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Nonfiction Views: August 2nd 2022 [1]
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Date: 2022-08-02
Greetings, everyone. I'm afraid the week overmatched me again, and I don’t have a fresh review for you, but my usual list of this week’s new releases is below.
My intended book review was of After the Ivory Tower Falls: How College Broke the American Dream and Blew Up Our Politics—and How to Fix It, by Philadelphia Inquirer national columnist Will Bunch. It was published today, and I really wanted to review it on its pub date, but...sorry, Will. Next Tuesday, I promise. I first met Will Bunch back in 2006, when I published this diary here on Daily Kos: More Fun in Philly With "English-Only" Geno's Cheesesteaks! The popular tourist trap Geno’s Steaks had been in the news because the owner, Joe Vento, had a sign in their takeout order window saying "This is America. When ordering, speak English." My diary offered photographic evidence that the beef for their cheesesteaks in fact came from...South America! I also pointed out how the neighborhood, once the heart of Italian immigrant South Philadelphia, was now home to many Mexican immigrants: at the time, within a four-block radius of Geno's there were at least at least ten Mexican restaurants, ten Mexican groceries, a couple Mexican music shops, two Mexican haircut places, all of which had opened up in the preceding couple years. (I lived there for many years, right around the corner, in fact, from Geno’s Steaks.)
Turns out Will Bunch saw the article on Daily Kos, and helped the story get national attention. Bunch was also a panelist Netroots Nation, probably sometime in the 2007-2010 range. He used to post here on Daily Kos, but I can’t seem to find his username now.
His earlier books include Tear Down This Myth: The Right-Wing Distortion of the Reagan Legacy and The Backlash: Right-Wing Radicals, High-Def Hucksters, and Paranoid Politics in the Age of Obama.
THIS WEEK’S NEW HARDCOVERS
All book links in this diary are to my online bookstore The Literate Lizard. If you already have a favorite indie bookstore, please keep supporting them. If you’re able to throw a little business my way, that would be appreciated. Use the coupon code DAILYKOS for 15% off your order, in gratitude for your support (an ever-changing smattering of new releases are already discounted 15% each week). We also partner with Hummingbird Media for ebooks and Libro.fm for audiobooks. The ebook app is admittedly not as robust as some, but it gets the job done. Libro.fm is similar to Amazon’s Audible, with a la carte audiobooks, or a $14.99 monthly membership which includes the audiobook of your choice and 20% off subsequent purchases during the month.
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