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A Queer History of the United States
Michael Bronski
- 4% - 1 notes
Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
Malcom Harris
- 19% - 13 notes
Circe
Madeline Miller
- 20% - 1 notes
Paul Takes The Form of a Mortal Girl
Andrea Lawlor
- 100% - 2 notes

So good, so gay, awesome.

The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Jane Jacobs
- 64%
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898
Edwin G. Burrows, Mike Wallace
- 36%
The Second Sex
Simone de Beauvoir
- 4%
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Robert Caro
- 100%

I loved The Power Broker. I listened to it on Audible (fuck Amazon). It’s a long book, and it took me a couple months to get through, but I listened every chance I got. It’s intense and action packed, despite mostly detailing desk job exploits. I fini…

To read

Smedley Butler and the Gangsters of Capitalism Jonathan M. Katz

recomendation from a friend. going to read after Palo Alto

Imperial San Francisco Gray Brechin

Duh. Meant to read this before Palo Alto, but I couldn’t resist starting Palo Alto while on the Zephyr after hearing all my friends rave about it.

Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States Kenneth T. Jackson

Mentioned in Palo Alto, and by many friends. Feels like a must read

The Octopus Frank Norris

Mentioned in Palo Alto, a satire about the Associates (incl Leland Standford) Southern Pacific and its iron grip on everything in California, the origin of the octupus with tentacles graphic to depict control or monopoly.1

  1. Though this is now often used as an antisemetic trope ↩︎

An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873 Benjamin Madley

Mentioned in Palo Alto. Want to learn more about the indigenous genocide in California.