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Jeffrey Toobin – The Pardon

Jeffrey Toobin The Pardon recensie, review en informatie boek over de kracht van het Amerikaanse presidentiële pardon. Op 11 februari 2025 verschijnt bij Simon & Schuster het nieuwe boek van Jeffrey Toobin de Amerikaanse journalist en legal commentator bij CNN. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijver en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de uitgave is niet verkrijgbaar.

Jeffrey Toobin The Pardon recensie, review en informatie

  • “A splendid narrative about political power and mercy.” (David Grann)

Jeffrey Toobin The Pardon

The Pardon

The Politics of Presidential Mercy

  • Auteur: Jeffrey Toobin (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse politiek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 11 februari 2025
  • Omvang: 304 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 29,99 / $ 14,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van het boek over het Amerikaanse presidentiële pardon

The power of the presidential pardon has our national attention now more than ever before. In The Pardon, author and CNN legal commentator Jeffrey Toobin provides a timely and compelling narrative of the most controversial presidential pardon in American history—Gerald Ford’s pardon of Richard Nixon, revealing the profound implications for our current political landscape, and how it is already affecting the legacies of both Presidents Biden and Trump.

In this deeply reported book, Toobin explores why the Founding Fathers gave the power of pardon to the President and recreates the behind-the-scenes political melodrama during the tumultuous period around Nixon’s resignation. The story features a rich cast of characters, including Alexander Haig, Nixon’s last chief of staff, who pushed for the pardon, and a young Justice Department lawyer named Antonin Scalia, who provided the legal justification.

Ford’s shocking decision to pardon Nixon was widely criticized at the time, yet it has since been reevaluated as a healing gesture for a divided country. But Toobin argues that Ford’s pardon was an unwise gift to an undeserving recipient and an unsettling political precedent. The Pardon explores those that followed: Jimmy Carter’s amnesty for Vietnam draft resisters, Bill Clinton’s pardon of Marc Rich, and the extraordinary story of Trump’s unprecedented pardons at the end of his first term.

The Pardon is a must-read for anyone interested in American history, the complex dynamics of power within the highest office in the nation, and the implications of presidential mercy.

Jeffrey Toobin was born on the 25 May 1960 in New York City. He is, the longtime CNN legal commentator, is the author of ten books, including The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court, The Run of His Life: The People vs. O.J. Simpson, Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism, American Heiress, The Oath, Too Close to Call, and A Vast Conspiracy. A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School, he lives with his family in New York.

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Amerikaanse geschiedenis, Amerikaanse schrijfster, Slavernij, Verenigde Staten

Judith Giesberg – Last Seen

Judith Giesberg Last Seen recensie, review en informatie boek van de Amerikaanse historicus over de voortdurende zoektocht van voorheen tot slaaf gemaakte mensen om hun verloren familie te vinden. Op 3 februari 2025 verschijnt bij Simon & Schuster het boek van Judith Giesberg over de zoektocht naar de verloren families van Amerikaanse tot slaaf gemaakten. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het geschiedenisboek, de auteur en over de uitgave.

Judith Giesberg Last Seen recensie, review en informatie

  • “Heartbreaking, and essential.” (Jill Lepore, Amerikaanse historicus en schrijfster)
  • “This unvarnished account reminds us that centuries of suffering have yet to be fully acknowledged or atoned for. Informative and sobering.” (Kirkus Reviews)
  • “Love speaks across miles, decades and centuries in this meticulously excavated tribute to the formerly enslaved mothers, fathers, siblings, and kin who published “last seen” advertisements in search of loved ones stolen from them in bondage. Patience and Clara Bashop, Hagar Outlaw, Tally Miller, and the other seekers featured here may or may not have succeeded in having their beloveds restored to them, but the power of their loving, the spirit of their loved ones, and the immense scope of their courage breathe off the page in this vital work of recovery.” (Ilyon Woo, author of Master, Slave, Husband, Wife)

Judith Giesberg Last Seen

Last Seen

The Enduring Search by Formerly Enslaved People to Find Their Lost Families

  • Auteur: Judith Giesberg (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse geschiedenis, slavernijgeschiedenis
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 4 februari 2025
  • Omvang: 336 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: $ 29,99 / $ 14,99 / $ 25,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over de zoektocht van voorheen tot slaaf gemaakte mensen naar hun verloren familie

Drawing from an archive of nearly five thousand letters and advertisements, the riveting, dramatic story of formerly enslaved people who spent years searching for family members stolen away during slavery.

