Ruth Ben-Ghiat 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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Ruth Ben-Ghiat is a historian and cultural critic. Authoritarians, propaganda /ruthbenghiat.com /Prof NYU/Consultant 🎥/Columnist @MSNBC /Book Strongmen/ @caaspeakers /Substack on democracy threats ⬇️
White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America
Anthea ButlerRuth Ben-GhiatThoughtful thread by @AntheaButler, author of the excellent book White Evangelical Racism. https://twitter.com/AntheaButler/status/1549762209047257088
Hardcover, 2021
$25.00$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Defeating Dictators: Fighting Tyranny in Africa and Around the World
George B. N. AyitteyRuth Ben-GhiatI have just read Defeating the Dictators and it's such a timely book. Thank you @charlesdunst for writing it. https://t.co/hTR6nDCcDt https://t.co/DA1N96x13w
Paperback, 2012
$22.99$11.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us
Brian KlaasRuth Ben-GhiatMy Lucid interview with @brianklaas about corruption and democracy protection. His new book, Corruptible, is excellent. https://lucid.substack.com/p/brian-klaas-if-you-lose-the-battle
Paperback, 2022
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Hitler: 1889-1936: Hubris
Ian KershawRuth Ben-GhiatStalingrad also case study of autocrat personality cults. It started dissolution of Hitler's for some Germans. Far more people started to insult him in public - losing belief in his omnipotence & infallibility. See Ian Kershaw's excellent Hitler Myth on this trajectory. https://t.co/Crq4X4dlmj
Paperback, 2000
$29.95$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Origins of Totalitarianism
Hannah ArendtRuth Ben-Ghiat“The Origins of Totalitarianism”... seems fresher than ever. Her observation about the point of totalitarian propaganda being less to convince people than to make them unable to discern the difference between fact and fiction is so applicable to our own times.
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How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
Jason StanleyRuth Ben-GhiatA reminder to re-read that excellent @jasonintrator book How Fascism Works https://twitter.com/jasonintrator/status/1500518390485688320
Paperback, 2020
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Tyrannical Minds: Psychological Profiling, Narcissism, and Dictatorship
Dean A. HaycockRuth Ben-GhiatSome good books about that: my Strongmen (Putin's a protagonist), @brianklaas Corruptible, @Dean_A_Haycock Tyrannical Minds @sarahkendzior Hiding in Plain Sight for US https://t.co/kBeTQIr8gn
Hardcover, 2019
$27.95$13.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America
Nicole EustaceRuth Ben-GhiatNot 1 but 2 @PulitzerPrizes for my fellow historians at @nyuniversity @Adita_Ferrer and Nicole Eustace. Amazing!
Paperback, 2022
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book