Micah Uetricht Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Editor at @jacobin, author of two books. name at gmail. What force on earth is weaker than the feeble strength of one?
Orwell's Roses
Rebecca SolnitMicah UetrichtThis essay gets at much of what I find both compelling and frustrating in Rebecca Solnit's work, in both 'Orwell's Roses' and elsewhere: https://t.co/d0lPZas6y8
Paperback, 2022
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Confronting Capitalism: How the World Works and How to Change It
Vivek ChibberMicah UetrichtThe New York book launch for Vivek Chibber's Confronting Capitalism is April 6 at 7 pm at the People's Forum. He'll be in conversation with Anand Gopal and Ariella Thornhill. https://t.co/v81UY3zAxc
Paperback, 2022
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Chaos: Charles Manson, the Cia, and the Secret History of the Sixties
Tom O'NeillMicah UetrichtWe're throwing a @jacobin Bastille Day party in NYC with the author of 'Chaos,' Tom O'Neill. July 14 at 7 pm at Mayday Space. https://t.co/GPC0NsC5CV
Paperback, 2020
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Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class
Barbara EhrenreichMicah Uetricht@gabrielwinant what's wild to me is that these are basically whole-cloth rehashings of the "New Class" debates led by the early neocons. I just read Barbara Ehrenreich's Fear of Falling and the debates she's chronicling are almost word-for-word the same debates we're having today
Paperback, 2020
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Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
Mike DavisMicah Uetricht.@meagankday interviewed Mike Davis on Late Victorian Holocausts almost two decades after its publication. His ability to recall intricate historical and meteorological details from the book so many years later, off the top of his head, was incredible. https://t.co/QrkJsVR7MY
Paperback, 2017
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Marx's General: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels
Tristram HuntMicah Uetricht(from Tristram Hunt's biography 'Marx's General')
Paperback, 2010
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The Uses of Disorder: Personal Identity and City Life
Richard SennettMicah UetrichtMy contribution to this list: ‘The Uses of Disorder: Personal Identity and City Life,’ a book recently rereleased by @VersoBooks that I thought about constantly as I walked and biked around New York City this past year. https://t.co/MAshDR7kRw
Paperback, 2007
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Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
Robert D. PutnamMicah UetrichtThere's so much in this @AntonJaegermm essay: a leftist defense of Robert Putnam's 'Bowling Alone' thesis, exploration of how trends Putnam identified are now worse, reflections on political parties as key institutions of social cohesion, and a bunch more. https://t.co/GR3dLNOecf
Paperback, 2020
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Coretta: The Story of Coretta Scott King: Commemorative Edition
Martin Luther KingMicah UetrichtNever heard this quote from Coretta Scott King after Martin Luther King's assassination: “He gave his life for the poor of the world, the garbage workers of Memphis, and the peasants of Vietnam.”
Paperback, 2006
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The Road: Pulitzer Prize Winner
Cormac McCarthyMicah Uetrichtrereading some of Cormac McCarthy's 'The Road,' struck by this line: "He could not enkindle in the heart of the child what was ashes in his own."
Paperback, 2007
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