Patricia Rooney 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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Moon Witch, Spider King
Marlon JamesTo say Marlon James’ African fantasy saga is hard to review coherently is understatement. @NatashiaDeon manages. MOON WITCH, SPIDER KING, Book 2 by Marlon James https://t.co/VTXEDrroOt
Paperback, 2023
$19.00Member price:$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
U.S. Climate Finance: Lebanon
U. S. Department of StateThe main concern of PA state Rep Frank Ryan (R, Lebanon), who Mastriano has announced would be his transition chair should he win, was with the Department of State’s internal processes, not fraud. https://t.co/7iSYEBu1lt via @SpotlightPA
Paperback, 2014
$9.95Member price:$4.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Passenger
Cormac McCarthyReading THE PASSENGER, book one of a two-part novel by Corman McCarthy @AAKnopf & had immediate flashbacks to @chrisabani and his novels of disaffection in the Southwest and L.A. https://t.co/xqIuMr9i7o https://t.co/1UbWFpxiwT
Paperback, 2023
$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy
Philip S. Gorski“…two top academics this year released an impeccably timed book…called The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy, by Yale’s Philip S. Gorski & the University of Oklahoma’s Samuel L. Perry…” via @Will_Bunch
Hardcover, 2022
$25.99Member price:$12.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
Joan DidionThis @latimes OpEd, by a retired high school teacher and the daughter of the woman written about in Joan Didion's collection SLOUCHING TOWARDS BETHLEHEM, knocked me out: https://t.co/24ohmdAZAs
Paperback, 2008
$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
After the Ivory Tower Falls: How College Broke the American Dream and Blew Up Our Politics--And How to Fix It
Will Bunch@goodreads Whoops! The VERY last book I recommended to friends was AFTER THE IVORY TOWER FALLS by @Will_Bunch because it looks at America’s current partisan crisis through the failure on the part of universities & colleges to fulfill their side of the bargain: jobs at a price we can afford. https://t.co/WYNgjkibF5
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We're Still Here C
SilvaReview of WE'RE STILL HERE: PAIN & POLITICS IN THE HEART OF AMERICA by @JenSilva422 @OUPAcademic A confounding & heartbreaking book. https://bit.ly/36kL3ou https://t.co/32REfQjCcW
Hardcover, 2019
$28.99Member price:$14.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Live and Writings of Frederick Douglass, Volume 3: The Civil War
Frederick DouglassOn the Civil War: “There was a right side and a wrong side in the late war which no sentiment ought to cause us to forget.”— Frederick Douglass https://t.co/UG86eI6J76
Paperback, 2020
$24.99Member price:$22.49 + Free shipping10% off
Speeches
Abraham Lincoln“…the program has produced 128 original songs, including an ambitious work of almost operatic scope called “Lincoln Portrait” — a collection of deeply researched songs highlighting Abraham Lincoln’s speeches and the Lincoln-Douglas debates.” https://t.co/bjwBsUuLPJ
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Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
Tony HorwitzI’m just quoting a South Carolina blue blood when I say, via Tony Horwitz in CONFEDERATES IN THE ATTIC, “that’s where the Cause (Confederacy) got most people. Prison. Downward mobility. An early grave.” Hey, don’t blame me. It YOUR history, wankers.
Paperback, 1999
$20.00Member price:$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book