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09/19
Valarie
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Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism (Hardcover) by Kevin Phillips bookshelves: currently-reading |
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09/09
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The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America (Hardcover) by David Hajdu bookshelves: currently-reading |
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09/19
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Party of the People: A History of the Democrats (Hardcover) by Jules Witcover bookshelves: currently-reading |
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recommended for: anyone dying to tap their inner history nerd
Valarie said:
"It starts slow--really slow--but it gets more readable starting in the Jacksonian era. The more the Democrats are imperiled, the more interesting it gets.
What I learned from this book is that Democrats were accused from their anti-Federalist prot...more " |
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Valarie
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Party of the People: A History of the Democrats (Hardcover) by Jules Witcover bookshelves: currently-reading |
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recommended for: anyone dying to tap their inner history nerd
Valarie said:
"It starts slow--really slow--but it gets more readable starting in the Jacksonian era. The more the Democrats are imperiled, the more interesting it gets.
What I learned from this book is that Democrats were accused from their anti-Federalist prot...more " |
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Atlas Shrugged (Paperback) by Ayn Rand |
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recommended for: anyone young and still full of themselves.
read in June, 1991
Valarie said:
"Yes, I admit it--I had my Ayn Rand phase just like any full-of-herself self-proclaimed genius just out of college. I discovered Ayn Rand along with my rooftoop in the early 90s--I read Atlas Shrugged in the summer of 1991 and The Fountainhead in the ...more
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The Fountainhead (Mass Market Paperback) by Ayn Rand |
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recommended for: anyone young and still full of themselves.
read in June, 1992
Valarie said:
"Yes, I admit it--I had my Ayn Rand phase just like any full-of-herself self-proclaimed genius just out of college. I discovered Ayn Rand along with my rooftoop in the early 90s--I read Atlas Shrugged in the summer of 1991 and The Fountainhead in the ...more
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The Art of Loving: An Enquiry into the Nature of Love (Paperback) by Erich Fromm bookshelves: to-read |
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The Sane Society (International Library of Sociology) by Erich Fromm bookshelves: to-read |
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To Have or to Be? The Nature of the Psyche (Paperback) by Erich Fromm |
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recommended for: Anyone who wants to break free of the madness!
read in January, 2007
Valarie said:
"I could feel my life change while reading this. My copy, which was used in the first place, is now well underlined, dog-eared and full of post-its for easy reference.
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When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America (Paperback) by Paula J. Giddings |
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read in January, 1994, has a copy to sell/swap
Valarie said:
"I read this eons ago (in fact, my paperback is an earlier edition with a different cover) but I recall being so impressed with it that I found it difficult to put down.
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Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching (Hardcover) by Paula J. Giddings bookshelves: to-read |
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In Search of Sisterhood: Delta Sigma Theta and the Challenge of the Black Sorority Movement (Paperback) by Paula J. Giddings bookshelves: to-read |
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The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World (Hardcover) by Alan Greenspan bookshelves: to-read |
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