @Stephenkinzer's recent book "Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control https://t.co/ig3xiPoGkU
Paperback, 2020
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Politics: Ideas in Profile
David Runciman
Jill Lapore talks to David Runciman @TPpodcast about her new book on the Simulmatics Corporation, 1960s politics and the destructive power of tech. Do the machines really decide who is going to win presidential elections? https://t.co/VSydzcKEiZ
Paperback, 2015
$12.95$6.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future
Jill Lepore
On BBC Radio 4 this week, a radio serialisation of Jill Lepore's "If Then". https://t.co/pHAPsj1KqC
Paperback, 2021
$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Internal Racism: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Race and Difference
M. Fakhry Davids
Fakhry Davids - psychoanalyst and author of "Internal Racism" and @sallyweintrobe - psychoanalyst and author of "Engaging with Climate Change" will be in dialogue on "Fragility in the time of Covid-19" 17th November 8:15pm. Chaired by Daniel Pick. @theIoPA https://t.co/a7vdGV6IeA
Paperback, 2011
$47.95$23.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Remembering as Reparation: Psychoanalysis and Historical Memory
Karl Figlio
Now available to read in ‘Psychoanalysis and History’, @NaomiRichman reviews Gavin Miller’s new book about the influence of Christian theology & New Age spirituality on leading C20th Scottish psychotherapists like R.D. Laing @EdinburghUP https://t.co/ewgIuAcmFr https://t.co/eeh42l4MjU
Paperback, 2018
$27.99$13.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Empire of Depression: A New History
Jonathan Sadowsky
Book : The Empire of Depression: A New History, by Jonathan Sadowsky https://t.co/0A7a91D2ib via @_Hmadness
Hardcover, 2020
$35.00$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Quiet Americans: Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War
Scott Anderson
Interesting review of Scott Anderson's new book on the CIA: 'The Quiet Americans' - The Making of the “Good CIA” https://t.co/LyWGiXTSQy @CulturesColdWar @ColdWarPod @coldwarhist #CIA
Paperback, 2021
$22.00$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book