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Steve Inskeep 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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Steve Inskeep is a journalist and radio host. @NPR. Author Differ We Must, now available for preorder. https://t.co/l9DXNpdKdO

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Book Cover for: Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment, Allen C. Guelzo

Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment

Allen C. Guelzo
Steve InskeepSteve Inskeep

Airplane reading: advance copy of the great historian Allen C. Guelzo’s new book on Lincoln. A meditation on the sixteenth president and our democracy. The first page is breathtaking.

Hardcover, 2024

$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times, Katherine May

Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

Katherine May
Steve InskeepSteve Inskeep

Colleague @rachelnpr talks with @_katherine_may_, whose book "Wintering" casts the darker periods of life as times of "adaptation and change." She says: "Unhappiness and discomfort are instructive. Wisdom comes from those places." @MorningEdition @NPR

Hardcover, 2020

$25.00$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Story of Russia, Orlando Figes

The Story of Russia

Orlando Figes
Steve InskeepSteve Inskeep

An episode late in Stalin’s life, as recounted by Orlando Figes in “The Story of Russia.” https://t.co/5YaF5bCWgS

Paperback, 2023

$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Abraham Lincoln: The Observations of John G. Nicolay and John Hay, Michael Burlingame

Abraham Lincoln: The Observations of John G. Nicolay and John Hay

Michael Burlingame
Steve InskeepSteve Inskeep

A book I found useful in my research was “The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln,” by the prolific scholar Michael Burlingame of @UISedu. Though Lincoln was known as even-tempered, Burlingame unearths material for a whole chapter on “Lincoln’s Anger and Cruelty.” https://t.co/ehtAGVR8eq

Paperback, 2021

$22.50$11.25 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Moby-Dick, Herman Melville

Moby-Dick

Herman Melville
Steve InskeepSteve Inskeep

Recent dispatches include this one on reading aloud some American texts: our Declaration(s) of Independence, and Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick: https://t.co/bdI4ldJhEL

Paperback, 2017

$28.56$14.28 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Imperfect Union: How Jessie and John Frémont Mapped the West, Invented Celebrity, and Helped Cause the Civil War, Steve Inskeep

Imperfect Union: How Jessie and John Frémont Mapped the West, Invented Celebrity, and Helped Cause the Civil War

Steve Inskeep
Steve InskeepSteve Inskeep

Imperfect Union is out today. And so is a review by the NYT: “Inskeep’s revelatory Imperfect Union... does two important things. He shines an unsparing light on his subjects, and he finds unnerving similarities between the Frémonts’ America and our own.” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/14/books/review-imperfect-union-steve-inskeep-jessie-john-fremont-civil-war.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Paperback, 2021

$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln, Michael Burlingame

The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln

Michael Burlingame
Steve InskeepSteve Inskeep

A book I found useful in my research was “The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln,” by the prolific scholar Michael Burlingame of @UISedu. Though Lincoln was known as even-tempered, Burlingame unearths material for a whole chapter on “Lincoln’s Anger and Cruelty.” https://t.co/ehtAGVR8eq

Paperback, 1997

$25.95$12.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Moby-Dick, Herman Melville

Moby-Dick

Herman Melville
Steve InskeepSteve Inskeep

This post on the reading of Declaration includes a bonus post on another great American document: Herman Melville's Moby Dick. I've been listening while running. https://t.co/0s7hV5KmFx

Paperback, 2017

$28.56$14.28 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Black Water Rising, Attica Locke

Black Water Rising

Attica Locke
Steve InskeepSteve Inskeep

@SeanASaldana Caro’s third volume, “Means of Ascent” is the shortest and most focused. A scene in Uvalde. “Black Water Rising” by Attica Locke. Fiction that contains some truth. “No Country for Old Men,” Cormac McCarthy. “Eagles and Empire,” by David Clary, because you’re in Latin America.

Paperback, 2010

$16.99$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America, Steve Inskeep

Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America

Steve Inskeep
Steve InskeepSteve Inskeep

You also can preorder Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America. It’s out Oct. 3! If you intend to buy, it helps the book to preorder it here: https://t.co/bsojPZ96bo https://t.co/kcV2Yf2p42

Hardcover, 2023

$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book