Maureen Dowd 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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Maureen Dowd is a columnist and author. Op-Ed columnist, Pulitzer Prize winner, @nytopinion. Author: "Year of Voting Dangerously," "Bushworld: Enter at Your Own Risk," and “Are Men Necessary?”

Trumpet
Jackie Kay
You should also read "Trumpet" by Jackie Kay, another wonderful book by a Black author which I read in Professor Brent Hayes Edwards' jazz class at Columbia. https://t.co/Za2kksP0GF
Paperback, 2000
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The Confessions and Correspondence, Including the Letters to Malesherbes
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Ce n'est rien! I have been reading "The Princesse de Cleves" by Mme de Lafayette, "Confessions" by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, "Oroonoko" by Aprha Behn and "Fanny Hill, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure" by John Cleland. (Can you tell I’m in grad school?) https://t.co/qbA44CunEU
Paperback, 1998
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Oroonoko: or, the Royal Slave Illustrated
Aphra Behn
Ce n'est rien! I have been reading "The Princesse de Cleves" by Mme de Lafayette, "Confessions" by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, "Oroonoko" by Aprha Behn and "Fanny Hill, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure" by John Cleland. (Can you tell I’m in grad school?) https://t.co/qbA44CunEU
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Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
John Cleland
Ce n'est rien! I have been reading "The Princesse de Cleves" by Mme de Lafayette, "Confessions" by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, "Oroonoko" by Aprha Behn and "Fanny Hill, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure" by John Cleland. (Can you tell I’m in grad school?) https://t.co/qbA44CunEU
Paperback, 2017
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My Life So Far
Jane Fonda
At first you think how much more readable her book would be if an editor had chopped out large chunks of ponderous psychic burrowing. But then you realize it all has to be in there, in her own voice. Otherwise, you wouldn't appreciate... how achingly poignant her story is...
Paperback, 2006
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