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.

Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism
Melinda Cooper
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
Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right
Matthew Dallek
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
Battle for the American Mind: Uprooting a Century of Miseducation
Pete Hegseth
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
Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy
Elizabeth Gillespie McRae
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
After the Ivory Tower Falls: How College Broke the American Dream and Blew Up Our Politics--And How to Fix It
Will Bunch
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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The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market
Naomi Oreskes
@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
Democracy's Child: Young People and the Politics of Control, Leverage, and Agency
Alison L. Gash
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
Willful Defiance: The Movement to Dismantle the School-To-Prison Pipeline
Mark R. Warren
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
Hostages No More: The Fight for Education Freedom and the Future of the American Child
Betsy Devos
*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
Left Behind: The Democrats' Failed Attempt to Solve Inequality
Lily Geismer
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