Tom Philpott 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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Research associate at @livablefuture. Author of Perilous Bounty. Tweets represent the views of my dogs. Formerly @MotherJones @Grist tphilpo2@jh.edu

9 books

Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster

Mike Davis

Tom Philpott

Epigraph from the introduction to Mike Davis's great book Ecology of Fear (1998). (Via Meleiza Figueroa's facebook feed.) https://t.co/YkRvkXYjDq

Paperback, 2022

$26.95$13.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History

Sidney W. Mintz

Tom Philpott

Proud to be a voice in this episode of @throughlineNPR, tracing the history of sweetness and power (to quote the great Sidney Mintz). https://t.co/vsX5JliwtK

Paperback, 1986

$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book

The Properties of Perpetual Light

Julian Aguon

Tom Philpott

New Secret Ingredient podcast ep: @julian_aguon on his excellent new book The Properties of Perpetual Light, the burdens of colonialism on US-occupied Guam in an age of island-swallowing climate chaos, and the solace in fighting back. https://t.co/obcQozLvoU

Hardcover, 2021

$23.00$11.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America

Marcia Chatelain

Tom Philpott

RT @jenszalai: Congrats to Marcia Chatelain, who has won a Pulitzer Prize for FRANCHISE: THE GOLDEN ARCHES IN BLACK AMERICA — one of my fa…

Paperback, 2021

$18.95$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Afterparties: Stories

Anthony Veasna So

Tom Philpott

Maddie herself wrote a great one about the late Anthony Veasna So's wonderful book Afterparties (my favorite published-in-2021 book I read this year, too). https://t.co/8Q9tZOqKB0

Paperback, 2022

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book

First Reformed

Paul Schrader

Tom Philpott

Great @jbouie piece on Paul Schrader's haunting First Reformed (2017), https://t.co/09LbOp8EyB

Paperback, 2023

$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Dispossession: Discrimination Against African American Farmers in the Age of Civil Rights

Pete Daniel

Tom Philpott

@DeconinckKoen @waiterich @duncan__c @TamarHaspel If anyone has any confusion about the role government policy played in creating our current input-intensive, leaky farm system, I highly recommend Pete Daniel's book Dispossession. Focuses on the people the USDA left out, but the story emerges clearly. https://t.co/wJSZCmdylz

Paperback, 2015

$39.95$19.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Perilous Bounty: The Looming Collapse of American Farming and How We Can Prevent It

Tom Philpott

NC Piedmont Triad people! Tonight's the night. We'll celebrate the paperback publication of Perilous Bounty and talk about how to make our regional food system more resilient to coming shocks. Bookmarks at 6:30 tonight. Come one, come all. https://t.co/BMIGfEmQwC

Hardcover, 2020

$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Oceans of Grain: How American Wheat Remade the World

Scott Reynolds Nelson

Tom Philpott

"Everything I know about the mass strike and international capitalism comes from the work of Parvus." —@nelsonhist paraphrasing Rosa Luxemburg. Must-read lecture about the must-read book Oceans of Grain. https://twitter.com/DanBuk4/status/1521901959355244548

Hardcover, 2022

$32.00$16.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book