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Filipijnen, Oorlog, Tweede Wereldoorlog

Jonathan Horn – The Fate of the Generals

Jonathan Horn The Fate of the Generals review, recensie en informatie boek over de generaals MacArthur, Wainwright en de epische strijd om de Filipijnen. Op 15 april 2025 verschijnt bij Scribner het nieuwe boek van Jonathan Horn de voormalige speechschrijver van het Witte Huis over de strijd om de Filippijnen tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave.

Jonathan Horn The Fate of the Generals review en recensie

  • “Unearthing new records and documents, Jonathan Horn recasts the battle for the Philippines in startling light, unsealing the story of General Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, who is the real hero of this book, while, out of habit and perception, MacArthur has remained a war hero. Horn adds, corrects, sharpens this portrait of these two generals in perfect prose, built on the footings of massive research. In Horn’s hands, the psychological portraits of these two are simply fascinating. Fans of Unbroken will love this book; fans of all that we are capable of in our finest, our darkest, and most desperate and necessary hours will love this book.” (Doug Stanton, author of Horse Soldiers)
  • “An incisive chronicle, Horn’s profile is a colorful addition to the library of disparaging MacArthur portraits, depicting the general as a self-obsessed prima donna and Wainwright as his opposite: a stoic, self-deprecating cavalryman, devoted to the well-being of his men, who agonized over the moral dilemma of choosing between pointless carnage and shameful surrender. The result is a perceptive take on the psychology of military leadership.” (Publishers Weekly)

Johathan Horn The Fate of the Generals

The Fate of the Generals

MacArthur, Wainwright, and the Epic Battle for the Philippines

  • Auteur: Johathan Horn (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: oorlogsgeschiedenis
  • Taal; Engels
  • Uitgever: Scribner
  • Verschijnt: 15 april 2025
  • Omvang: 448 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: $ 30,99 / $ 16,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van het boek over de generaals MacAthur, Wainwright en de strijd om de Filipijnen

In the tradition of Hampton Sides’s bestseller Ghost Soldiers comes a World War II story of bravery, survival, and sacrifice—the vow Douglas MacArthur made to return to the Philippines and the oath his fellow general Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright made to stay with his men there whatever the cost.

For the doomed stand American forces made in the Philippines at the start of World War II, two generals received their country’s highest military award, the Medal of Honor. One was the charismatic and controversial Douglas MacArthur, whose orders forced him to leave his soldiers on the islands to starvation and surrender but whose vow to return echoed around the globe. The other was the gritty Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, who became a hero to the troops whose fate he insisted on sharing even when it meant becoming the highest-ranking American prisoner of the Japanese.

In The Fate of the Generals, bestselling author Jonathan Horn brings together the story of two men who received the same medal but found honor on very different paths. MacArthur’s journey would require a daring escape with his wife and young child to Australia and then years of fighting over the thousands of miles needed to make it back to the Philippines, where he would fulfill his famous vow only to see the city he called home burn. Wainwright’s journey would take him from the Philippines to Taiwan and Manchuria as his captors tortured him in prisons and left him to wonder whether his countrymen would ever understand the choice he had made to surrender for the sake of his men.

A story of war made personal based on meticulous research into diaries and letters including boxes of previously unexplored papers, The Fate of the Generals is a vivid account that raises timely questions about how we define honor and how we choose our heroes, and is destined to become a classic of World War II history.

Jonathan Horn is an author and former White House presidential speechwriter whose books include Washington’s End and the Robert E. Lee biography The Man Who Would Not Be Washington, which was a Washington Post bestseller. He has written for outlets including The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The New York Times Disunion series, New York Post, The Daily Beast, National Review, and POLITICO, and has appeared on CBS Sunday Morning, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, and PBS NewsHour. A graduate of Yale, he lives in Bethesda, Maryland, with his wife, two children, and dog. His latest book is The Fate of the Generals: MacArthur, Wainwright, and the Epic Battle for the Philippines.

