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Kim Kelly Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Kim Kelly is a journalist, author, and labor activist. Feral freelance journalist / Author of ‘FIGHT LIKE HELL: The Untold History of American Labor’/ Labor column @teenvogue + @fastcompany / kimkellywrites@gmail 🏴

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Book Cover for: Marching Together: Women of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, Melinda Chateauvert

Marching Together: Women of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters

Melinda Chateauvert
Kim KellyKim Kelly

@thehousered Nice! Would also recommend ‘Sex Workers Unite’ and ‘Marching Together: Women of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters’ by Melinda Chateauvert, and William Moran’s ‘The Belles of New England: The Women of the Textile Mills and the Families Whose Wealth They Wove’

Paperback, 1997

$27.00$13.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America, Keisha N. Blain

Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America

Keisha N. Blain
Kim KellyKim Kelly

@fshakir Always nonfiction! A couple recent faves have been @MorganJerkins 'Wandering in Strange Lands,' @KeishaBlain 'Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America,' 'and 'Being Heumann: an Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist'

Paperback, 2022

$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: There Are No Accidents: The Deadly Rise of Injury and Disaster--Who Profits and Who Pays the Price, Jessie Singer

There Are No Accidents: The Deadly Rise of Injury and Disaster--Who Profits and Who Pays the Price

Jessie Singer
Kim KellyKim Kelly

Happy pub day to @jessiesingernyc and 'There Are No Accidents: The Deadly Rise of Injury and Disaster—Who Profits and Who Pays the Price.' As I said in the blurb, this book will make you think hard about death and power (and will make you mad as hell!) https://t.co/gledfU0G6B https://t.co/z2cJVdADCr

Paperback, 2023

$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor, Kim Kelly

Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor

Kim Kelly
Kim KellyKim Kelly

The updated paperback edition of my book, ‘FIGHT LIKE HELL: The Untold History of American Labor’ drops 8/29 via @OneSignalPub, and you can preorder it for 25% off at @BNBuzz today and tomorrow with code PREORDER25! It’s my birthday this weekend too ;) https://t.co/W82OLRn58l

Paperback, 2023

$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I, Lindsey Fitzharris

The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I

Lindsey Fitzharris
Kim KellyKim Kelly

@jeannakadlec Extremely valid (I don’t ever look at mine either, it gets WEIRD on there!!). In that case, a couple of my faves this year have been Adam Hochschild’s ‘Rebel Cinderella,’ Lindsey Fitzharris’ ‘The Facemaker,’ and Betsey Prioleau’s ‘Diamonds and Deadlines’

Paperback, 2023

$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Never Justice, Never Peace: Mother Jones and the Miner Rebellion at Paint and Cabin Creeks, Ginny Savage Ayers

Never Justice, Never Peace: Mother Jones and the Miner Rebellion at Paint and Cabin Creeks

Ginny Savage Ayers
Kim KellyKim Kelly

@bobfunk I'm so glad you're enjoying it! You might dig this one too, 'Never Justice, Never Peace: Mother Jones and the Miner Rebellion at Paint and Cabin Creeks' https://t.co/Op5tntIuom

Paperback, 2018

$27.99$13.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Belles of New England: The Women of the Textile Mills and the Families Whose Wealth They Wove, William Moran

The Belles of New England: The Women of the Textile Mills and the Families Whose Wealth They Wove

William Moran
Kim KellyKim Kelly

@thehousered Nice! Would also recommend ‘Sex Workers Unite’ and ‘Marching Together: Women of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters’ by Melinda Chateauvert, and William Moran’s ‘The Belles of New England: The Women of the Textile Mills and the Families Whose Wealth They Wove’

Paperback, 2004

$23.99$11.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era, Dan Berger

Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era

Dan Berger
Kim KellyKim Kelly

You can read about the past and present of prisoners’ labor organizing in my book, and I also highly recommend @dnbrgr’s ‘Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era’ (and all of his other work too!) https://t.co/bUszXd16st

Paperback, 2016

$36.95$18.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor, Kim Kelly

Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor

Kim Kelly
Kim KellyKim Kelly

Should probably mention that the paperback edition of ‘FIGHT LIKE HELL: The Untold History of American Labor’ comes out next month and is available to preorder here, hahaaaa https://t.co/yQjFUrPlVs https://t.co/BefIAIvHrb

Paperback, 2023

$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: A Disability History of the United States, Kim E. Nielsen

A Disability History of the United States

Kim E. Nielsen
Kim KellyKim Kelly

Recommended further reading: Audra Jennings, ‘Out of the Horrors of War: Disability Politics in World War II America;’ Kim Nielsen, ‘A Disability History of the United States;’ Richard A. Brisbin, ‘A Strike Like No Other Strike: Law & Resistance During the Pittston Coal Strike’

Paperback, 2013

$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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