Of all the many horrors of slavery, the cruelest was the separation of families in slave auctions. Spouses and siblings were sold away from one other. Young children were separated from their mothers. Fathers were sent down river and never saw their families again.

As soon as slavery ended in 1865, family members began to search for one another, in some cases persisting until as late as the 1920s. They took out “information wanted” advertisements in newspapers and sent letters to the editor. Pastors in churches across the country read these advertisements from the pulpit, expanding the search to those who had never learned to read or who did not have access to newspapers. These documents demonstrate that even as most white Americans—and even some younger Black Americans, too—wanted to put slavery in the past, many former slaves, members of the “Freedom Generation,” continued for years, and even decades, to search for one another. These letters and advertisements are testaments to formerly enslaved people’s enduring love for the families they lost in slavery, yet they spent many years buried in the storage of local historical societies or on microfilm reels that time forgot.

Judith Giesberg draws on the archive that she founded—containing almost five thousand letters and advertisements placed by members of the Freedom Generation—to compile these stories in a narrative form for the first time. Her in-depth research turned up additional information about the writers, their families, and their enslavers. With this critical context, she recounts the moving stories of the people who placed the advertisements, the loved ones they tried to find, and the outcome of their quests to reunite.

This story underscores the cruelest horror of slavery—the forced breakup of families—and the resilience and determination of the formerly enslaved. Thoughtful, heart-wrenching, and illuminating, Last Seen finally gives this lesser-known aspect of slavery the attention it deserves.

Judith Giesberg was born 11 June 1966 in Texas. She is professor of history and Robert M. Birmingham chair in the humanities at Villanova University. She is the founder and director of the Last Seen archive, and the author of several books on Civil War history, including Army at Home, Emilie Davis’s Civil War, and Last Seen.

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Amerikaanse schrijfster, Memoir, Muziek

Lola Kirke – Wild West Village

Lola Kirke Wild West Village recensie, review en informatie memoir in essays van de in Londen geboren Amerikaanse actrice en singer songwriter. Op 28 januari 2025 verschijnt bij Simon & Schuster het memoir-in-essays van Lola Kirke. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling is niet verkrijgbaar.

Lola Kirke Wild West Village recensie, review en informatie

  • “In Wild West Village, the actor and country singer recounts her glamorous yet dysfunctional upbringing alongside sisters Domino and Jemima Kirke. Spanning New York City, Los Angeles, and, finally, Nashville, Kirke constructs a portrait of an ambitious young woman coming into her own.” (Harpers Bazar)
  • “Wildly entertaining, riotously funny and disarmingly self-aware. Wild West Village has all the tenets of a great country song: emotion, soul, and a damn good story. I devoured it in one delicous sitting and could have come back for more. Needless to say, I adored it.” (Coco Mellors, author of Blue Sisters)
  • “Lola Kirke has captured more than just her own wild and specific New York upbringing (one that resonates more profoundly than I’d like it to.) She has captured the yearning of a generation raised on seductive yet dangerous images of young starlets run amok, and her path through and out of these delusions of grandeur and into the grandeur of self. She is a wise, witty and unsparing writer and her memoir proves it in a voice as lovely as the one she uses to sing.” (Lena Dunham)

Lola Kirke Wild West Village

Wild West Village

Not a Memoir

  • Auteur: Lola Kirke (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: memoir-in-essays
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 28 januari 2025
  • Omvang: 272 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: $ 28,99 / $ 14,99 / $ 18,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek van actrice en zangeres Lola Kirke

In this darkly humorous memoir-in-essays, actress and singer-songwriter Lola Kirke untangles an extraordinary upbringing in a family of eccentric, messy artists and explains how a big city girl went a little bit country.

