Ryan Grim 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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Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral
Ben Smith
I think that anybody who wants to understand the transformation of our politics over the last 15 years really does have to understand the way that the media has been transformed, and the role that social media has played in that. So, I really do recommend this to people.
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LSD: My Problem Child
Albert Hofmann
For my first book, I obtained a letter written to Steve Jobs by Albert Hofmann, the inventor of LSD, reminding him that Jobs had credited LSD with some of his capacity for innovation, and urging him to devote a portion of his wealth to scientific research./1 https://t.co/BX6QKMkOc3
Paperback, 2019
$33.99$17.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Wings of Fire: The Brightest Night: A Graphic Novel (Wings of Fire Graphic Novel #5)
Tui T. Sutherland
So this is not a dig at Harry Potter, which is a real masterpiece of storytelling and world-creation, but the writing in Wings of Fire is just leagues better. You can feel the care Tui Sutherland put into the writing, even as it feels smooth and natural
Paperback, 2021
$12.99$6.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Andreas Malm
RT @climatebrad: Now reading @adam_tooze on Andreas Malm - great overview of White Skin, Black Fuel, How To Blow Up A Pipeline, and more. E…
Paperback, 2021
$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Lie That Binds
Ilyse Hogue
To understand the roots of this movement and its real end goals, this interview with @ilyseh is worth a listen, as is her book The Lie That Binds Check out Re-Broadcast: Ilyse Hogue on Amy Coney Barrett https://t.co/TGhZxEmqHs
Paperback, 2020
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Roots: The Saga of an American Family
Alex Haley
Alex Haley also basically fabricated the incredible story of finding his ancestor in Africa for Roots. He also thoroughly reworked Malcolm X’s “autobiography” to fit his own politics. https://t.co/8foZQqeH5h
Paperback, 2016
$22.99$11.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Division of Light and Power
Dennis Kucinich
Today’s Deconstructed is a long form interview with Dennis Kucinich on his war to save public power in Cleveland in the 1970s, the subject of his masterful new book, The Division of Light and Power
Paperback, 2021
$34.99$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Price Wars: How the Commodities Markets Made Our Chaotic World
Rupert Russell
Echoes @rupert_russell’s book Price Wars https://t.co/jDBDvTKhoi
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American Dispatches: A Robert Parry Reader with a Foreword by Diane Duston; Edited and with an Afterword by Nat Parry
Robert Parry
Another really great episode of Deconstructed from @schwarz, who talks with the son of Robert Parry, @natparry, about “American Dispatches,” a new collection of his father's extraordinary journalism. https://interc.pt/3OaTkvd
Paperback, 2022
$28.99$14.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Inequality Wentk P
James K. Galbraith
The broken US economy breeds inequality and insecurity. Here’s how to fix it | James K Galbraith | The Guardian https://t.co/2mwvFtsF4n
Paperback, 2016
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book