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Social MediaFacebookTwitter Categories: History, Non-FictionAuthor: Rachel TretheweyGenres: History, Nonfiction, Political FiguresPublisher: St. Martin’s PressPublished: 12/7/2021As complex in their own way as their Mitford cousins, Winston and Clementine Churchill’s daughters each had a unique relationship with their famous father. Rachel Trethewey’s biography, The Read more
Social MediaFacebookTwitter Categories: Memoir, Non-FictionAuthor: Sonja SadovskyGenres: Biographies & Memoirs, History, NonfictionPublisher: Llewellyn PublicationsPublished: 12/8/2014This important book by debut author Sonja Sadovsky shines new light on how three captivating minds shaped the course of history. The fantasy novels of Dion Fortune, Marion Read more
Social MediaFacebookTwitter Categories: History, Memoir, Non-FictionAuthor: Gail CrowtherGenres: Anne Sexton, Biographies, History, Memoirs, Nonfiction, Sylvia PlathPublisher: Gallery BooksPublished: 4/20/2021A vividly rendered and empathetic exploration of how two of the greatest poets of the 20th century—Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton—became bitter rivals and, Read more
Social MediaFacebookTwitter Categories: History, Non-FictionAuthor: Siân EvansGenres: History, Nonfiction (Adult), TravelPublisher: St. Martin’s PressPublished: 8/10/2021In an engaging and anecdotal social history, Si�n Evans’s Maiden Voyages explores how women’s lives were transformed by the Golden Age of ocean liner travel between Europe and Read more
Social MediaFacebookTwitter Categories: History, Memoir, Non-FictionAuthor: Anne SebbaGenres: Biographies, Espionage, History, Memoirs, NonfictionPublisher: St. Martin’s PressPublished: 6/8/2021New York Times bestselling author Anne Sebba’s moving biography of Ethel Rosenberg, the wife and mother whose execution for espionage-related crimes defined the Cold War and Read more
Social MediaFacebookTwitter Categories: History, Non-FictionAuthor: Lynn M. HudsonGenres: History, Multicultural, Nonfiction, Politics, RacismPublisher: University of Illinois PressPublished: 9/14/2020African Americans who moved to California in hopes of finding freedom and full citizenship instead faced all-too-familiar racial segregation. As one transplant put it, “The Read more
Social MediaFacebookTwitter Categories: History, Non-FictionAuthor: Anthea ButlerGenres: History, Nonfiction (Adult), Politics, Racism, ReligionPublisher: University of North Carolina PressPublished: 3/22/2021The American political scene today is poisonously divided, and the vast majority of white evangelicals plays a strikingly unified, powerful role in the disunion. Read more
Social MediaFacebookTwitter Categories: History, Non-Fiction, ReferenceAuthor: Mark TushnetGenres: History, Judicial Branch, Law, Non-Fiction, PoliticsPublisher: Yale University PressPublished: 07/14/2020How the Supreme Court’s move to the right has distorted both logic and the Constitution The Supreme Court has never simply evaluated laws and arguments Read more
Social MediaFacebookTwitter Categories: History, Non-FictionAuthor: Richard GrantGenres: History, Non-Fiction, Southern Traditions, TravelPublisher: Simon SchusterPublished: 9/1/2020Bestselling travel writer Richard Grant offers an entertaining and profound look at a city like no other. Natchez, Mississippi, once had more millionaires per capita than anywhere else Read more
Social MediaFacebookTwitter Categories: History, Non-FictionAuthor: Neal SimonGenres: Elections, History, Nonfiction (Adult), PoliticsPublishers: Mascot Books, RealClear PublishingI was intrigued by the title of the book but even more so as I began reading. Neal Simon ran as an Independent for a Congressional seat Read more