Nick Rizzo 🪥🏴☠️🚰 Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Former bartender, politician & journalist; now a volunteer fireman who sometimes writes. I believe local/regional politics matters more than national politics.
Old Gods, New Enigmas: Marx's Lost Theory
Mike DavisNick Rizzo 🪥🏴☠️🚰The four books I’m spending the most time reading right now are Mike Davis’s Old Gods, New Enigmas, Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s Fleishman Is In Trouble, and Vasily Grossman’s Stalingrad. The combo is a real mindfuck, let me tell you.
Paperback, 2025
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The Lexus and the Olive Tree
Thomas L. FriedmanNick Rizzo 🪥🏴☠️🚰In his 15th-to-last footnote in Debt—I finish this morning!—Graeber calls Thomas Friedman’s The Lexus and the Olive Tree (1999) “a cocky and vacuous book”
Paperback, 2012
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Debt: The First 5,000 Years, Updated and Expanded
David GraeberNick Rizzo 🪥🏴☠️🚰So Chapter 10 of Yuval Noah Harari’s book Sapiens (The Scent of Money) is pre-refuted by Chapter 2 of David Graeber’s book Debt: The First 5000 Years (The Myth of Barter). I’m reading both right now; they both came out in 2011. Harari has embarrassing blindspots but he’s popular.
Hardcover, 2021
$34.99$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
Mike DavisNick Rizzo 🪥🏴☠️🚰This Mike Davis book is rightfully getting a lot of love, but let me also plug Late Victorian Holocausts (really about states responding badly to climate change) and Planet of Slums (which is also about the future) https://t.co/bcFbeqXUtx
Paperback, 2017
$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Vera; Or, the Nihilists (1880): Play
Oscar WildeNick Rizzo 🪥🏴☠️🚰@tomgara “An Irish gentleman is someone who can play the bagpipes but won’t.” - Oscar Wilde
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Leviathan.: Political Philosophy
Thomas HobbesNick Rizzo 🪥🏴☠️🚰Switching to congressional primaries, @freedlander repeatedly describes the sitch as "a war of all against all." So that phrase is Thomas Hobbes's "Bellum omnium contra omnes" which he wrote in his political philosophy inspired by... the English Civil War https://t.co/7d5HzPs75l
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Planet of Slums
Mike DavisNick Rizzo 🪥🏴☠️🚰This Mike Davis book is rightfully getting a lot of love, but let me also plug Late Victorian Holocausts (really about states responding badly to climate change) and Planet of Slums (which is also about the future) https://t.co/bcFbeqXUtx
Paperback, 2017
$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
School Reading by Grades: First Year
James BaldwinNick Rizzo 🪥🏴☠️🚰Summer 1961: JFK's first year in the White House and the "Berlin Crisis" is in full swing. The Kennedys retreat to Hyannis, where Jack and Bobby argue over which one came up with calling James Baldwin "Martin Luther Queen." Distant cousin Gore Vidal overhears and records this.
Paperback, 2010
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A Place of Greater Safety
Hilary MantelNick Rizzo 🪥🏴☠️🚰Two of my favorite novels are historical fiction: Hilary Mantel’s A Place of Greater Safety and Gore Vidal’s Lincoln. Weirdly, they have several moments apiece where the main characters remark upon how funny it is that in the midst of their important epoch, they are all lawyers.
Paperback, 2006
$26.00$13.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Heads of Families at the Second Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1800: Vermont
U S Bureau of the CensusNick Rizzo 🪥🏴☠️🚰It’s less obvious for Ontario than it is for say Quebec, but Canada has differing parties depending on province. I think the United States might be only a decade or two away from increased state-level parties. It already exists to some extent, especially in Alaska and Vermont. https://t.co/1mUHLSOnUc
Paperback, 2011
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