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Biografie, Stripboeken, Striptekenaars

Dan Nadel – Crumb

Dan Nadel Crumb recensie, review en informatie van de inhoud van de biografie van de Amerikaanse cartoonist Robert Crumb. Op 15 april 2025 verschijnt bij Scribner de biografie van Robert Crumb. Het boek is geschreven door de Amerikaanse biograaf Dan Nadel. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave.

Dan Nadel Crumb recensie, review en informatie

  • “A gripping and essential book… This [archival] material, as well as Nadel’s interviews with Crumb, gives his biography the kind of granular texture and thematic heft that Crumb’s life and work deserves.” (Boston Globe)
  • “Nadel’s book floats Crumb on the rapids of his times…Crumb gives us the reprobate who drew ‘Life Among the Constipated’ and ‘The Family That Lays Together Stays Together,’ as well as the domestic who enjoyed a long, fulfilling marriage to Aline Kominsky-Crumb, his wife and frequent collaborator, who died in 2022.” (Harper’s Magazine)

Dan Nadel Crumb

Crumb

A Cartoonist’s Life

  • Auteur: Dan Nadel (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: biografie
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Scribner
  • Verschijnt: 15 april 2025
  • Omvang: 480 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 35,00 / $ 16,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de biografie van cartoonist Robert Crumb

The first biography of Robert Crumb—one of the most profound and influential artists of the 20th century—whose iconic, radically frank and meticulously rendered cartoons and comics inspired generations of readers and cartoonists, from Art Spiegelman to Alison Bechdel.

Robert Crumb is often credited with single-handedly transforming the comics medium into a place for adult expression, in the process pioneering the underground comic book industry, and transforming the vernacular language of 20th-century America into an instantly recognizable and popular aesthetic, as iconic as Walt Disney or Charles Schulz. Now, for the first time, Dan Nadel, a curator and writer specializing in comics and art, shares how this complicated artist survived childhood abuse, fame in his twenties, more fame, and came out the other side intact.

More than just a biography of an iconic cartoonist, Crumb is the story of a richly complex life at the forefront of both the underground and popular cultures of post-war America. Including forty-five stunning black-and-white images throughout and a sixteen-page color insert featuring images both iconic and obscure, Crumb spans the pressures of 1950s suburban America and Crumb’s highly dysfunctional early family life; the history of comics and graphic satire; 20th century popular music; the world of the counterculture; the birth of underground comic books in 1960s San Francisco with Crumb’s Zap Comix; the economic challenges and dissolution of the hippie dream; and the path Robert Crumb blazed through it all.

Written with Crumb’s cooperation, this fascinating, rollicking book takes in seven decades of Crumb’s iconic works, including Fritz the Cat, Weirdo, and his final book-length comic of The Book of Genesis; capturing, in the process, the essence of an extraordinary artist and his times.

Dan Nadel is a writer and curator. His previous books include, It’s Life as a I See It: Black Cartoonists in Chicago, 1940–1980; Peter Saul: Professional Artist Correspondence, 1945–1976; and Art Out of Time: Unknown Comic Visionaries, 1900–1969. Nadel has curated exhibitions for galleries and museums internationally including the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, UC Davis, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. He is the founder of PictureBox, a publishing and packaging company that produced over one hundred books, objects, and zines from 2000 to 2014, including the Grammy Award–winning design for Wilco’s 2004 album A Ghost Is Born. Dan is the curator-at-large for the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his family.

