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Every book Brendan Terry recommended on podcasts
Brendan Terry appears as a guest on programs like The Ezra Klein Show, where he provides deep historical and philosophical insights into the teachings, writings, and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. and the broader civil rights movement. During his discussions, Terry strongly recommended several key titles for readers seeking to understand these subjects. He pointed to Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1967 book 'Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?' as the best source for capturing King's mature thought, alongside the posthumously published CBC lecture collection 'The Trumpet of Conscience'. To study the civil rights movement and its figures, Terry recommended Peniel E. Joseph's dual biography 'The Sword and the Shield', which examines both Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, as well as Jeanne Theoharis's 'A More Beautiful and Terrible History' for accessible historical study. Additionally, he recommended Tommie Shelby's 'Dark Ghettos' for a philosophical reflection on ghetto poverty and societal redress, and he mentioned Robert Williams's 'Negroes with Guns' while discussing historical debates on self-defense.
Books recommended by Brendan Terry
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A more beautiful and terrible history
Jeanne Theoharis's A More Beautiful and Terrible History offers a critical reexamination of the American Civil Rights Movement, challenging sanitized national narratives and highlighting the systemic resistance faced by activists.
Recommended“I also really like Gian Theo Harris's more beautiful and terrible history I think for people coming to the study of the Civil Rights Movement for the first time or kind of curious about why some of the things that I've said don't sound familiar to them she writes in a really accessible and intelligent way about some of the”
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The Sword and the Shield
The Sword and the Shield by Peniel E.
Recommended“and then three books and I'll keep it on a King theme for the holiday I really strongly recommend pineal Joseph's The Sword and the shield it's a dual biography of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X”
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Dark ghettos
Dark Ghettos is a philosophical reflection by Tommie Shelby on the deep structure of ghetto poverty and what it requires of society to achieve redress.
Recommended“and then kind of Where Do We Go From Here question you know I want to recommend my colleague Tommy Shelby's book dark ghetto which is a king inspired philosophical reflection on the Deep structure of ghetto poverty and what it requires of us as a society to do to redress it”
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The trumpet of conscience
The Trumpet of Conscience is a collection of lectures by Martin Luther King Jr.
Recommended“which is still our question so I would definitely recommend that I also really love trumpet of conscience uh his Canadian Broadcasting Corporation lectures that were published posthumously”
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WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE : CHAOS OR COMMUNITY? / by Martin Luther King, Jr. ; with a special introduction by Coretta Scott King
Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? is a 1967 book by Martin Luther King Jr.
Recommended“if people want to start with one thing he actually wrote to read one book which one should they start with oh that's a hard one I I would probably say I think you get the best sense of his mature thought from uh his 1967 book Where Do We Go From Here chaos or community”
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From the war on poverty to the war on crime
Discussed“I think we also and my colleague Elizabeth Hinton dear friend in her first book from the war on poverty to the war on crime one way to read that book is to say that she's telling a kind of tragic story about the loss of a particular ideal”
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Negroes with Guns
Discussed“one way to bring it back to King is that you know early in his career he was engaged in a debate with a man named Robert Williams who wrote a book that was very popular amongst the black power generation called negroes with guns”
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Righteous discontent
Discussed“so my colleague Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham wrote a phenomenal book many years ago called righteous discontent and that's what introduces the phrase the politics of respectability”
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Strength to love
Discussed“well again I I go back to the sermon he gave and it's collected and strength to love and it's called Shattered Dreams”
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To Shape a New World
Discussed“this is one of the powerful interventions that you see in uh Lionel McPherson's essay in to shape a new world”
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Appearances
| Episode | Podcast | Date | Books |
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| A Revelatory Tour of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Forgotten Teachings | The Ezra Klein Show | 2023-02-17 | 12 |