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Jennifer Berkshire 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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Heartlander at heart. Podcasting about education, policy and politics @HaveYouHeardPod. Co-author of A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door. Irrationally exuberant.

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Book Cover for: Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism, Melinda Cooper

Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism

Melinda Cooper
Jennifer BerkshireJennifer Berkshire

Reading Melinda Cooper's amazing book Family Values and I'm genuinely surprised we haven't seen trans kids blamed for spiking inflation https://t.co/pOMAHo9VE4

Paperback, 2019

$21.95$10.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right, Matthew Dallek

Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right

Matthew Dallek
Jennifer BerkshireJennifer Berkshire

My beach read is @mattdallek's excellent new book Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right. Such a familiar tale! https://t.co/MCs8iDe6vL

Hardcover, 2023

$32.00$16.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Battle for the American Mind: Uprooting a Century of Miseducation, Pete Hegseth

Battle for the American Mind: Uprooting a Century of Miseducation

Pete Hegseth
Jennifer BerkshireJennifer Berkshire

Here's Pete Hegseth, author of the best selling Battle for the American Mind, arguing that a Taliban-like insurgency against public schools is needed to free kids from the grip of Marxists https://t.co/3jQdLyopch

Paperback, 2023

$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy, Elizabeth Gillespie McRae

Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy

Elizabeth Gillespie McRae
Jennifer BerkshireJennifer Berkshire

Reading Elizabeth Gillespie McRae's incredible Mothers of Massive Resistance for this week's seminar on the politics of public education & learning about the opposition to banning child labor under - wait for it - the guise of *parents rights* https://t.co/ORvqNz3p0w

Paperback, 2020

$30.99$15.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: After the Ivory Tower Falls: How College Broke the American Dream and Blew Up Our Politics--And How to Fix It, Will Bunch

After the Ivory Tower Falls: How College Broke the American Dream and Blew Up Our Politics--And How to Fix It

Will Bunch
Jennifer BerkshireJennifer Berkshire

Fresh @haveyouheardpod We talk to @Will_Bunch about how college/non-college became the bitter fault line in our politics. And be sure to check out Will’s fantastic new book, After the Ivory Tower Falls https://t.co/1ufF0YS3RQ

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Book Cover for: The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market, Naomi Oreskes

The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market

Naomi Oreskes
Jennifer BerkshireJennifer Berkshire

@anndaraabrams Very Victorian. Check out Naomi Oreskes & Erik Conway's The Big Myth as part of your reading/thinking!

Hardcover, 2023

$35.00$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Democracy's Child: Young People and the Politics of Control, Leverage, and Agency, Alison L. Gash

Democracy's Child: Young People and the Politics of Control, Leverage, and Agency

Alison L. Gash
Jennifer BerkshireJennifer Berkshire

And a shout out to @AlisonGash and Dan Tichenor for their amazing new book Democracy's Child Young People and the Politics of Control, Leverage, and Agency https://t.co/cIMZX8QFSG

Hardcover, 2022

$32.99$16.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Willful Defiance: The Movement to Dismantle the School-To-Prison Pipeline, Mark R. Warren

Willful Defiance: The Movement to Dismantle the School-To-Prison Pipeline

Mark R. Warren
Jennifer BerkshireJennifer Berkshire

Have a new episode of @HaveYouHeardPod out tomorrow about the success of the movement to dismantle the school to prison pipeline (and why that success feels so precarious now). Thanks @El_Jemedari & @mark_r_warren for the wisdom https://t.co/hLEyYBeBVH

Paperback, 2021

$25.99$12.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Hostages No More: The Fight for Education Freedom and the Future of the American Child, Betsy Devos

Hostages No More: The Fight for Education Freedom and the Future of the American Child

Betsy Devos
Jennifer BerkshireJennifer Berkshire

*Defeat is painful, of course, but it can be clarifying.* Betsy DeVos, Hostages No More

Hardcover, 2022

$29.00$14.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Left Behind: The Democrats' Failed Attempt to Solve Inequality, Lily Geismer

Left Behind: The Democrats' Failed Attempt to Solve Inequality

Lily Geismer
Jennifer BerkshireJennifer Berkshire

New @haveyouheard features @LGeismer discussing her fantastic book Left Behind: the Democrats' Failed Attempt to Solve Inequality. Such a good episode! https://t.co/IjsbGH85ti

Hardcover, 2022

$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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