Jennifer Schuessler Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Professing Criticism: Essays on the Organization of Literary Study
John GuilloryJennifer SchuesslerIn 1993, John Guillory published “Cultural Capital,” a dense study of the then-raging canon wars that has become a stealth classic. Now, in a follow-up, “Professing Criticism,” he takes on an even bigger question: What is literary criticism really for?
Paperback, 2022
$29.00$14.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Satanic Verses
Salman RushdieJennifer Schuessler"Even when 'The Satanic Verses' was published in 1988, the battle lines over free speech were not as neat as some remember." I wrote about attack on Salman Rushdie, & the long history of debates over the unfettered free speech he (reluctantly) symbolized https://t.co/u7CGaI1NwV
Paperback, 2008
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Liberalism and Its Discontents
Francis FukuyamaJennifer SchuesslerIf there's a nuclear-strength craft beer called The End of History packaged inside a taxidermied squirrel in the 6th graf, will it get drunk by the kicker??My story on Francis Fukuyama & his new book, a staunch defense of (classical) liberalism
Paperback, 2023
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Making It
Norman PodhoretzJennifer SchuesslerRIP Jason Epstein, whose falling out w Norman Podhoretz inspired this outrageously dishy 1972 NYT story Jason on NP’s memoir ‘Making It’: “Balzac should have written it, about somebody else” 🔥💀 Why Norman And Jason Aren't Talking - The New York Times https://t.co/ewLuUs1W7s
Paperback, 2017
$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
My Hijacking: A Personal History of Forgetting and Remembering
Martha HodesJennifer SchuesslerPrint’s still got it! I wrote about “My Hijacking,” Martha Hodes’s book about her experiences as a child hostage in an infamous 1970 hijacking, and the relationship between memory, personal experience and capital-H history https://t.co/zWGCDGLEX5 https://t.co/JwrPUPB3zU
Hardcover, 2023
$32.00$16.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Arguing about Slavery: John Quincy Adams and the Great Battle in the United States Congress
William Lee MillerJennifer Schuessler@brianros1 @BobCrawfordBass Super-psyched to slip in TWO shoutouts to William Lee Miller and his important book "Arguing About Slavery" 😎
Paperback, 1998
$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope
Sarah BakewellJennifer SchuesslerFor Bakewell, the essence of humanism lies not in grand ideas but the idiosyncrasies of individual experience — and the joyful strangeness of language itself.
Paperback, 2024
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Liberty Is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution
Woody HoltonJennifer SchuesslerSince we're talking 1776... This just in from @woodyholtonusc, whose big fat new book on the American Revolution, "Liberty Is Sweet," coming this fall, is sure to stir the pot (if it hasn't already boiled over completely by then!) https://t.co/Y4P5rVpoHS
Paperback, 2022
$23.99$11.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation
John GuilloryJennifer SchuesslerI wrote about John Guillory’s new book “Professing Criticism,” a sweeping account of the history (& predicament) of literary criticism His 1993 “Cultural Capital,” abt the 80s/90s canon wars, is a stealth classic — the GenX lit nerd’s “Reality Bites”? https://t.co/WgqXQm0c7b
Paperback, 1995
$34.00$17.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book