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Amerikaanse geschiedenis, Geschiedenisboeken, Verenigde Staten

Clay Risen – Red Scare

Clay Risen Red Scare recensie, review en informatie boek over Zwarte lijsten, McCarthyisme en de wording van het moderne Amerika. Op 18 maart 2025 verschijnt bij Scribner het boek van de Amerikaanse journalist Clay Risen over de communistenjacht in de jaren vijftig van de vorige eeuw in de Verenigde Staten. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Clay Risen Red Scare recensie en review

  • “Lays out the many mechanisms of repression that made the Red Scare possible…[Red Scare] describes how something that once seemed so terrifying and interminable did, in fact, come to an end.” (The New Yorker)
  • “Risen’s fluent narrative…goes beyond the familiar Hollywood blacklists to reveal how conspiracy stories touched educators and people in various civil rights movements and led to the ‘canceling’ of individuals in business, government, and any sphere influential to the prevailing culture.” (Foreign Affairs)

Clay Risen Red Scare

Red Scare

Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America

  • Auteur: Clay Risen (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse geschiedenis
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Scribner
  • Verschijnt: 18 maart 2025
  • Omvang: 480 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: $ 31,00 / $ 16,99 / $ 29,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van het boek over het McCarthyisme van Clay Risen

As relevant as it is comprehensive, Red Scare tells the story of McCarthyism and the Red Scare—based in part on newly declassified sources—by an award-winning writer of history and New York Times reporter.

The film Oppenheimer has awakened interest in this vital period of American history. Now, for the first time in a generation, Red Scare presents a narrative history of the anti-Communist witch hunt that gripped America in the decade following World War II. The cultural phenomenon, most often referred to as McCarthyism, was an outgrowth of the conflict between social conservatives and New Deal progressives, coupled with the terrifying onset of the Cold War. This defining moment in American history, unlike any that preceded it, was marked by an unprecedented degree of political hysteria. Drawing upon newly declassified documents, journalist Clay Risen recounts how politicians like Joseph McCarthy, with the help of an extended network of other government officials and organizations, systematically ruined thousands of lives in their deluded pursuit of alleged Communist conspiracies.

Beginning with the origins of the era after WWI through to its conclusion in 1957, Risen brings to life the politics, patriotism, opportunism, courage, and delirium of those years through the lives and experiences of a cast of towering historical figures, including President Eisenhower, Roy Cohn, Paul Robeson, Robert Oppenheimer, Helen Gahagan Douglas, Richard Nixon, and many more individuals known and unknown. Red Scare takes us beyond the familiar story of McCarthyism and the Hollywood blacklists to a fuller understanding of what the country went through at a time of moral questioning and perceived threat from the left, and what we were capable of doing to each other as a result.

An urgent, accessible, and important history, Red Scare reveals an all-too-familiar pattern of illiberal conspiracy-mongering and political and cultural backlash that speaks directly to the antagonism and divisiveness of our contemporary moment.

Clay Risen, a reporter and editor at The New York Times, is the author of The Crowded Hour, a New York Times Notable Book of 2019 and a finalist for the Gilder-Lehrman Prize in Military History. He is a member of the Society of American Historians and a fellow at the Perry World House at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also the author of two other acclaimed books on American history, A Nation on Fire and The Bill of the Century, as well as his most recent book on McCarthyism, Red Scare. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife and two young children.

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Argentijnse roman, Argentijnse schrijfster, Argentinië, Dystopische roman, Klimaatroman

Agustina Bazterrica – The Unworthy

Agustina Bazterrica The Unworthy recensie, review en informatie van de inhoud van de Argentijnse roman. Op 4 maart 2025 verschijnt bij Scribner de Engelse vertaling van de roman Las indignas van de uit Argentinie afkomstige schrijfster Agustina Bazterrica. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is nog niet verkrijgbaar.

Agustina Bazterrica The Unworthy recensie, review en informatie

  • “This heartrending postapocalyptic tale from Bazterrica (Tender Is the Flesh) examines religious devotion and the search for tenderness in a world torn apart by climate collapse. Moses’s translation is marvelous, capturing the lush lyricism with which Bazterrica describes the most harrowing extremes of human experience. Calling to mind Cormac McCarthy and Chelsea G. Summers, this is as beautiful as it is brutal.” (Publshers Weekly)
  • “Bazterrica’s absorbing feminist literary horror novel (previously available only in Spanish) stars an unnamed narrator who documents her deplorable situation in an illicit diary as a survivor living in a converted monastery… This satirical horror is incisive and convincing as it skewers religious fervor and blind obedience.” (Booklist)

