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.
Katrina vandenHeuvel on XKatrina 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 PivenChallenging 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
$16.95Member price:$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Deception: Russiagate and the New Cold War
Richard SakwaProfessor 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 KingsolverWhat “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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Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy
Jamie RaskinRep Jamie Raskin on “Capehart” podcast -talking about his new & extraordinarily moving book, “Unthinkable:Trauma,Truth,and the Trials of American Democracy.”
Paperback, 2023
$19.99Member price:$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness
Robin Coste LewisRobin 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. BrotmanTerrific 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 LumpkinPEN 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 BirdMoving,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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Cuban Privilege
Susan Eva EcksteinCuban Privilege: The Making of Immigrant Inequality in America -Causing a furor tonight at Florida international University/ https://t.co/5oOFQ9RF6m
Hardcover, 2022
$42.00Member price:$21.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book