Jacqueline Antonovich 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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Historian of medicine, gender, & politics in the American West. Creator & Executive Editor Emerita, @nursingclio.

Why I Burned My Book
Paul Longmore
@iworkwithmyword @washingtonpost They are denied benefits anyway for jobs they can't take because they don't exist. But yes, there are all sorts of bigger problems with disability benefits. I would recommend reading Paul Longmore's Why I Burned My Book, if you're interested.
Paperback, 2003
$31.95$15.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Education: A Summary of the February 2010 Forum on the Future of Nursing
Institute of Medicine
Super excited to head off next week to Kahn Liberal Arts Institute at Smith College to give a public lecture & participate in the Friday seminar as part of their multidisciplinary research project, Health & Medicine, Culture & Society: Crossroads in a Liberal Arts Education. https://t.co/c8OgWvcJ7e
Paperback, 2010
$29.00$14.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
Patrick Stewart has joined TikTok and he is spending the next 12 days reading excerpts from Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. That is all.
Paperback, Mass Market, 1986
$5.99$2.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Storming Caesars Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty
Annelise Orleck
I'm in the middle of writing my syllabus for my Gender & Jim Crow class and I've serendipitously discovered that @AnneliseOrleck1's book Storming Caesar's Palace has been turned into a documentary airing this March on PBS! https://t.co/dxhVuiSQXc
Paperback, 2023
$23.95$11.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Tori Amos: Little Earthquakes
Tori Amos
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Little Earthquakes, Tori Amos is turning it into a graphic novel (with Neil Gaiman contributing). https://t.co/KqiuzhStnm
Hardcover, 2022
$39.99$20.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Birthing a Slave: Motherhood and Medicine in the Antebellum South
Marie Jenkins Schwartz
@megankatenelson @nursingclio @WomensWest Birthing a Slave: Motherhood and Medicine in the Antebellum South by Marie Jenkins Schwartz.
Paperback, 2009
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid
One thing I did not expect in class today: One student mentioned that her favorite book is The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, and then 3/4 of the class erupted in discussion about how much they love this book. I guess I should read it?
Paperback, 2018
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America
Kathleen Belew
@NaomiRendina The crunchy-to-alt-right pipeline has a longer history than I think people realize! It also reminds me of @kathleen_belew’s chapter on gender and white supremacy in her book Bring the War Home
Paperback, 2019
$21.00$10.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia
Kathleen M. Brown
@skwithycombe @DrMartin1854 @KMassothPhD @refuge63 @sejr_historian @ShireLaurel @nevermetafence @GilmoreGlenda Yes! Glymph's first book, too. Also Kathleen Brown's book, Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs, and Louise Michele Newman's White Women's Rights: The Racial Origins of Feminism in the United States.
Paperback, 1996
$45.00$22.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Christmas Carol: The Original Classic Story by Charles Dickens - Great Christmas Gift for Booklovers
Charles Dickens
Patrick Stewart has joined TikTok and he is spending the next 12 days reading excerpts from Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. That is all.
Paperback, 2021
$13.99$6.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book