In general, I dislike politics, but so many of our
friends recommended Meacham’s new book on Lincoln that my husband and I decided
to read it together.
Oh. My. Goodness. The book not only reveals so much more
about Lincoln, the man than I knew, but it took us deep into the politics and
the mind of the nation as it plunged into the Civil War.
It was not only
mesmerizing but sobering. In many ways, the “state of the nation” back in the
1860s sounded eerily similar both to the polarized political parties of our
day but also deeply ingrained attitudes of the people--who really belongs in
our United States, just how fragile our democracy is, the willingness to resort
to violence and separation. Eye-opening.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer Jon Meacham chronicles the life of Abraham Lincoln, charting how—and why—he confronted secession, threats to democracy, and the tragedy of slavery to expand the possibilities of America.
“Meacham has given us the Lincoln for our time.”—Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Winner of the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize • Longlisted for the Biographers International Plutarch Award • One of the Best Books of the Year: The Christian Science Monitor, Kirkus Reviews
A president who governed a divided country has much to teach us in a twenty-first-century moment of polarization and political crisis. Hated and…
As a storyteller myself, I deeply appreciated
Wilkerson’s approach to this incredibly researched saga of the great
migration of African Americans from the Deep South to the promised landof
the North and West from 1915 to 1970.
I thought I knew the effects of Jim Crow on
formerly enslaved people. I thought I knew that discrimination and inequality continued
to persist even in “free states.”
Wilkerson interwove the very personal stories of three different families suffering the insidious daily suppression of personhood under Jim Crow. As I began to understand the courage it took to uproot everything and join the migration, only to face another kind of constant struggle against ingrained prejudice and institutional racism, I felt invited to join the journey.
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this beautifully written masterwork, the Pulitzer Prize–winnner and bestselling author of Caste chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life.
From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. Wilkerson compares this epic migration to the migrations of other peoples in history. She interviewed more than a thousand people, and gained access to new data and official…
This novel is my favorite
“just for fun” read of the year! Drawing on his own memories of growing up in
Montana in the 1950s, Doig created a coming-of-age-road-trip adventure from
11-year-old Donal Cameron’s POV.
Orphaned and raised by his grandmother, Donal
is sent to live with unknown relatives in Wisconsin when Grandma needs “female
surgery”—along with his prize autograph book, which he tries to fill with
signatures from the cast of characters he meets on the way.
The bus trip alone
is worth the read—but when grouchy Aunt Kate decides to send Donal back to
Montana, her fed-up spouse, Herman the German, flies the coop with Donal, and
the two “fugitives” have more fun and get into more scrapes than two raccoons in
a farmer’s kitchen. Delightful!
Named a Best Book of the Year by the Seattle Times and Kirkus Review
The final novel from a great American storyteller.
Donal Cameron is being raised by his grandmother, the cook at the legendary Double W ranch in Ivan Doig’s beloved Two Medicine Country of the Montana Rockies, a landscape that gives full rein to an eleven-year-old’s imagination. But when Gram has to have surgery for “female trouble” in the summer of 1951, all she can think to do is to ship Donal off to her sister in faraway Manitowoc, Wisconsin. There Donal is in for a rude surprise:…
Maggie Cooper and her husband had been looking
forward to retirement together—but everything changed when “Coop” had a heart
attack while restoring his vintage motorcycle and sidecar. Then Maggie
discovered Coop had plans for a cross-country trip on that motorcycle to
revisit various places on their life journey—but why? Nostalgia?
Didn’t sound
like Coop. Maybe the only way to find out was to take that trip—against
everyone’s advice. But she knew two people who would say, “Go, Maggie!” Her
now-departed husband and her estranged youngest son. And God. Maggie had a
sense God was up to something.
Accompanied by her dog
and an unexpected runaway, Maggie sets out on an unforgettable journey and
invites YOU to come along for the ride.
