Vincent Bevins Book Recs (27 books)

a collection of books reccomended by Vincent Bevins, author of The Jakarta Method.

all selections sourced from his list here:
https://bookshop.org/shop/vincent-bevins

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1	The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World by Vincent Bevins (Goodreads Author) 4.61 avg rating — 17,588 ratings score: 200, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	Mao Zedong and China in the Twentieth-Century World: A Concise History by Rebecca E. Karl 3.83 avg rating — 282 ratings score: 194, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America by Greg Grandin (Goodreads Author) 4.29 avg rating — 3,241 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times by Odd Arne Westad really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 885 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World by Vijay Prashad 4.12 avg rating — 1,507 ratings score: 97, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization by Branko Milanović really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,134 ratings score: 96, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	Brazil: A Biography by Lilia Moritz Schwarcz 4.34 avg rating — 1,477 ratings score: 95, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain 4.19 avg rating — 380,544 ratings score: 93, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	Stubborn Archivist by Yara Rodrigues Fowler 3.69 avg rating — 1,195 ratings score: 92, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation by Thich Nhat Hanh 4.19 avg rating — 39,615 ratings score: 91, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector 4.12 avg rating — 19,444 ratings score: 90, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker 4.37 avg rating — 227,997 ratings score: 89, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	Economists with Guns: Authoritarian Development and U.S.-Indonesian Relations, 1960-1968 by Bradley R. Simpson 4.02 avg rating — 87 ratings score: 88, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	The Army and the Indonesian Genocide: Mechanics of Mass Murder by Jess Melvin 4.50 avg rating — 56 ratings score: 87, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	Pretext for Mass Murder: The September 30th Movement and Suharto's Coup d'Etat in Indonesia by John Roosa 4.27 avg rating — 522 ratings score: 86, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	Sexual Politics in Indonesia by Saskia E. Wieringa 4.55 avg rating — 11 ratings score: 85, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	Truth Will Out: Indonesian Accounts of the 1965 Mass Violence (Herb Feith Translation Series) by Baskara T. Wardaya (Editor) 3.53 avg rating — 15 ratings score: 84, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	The Very Best Men: The Daring Early Years of the CIA by Evan Thomas 3.82 avg rating — 352 ratings score: 83, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	The Killing Season: A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965-66 by Geoffrey B. Robinson 4.39 avg rating — 223 ratings score: 82, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	Allende's Chile and the Inter-American Cold War by Tanya Harmer 4.19 avg rating — 98 ratings score: 81, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	Propaganda and the Genocide in Indonesia: Imagined Evil (Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series) by Saskia E. Wieringa 4.21 avg rating — 34 ratings score: 80, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	The Dark Side of Paradise: Political Violence in Bali by Geoffrey B. Robinson 4.43 avg rating — 51 ratings score: 79, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	Predatory States: Operation Condor and Covert War in Latin America by J. Patrice McSherry really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 103 ratings score: 78, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	Inside the Kremlin's Cold War: From Stalin to Krushchev by Vladislav M. Zubok 3.68 avg rating — 182 ratings score: 77, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	The End of Silence by Soe Tjen Marching 4.73 avg rating — 11 ratings score: 76, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	Indonesian Communism Under Sukarno: Ideology and Politics, 1959-1965 by Rex Mortimer 4.22 avg rating — 36 ratings score: 75, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	Buried Histories: The Anticommunist Massacres of 1965–1966 in Indonesia by John Roosa 4.78 avg rating — 101 ratings score: 74, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars