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Alan’s favorite books

Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion

S/Z by Roland Barthes

Among the Thugs by Bill Buford

The Politics of Cultural Despair by Fritz Stern

A Bright Shining Lie by Neil Sheehan

The Worlds of Herman Kahn by Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi

A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.

Power and Powerlessness by John Gaventa

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud

Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

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The Persistence o...

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The Persistence of the Old Regime: Europe to the Great War

by Arno J. Mayer

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A.J.P. Taylor

“Marx was concerned to change society or rather, if he adhered rigidly to his system, expected society to change in the way he wanted.”
― A.J.P. Taylor, The Communist Manifesto

tags: karl-marx, marxism, revolution

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Adult Fiction, African American, Book Club, Classics, Crime, Fantasy, Graphic novels, Literary Fiction, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Politics, Science fiction, and War

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