The youngest daughter of a rock star father and clothing designer mother, Lola and her siblings (including actress Jemima and celebrity doula Domino), spent their childhoods freshly plucked from their English heritage in an eclectic West Village brownstone, hosting everyone from Cuban exiles to Courtney Love. But behind the enviable exterior of worldly coolness, was a home in disarray.

In Wild West Village, Kirke chronicles a search for self amidst the chaos of the affairs, addictions, and afflictions surrounding her, detailing misadventures in everything from masturbation to marijuana, Cadbury’s to country music, and a dream of salvation on the silver screen.

Filled with unforgettable characters and insights into identities forged in fire, Wild West Village locates humor and lightness in life’s darker situations. Irreverent and high-spirited, these are the stories of a young woman, teetering between a twang and a British accent, trying to fit in with larger-than-life personalities while secretly coming into her own.

Lola Kirke is born on 27 september 1990 in Portland Hospital in London, England. She is the daughter of rock drummer bands Bad Company and Free and is an acclaimed actress (Mistress America, Gone Girl, and Mozart in the Jungle) and singer-songwriter. Wild West Village is her first book.

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Amerikaans historicus, Geschiedenisboeken, Verenigde Staten

Bennett Parten – Somewhere Toward Freedom

Bennett Parten Somewhere Toward Freedom review, recensie en informatie boek over de Amerikaanse Burgeroorlog en General Sherman’s March vanuit het perspectief van zwarte Amerikanen. Op 21 januari 2025 verschijnt bij Simon & Schuster het boek van de Amerikaanse historicus Bennett Parten over Sherman’s March and the Story of America’s Largest Emancipation. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het Amerikaanse geschiedenisboek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Bennett Parten Somewhere Toward Freedom, review, recensie en informatie

  • “Somewhere Toward Freedom is one of the most innovative studies of American emancipation in the Civil War we have ever seen, from the March to the Sea in Georgia and well beyond. An epic tale of movement, of collisions with nature, of military history of a new kind in the annals of American warfare, and of the great human drama—full of loss and tragedy and confusion—of an evolving freedom for former slaves across a vast landscape.” (David W. Blight, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Frederick Douglass)
  • “A well-known episode in Civil War history viewed from a fresh, and illuminating, perspective.” (Kirkus Reviews)

Bennett Parten Somewhere Toward Freedom

Somewhere Toward Freedom

Sherman’s March and the Story of America’s Largest Emancipation

  • Auteur: Bennett Parten (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse geschiedenis
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 21 januari 2025
  • Omvang: 272 pagina’s
  • Prijs: $ 29.99 / $ 14.99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek van Bennett Parten over de Amerikaanse Burgeroorlog

A groundbreaking account of Sherman’s March to the Sea—the critical Civil War campaign that destroyed the Confederacy—told for the first time from the perspective of the tens of thousands of enslaved people who fled to the Union lines and transformed Sherman’s march into the biggest liberation event in American history.

In the fall of 1864, Gen. William T. Sherman led his army through Atlanta, Georgia, burning buildings of military significance—and ultimately most of the city—along the way. From Atlanta, they marched across the state to the most important city at the time: Savannah.

Mired in the deep of the South with no reliable supply lines, Sherman’s army had to live off the land and the provisions on the plantations they seized along the way. As the army marched to the east, plantation owners fled, but even before they did so, slaves self-emancipated to Union lines. By the time the army seized Savannah in December, as many as 20,000 enslaved people had attached themselves to Sherman’s army. They endured hardships, marching as much as twenty miles a day—often without food or shelter from the winter weather—and at times Union commanders discouraged and even prevented the self-emancipated from staying with the army. Racism was not confined to the Confederacy.

In Somewhere Toward Freedom, historian Bennett Parten brilliantly reframes this seminal episode in Civil War history. He not only helps us understand how Sherman’s March impacted the war, and what it meant to the enslaved, but also reveals how it laid the foundation for the fledging efforts of Reconstruction. When the war ended, Sherman and various government and private aid agencies seized plantation lands—particularly in the sea islands off the Georgia and South Carolina coasts—in order to resettle the newly emancipated. They were fed, housed, and in some instances, taught to read and write. This first real effort at Reconstruction was short-lived, however. As federal troops withdrew to the north, Confederate sympathizers and Southern landowners eventually brought about the downfall of this program.

