Mattathias Schwartz Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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A Prayer for the City
Buzz BissingerMattathias Schwartz@teicherj Rizzo by Sal Paolantonio, A Prayer for the City by Buzz Bissinger, almost anything by E. Digby Baltzell
Paperback, 1998
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI
Betty MedsgerMattathias SchwartzThe Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI is an amazing story. I highly recommend THE BURGLARY, Betty Medsger's book about it. https://t.co/H4rZrw1mrn https://t.co/0aDMuzbhjl
Paperback, 2014
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
2 A.M. in Little America
Ken KalfusMattathias SchwartzToday is publication day for 2 AM IN LITTLE AMERICA by @KenKalfus, a genius and mensch. I look forward to learning what our fractured dystopian future might hold. Order here: https://www.powells.com/book/2-am-in-little-america-9781571311443 https://t.co/DEIPIkMFd3
Paperback, 2022
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Now It Can Be Told: The Story of the Manhatten Project
Leslie R. GrovesMattathias SchwartzFor more on the primacy of the Manifest Destiny Cowboy Fantasy in US foreign policy, check out the extremely weird conclusion of "Now it Can Be Told," the memoir by Gen. Leslie Groves, who oversaw the building of the first atomic bomb... https://t.co/kuA8io7Ly0
Paperback, 1983
$21.99$10.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers
Robert JackallMattathias Schwartz@morfaleji "kiss up / kick down" is universal. it's the organizational equivalent of aging — the most you can hope to do is slow it down a bit. cf Moral Mazes by Robert Jackall
Paperback, 2009
$31.99$15.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Maus: A Survivor's Tale Part I: My Father Bleeds History (Maus #01)
Art SpiegelmanMattathias Schwartz"We don't need this stuff to teach kids history." Here's the argument that got Art Spiegelman's MAUS banned from an eighth-grade class in McMinn County, Tennessee. Read it for yourself... https://t.co/ao3U2SkMTc
Hardcover, 1986
$36.00$18.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Pierre: A Cautionary Tale in Five Chapters and a Prologue
Maurice SendakMattathias SchwartzI read Maurice Sendak's "Pierre" last night for the 529th time. It occurred to me that the Hungry Lion might represent adolescence/adulthood, which quite literally swallows the intransigent toddler whole.
Paperback, 2018
$7.95$3.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Denial
Jon RaymondMattathias SchwartzMy old friend Jon Raymond has a new novel, DENIAL, a sci-fi thriller about climate change, generational guilt, and accountability. You've probably seen some of the films he wrote: Old Joy, First Cow, Wendy and Lucy, Meek's Cutoff. Get the book here.. https://powells.com/book/denial-9781982181833/1-3 https://t.co/QSqb8FjxuT
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