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Maureen Dowd Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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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?”

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Book Cover for: Trumpet, Jackie Kay

Trumpet

Jackie Kay
Maureen DowdMaureen Dowd

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

$16.95Member price:$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Confessions and Correspondence, Including the Letters to Malesherbes, Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The Confessions and Correspondence, Including the Letters to Malesherbes

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Maureen DowdMaureen Dowd

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

$60.00Member price:$57.00 + Free shipping5% off
Book Cover for: Oroonoko: or, the Royal Slave Illustrated, Aphra Behn

Oroonoko: or, the Royal Slave Illustrated

Aphra Behn
Maureen DowdMaureen Dowd

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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Book Cover for: Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, John Cleland

Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure

John Cleland
Maureen DowdMaureen Dowd

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

$12.24Member price:$6.12 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: My Life So Far, Jane Fonda

My Life So Far

Jane Fonda
Maureen DowdMaureen Dowd

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

$23.00Member price:$11.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book