Books

Link to The Public Scholar book page. Image shows a beige book cover with a drawing of a pale red megaphone and the text: The Public Scholar: A Practical Handbook. David M. Perry

David Perry is one of the most trusted voices on how to think, write, and work in public. He has a clear ethic about the critical importance of intellectual labor at a moment when the risks of being public have rarely been greater, and the reasons why academics must risk it have rarely been so clear.

―Tressie McMillan Cottom, New York Times columnist

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Link to the Oathbreakers book page. Image is the cover of Oathbreakers by Matthew Gabriele and David M. Perry. Cover is a rusted ninth century sword on a gold/bronze background. Text is the title and authors, as well as "Authors of The Bright Ages" and "The war of brothers that shattered an empire and made medieval Europe.

Historical writing at its finest.

— Chicago Review of Books

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Link to The Bright Ages book page. Image shows the Bright Ages book cover, a blue medieval pattern with with a scroll overlaying it. Text in a medieval font on the scroll reads The Bright Ages — A new history of Medieval Europe — Matthew Gabriele and David M. Perry.

The Bright Ages is a rare thing—a nuanced historical work that almost anyone can enjoy reading.

— Slate

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