Agustina Bazterrica The Unworthy

The Unworthy

  • Auteur: Agustina Bazterrica (Argentinië)
  • Soort boek: Argentijnse roman
  • Origineel: Las indignas (2023)
  • Engelse vertaling: Sarah Moses
  • Uitgever: Scribner
  • Verschijnt: 4 maart 2025
  • Omvang: 192 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 18,99 / $ 13,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de nieuwe roman van Agustina Bazterrica

The long-awaited new novel from the author of global sensation Tender Is the Flesh: a thrilling work of literary horror about a woman cloistered in a secretive, violent religious order, while outside the world has fallen into chaos.

From her cell in a mysterious convent, a woman writes the story of her life in whatever she can find—discarded ink, dirt, and even her own blood. A lower member of the Sacred Sisterhood, deemed an unworthy, she dreams of ascending to the ranks of the Enlightened at the center of the convent and of pleasing the foreboding Superior Sister. Outside, the world is plagued by catastrophe—cities are submerged underwater, electricity and the internet are nonexistent, and bands of survivors fight and forage in a cruel, barren landscape. Inside, the narrator is controlled, punished, but safe.

But when a stranger makes her way past the convent walls, joining the ranks of the unworthy, she forces the narrator to consider her long-buried past—and what she may be overlooking about the Enlightened. As the two women grow closer, the narrator is increasingly haunted by questions about her own past, the environmental future, and her present life inside the convent. How did she get to the Sacred Sisterhood? Why can’t she remember her life before? And what really happens when a woman is chosen as one of the Enlightened?

A searing, dystopian tale about climate crisis, ideological extremism, and the tidal pull of our most violent, exploitative instincts, this is another unforgettable novel from a master of feminist horror.

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Indiase roman, Indiase schrijfster, Memoir

Anita Desai – Rosarita

Anita Desai Rosarita review, recensie en informatie van de inhoud van de roman over Mexico van de Indiase schrijfster. Op 7 januari 2025 verschijnt bij Scribner de nieuwe roman van de uit India afkomstige schrijfster Anita Desai. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Anita Desai Rosarita review, recensie en informatie

  • “Evocative… subtle and enigmatic… Desai revels in equivocation and possibility, embracing the ambiguity of memory itself to tell a shimmering, sometimes fevered tale in which a mother and daughter are pulled apart and fused together. In Rosarita, the known rubs up against the unknown, and a kaleidoscopic network of possible lives are lost and found in barely 100 pages.” (Financial Times)
  • “A novel about storytelling, history and belonging. It is about the desire to know one’s forebears, and therefore gain a greater insight into oneself…a beautiful rejoinder to the glib and common-place phrase one hears far too much today: it is what it is…There is a dreamy and wistful mood to this very short gem, lulling in its revelations and comforting in its gentle appeal. A wonder of a novel.” (Irish Independent)
  • “If you’ve never read anything by Anita Desai, you’re out of excuses. One of India’s most celebrated writers, she’s been publishing for almost 50 years and come close to winning the Booker Prize three times…a world-class writer… Desai takes a certain perverse pleasure in exposing the self-pity of mediocre people; if Anita Brookner were a little meaner, she might write like this.” (Ron Charles, The Washington Post)

Anita Desai Rosarita

Rosarita

  • Auteur: Anita Desai (India)
  • Soort boek: Indiase roman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Scribner
  • Verschijnt: 7 januari 2025
  • Omvang: 112 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: $ 22.00 / $ 10,99 / $ 14,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de nieuwe roman van Anita Desai

An exquisitely written stunning exploration of love, place, memory, history, and the secrets between a mother and her daughter.

