Matthew Desmond 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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Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
Adrian Nicole LeBlancMatthew DesmondShe spent over 10 years living, and working, and reporting alongside poor families in the South Bronx. So we see kids grow up... I remember exactly where I was when I read it and how beautifully she wrote about people in their full complexity that were experiencing hardship...
Paperback, 2004
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Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
Keeanga-Yamahtta TaylorMatthew DesmondI really love “Race For Profit”... it looks at how the real estate business incorporated and marketed itself to Black families after 1968 and shows how this government program led to all this exploitation and all these foreclosures for these families.
Paperback, 2021
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An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago
Alex KotlowitzMatthew DesmondThe 2nd event is with the investigative journalist & personal hero of mine, Alex Kotlowitz, author of An American Summer & There Are No Children Here The 1st 400 attendees will receive a free copy of Poverty, by America! @MedillSchool https://t.co/Iz6SQhWJSs
Paperback, 2020
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American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass
Douglas S. MasseyMatthew DesmondAt Doug Massey's retirement celebration @Princeton. An absolute giant in the field. His modern classic with Nancy Denton, American Apartheid, refocused the inequality debate on segregation. So many of us are standing in his shoulders. https://t.co/l558J7JMqp
Paperback, 1998
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Above Ground
Clint SmithMatthew DesmondBrilliant! 🔥 I love this book
Hardcover, 2023
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Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression
Studs TerkelMatthew Desmond“We thought of the poor, at that time, as quite divorced from us, who were not poor. ... [Now] we face the dreadful reality that we are not separated. ... We are becoming aware that it is ourselves, who have to be found wanting, not the poor.” - Studs Terkel, "Hard Times"
Paperback, 2005
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The Other America
Michael HarringtonMatthew DesmondIn 1963, Dwight Macdonald reviewed Michael Harrington’s “The Other America” for the magazine, with a similarly searching and thorough essay. I’ve returned to Harrington’s book and Macdonald’s essay over & again. https://t.co/IpNHsQZFs5
Paperback, 1997
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The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay
Emmanuel SaezMatthew DesmondThrilled to see this! Congrats to @gabriel_zucman -- so grateful for his work on tax evasion at the top. Highly recommend his book with Emmanuel Saez, "The Triumph of Injustice" https://t.co/xbIACOmJu2
Paperback, 2020
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The People's Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine
Ricardo NuilaMatthew DesmondGreat review of Ricardo Nuila's moving and impactful book, "The People’s Hospital" by @lindavillarosa https://t.co/ox0mMqgphV
Paperback, 2024
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