Michael Socolow 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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A Child of the Century
Ben HechtMichael Socolow"My imperviousness to the judgment of others is my sole virtue." Ben Hecht, "A Child of the Century" (1954), p.34.
Paperback, 2020
$27.00$13.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Undue Hate: A Behavioral Economic Analysis of Hostile Polarization in Us Politics and Beyond
Daniel F. StoneMichael SocolowCongratulations to @d_f_stone on official pub date for "Undue Hate: A Behavioral Economic Analysis of Hostile Polarization in US Politics and Beyond" (MIT Press) 🧵on the book here https://t.co/kkSJEnC3OM
Paperback, 2023
$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Little Book in C Major
H. L. 1880-1956 MenckenMichael Socolow"No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight." -H.L. Mencken, "A Little Book in C Major" (1916)
Out of stock
Secrets of Victory: The Office of Censorship and the American Press and Radio in World War II
Michael S. SweeneyMichael SocolowWe lost an outstanding scholar of U.S. propaganda and journalism - Michael S. Sweeney - yesterday. RIP. Author of "The Military and the Press: An Uneasy Truce" & "Secrets of Victory: The Office of Censorship and the American Press and Radio in World War II" https://t.co/H578NjjlWW
Paperback, 2001
$42.50$21.25 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Propaganda
Edward BernaysMichael SocolowPossibly history's most successful propaganda campaign was launched Easter Sunday, 1929. Edward Bernays hired debutantes to smoke in public in NYC's Easter Parade. Cigs were given feminist "Torches of Freedom" slogan & stigma against women smoking ended. https://t.co/ERbCDUebKe
Paperback, 2004
$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Little Book in C Major
H. L. MenckenMichael Socolow"No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight." -H.L. Mencken, "A Little Book in C Major" (1916)
Paperback, 2010
$20.95$10.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Awful Disclosures: A Nun's Life in a Convent Exposed
Maria MonkMichael SocolowMisinformation has *always* outsold credible news in US history. The best-selling book in 1830s [besides the Bible] in USA was "The Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk" (1836), a salacious [fictional] "exposé" about Catholic sexual deviancy. https://t.co/Muogmn5Zaq https://t.co/AjuOwHHOHX
Paperback, 2017
$7.95$3.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
When the News Broke: Chicago 1968 and the Polarizing of America
Heather HendershotMichael SocolowI'm excited to read @ProfHendershot's new book ("When The News Broke: Chicago 1968 and the Polarizing of America") out this fall. Here she's interviewed about it. Great to see new historical scholarship + media analyses about the roots of current polarization being done. https://t.co/HDHMArw1kb
Hardcover, 2023
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History of the Peloponnesian War
ThucydidesMichael SocolowFunny thing [to me] about "presentism" concerns in academic history is that most historians learn that Thucydides was animated by "presentism" when he composed "The History of the Peloponnesian War." Seems ahistorical to argue existence of historiography era with no presentism?
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The Crack-Up
F. Scott FitzgeraldMichael Socolow"The combination of a desire for glory and an inability to endure the monotony it entails puts many people in the asylum." -F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Crack Up" (1945 ed.) p. 197.
Paperback, 2009
$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book