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I'm reading the T. Harry Williams biography of Huey Long. It's good, folks. Long apparently read Count of Monte Cristo every year from his boyhood until his time in the Senate because Edmond Dantes "knew how to hate, and until you learn how to hate you'll never get anywhere in this world."
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Does anybody know a good book on Christian Zionism?
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just finished the Broken Earth trilogy and it was just fantastic, highly recommended went straight into her short fiction which it turns out was named after an essay she wrote in devotion to Janelle Monae which I can absolutely understand, it's also good Hand Knit posted:Does anybody know a good book on Christian Zionism? not sure I have much beyond Under the Banner of Heaven, which probably isn't what you have in mind but is good and revealing
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Edward Snowden has an autobio coming soon, might be cool? https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1156920361537200133?s=19
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Does anyone have a good book(s) recommendation for a history of US labor struggle? I know very little about it, and I'd like to educate myself. Particularly about the "and then the pinkertons/army killed a bunch of people" and how it went from that to labor actually winning concessions by the 30s-50s.
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Crakkerjakk posted:and how it went from that to labor actually winning concessions by the 30s-50s. Ten Days that Shook the World lol
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GalacticAcid posted:Ten Days that Shook the World lol http://ciml.250x.com/archive/comintern/english/1926_armed_insurrection_comintern_manual.pdf
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Crakkerjakk posted:Does anyone have a good book(s) recommendation for a history of US labor struggle? I know very little about it, and I'd like to educate myself. Particularly about the "and then the pinkertons/army killed a bunch of people" and how it went from that to labor actually winning concessions by the 30s-50s. A history of The US in ten strikes might not be a bad intro. You can use it as a jumping off point.
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Zesty Mordant posted:A history of The US in ten strikes might not be a bad intro. You can use it as a jumping off point. Seconding this.
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I just spent my summer reading a bunch of Matt Taibbi books and my blood pressure is like a champagne bottle
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If anyone really enjoyed "Bad Blood" by John Carreyrou (the tell-all about the insanity at Theranos), Mike Isaac's book about Uber, "Super Pumped," is finally out.
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reading Empire of Illusion by Hedges and starting out by explaining the foibles and prejudices of the time through contemporaneous professional wrestling storylines is a bold, and if I may say so, distressingly accurate and apt strategy
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Verso is giving away the ebook version of Climate Leviathan until Friday. I don't know if it's good or anything https://www.versobooks.com/books/2545-climate-leviathan
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Wrong thread? E: wouldn't be the first time I didn't get a joke im on the net me boys has issued a correction as of 21:04 on Oct 7, 2019 |
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(Its a Blindsight joke)
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can someone recommend a readable book about the russian revolution? something that includes the lead up and aftermath if possible.
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Would October by China Mieville qualify? I can't remember how much of the run-up it captures
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Oct 7, 2019 21:28
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succ posted:can someone recommend a readable book about the russian revolution? something that includes the lead up and aftermath if possible. Here's a good overview of a bunch of recent books on the Russian Revolution -- What's Left? by Sheila Fitzpatrick in the LRB. You might have to make an account to read it but you don't have to subscribe. My sub lapsed and I can read the whole thing.
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Anyone have any recs for books on the origins of American intelligence agencies? OSS kinda stuff? Feel like I heard a good rec on a podcast recently but can't remember.
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I'm reading this Ronald Suny book (Red Flag Unfurled) about the historiography of the revolution, it has a lot of information about events before and after but not so much about the time period October covers. I think they'd go well together. Suny spends lots of time dunking on Richard Pipes and discusses in depth what was new about social history and why it made people so drat mad. Fitzpatrick herself also has a book about the revolution that goes all the way through the NEP.
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just finished Eifelheim, which is a wonderful book, as well as being probably the book most brutally disserviced by every attempt to summarize the plot that I have read
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Epic High Five posted:just finished Eifelheim, which is a wonderful book, as well as being probably the book most brutally disserviced by every attempt to summarize the plot that I have read Cool, its one of my favorites. Lot of stuff going on but I think my favorite detail is how the space magic universal translators are basically just futuristic Google Translate and keep loving up concepts
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Oct 13, 2019 05:50
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Also the crazy Franciscan monk rules
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Oct 13, 2019 05:51
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just finished " john brown, abolitionist" and it is good old man brown is my homie
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I’m reading Oklahoma City by gumble and Charles. mostly about the investigation of the bombing, right wing extremists who were associated with mcvey, and how the feds hosed up or straight up didn’t bother investigating further accomplices. good read
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If you love drama and succ because your brain is broken like mine, the person who wrote the anonymous administration op-ed in NYT is publishing a tell-all. I'm excited to see if it's terrible or just boring and see the #resistance jump on it like it's a holy text.
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im on the net me boys posted:If you love drama and succ because your brain is broken like mine, the person who wrote the anonymous administration op-ed in NYT is publishing a tell-all. I'm excited to see if it's terrible or just boring and see the #resistance jump on it like it's a holy text. it'll be like that Michael Wolff book, any good excerpts will be on cable news for a week
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skaboomizzy posted:it'll be like that Michael Wolff book, any good excerpts will be on cable news for a week It isn't the same experience though
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Wasn’t that editorial meant to make it seem like the republican establishment was in control and blunting Trump’s worst impulses—or to frame someone for doing that. What’s his purpose now?
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:Wasn’t that editorial meant to make it seem like the republican establishment was in control and blunting Trump’s worst impulses—or to frame someone for doing that. What’s his purpose now? It's all the more clear that controlling those impulses isn't working so I guess the aim here is expose some of the things we haven't seen yet to shame him into not acting like he does. It won't work but I'm curious as to what will be reveled and what angle Anonymous is going to take.
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I'm reading Age of Revolution: 1798 - 1848 by Eric Hobsbawm. Highly recommend. Such disciplined prose, briskly written for a general readership with rich insight and a rigorous methodology. Follow the events and effects of industrialization and the French Revolution. He considers the British industrial revolution and the French political revolution as concurrent, sweeping alterations of life in Europe and within its spheres of influence. Can't wait to finish and plow through the other works in his Age series.
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I've always wondered what the general lefty take is on Heinlein's Farnham's Freehold. It's definitely got a lot of fashy stuff in it, but when I read it, it definitely have me a pervasive feeling of "this is really what would happen if Just World theory were actually true."
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returning after a couple years to The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson and it really is just one of the most perfect books I've read.
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https://twitter.com/leslieleeiii/status/1195328533683429377?s=20
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Nov 15, 2019 14:32
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actually mother said this pocket protector makes me looks handsome
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Truancy-Bot posted:Anyone have any recs for books on the origins of American intelligence agencies? OSS kinda stuff? Feel like I heard a good rec on a podcast recently but can't remember. i know this is late but https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24723229-the-devil-s-chessboard
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Truancy-Bot posted:Anyone have any recs for books on the origins of American intelligence agencies? OSS kinda stuff? Feel like I heard a good rec on a podcast recently but can't remember. Born Losers is actually a book that fits the bill, even if it's not about intelligence. The book is about how language developed from "failure" referring to something which happened to a business to being something that someone is. A lot of this history revolves around the development of the US' first credit rating agency, and the author argues that the way the agency operated made it (A) effectively an intelligence agency and (B) a model for future, more official intelligence agencies.
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