PublicAffairs Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Agent Josephine: American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy
Damien Lewis
Today only! Get the ebook of AGENT JOSEPHINE by @authordlewis for only $3.99. One of @NewYorker's Best Books of 2022, the book tells the story of Josephine Baker, the the world's richest and most glamorous entertainer, who was also an Allied spy in WWII. https://t.co/Iwqo70TTwG https://t.co/uxRQ6rUPV3
Paperback, 2023
$21.99$10.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Road Less Traveled: The Secret Turning Point of the Great War, 1916-1917
Philip Zelikow
Happy paperback pub day to Philip Zelikow's THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED! "An instant classic of diplomatic history.”— @nfergus for Times Literary Supplement Now available anywhere books are sold. https://t.co/0NuswwmyLp
Paperback, 2023
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Invention of Power: Popes, Kings, and the Birth of the West
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
Happy pub day to Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and THE INVENTION OF POWER, which shows how a single event in the twelfth century changed the course of European and world history https://t.co/9JUJ9KIFOC https://t.co/KiBkjpi0fM
Paperback, 2024
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Never Alone: Prison, Politics, and My People
Natan Sharansky
LISTEN NOW: @bariweiss in conversation with Natan Sharansky and Gil Troy for the @MiamiBookFair! Natan discusses his years as a Soviet Refusenik and his collaboration with Gil on his book NEVER ALONE. https://t.co/2D8NT0c7XI
Paperback, 2023
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa
Susan Williams
Massive congratulations to Susan Williams, author of WHITE MALICE, on winning a Windham-Campbell Prize 🥳🎉🎊 https://t.co/JSCMWvGkmM https://t.co/lT5czh3Eng
Paperback, 2023
$22.99$11.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Which Country Has the World's Best Health Care?
Ezekiel J. Emanuel
WHICH COUNTRY HAS THE WORLD'S BEST HEALTH CARE? is now available in paperback! @ZekeEmanuel gives an incisive tour of eleven health care systems across the globe, including our own, in search of whose is best—and how we can be more like them. https://t.co/6tUW949Ami https://t.co/Py0gaWvGgu
Hardcover, 2020
$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone
Sarah Jaffe
With Labor Day coming up, @RWartzman (author of STILL BROKE, forthcoming Nov '22) and @sarahljaffe (author of WORK WON'T LOVE YOU BACK) remind us how work is broken: https://t.co/1sXe4w2cGx https://t.co/VKF2wxnGRN
Paperback, 2022
$21.99$10.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Civil War by Other Means: America's Long and Unfinished Fight for Democracy
Jeremi Suri
TONIGHT: @JeremiSuri will be speaking at 5:30 p.m. CT @dfwworld about his book CIVIL WAR BY OTHER MEANS. https://t.co/3u95Y5J573
Hardcover, 2022
$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Stolen Year: How Covid Changed Children's Lives, and Where We Go Now
Anya Kamenetz
We're giving away 10 advance reading copies of @anya1anya's forthcoming book The Stolen Year: How COVID Changed Children's Lives, and Where We Go Now over at @goodreads. Enter for a chance to win! https://t.co/51WHzZoUKj
Hardcover, 2022
$29.00$14.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Constitution in Jeopardy: An Unprecedented Effort to Rewrite Our Fundamental Law and What We Can Do about It
Russ Feingold
Happy publication day to THE CONSTITUTION IN JEOPARDY by @russfeingold and Peter Prindiville “A richly rewarding examination of why understanding the past is key to shaping the future.”―@ALA_Booklist, starred review Learn more: https://t.co/ZtVLYmiMVG https://t.co/BCDt25vhWH
Hardcover, 2022
$29.00$14.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book