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Katrina vandenHeuvel Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Katrina van den Heuvel is publisher and editorial director of The Nation. The Nation's Editorial Director and Publisher

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Book Cover for: Challenging Authority: How Ordinary People Change America, Frances Fox Piven

Challenging Authority: How Ordinary People Change America

Frances Fox Piven
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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

$34.00$17.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Dirt Road Revival: How to Rebuild Rural Politics and Why Our Future Depends on It, Chloe Maxmin

Dirt Road Revival: How to Rebuild Rural Politics and Why Our Future Depends on It

Chloe Maxmin
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"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

$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Deception: Russiagate and the New Cold War, Richard Sakwa

Deception: Russiagate and the New Cold War

Richard Sakwa
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Professor Richard Sakwa offers cold-eyed, meticulous and needed challenge — Deception: Russiagate and the New Cold War - https://t.co/zv27Tt09s6

Paperback, 2023

$42.99$21.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver

Demon Copperhead

Barbara Kingsolver
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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

$21.99$10.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War, Svetlana Alexievich

Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War

Svetlana Alexievich
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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

$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy, Jamie Raskin

Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy

Jamie Raskin
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Rep Jamie Raskin on “Capehart” podcast -talking about his new & extraordinarily moving book, “Unthinkable:Trauma,Truth,and the Trials of American Democracy.”

Paperback, 2023

$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness, Robin Coste Lewis

To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness

Robin Coste Lewis
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Robin Coste Lewis receives PEN 🖊️ Voelcker Award for Poetry collection—To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness//Decolonizing Time

Hardcover, 2022

$35.00$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The First Amendment Lives on: Conversations Commemorating Hugh M. Hefner's Legacy of Enduring Free Speech and Free Press Values, Stuart N. Brotman

The First Amendment Lives on: Conversations Commemorating Hugh M. Hefner's Legacy of Enduring Free Speech and Free Press Values

Stuart N. Brotman
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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

$85.00$60.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
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Book Cover for: Regrettable, Rita Lumpkin

Regrettable

Rita Lumpkin
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PEN America: "Regrettable" that Elizabeth Gilbert Delayed Publication of New Novel Set in Russia https://t.co/Tcdb8k2m9E

Paperback, 2014

$9.99$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: American Prometheus: The Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture OPPENHEIMER, Kai Bird

American Prometheus: The Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture OPPENHEIMER

Kai Bird
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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

$25.00$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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