Roben Farzad Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
Roben Farzad on X@FullDRadio • NPR • MSNBC • PBS NewsHour 📖 #HotelScarface: “a raucous history of Miami's cocaine boom” ~NYTimes @LAISpeakers

Assignment China: An Oral History of American Journalists in the People's Republic
Mike Chinoy🎙 Mike Chinoy, CNN's former Beijing bureau chief, is next on @FullDRadio. His book is Assignment China: An Oral History of American Journalists in the People's Republic 🎧 Apple • Spotify • NPR 📻 https://t.co/OxgADuce3A 📕 https://t.co/WT2BCIIQu2 #China #Tiananmen #Taiwan #Xi https://t.co/BlrA8j7ly1
Paperback, 2023
$35.00Member price:$35.00 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
The Great Gatsby: A 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional towns of West
F. Scott Fitzgerald“They were careless people...they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” ~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925) https://t.co/rlLHvDCI83
Paperback, 2021
$30.50Member price:$15.25 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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F. Scott Fitzgerald“They were careless people...they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” ~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925) https://t.co/rlLHvDCI83
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The Revolution That Wasn't: Gamestop, Reddit, and the Fleecing of Small Investors
Spencer Jakab🎧The WSJ's @SpencerJakab on his book The Revolution That Wasn't: GameStop, Reddit, and the Fleecing of Small Investors. The Mulligans, new investors, share lessons from riding GameStop stock vs. the Hedge Fund-Industrial Complex https://t.co/22eKOyM3m2 #YOLO #GameStop $GME #apes https://t.co/UkzpUL0BiY
Hardcover, 2022
$28.00Member price:$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
F.D.R.: His Personal Letters, Early Years
Franklin D. RooseveltOn the evening of Feb. 15, 1933, anarchist Giuseppe Zangara very nearly assassinated President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt in Miami's Bayfront Park. Imagine how history might have unfolded without a Pres. FDR... https://t.co/rYeRzXpRvs #Miami #FDR #OTD #OnThisDay #WWII #Florida
Paperback, 2010
$47.95Member price:$43.15 + Free shipping10% off
Four Wars, Five Presidents: A Reporter's Journey from Jerusalem to Saigon to the White House
Terence SmithUp next on @FullDRadio: TV news in the streaming age. 🎙@Mosheh Oinounou -- formerly the youngest EP in CBS Evening News history. 🎙Terence Smith, an 84-year-old veteran of TV news and the NYT. 📖Four Wars, Five Presidents: A Reporter's Journey https://t.co/nnXl32Urir | NPR 📻 https://t.co/zbmTAUVdb4
Hardcover, 2021
$36.00Member price:$34.20 + Free shipping5% off
Hotel Scarface: Where Cocaine Cowboys Partied and Plotted to Control Miami
Roben FarzadThe "Welcome to Florida" pod had me on to discuss my book Hotel Scarface: Where Cocaine Cowboys Partied and Plotted to Control Miami https://t.co/DyrLiSM0bD #Miami #Florida #truecrime #MiamiVice #Scarface #truestory #books #OrganizedCrime #cocaine #FL #BecauseMiami #nonfiction https://t.co/Vy3MPKlWV8
Paperback, 2018
$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Works Of Charles Sumner
Charles SumnerJan. 6, 2021: One photo 💥: A Confederate flag carried into the Capitol draws an alarmed look from an Orthodox Jewish rioter. Above it all: a portrait of anti-slavery crusader Sen. Charles Sumner (1811-1874). 📷Saul Loeb /AFP / Getty Images #GOP #January6th #Jan6 #insurrection https://t.co/4bUJ6SIs7j
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It's Not TV: The Spectacular Rise, Revolution, and Future of HBO
Felix GilletteNext on @FullDRadio: "STREAMING'S HARSH WINTER" 🎙 @FelixGillette, co-author of It's Not TV: The Spectacular Rise, Revolution, and Future of HBO 🎙 Joel Mier, ex- Netflix marketing director; now @UR_RobinsSchool lecturer https://t.co/nnXl33c29Z | NPR | Spotify #Hollywood https://t.co/LL5YPtzt78
Hardcover, 2022
$28.00Member price:$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald“They were careless people...they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” ~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925) https://t.co/rlLHvDCI83
Paperback, 2004
$17.00Member price:$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book