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Chris Hayes' Top Book Recommendations

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We've Got People: From Jesse Jackson to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the End of Big Money and the Rise of a Movement

Ryan Grim

4.6
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez may seem like she came from nowhere, but the movement that propelled her to office – and to global political stardom – has been building for 30 years. We’ve Got People is the story of that movement, which first exploded into public view with the largely forgotten presidential run of the Rev. Jesse Jackson, a campaign that came dangerously close to winning. With the party a
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Amanda Terkel

Buy @ryangrim’s new book, “We’ve Got People”! Grim is one of the best at covering what’s going on with the progressive movement these days — buy the book! https://t.co/R1n0uo6hlT [source]

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Leah Greenberg

INDIVISIBLES! Get this book for incredible analysis from @ryangrim on the rise of people power in the Democratic party and amazing stories of Indivisible and grassroots organizing nationwide. It's out tomorrow and I can't wait to read it. https://t.co/1xL9VUAHhy [source]

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The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation

Brenda Wineapple

4.3
America's first presidential impeachment: A prize-winning author tells the story of the efforts by heroic citizens to preserve the victories of the Civil War by removing a bigoted president who ruled as if he were king.

When Abraham Lincoln was assassinated and Vice-President Andrew Johnson became "the Accidental President," it was a dangerous time in America. Congress was divided over how the Unio
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I got the chance to review a fascinating, ambitious new history of the first presidential impeachent in the Times Book Review. I learned a ton and it really helped clarify some of my thinking on the Present Situation, so some thoughts below: https://t.co/degevmvBtr [source]

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Hayes Brown

We had the amazing author and historian Brenda Wineapple on to talk about Andrew Johnson and his Impeachment, the subject of her stellar book which y’all should read https://t.co/nDrkjvqOwN [source]

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Joy Reid

Another indispensable @michaelharriot thread; this one on the Trump before Trump: the first impeached American president, Andrew Johnson. (For a great book on this history, check out The Impeachers, by Brenda Wineapple). https://t.co/k3rK671Yk5 [source]

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My Father Left Me Ireland: An American Son's Search for Home

Michael Brendan Dougherty

4.1
The perfect gift for parents this Father's Day: a beautiful, gut-wrenching memoir of Irish identity, fatherhood, and what we owe to the past.

"A heartbreaking and redemptive book, written with courage and grace."
-J.D. Vance, author of Hillbilly Elegy

"...a lovely little book."
-Ross Douthat, The New York Times

The child of an Irish man and an Irish-American woman who split up before he was born, Mi
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This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant's Manifesto

Suketu Mehta

4.2
A timely argument for why the United States and the West would benefit from accepting more immigrants

There are few subjects in American life that prompt more discussion and controversy than immigration. But do we really understand it? In This Land Is Our Land, the renowned author Suketu Mehta attacks the issue head-on. Drawing on his own experience as an Indian-born teenager growing up in New York
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Arjun Sethi

Completely full house tonight for @suketumehta @PoliticsProse in Washington, DC. His new book, This Land Is Our Land, is a must read & a clarion call for a more just and open world https://t.co/vLylb2xJ3K [source]

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Sree Sreenivasan Powerwomensummit

Surprise appearance at @IndiasporaForum by @suketumehta, whose new book, “This Land is Our Land: An Immigrant’s Manifesto” is a must-read. “The fear of migrants is doing more damage to the West than anything the migrants could do themselves.” A standing ovation! #indiaspora2019 https://t.co/fbFvh7iENM [source]

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Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country

William Greider

4.3
William Greider’s groundbreaking bestseller reveals how the mighty and mysterious Federal Reserve operates—and manipulates and the world’s economy.

This ground-breaking best-seller reveals for the first time how the mighty and mysterious Federal Reserve operates—and how it manipulated and transformed both the American economy and the world's during the last eight crucial years. Based on extensive i
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Bill was an incredible journalist, reporter, writer, listener and mentor. He was always so so kind to me, and a role model. His book on the Fed is still, I think, the best one ever written https://t.co/SgaBOdbtmR https://t.co/Ib8Mywkxa9 [source]

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David J Lynch

I read this when it came out in the mid-80s and it’s always stuck with me. I’m a big fan of Halberstam’s writing anyway. You love him or hate him, what with his constant digression and everything else. The Reckoning is an account of the problems in the American auto industry and is the story of how America goes from dominating the auto industry and really being synonymous with it to losing a step to the Japanese. There are a lot of things I like about the book, but the nub of it is that he bases it in the wider context of American decline and the loss of American supremacy in the post-war period and the rise of the Japanese challenge. That was what everybody was worried about in the 1980s, that we were losing step to Japan and Japan was going to become the world economic power. That all seems sort of laughable now, but this book came out four years before the Japanese went into a long period of stagnation. [source]

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Marc Caputo

Greider’s “Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country” is a must read. I never thought a book about the fed could be a page-turner, but he did it https://t.co/PDmGvJDEkd [source]