11 Books Recommended by Matt Taibbi
Famous author, journalist and podcast host. Has written the book Hate Inc. and many other.
Book first published in 1988 arguing that the mass communication media in the U.S. "are effective and powerful ideological institutions that carry out a system-supportive propaganda function, by reliance on market forces, internalized assumptions, and self-censorship, and without overt coercion"
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky
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The book written in 1973 recounts and analyzes the 1972 presidential campaign in which Richard Nixon was re-elected President of the United States.
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72 by Hunter S. Thompson
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Scoop is a 1938 novel by the English writer Evelyn Waugh. It is a satire of sensationalist journalism and foreign correspondents.
Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
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The Master And Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
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Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
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The Heart Of A Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov
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The classic memoir that shocked, outraged, and ultimately changed the way America looked at the civil rights movement and the black experience.
Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
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When Normal Mailer was writing The Executioner's Song, he received a letter from Jack Henry Abbott, a convict, in which Abbott offered to educate him in the realities of life in a maximum security prison.
In the Belly of the Beast by Jack Henry Abbott
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The book chronicles the story of those in the Soviet Union who opposed Stalin, and for whom the key to survival lay not in hope but in despair.
The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Books by Raymond Chandler
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"Most books that were life-changing for me were old fiction. The Kolyma Tales and the Gulag series were incredible true books about the human capacity for cruelty, they were jarring growing up. “In the Belly of The Beast” was another."
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"Taibbi, a writer of striking intelligence and bold ideas, is as hilarious as he is scathing."
―Publishers Weekly
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Matthew C. Taibbi is an American author, journalist, and podcaster. He has reported on finance, media, politics, and sports. He is a contributing editor for Rolling Stone, author of several books, co-host of Useful Idiots, and publisher of a newsletter on Substack. Wikipedia
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Matthew C. Taibbi is an American author, journalist, and podcaster. He has reported on finance, media, politics, and sports. He is a contributing editor for Rolling Stone, author of several books, co-host of Useful Idiots, and publisher of a newsletter on Substack. Wikipedia
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- https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/631488095138017280?lang=en
- https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1245065686201913347?lang=en
- https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1065396405446033409
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- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Taibbi#/media/File:Matt_Taibbi.jpg(profile image)