Sherman’s march has remained controversial to this day. But as Parten reveals, it played a significant role in ending the Civil War, due in no small part to the efforts of the tens of thousands of enslaved people who became a part of it. In Somewhere Toward Freedom, this critical moment in American history has finally been given the attention it deserves.

Bennett Parten is an assistant professor of history at Georgia Southern University whose area of expertise is the Civil War period. He is a native of Royston, Georgia, and completed his PhD in history at Yale University. His writing has appeared in The Washington Post, Los Angeles Review of Books, Zocalo Public Square, and The Civil War Monitor, among others. He currently lives in Savannah, Georgia.

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Amerikaanse schrijfster, Debuutroman, Familiegeschiedenis, Familieroman, India

Tara Dorabji – Call Her Freedom

Tara Dorabji Call Her Freedom review, recensie en informatie novel en eerste roman van de Amerikaanse schrijfster en dochter van Indiase en Duits-Italiaanse immigranten. Op 21 januari 2025 verschijnt bij Simon & Schuster de debuutroman van Tara Dorabji. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is niet verkrijgbaar.

Tara Dorabji Call Her Freedom review, recensie en informatie

  • “In her brave debut novel, Tara Dorabji tells a story of one family under a brutal military occupation. In the foothills of the Himalayas, three generations—a mother, a daughter, a great-niece —draw strength from a matriarchal legacy as healers, warriors, and survivors. Based on real accounts from an ongoing struggle, Call Her Freedom gives voice to women we otherwise would not hear.” (Evelina Galang, author)
  • “Ultimately, Dorabji invites readers to explore deep family love and the battle for liberation amid a ruthless militaristic reign.” (Booklist)
  • “This is a dazzling and beautiful debut. Tara Dorabji introduces us to a singularly unique protagonist and a cast of indomitable characters living, loving, and fighting for their homeland in a landscape scarred by violence and the bitter legacy of colonialism. The result is a novel both intimate and panoramic about resilience, family, and unwavering hope.” (Alex Espinoza, author of The Sons of El Rey)

Tara Dorabji Call Her Freedom

Call Her Freedom

  • Auteur: Tara Dorabji (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: familieroman over India
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 21 januari 2025
  • Omvang: 320 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: $ 28,99 / $ 14,99 / $ 25,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de eerste roman van Tara Dorabji

A sweeping family saga following one woman’s struggle to protect her culture and her family amidst the backdrop of a military occupation.

In the foothills of the Himalayas, the picturesque mountain village of Poshkarbal is home to lush cherry and apple orchards and a thriving community—one divided by a patrolled border. Aisha and her mother Noorjahan live on the outskirts—two women alone in a world dominated by men. As the village midwife, Noorjahan teaches Aisha how to heal using local herbs and remedies. Isolated but content, Aisha is shocked when Noorjahan decides it is time for her to attend the village school as few girls do. Despite the taunting of her classmates and the teacher’s initial resistance to having her in the class, Aisha becomes a star student, destined for college.

When Aisha’s hand is bequeathed to a local boy in the village, she is forced to abandon her dreams of college. She comforts herself by staying on her ancestral land, creating a nourishing life with her children and husband. But her mother’s secrets come back to haunt her and her marriage and the growing military presence in Poshkarbal force Aisha to make impossible choices in order to save her family and preserve the independence Noorjahan fought for. What follows is a family chronicle brimming with life, love, and humor, about sacrifice and honor, and fighting for your home and culture in the face of occupation.

A deeply moving novel about one woman’s love for her family, this is an epic investigation of colonialism, militarization, and the loss and innocence on the journey to creating home. Spanning 1969 to 2022, Call Her Freedom is a love story that untangles family secrets and heals generational wounds, announcing Tara Dorabji as a thrilling new voice in fiction.

Tara Dorabji is the author of the novel, Call Her Freedom, winner of the Simon & Schuster Books Like Us first novel contest. She is the daughter of Parsi-Indian and German-Italian migrants. Her documentary film series on human rights defenders in Kashmir won awards at over a dozen film festivals throughout Asia and the USA. Tara’s publications include Al Jazeera, The Chicago Qusrterly and acclaimed anthologies: Good Girls Marry Doctors and All the Women in My Family Sing. She lives in Northern California with her family and rabbit.

