John Avlon Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

John Avlon

Stunned to hear of Martin Amis’ death. He was one of my favorite writers - funny, sharp, wise - someone I read not just for pleasure, but for nourishment: his novels (London Fields, Time’s Arrow) & non-fiction (The Moronic Inferno, Visiting Mrs Nabokov.) His voice will live on.

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Look what just arrived! Congrats to @RichardHurowitz on the upcoming publication of In the Garden of the Righteous. The book came out of some pieces we published at The Daily Beast and I can’t wait to dig in to the full thing. https://t.co/Lsuh7qvre1

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Rock 'n Roll, Politics & History - in a new book by @RonBrownstein? Sign me up - Rock Me On the Water comes out next Tuesday, buy an advance copy here, or better yet, reserve at your local independent bookstore: https://t.co/Diw8qkpzAo

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Re-upping this brilliant 2017 story by the late great Chris Dickey looking at Dylann Roof’s prison interviews and concludes that he’s a best understood as a “Jihadist for White Hate.” https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-the-head-of-dylann-roof-a-terrorist-paradigm

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Huge congrats to our friend @PoppyHarlowCNN on the publication of her new Xmas Children’s book - The Biggest Little Boy - it is awesome as is she (and, seriously, what can’t she do?) - congrats and buy a copy for your friends and family - link here: https://www.amazon.com/Biggest-Little-Boy-Christmas-Story/dp/0593204573 https://t.co/fCO37tE8d4

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“Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader, cannot do that, and so it is always the herd men who win battles and the free men who win wars.” - John Steinbeck, The Moon is Down.

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There's a lot of talk about a Second Civil War. The latest episode of Reality Check: Extremist Beast on @CNN - digs deep into the history of this threat with Howard University historian Edna Greene Medford and @elspethreeve - check https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2022/01/06/civil-war-jan-6-reality-check-orig.cnn

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"The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar" was one of the stories that inspired me to become a writer - & remains one of my favorites. So you can imagine how psyched I am to learn that Wes Anderson, one of my favorite directors, is taking it on next: https://gizmodo.com/wes-anderson-is-bringing-marvel-talent-to-his-next-roal-1848321941

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What a way to begin the book tour! Waking up to a great review in the NYT from Allen Guelzo: “In this elegant, almost conversational, exposition of Lincoln the ‘soulful centrist,’ the 16th president appears as the reconciler in chief.” Thank you! https://t.co/Row9Fw6T7r

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“A Democratic thief is as bad as a Republican thief.” - Grover Cleveland, quoted in the excellent new biography “A Man of Iron” by @troy_senik

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