Jonathan M. Katz theracket.news Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Author of GANGSTERS OF CAPITALISM and THE BIG TRUCK THAT WENT BY. Newsletter: https://t.co/flAHoHbuRM Signal: 1-540-999-8238 Avi by @mollycrabapple See you on Bluesky
History in Three Keys: The Boxers as Event, Experience, and Myth
Paul CohenJonathan M. Katz theracket.news@sean_raycraft @maddow Definitely Paul Cohen's History in Three Keys.
Paperback, 1998
$40.00$20.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire
Jonathan M. KatzJonathan M. Katz theracket.newsThe $2.99 sale on the GANGSTERS OF CAPITALISM ebook is going until Sunday. Makes a great pair with the @audible_com book read by Adam Barr. Thanks to @StMartinsPress for doing this! https://t.co/nBYC9jlQ4y
Paperback, 2023
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
And the Band Played on: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
Randy ShiltsJonathan M. Katz theracket.newsIf anyone cares, the journalist was Randy Shilts in 1987 in “And the Band Played On.” He saw a reference to the flight attendant Gaëtan Dugas as “patient O.” (The O stood for “Out of California.”) He assumed that meant Dugas was the case before the first case and ran with it.
Paperback, 2007
$25.00$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time
Jeffrey D. SachsJonathan M. Katz theracket.newsI’m proud to say I’ve thought Jeffrey Sachs was an idiot since “The End of Poverty” https://t.co/LpD0GSXEEF
Paperback, 2006
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
1984: The Graphic Novel
George OrwellJonathan M. Katz theracket.news@Noahpinion @ThomasMCat Oh I can articulate why. It’s because it was stupid, strawmanish bullshit that required a complete lack of knowledge of human relationships, 21st Century US culture, the word “power,” the writings of George Orwell and the text of 1984 all at once.
Hardcover, 2021
$24.99$12.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Regarded Self: Caribbean Womanhood and the Ethics of Disorderly Being
Kaiama L. GloverJonathan M. Katz theracket.newsWe also talk a bit about @inthewhirld’s new book A Regarded Self: Caribbean Womanhood and the Ethics of Disorderly Being. Which also has zombies in it! https://t.co/cqycpOKd7h
Paperback, 2020
$27.95$13.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture
Angela Y. DavisJonathan M. Katz theracket.newsTwo year old currently running around the living room with a copy of Angela Davis’ Abolition Democracy and singing “Dayenu.” Parenting wins all around.
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Nothing: Surprising Insights Everywhere from Zero to Oblivion
New ScientistJonathan M. Katz theracket.newsTen years later, one of that chapter’s authors, Northwestern University political scientist Wesley Skogan, reaffirmed in a new paper: “We [still] know virtually nothing about the short- or long-term effects associated with police training of any type.”
Paperback, 2014
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book