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Amerikaanse schrijfster, Memoir

Sarah Hoover – The Motherload

Sarah Hoover The Motherload review, recensie en informatie memoir with episodes from the brink of motherhood. Op 14 januari 2025 verschijnt bij Simon & Schuster de memoir over het aankomende moederschap en eerste boek van de Amerikaanse schrijfster Sarah Hoover. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de memoir is niet verkrijgbaar.

Sarah Hoover The Motherload review, recensie en informatie

  • “With blistering honesty, Hoover lays bare her own extremely messy journey to motherhood and through post-partum depression… A long overdue reality check.” (Oprah Daily)
  • “Unfiltered, honest, and amusing… will appeal to many.” (Vogue)

Sarah Hoover The Motherload

The Motherload

Episodes from the Brink of Motherhood

  • Auteur: Sarah Hoover (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: memoir
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 14 januari 2025
  • Omvang: 352 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 29.99 / $14.99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol 

Flaptekst van de memoir over het moederschap van Sarah Hoover

An unflinching motherhood memoir that dares to ask what happens when “what to expect when you’re expecting” turns out to be months of rage, anguish, brain fog, and a total surrender of sex, career, and identity.

“The kid was objectively a tiny worm, even worse, a worm with my nose.” Welcome to Sarah Hoover’s candid and propulsive take on motherhood where she turns the ecstatic narrative women have been fed—one of immediate connection to your child followed by a joyful path of maternal discovery—on its head.

Like most of us, Sarah Hoover grew up imagining a certain life for herself, and when she moved from Indiana to New York City to study art history, the life she’d imagined began falling into place. She got her degree in art history, landed a job in a gallery, made friends, and met interesting artists, one of whom became her husband. But when Hoover got pregnant, everything in her life began to unravel.

She felt like an imposter in her own body. She grew distant from her friends and husband. Anxiety, fear, guilt, and shame threatened to swallow her. She also experienced trauma at the hands of one of her doctors—a stark trigger. And when her son was born, there was no… joy.

Her despair was persistent, even with help, therapy, and pills. Grieving a lost identity and angry at the world around her, she found herself despising her baby, her husband, and herself. She was afraid it might not end. With the help of a doctor’s diagnosis, Hoover began to understand the cluster of symptoms that informed her experience—she was drowning in postpartum depression—and that she wasn’t a bad mother or a failed woman.

At its core, The Motherload is about learning to forgive yourself. It’s a rejection of the cultural idea of the mother as a perfect being. And it’s an honest, propulsive, and often funny take on the vicissitudes of marriage, life, and parenting—a motherhood memoir unlike any other.

Sarah Hoover holds a master’s degree in cultural theory from Columbia and a BA in art history from NYU. Her writing has been featured in Mother Tongue, The Strategist, and Vogue. The Motherload is her first book.

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Amerikaans historicus

Juan Williams – New Prize for These Eyes

Juan Williams New Prize for These Eyes review, recensie en informatie boek over de Rise of America’s Second Civil Rights Movement. Op 14 januari 2025 verschijnt bij Simon & Schuster het boek van de Amerikaanse historicus en journalist Juan Williams over de opkomst van de tweede burgerrechtenbeweging 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.

Juan Williams New Prize for These Eyes review, recensie en informatie

  • “Nearly four decades after his Eyes on the Prize heralded the heroes of the Civil Rights era, Juan Williams takes a compelling look at how far America has come in the years since–and how far we have to go.” (David Axelrod, former chief strategist and senior advisor to President Barack Obama)
  • “Williams’ arresting prose and keen insights into this unfolding, volcanic movement are essential reading for those who want to ensure that this nation’s ‘new birth of freedom’ continues unabated and unstoppable. There is no better person to write the book on the new movement to make this a more perfect union than the author who wrote the book on the first one.” (Donna Brazile, New York Times-bestselling author of Hacks)

Juan Williams New Prize for These Eyes

New Prize for These Eyes

The Rise of America’s Second Civil Rights Movement

  • Auteur: Juan Williams (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse geschiedenis
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schsuter
  • Verschijnt: 14 januari 2025
  • Omvang: 288 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 28.99 / $ 14.99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over de tweede civil rights movement in Amerika

In this highly anticipated follow-up to Eyes on the Prize, bestselling author Juan Williams turns his attention to the rise of a new 21st-century civil rights movement.