Away from her home in India to study Spanish, Bonita sits on a bench in El Jardin de San Miguel, Mexico, basking in the park’s lush beauty, when she slowly becomes aware that she is being watched. An elderly woman approaches her, claiming that she knew Bonita’s mother—that they had been friends when Bonita’s mother had lived in Mexico as a talented young artist. Bonita tells the stranger that she must be mistaken; her mother was not a painter and had never travelled to Mexico. Though the stranger leaves, Bonita cannot shake the feeling that she is being followed.

Days later, haunted by the encounter, Bonita seeks out the woman, whom she calls The Trickster, and follows her on a tour of what may, or may not, have been her mother’s past. As a series of mysterious events brilliantly unfold, Bonita is unable to escape The Trickster’s presence, as she is forced to confront questions of truth and identity, and specters of familial and national violence.

A masterpiece of storytelling from a gifted writer, Rosarita is a profound mediation on mothers and marriage, art and self-expression, and how the traumas from the past can impact future generations.

Anita Desai was born 24 june 1937 in Mussoorie, India. She is a renowned author born and educated in India. She has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times for her novels Clear Light of Day, In Custody, and Fasting, Feasting. She is the Emerita John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Fellow of both the American Academy of Arts and the Royal Society of Literature. She lives in New York.

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Amerikaanse Schrijvers, Amerikaanse thrillers

Stephen King – Never Flinch

Stephen King Never Flinch review, recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de nieuwe thriller. Op 27 mei 2025 verschijnt bij Scribner de nieuwe horrorroman Never Flinch van de bereomde Amerikaanse thrillerschrijver Stephen King. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijver en over de uitgave. Wanneer de Nederlandse vertaling van het nieuwe boek van Stephen King verschijnt is nog niet bekend.

Stephen King Never Flinch review, recensie en informatie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, review of recensie verschijnt van Never Flinch, het nieuwste boek van Stephen King, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Stephen King Never Flinch

Never Flinch

  • Auteur: Stephen King (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse thriller, horrorroman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Scribner Books
  • Verschijnt: 27 mei 2025
  • Omvang: 448 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon 

Flaptekst van het nieuwe boek van Stephen King

From master storyteller Stephen King comes an extraordinary new novel with intertwining storylines—one about a killer on a diabolical revenge mission, and another about a vigilante targeting a feminist celebrity speaker—featuring the beloved Holly Gibney and a dynamic new cast of characters.

When the Buckeye City Police Department receives a disturbing letter from a person threatening to “kill thirteen innocents and one guilty” in “an act of atonement for the needless death of an innocent man,” Detective Izzy Jaynes has no idea what to think. Are fourteen citizens about to be slaughtered in an unhinged act of retribution? As the investigation unfolds, Izzy realizes that the letter writer is deadly serious, and she turns to her friend Holly Gibney for help.

Meanwhile, controversial and outspoken women’s rights activist Kate McKay is embarking on a multi-state lecture tour, drawing packed venues of both fans and detractors. Someone who vehemently opposes Kate’s message of female empowerment is targeting her and disrupting her events. At first, no one is hurt, but the stalker is growing bolder, and Holly is hired to be Kate’s bodyguard—a challenging task with a headstrong employer and a determined adversary driven by wrath and his belief in his own righteousness.

Featuring a riveting cast of characters both old and new, including world-famous gospel singer Sista Bessie and an unforgettable villain addicted to murder, these twinned narratives converge in a chilling and spectacular conclusion—a feat of storytelling only Stephen King could pull off.

Thrilling, wildly fun, and outrageously engrossing, Never Flinch is one of King’s richest and most propulsive novels.

Stephen King (21 September 1947, Portland, Maine) is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes Never Flinch, the short story collection You Like It Darker, Holly (a New York Times Notable Book of 2023), Fairy Tale, Billy Summers, If It Bleeds, The Institute, Elevation, The Outsider, Sleeping Beauties (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy: End of Watch, Finders Keepers, and Mr. Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and a television series streaming on Peacock). His novel 11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. His epic works The Dark Tower, It, Pet Sematary, Doctor Sleep, and Firestarter are the basis for major motion pictures, with It now the highest-grossing horror film of all time. He is the recipient of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.

