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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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Ryan Grim is DC bureau chief at The Intercept. DC bureau chief at The Intercept. Co-host of Counter Points. https://t.co/Juc8sTmOiN. DM for Signal. Author of We've Got People. Views are my own, not yours.

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Book Cover for: Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral, Ben Smith

Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral

Ben Smith
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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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Book Cover for: LSD: My Problem Child, Albert Hofmann

LSD: My Problem Child

Albert Hofmann
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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
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Book Cover for: Wings of Fire: The Brightest Night: A Graphic Novel (Wings of Fire Graphic Novel #5), Tui T. Sutherland

Wings of Fire: The Brightest Night: A Graphic Novel (Wings of Fire Graphic Novel #5)

Tui T. Sutherland
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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
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Book Cover for: How to Blow Up a Pipeline, Andreas Malm

How to Blow Up a Pipeline

Andreas Malm
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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
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Book Cover for: The Lie That Binds, Ilyse Hogue

The Lie That Binds

Ilyse Hogue
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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
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Book Cover for: Roots: The Saga of an American Family, Alex Haley

Roots: The Saga of an American Family

Alex Haley
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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
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Book Cover for: The Division of Light and Power, Dennis Kucinich

The Division of Light and Power

Dennis Kucinich
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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
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Book Cover for: Price Wars: How the Commodities Markets Made Our Chaotic World, Rupert Russell

Price Wars: How the Commodities Markets Made Our Chaotic World

Rupert Russell
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Echoes @rupert_russell’s book Price Wars https://t.co/jDBDvTKhoi

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Book Cover for: American Dispatches: A Robert Parry Reader with a Foreword by Diane Duston; Edited and with an Afterword by Nat Parry, Robert Parry

American Dispatches: A Robert Parry Reader with a Foreword by Diane Duston; Edited and with an Afterword by Nat Parry

Robert Parry
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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
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Book Cover for: Inequality Wentk P, James K. Galbraith

Inequality Wentk P

James K. Galbraith
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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
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