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Jimmy Trillstein Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Book Cover for: Rittenhouse: The Saga of an American Family, Volume 2, J. D. Rittenhouse

Rittenhouse: The Saga of an American Family, Volume 2

J. D. Rittenhouse
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PROSECUTOR: now, it says here *flipping pages* ... you like Call of Duty RITTENHOUSE: yes PROSECUTOR: oh, so you only "like" video games, or do you "love" video games? RITTENHOUSE: lov-- PROSECUTOR: --but you've never read @hegelbon's 'Story Mode' have you Kyle!? RITTENHOUSE: https://t.co/1WzgW8GTvv

Hardcover, 2019

$29.99$14.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Anthem Rand by Ayn Rand: Novel, Ayn Rand

Anthem Rand by Ayn Rand: Novel

Ayn Rand
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anyone would be correct to imagine they’ve already read this tweet word for word in an Ayn Rand novel they were assigned in school about an architect with a Napoleon complex who beats his female secretary. https://t.co/J6rHJSet5U

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Book Cover for: Allegory of the Cave: Plato, Plato

Allegory of the Cave: Plato

Plato
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common thread between weird esoteric trad accounts and say mainstream conservative politics of Candace Owens, is they’ve become absolutely obsessed with Plato’s Allegory of the cave. That knowledge or education in any Western sense is liberalism flashing shadows on the wall.

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Book Cover for: Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle, Chris Hedges

Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle

Chris Hedges
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@Brock_toon the best is Chris Hedges in his typical deadpan reverence reciting a wrestling match for the intro to ‘Empire of Illusion’

Paperback, 2010

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Too Fat to Fish, Artie Lange

Too Fat to Fish

Artie Lange
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@willmenaker An abysmal rejection of the canon. no Artie Lange's 'Too Fat to Fish' either

Paperback, 2009

$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Teacher: Anne Sullivan Macy, Helen Keller

Teacher: Anne Sullivan Macy

Helen Keller
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@LeHarrumph ANNE SULLIVAN: just tell them how great of a teacher I am, Helen! [Helen Keller making garbled noises as her head is under a stream of running water] ANNE: exactly! Miracles do come true!

Hardcover, 1985

$95.00$70.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
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Book Cover for: Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation, Alexei Yurchak

Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation

Alexei Yurchak
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@jaubert_moniker the list is from Alexei Yurchak’s book ‘Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More’ which Adam Curtis used as the basis for ‘Hypernormalisation’. Actually a very good book. and the list is kinda surprisingly real: https://t.co/tu7W8wlhQQ

Paperback, 2005

$42.00$21.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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