Michael Dunn 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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Author of Anywhere But Schuylkill, #WorkingClass #HistoricalFiction from the not so gilded age. Labor History. Mastodon: @MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social
Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus
Mary ShelleyMichael DunnToday in History 8/30/1797: Mary Shelley was born. Wrote several novels, incl “Frankenstein.” Also a political radical. Father was the #Anarchist philosopher, William Godwin. Mother was Mary Wollstonecraft, writer & #feminist activist. Married romantic poet, Percy Bysshe Shelly. https://t.co/kV3yjC7t3R
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Nationalism
Rabindranath TagoreMichael DunnToday in Writing History 5/7/1861: #Indian #poet, playwright Rabindranath Tagore was born. Bard of Bengal was the 1st non-European to win the #NobelPrize in Literature. Anti-imperialist. Supported Indian nationalism. 1916, expatriates tried to assassinate him in San Francisco https://t.co/yHbRgLzVFK
Paperback, 2015
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Little Women
Louisa May AlcottMichael DunnToday in Labor History 11/29/1832: Louisa May Alcott, author, nurse, #feminist & #abolitionist, was born. Most famous for “Little Women,” also wrote “Work,” an autobiographical #novel exposing exploitation of women workers. Poverty forced her to work at a young age. https://t.co/vCwr3rQJ3r
Hardcover, 2014
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Giving Tree
Shel SilversteinMichael DunnToday in Writing History 5/10/1999: Shel Silverstein, American #poet, cartoonist, singer-songwriter, #musician & playwright died. “The Giving Tree,” "A Boy Named Sue," “25 Minutes to Go.” https://t.co/RLvBpNVEiY
Hardcover, 2014
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Oil!
Upton SinclairMichael DunnToday in Labor History 9/20/1878: Upton Sinclair was born. Wrote dozens of books, incl Oil! King Coal & The Jungle, famous for its portrayal of conditions in Chicago meat packing houses. Also indictment of worker exploitation, political & #Union corruption & abuse of #Immigrants https://t.co/DkUfcVuaPs
Paperback, 2023
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Jungle
Upton SinclairMichael DunnToday in Labor History 9/20/1878: Upton Sinclair was born. Wrote dozens of books, incl Oil! King Coal & The Jungle, famous for its portrayal of conditions in Chicago meat packing houses. Also indictment of worker exploitation, political & #Union corruption & abuse of #Immigrants https://t.co/DkUfcVuaPs
Hardcover, 2018
$18.39$9.19 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Red Harvest
Dashiell HammettMichael DunnToday in Labor History 12/1/1912: Anaconda Mining implemented rustling card system, which company spies used to identify #union agitators and refused them rustling cards and jobs. In 1920, #IWW went on #strike demanding end of system. Dashiell Hammett depicted it in Red Harvest. https://t.co/W0RHDkv130
Paperback, 1989
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The Dreyfus Affair: J`accuse and Other Writings
Emile ZolaMichael DunnToday in Labor History 1/5/1895: Authorities sentenced French #Jewish army officer Alfred Dreyfus to life imprisonment for #treason in a show trial seeped in #antisemitism. Many spoke out against the Dreyfus affair, incl Emile Zola, Anatole France, Durkheim, Monet & Proust https://t.co/KERKc13TGS
Paperback, 1998
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The Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers
Jesse Squibb RobinsonMichael DunnToday in Labor History 1/8/1920: Steel #strike of 1919 ended in failure for the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers (AA) #Union. Several strikes in previos decades. Worst was strike at Homestead, Pennsylvania 1892. Ended in day-long gun battle that killed 10 https://t.co/hoz0KsYxtZ
Paperback, 2022
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In the Night Kitchen: A Caldecott Honor Award Winner
Maurice SendakMichael DunnToday in History 6/10/1928: Maurice Sendak died. #Author, #Illustrator “Where the Wild Things Are,” & “In the Night Kitchen,” 1 of the most censored children’s #books in U.S. Sendak was atheist #Jewish & gay. Lost many family members in #Holocaust. #LGBTQ #censorship #fiction https://t.co/RLTDHFItVF
Hardcover, 2023
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