Katrina vandenHeuvel Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Katrina van den Heuvel is publisher and editorial director of The Nation. The Nation's Editorial Director and Publisher

Challenging Authority: How Ordinary People Change America
Frances Fox Piven
Challenging Authority: How Ordinary People Change America (2006) by Frances Fox Piven is one of “Five Essential Texts About Democracy” writes Corey Robin in the current edition of Jacobin.
Paperback, 2008
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Dirt Road Revival: How to Rebuild Rural Politics and Why Our Future Depends on It
Chloe Maxmin
"What Democrats Don’t Understand About Rural America"/Chloe Maxmin, 29, is youngest female state senator in Maine’s history.Canyon Woodward ran her 2 campaigns.Their forthcoming book is “Dirt Road Revival.” (Chloe was one of first @thenation fellow!) https://t.co/uInA26nbrT
Paperback, 2023
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Deception: Russiagate and the New Cold War
Richard Sakwa
Professor Richard Sakwa offers cold-eyed, meticulous and needed challenge — Deception: Russiagate and the New Cold War - https://t.co/zv27Tt09s6
Paperback, 2023
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Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver
What “Demon Copperhead” Gets Right About Appalachia /Barbara Kingsolver’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel shows the reality of the opioid and foster care crises in the region without resorting to stale stereotypes. https://t.co/UNAB7vgOzm
Paperback, 2024
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Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War
Svetlana Alexievich
Svetlana Alexievich's 'Zinky Boys' gives voice to the voiceless, to those who returned in 1989 from Soviet’s Afghan War, 1000 returned in “zinky” coffins or body bags /https://t.co/RBt2Azod7x
Paperback, 2023
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Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy
Jamie Raskin
Rep Jamie Raskin on “Capehart” podcast -talking about his new & extraordinarily moving book, “Unthinkable:Trauma,Truth,and the Trials of American Democracy.”
Paperback, 2023
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To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness
Robin Coste Lewis
Robin Coste Lewis receives PEN 🖊️ Voelcker Award for Poetry collection—To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness//Decolonizing Time
Hardcover, 2022
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The First Amendment Lives on: Conversations Commemorating Hugh M. Hefner's Legacy of Enduring Free Speech and Free Press Values
Stuart N. Brotman
Terrific piece by Stuart Brotman whose new collection, THE FIRST AMENDMENT LIVES ON, is an important read at any time, especially in these— George Carlin’s American Dream Celebrates the First Amendment https://insidesources.com/george-carlins-american-dream-celebrates-the-first-amendment/
Hardcover, 2022
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Regrettable
Rita Lumpkin
PEN America: "Regrettable" that Elizabeth Gilbert Delayed Publication of New Novel Set in Russia https://t.co/Tcdb8k2m9E
Paperback, 2014
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American Prometheus: The Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture OPPENHEIMER
Kai Bird
Moving,resonant memorial tribute to Martin Sherwin this aft in DC—Prize-winning Biographer of Robert Oppenheimer, AMERICAN PROMETHEUS….2006/ (with Kai Bird)..He was also a wonderfully wise historian of dangers of Cuban Missile Crisis & of nuclear era/ ….https://t.co/0CwtDX6LcY
Paperback, 2006
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