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Letland, Letse schrijvers, Spionagethriller

Michael Idov – The Collaborators

Michael Idov The Collaborators review, recensie en informatie over de thriller van de uit Letland afkomstige schrijver. Op 19 november 2024 verschijnt bij Scribner de spionageroman The Collaborators van de Letse schrijver Michael Idov. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijver en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de thriller is niet verkrijgbaar.

Michael Idov The Collaborators review, recensie en informatie

  • “What the ever expanding world of espionage fiction needs, it turns out, is a Yale-educated Millennial field operative who dresses in Weezer t-shirts and knows his way around a semi-automatic… [The Collaborators is a] slim, well-paced, deceptively complex novel of American and Russian intelligence… a novel as cool as it is accomplished, that knits together action, tradecraft and quippy dialogue with flair.” (Vogue)

Michael Idov The Collaborators

The Collaborators

  • Auteur: Michael Idov (Letland)
  • Soort boek: Letse thriller, spionageroman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Scribner Books
  • Verschijnt: 19 november 2024
  • Omvang: 272 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Boekhandel / Bol

Flaptekst van de spionagethriller over Rusland van Michael Idov

Combining realistic thrills with sophisticated spycraft and witty dialogue, The Collaborators delivers a gut-punch answer to the biggest geopolitical question of our time: how, exactly, did post-Soviet Russia turn down the wrong path?

Crisscrossing the globe on the way to this shocking revelation are disaffected millennial CIA officer Ari Falk, thrown into a moral and professional crisis by the death of his best asset; and brash, troubled LA heiress Maya Chou, spiraling after the disappearance of her Russian American billionaire father. The duo’s adventures take us to both classic and surprising locales—from Berlin, to Latvia, Belarus, and an abandoned technopark outside Moscow.

Dynamic, fast-paced, and filled with captivating details that provide a window into a secretive world, The Collaborators is a first-rate thriller “with a propulsive plot and fantastic twists” (Chris Pavone, author of The Expats) that pays homage to both meanings of “intelligence.”

Michael Idov (9 July 1976, Riga Letland) is a novelist, director, and screenwriter. A Latvian-born American raised in Riga under Soviet occupation, he moved to New York after graduating from the University of Michigan. Michael’s writing career began at New York magazine, where his features won three National Magazine Awards, and he has also been the editor-in-chief of GQ Russia. He is also the author of Ground Up and Dressed Up for a Riot. Michael has worked on numerous film and TV projects, including Londongrad, Deutschland 83, Leto, and The Humorist. He and his wife and screenwriting partner, Lily, divide their time between Los Angeles, Berlin, and Portugal.

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Amerikaanse Schrijvers, Geschiedenisboeken, Verenigde Staten

David S. Brown – A Hell of a Storm

David S. Brown A Hell of a Storm recensie, review en informatie boek over The Battle for Kansas, the End of Compromise, and the Coming of the Civil War. Op 17 september 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Scribner het boek over het ontstaan van de Amerikaanse Burgeroorlog in 1854, geschreven door de Amerikaanse historicus David S. Brown. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het geschiedenisboek is niet verkrijgbaar.

David S. Brown A Hell of a Storm recensie, review en informatie

  • “Engaging . . . intriguing and persuasive . . . Brown’s ultimate conclusions are apt, compelling, and memorably expressed. . . . A lively, incisive examination of the social and political background of a tumultuous era.” (Kirkus)
  • “David S. Brown has crafted a fascinating narrative web, one that expertly interweaves the well-known with the little-remembered. The book abounds in compelling portraits of the great and not-so-great. A Hell of a Storm is a hell of a book, insightfully revealing how America’s best minds could not avert America’s greatest calamity.” (John Matteson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author)

David S. Brown A Hell of a Storm

A Hell of a Storm

The Battle for Kansas, the End of Compromise, and the Coming of the Civil War

  • Auteur: David S. Brown (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: geschiedenisboek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Scribner
  • Verschijnt: 17 september 2024
  • Omvang: 352 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst boek over het begin van de Amerikaanse Burgeroorlog

From popular historian and author of the “marvelous” (The New York Times Book Review) The Last American Aristocrat comes the fascinating story of how in 1854, a new law—the Kansas-Nebraska Act—unexpectedly became the greatest miscalculation in American history, dividing North and South, creating the Republican party, and paving the way for the Civil War.

