Kevin Mahoney

Outstanding, passionate, honest and necessary

Revisado: 04-02-22

I just finished listening to this book. It has been a long time since I have been so moved and hopeful while still holding on to the pain and toll of the journey. This is a book for every current or future union organizer or any organizer who joins the long-haul struggle for justice and solidarity.

Daisy Pitkin tells the unvarnished personal and public truth about the struggle to organize with workers to form a union. I can't thank her enough for writing this book. It's heartbreaking, hopeful, truthful, complicated, and beautiful.

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Outstanding, passionate, honest and necessary

Revisado: 04-02-22

I just finished listening to this book. It has been a long time since I have been so moved and hopeful while still holding on to the pain and toll of the journey. This is a book for every current or future union organizer or any organizer who joins the long-haul struggle for justice and solidarity.

Daisy Pitkin tells the unvarnished personal and public truth about the struggle to organize with workers to form a union. I can't thank her enough for writing this book. It's heartbreaking, hopeful, truthful, complicated, and beautiful.

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Simply no one else like Rick

Revisado: 03-03-22

I started listening to the Rick Smith Show when I first moved to Pennsylvania and Rick was in the early days of building his show. I frequently say that Rick taught me everything I needed to know about Pennsylvania politics. Since those days, the Rick Smith Show has grown national in scope, bringing unparalleled focus on the stories that matter to working-class Americans. Rick's slogan "the voice of the working-class" couldn't be more on the mark. There is no other show that brings the voices of the labor movement, workers' struggles, and politics and policies critical to working families.

And I challenge you not to laugh in between the serious discussions. Rick is one of a kind.

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Beautiful...in a story of collapse

Revisado: 06-22-20

This book is truly food for the soul... especially at a period in history that often feels like collapse, decline, and social rot. A beacon of care and survival and material love.

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Deep reflection for pandemic times

Revisado: 06-11-20

It's creepy reading this book at times. There are moments when Station Eleven's dystopian future in the wake of a global pandemic bleeds into our current (COVID-19) pandemic experience.

I loved this book...so much about coming to grips with a new world, the way our "normal" world is made strange and unrecoverable. Rich characters, compelling story, and glimmers of hope at the edges of civilization.

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One of the best books I've read

Revisado: 11-19-19

Moving, devastating, and filled with hope. This is probably one of the most important books to read in our time. It is a story that reaffirms the best of journalism, the wretching courage if ordinary people, and the systemic patterns of abuse of power.

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don't look away

Revisado: 09-13-19

if you don't want to stare the reality of climate change in the face, don't read this book. go back to watching your cat videos. but if you want to grapple with the emotional and epistemological crisis we face, read on.

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Critical Read for Those Seeking Real Social Change

Revisado: 11-12-18

Most important and clarifying book about the plutocratic shift in political discourse. Giridharadas lays bare the crafting of the elite discourse that has come to dominate our political imaginary since the 1990s. He goes behind the smiling language of "win-win" to reveal an emergent neo-feudalism dominated by the billionaires of the 21st century.

Really a critical must read.

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50+ Years of Intelligence Work & Trump Disaster

Revisado: 05-30-18

If you are looking for a book that is simply about Trump/Russia collusion...well, this is not your book. Rachel Maddow's interview with Clapper when the book was first released focused almost entirely on Clapper's damning comments about the Trump/Russia investigation and Russian influence in the 2016 election. All that is in this book, but the book is so much more.

This book is the memoir of a person who has been involved in U.S. intelligence for well over 50 years. It's a well told story and fascinating history from the perspective of an insider. There were many places that I fundamentally disagreed with Clapper's political assumptions, but that did not detract from the read. I am very glad I read this!

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Giving a name to the state of Republican politics

Revisado: 05-10-18

Marcotte's book is especially useful in that she gives us a term "Troll Nation" to describe the core to motivation of Republican politics today. The sooner progressives can accept her argument, the better for us all.

She has some pointed critiques of our media culture as well.

The one important shortcoming, in my mind at least, is the Democratic Party is kind of left out of the analysis. Marcotte's argument should be read along with books like Lily Geismer's *Don't Blame Us* and Thomah Frank's *Listen Liberal* .

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