The Recount 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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American Psychosis: A Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy
David Corn
Tuesday on Twitter Spaces: @DavidCornDC of Mother Jones joins @Slade to analyze the latest political news and his new book, "American Psychosis," taking a historical look at the GOP. https://t.co/tUVuecip7M
Paperback, 2023
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Battling the Big Lie: How Fox, Facebook, and the Maga Media Are Destroying America
Dan Pfeiffer
LIVE: @danpfeiffer talks right-wing media propaganda, the Dems' messaging problem, his new book "Battling the Big Lie," and much more. Join us at http://recount.co/Instagram https://t.co/uuiwyVrGqA
Paperback, 2023
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Report of the Select Committee on Intelligence United States Senate on Russian Active Measures Campaigns and Interference in the 2016 U.S. Election: V
Select Committee on Intelligence
Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) predicts there will be an “overreaction” by Democrats to SCOTUS threatening to overturn Roe v. Wade: “At the end of the day, you’re gonna see more Republicans in the United States Senate, not in spite of this, but because of it.” https://t.co/bab5hr4Cdg
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The Satanic Verses
Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie's book "The Satanic Verses" has been banned in Iran since 1988, as many Muslims consider it to be blasphemous. A year later, Iran's late leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa calling for his death. https://t.co/EmNTpiINuK
Paperback, 2008
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Born to Run
Bruce Springsteen
President Biden commemorates Bruce Springsteen at the White House arts and humanities award ceremony: “Bruce, some people are just born to run, man.” https://t.co/cUupHMnTWa
Paperback, 2017
$20.99$10.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Heads of Families at the First Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1790: South Carolina
U S Bureau of the Census
This comes after an armed man was arrested this week near Justice Brett Kavanaugh's house in Maryland. The FBI said he told law enforcement he had traveled from California to kill "a specific United States Supreme Court Justice." https://t.co/7X0x8M0XvQ
Paperback, 2013
$34.25$17.13 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Ejaculate Responsibly: A Whole New Way to Think about Abortion
Gabrielle Stanley Blair
Author Gabrielle Blair (@designmom), promoting her new book "Ejaculate Responsibly," argues men are solely responsible for unwanted pregnancies: "Ovulation, having a fertile egg, is totally involuntary. ... But, ejaculation is always voluntary. You always get the choice." https://t.co/41VvcRyAbQ
Paperback, 2022
$14.99$7.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
I'm Glad My Mom Died
Jennette McCurdy
On Red Table Talk, explaining the name of her new book, “I’m Glad My Mom Died," actress Jennette McCurdy reads an email her mom sent her: "'You used to be my perfect little angel, but now you are nothing more than a little' — all caps — 'SLUT, a floozy, all used up.'" https://t.co/0K6OMxIUkW
Hardcover, 2022
$27.99$13.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
Art Spiegelman
Art Spiegelman on his reaction to Tennessee school board banning his Pulitzer-winning Holocaust book “Maus.” “I moved past total bafflement to trying to be tolerant of people who may possibly not be Nazis, maybe.” https://t.co/kuwN2RLOZE
Paperback, 1986
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Moving Forward: A Story of Hope, Hard Work, and the Promise of America
Karine Jean-Pierre
Fox's Peter Doocy on Biden's lawyers finding classified documents at an old office: “How can President Biden be trusted, moving forward, with America’s secrets?” WH Press Sec. Karine Jean-Pierre: “His team did the right thing … They turned it over to the [National] Archives.” https://t.co/SFrzIzSSA0
Hardcover, 2019
$26.99$13.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book