The history of the United States includes a series of sectional compromises—the Constitutional Convention, the Missouri Compromise in 1820, and the Compromise of 1850. While these accords created an imperfect republic, or “a house divided,” as Lincoln put it, the country remained united. But then in 1854, this three-generations system suddenly blew up with the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and here, David Brown explores in riveting detail how the Act led to the sudden division of North and South.

The Act declared that planters, if permitted by territorial laws, could bring their enslaved peoples to the land extending from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains—the core of Jefferson’s old Louisiana Purchase which had been reserved for free labor. Northerners were shocked that free soil might now be turned over to slavery and responded with unprecedented backlash. In the bill’s wake the conservative Whig Party (winners of multiple presidential elections) collapsed, and the radical Republican Party was born—in six years it would take control of the central government, provoking Southern secession.

In A Hell of a Storm, Brown brings history to life in a way that resonates with the events of present. Through chapters on Lincoln, Emerson, Stowe, Thoreau, and Tubman, along with a cast of presidents, poets, abolitionists, and black emigrationists, Brown weaves a political, cultural, and literary history that chronicles the Republican party’s creation and rise, the collapse of antebellum compromises, and the coming of the Civil War, all topics that mirror current discussions about polarization in our nation today. By illuminating the personalities and the platforms, the writings and ideas that upended an older America and made space for its successor, A Hell of a Storm reminds us that American history is always being made, and it can be both dynamic and dangerous, both then and now.

David S. Brown (29 September 1966, Troy, Ohio) teaches history at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania. He is the author of seven books, among them four biographies: The First Populist: The Defiant Life of Andrew Jackson, The Last American Aristocrat: The Brilliant Life and Improbable Education of Henry Adams, Paradise Lost: A Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography.

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Edward Dolnick – Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party

Edward Dolnick Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud van het nieuwe populair wetenschappelijke boek van de Amerikaanse historicus en schrijver. Op 6 augustus 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Scribner het nieuwe boek van historicus Edward Dolnick over een groep excentrieke Victorianen die botten van dinosauriërs ontdekten. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Edward Dolnick Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party recensie en review

  • “Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party got at three major concepts I feel like we often take for granted … life is very, very old, almost incomprehensibly old; extinction is a reality; and evolution is a reality tied to extinction. It’s also cut up and retold in such a way that it’s great for the beach—you can read a chapter or two, jump in the ocean, come back out, pick up where you left off.” (NPR’s Science Friday)
  • “Offers a wealth of context … These include forays into historical astronomy and philosophy, as well as contemporary science, and their sum creates a lively and engrossing narrative … Dolnick is evidently at home in this subject, and he succeeds in creating an engagingly broad story.” (Science)

Edward Dolnick Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party

Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party

How an Eccentric Group of Victorians Discovered Prehistoric Creatures and Accidentally Upended the World

  • Auteur: Edward Dolnick (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: geschiedenisboek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Scribner
  • Verschijnt: 6 augustus 2024
  • Omvang: 352 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van het nieuwe boek van de Amerikaanse historicus Edward Dolnick

From the bestselling author of The Clockwork Universe and The Writing of the Gods, a historical adventure story about the eccentric Victorians who discovered dinosaur bones, leading to a whole new understanding of human history.

