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Nick Cohen Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Nick Cohen is a journalist, author and political commentator. Journalist and author. I produce Writing From London, an independent newsletter about politics, culture and authoritarianism. https://t.co/zB17IuSdWb

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Book Cover for: A Place of Greater Safety, Hilary Mantel

A Place of Greater Safety

Hilary Mantel
Nick CohenNick Cohen

"The reader may ask how to tell fact from fiction. A rough guide: anything that seems particularly unlikely is probably true." Hilary Mantel from the introduction to a Place of Greater Safety.

Paperback, 2006

$26.00$13.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time, Yascha Mounk

The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time

Yascha Mounk
Nick CohenNick Cohen

Among the many achievements of Yascha Mounk’s The Identity Trap is that he unearths the roots of today’s ideology with the patience of an archaeologist.

Hardcover, 2023

$32.00$16.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era, Gary Gerstle

The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era

Gary Gerstle
Nick CohenNick Cohen

Lucid economic history that is absolutely devastating on the Clinton administration. "The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order:…" by Gary Gerstle https://t.co/JVzYJMqNPH

Paperback, 2023

$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Highly Discriminating: Why the City Isn't Fair and Diversity Doesn't Work, Louise Ashley

Highly Discriminating: Why the City Isn't Fair and Diversity Doesn't Work

Louise Ashley
Nick CohenNick Cohen

Based on the research of Louise Ashley whose "Highly Discriminating: Why the City Isn't Fair and Diversity Doesn't Work" is a brilliant exposé. https://t.co/ON2psj06yB

Paperback, 2022

$34.95$17.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Vera: The Nihilists, Oscar Wilde

Vera: The Nihilists

Oscar Wilde
Nick CohenNick Cohen

@edwest Oscar Wilde wrote a truly terrible play Vera in honour of Vera Zasulich who tried to kill the military governor of St Petersburg. The jokes really didn't work https://t.co/K7DC9CnMhI

Paperback, 2017

$5.38$2.69 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy: A George Smiley Novel, John Le Carré

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy: A George Smiley Novel

John Le Carré
Nick CohenNick Cohen

Piece was inspired by the BBC iplayer rerunning the brilliant dramatisation of Le Carre's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. Watching it and rereading the novel I saw that Bill Haydon (the Kim Philby figure) is pushed to treason by his contempt at how unimportant England has become.

Paperback, 2011

$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Vera: Or, The Nihilists, Oscar Wilde

Vera: Or, The Nihilists

Oscar Wilde
Nick CohenNick Cohen

@edwest Oscar Wilde wrote a truly terrible play Vera in honour of Vera Zasulich who tried to kill the military governor of St Petersburg. The jokes really didn't work https://t.co/K7DC9CnMhI

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Book Cover for: The Rotters' Club, Jonathan Coe

The Rotters' Club

Jonathan Coe
Nick CohenNick Cohen

@PolProfSteve In Jonathan Coe's The Rotters' Club, but that's about it

Paperback, 2003

$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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