The Bulwark Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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The Scent of Empires: Chanel No. 5 and Red Moscow
Karl SchlögelThe Bulwark"It’s a good story, and Schlögel told it well in his 2019 book The Scent of Empires, but the fact that it takes up fourteen pages—one fewer than the chapter on Soviet agriculture—speaks to the occasional shortcomings of his approach." https://t.co/FDZ7BH4TnZ
Paperback, 2022
$16.95Member price:$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Future Is Analog: How to Create a More Human World
David SaxThe Bulwark"'The Future Is Analog' is best understood as a pandemic book: a full-throated defense of physical, tactile, in-person, 'analog' reality. Indeed, it could have been titled 'Against the New Normal.'" @ad_mastro reviews @saxdavid: https://t.co/O7mZjM6YLM
Hardcover, 2022
$29.00Member price:$14.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Philosophy: Philosophy: Who Needs It
Ayn RandThe Bulwark"The way Rand's philosophy played out in her own life is a stark example of being mugged by reality." @CathyYoung63 on Ayn Rand: https://t.co/drUk7VphGo
Paperback, Mass Market, 1984
$9.99Member price:$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Passenger
Cormac McCarthyThe Bulwark"Among other things, 'The Passenger' addresses questions of physics, philosophy, mathematics, historical violence, booze and drugs, suicide, insanity and genius, the JFK assassination, and heritage." https://t.co/ifrpSXlot6
Paperback, 2023
$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes
Seamus HeaneyThe Bulwark"Consider, finally, the following stanza from Seamus Heaney's 'The Cure at Troy': 'History says, don’t hope On this side of the grave But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up, And hope and history rhyme.'" https://t.co/d6tvVdXEEa
Paperback, 1991
$13.00Member price:$6.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
City of Blows
Tim Blake NelsonThe Bulwark"For all its halfhearted gesturing toward the main plot, that’s just the novel’s spine to which Nelson attaches all sorts of things." @faceyouhate reviews Tim Blake Nelson's "City of Blows": https://t.co/x4NZr8aIOy
Hardcover, 2023
$30.00Member price:$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Fear: Trump in the White House
Bob WoodwardThe Bulwark"Maybe the most revealing thing Donald Trump ever said was a comment he made to Robert Costa and Bob Woodward in 2016: 'Real power is—I don't even want to use the word—fear.'" https://t.co/qhB3sPpFSr
Paperback, 2019
$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Nights of Plague
Orhan PamukThe Bulwark"I needn't have worried. 'Nights of Plague' is a pandemic novel the way 'The Brothers Karamazov' is a court-room thriller." ICYMI @ayforget: https://t.co/PmDm1VOLPa
Paperback, 2023
$19.00Member price:$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The One
B. a. ShermanThe Bulwark"You may have heard just one song of Sherman's, the one beginning 'Hello Muddah, hello Faddah.' Those lines about a miserable sleepaway camp are some of his most amusing—but they're actually among his least interesting." https://t.co/En9dipCefr
Paperback, 2016
$11.65Member price:$5.82 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Public Opinion
Walter LippmannThe BulwarkWalter Lippmann's seminal work identified a fundamental problem for modern democratic society that remains as pressing—and intractable—as ever. <i>Public Opinion</i> at 100 https://t.co/QB56QrNpWl
Paperback, 2017
$7.99Member price:$3.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book