In the early 1800s the world was a safe and cozy place. But then a twelve-year-old farm boy in Massachusetts stumbled on a row of fossilized three-toed footprints the size of dinner plates—the first dinosaur tracks ever found. Soon, in England, Victorians unearthed enormous bones—bones that reached as high as a man’s head. No one had ever seen such things. Outside of myths and fairy tales, no one had even imagined that creatures like three-toed giants had once lumbered across the land. And if anyone had somehow conjured up such a scene, they would never have imagined that all those animals could have vanished, hundreds of millions years ago. The thought of sudden, arbitrary disappearance from life was unnerving and forced the Victorians to rethink everything they knew about the world.

Now, in Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party, celebrated storyteller and historian Edward Dolnick leads us through a compelling true adventure as the paleontologists of the first half of the 19th century puzzled their way through the fossil record to create the story of dinosaurs we know today. The tale begins with Mary Anning, a poor, uneducated woman who had a sixth sense for finding fossils buried deep inside cliffs; and moves to a brilliant, eccentric geologist named William Buckland, a kind of Doctor Doolittle on a mission to eat his way through the entire animal kingdom; and then on to Richard Owen, the most respected and the most despised scientist of his generation.

Entertaining, erudite, and featuring an unconventional cast of characters, Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party tells the story of how the accidental discovery of prehistoric creatures upended humanity’s understanding of the world and their place in it, and how a group of paleontologists worked to bring it back into focus again.

Edward Dolnick (10 november 1952) is the author of Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party, The Writing of the Gods, The Clockwork Universe, The Forger’s Spell, and the Edgar Award–winning The Rescue Artist, among other books. A former chief science writer at The Boston Globe, he has written for The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, and many other publications. He lives with his wife near Washington, DC.

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Kat Tang Five-Star Stranger

Kat Tang Five-Star Stranger recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud van de debuutroman van de Chinees-Amerikaanse schrijfster. Op 6 augustus 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Scribner de eerste roman van de in China geboren maar in de Verenigde Staten woonachtige schrijfster Kat Tang. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is niet verkrijgbaar.

Kat Tang Five-Star Stranger recensie en review

  • “Provocative, self-assured…Tang plays deftly with the conventions of romantic comedy… A smart look at people-pleasing taken to its illogical extreme.” (Kirkus)
  • “Moving…Tang uses clean prose to bring complex characters to life. An emotional character study that doesn’t rely on easy answers to complicated questions of identity, isolation, and familial love.” (Library Journal)
  • “Tang’s debut shines, marrying hurt and heart in a character readers will root for and connect with…In smooth and affecting prose, Tang draws a sharp portrait.” (Booklist)

Kat Tang Five-Star Stranger

Five-Star Stranger

  • Auteur: Kat Tang (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman, debuutroman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Scribner
  • Verschijnt: 6 augustus 2024
  • Omvang: 240 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $27,00 / $12,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de eerste roman van de Chinees-Amerikaanse schrijfster Kat Tang

Would you hire someone to be the best man at your wedding? Your stand-in brother? Your husband?

In an age where online ratings are all-powerful, Five-Star Stranger follows the adventures of a top-rated man on the Rental Stranger app—a place where users can hire a pretend fiancé, a wingman, or an extra mourner for a funeral. Referred to only as Stranger, the narrator navigates New York City under the guise of characters he plays, always maintaining a professional distance from his clients.

But, when a nosy patron threatens to upend his long-term role as father to a young girl, Stranger begins to reckon with his attachment to his pretend daughter, her mother, and his own fraught past. Now, he must confront the boundaries he has drawn and explore the legacy of abandonment that shaped his life.

Five-Star Stranger is a strikingly vivid novel about the commodification of relationships in a gig economy, isolation in a hyperconnected world, and the risk of asking for what we want from those who cannot give. This is the story of a man who finds out who he is by being anyone but himself.

Kat Tang is a graduate of Columbia’s MFA program where she taught as an Undergraduate Writing Fellow. Born in China, relocated to Japan, and raised in California, she is fascinated by how we make and fake human connection in a technologically evolving world. Her short stories and graphic narratives have appeared in Electric Literature, The Margins, Pigeon Pages, and elsewhere. She currently lives in St. Louis, Missouri.

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