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.
Jennifer Berkshire on XHeartlander 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 CooperReading 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
$22.95Member price:$11.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right
Matthew DallekMy 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
$32.00Member price:$16.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Battle for the American Mind: Uprooting a Century of Miseducation
Pete HegsethHere'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
$19.99Member price:$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy
Elizabeth Gillespie McRaeReading 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
$31.99Member price:$15.99 + 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 BunchFresh @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
$35.00Member price:$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Democracy's Child: Young People and the Politics of Control, Leverage, and Agency
Alison L. GashAnd 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
$33.99Member price:$33.99 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
Willful Defiance: The Movement to Dismantle the School-To-Prison Pipeline
Mark R. WarrenHave 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
$26.99Member price:$26.99 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount 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
$29.00Member price:$14.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Left Behind: The Democrats' Failed Attempt to Solve Inequality
Lily GeismerNew @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
$30.00Member price:$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book