More than a century of civil rights activism reached a mountaintop with the arrival of a Black man in the Oval Office. But hopes for a unified, post-racial America were deflated when Barack Obama’s presidency met with furious opposition. A white, right-wing backlash was brewing, and a volcanic new movement—a second civil rights movement—began to erupt.

In New Prize for These Eyes, award-winning author Juan Williams shines a light on this historic, new movement. Who are its heroes? Where is it headed? What fires, furies, and frustrations distinguish it from its predecessor?

In the 20th century, Black activists and their white allies called for equal rights and an end to segregation. They appealed to the Declaration of Independence’s defiant assertion that “all men are created equal.” They prioritized legal battles in the courtroom and legislative victories in Congress. Today’s movement is dealing with new realities. Demographic changes have placed progressive whites in a new role among the largest, youngest population of Blacks, Hispanics, and Asians in the nation’s history. The new generation is social media savvy, and they have an agenda fueled by discontent with systemic racism and the persistent scourge of police brutality. Today’s activists are making history in a new economic and cultural landscape, and they are using a new set of tools and strategies to do so.

Williams brilliantly traces the arc of this new civil rights era, from Obama to Charlottesville to January 6th and a Confederate flag in the Capitol. An essential read for activists, historians, and anyone passionate about America’s future, New Prize for These Eyes is more than a recounting of history. It is a forward-looking call to action, urging Americans to get in touch with the progress made and hurdles yet to be overcome.

Juan Williams was born on 10 April 1954 in Colón, Panama. He is a Panamanian-American prizewinning journalist and historian. He is the author of the bestselling civil rights history Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years 1954–1965, which accompanied the PBS series of the same name. He also wrote the landmark biography of the first African American on the Supreme Court, Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary, as well as the New York Times bestsellers Enough and Muzzled: The Assault on Honest Debate. Williams worked for The Washington Post as a celebrated national political correspondent, White House correspondent, and editorial writer. His NPR talk show took ratings to a new high. He has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Ebony. He is currently senior political analyst for Fox News Channel and a columnist for The Hill.

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Amerikaanse schrijfster, Non-Fictie, Verenigde Staten

Amy Gamerman – The Crazies

Amy Gamerman The Crazies review, recensie en informatie non-fictie boek over The Cattleman, the Wind Prospector, and a War Out West. Op 7 januari 205 verschijnt bij Simon & Schuster het non-fictie boek over van de Amerikaanse schrijfster Amy Gamerman over cowboys, miljardairs en een opwarmende planeet in de Amerikaanse staat Montana.

Amy Gamerman The Crazies review, recensie en informatie

  • “It’s impossible to say what’s more compelling about this marvelous book: the story itself—an epic tale of greed, resilience, and hypocrisy playing out against the backdrop of one of the most stunningly gorgeous pieces of real estate in the entire world—or the skill with which Amy Gamerman has masterfully woven a set of complex themes into narrative that boasts all the page-turning compulsiveness of a true-to-life thriller. Like the ferocious winds that that roar down from the mountains and across the pains of central Montana, The Crazies has the power to leave you feeling walloped, whip-sawed, and wildly invigorated, all within the same breath.” (Kevin Fedarko, auteur van A Walk in the Park)
  • “An absolutely wild ride through the untamed frontier of American culture. Gamerman brings alive the modern West in a breakneck story that’s outlandish but also almost mythically familiar. It turns out that the old fights over the frontier and the nature of American freedom aren’t over.” (Christopher Leonard, auteur van The Lords of Easy Money)

Amy Gamerman The Crazies

The Crazies

The Cattleman, the Wind Prospector, and a War Out West

  • Auteur: Amy Gamerman (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: reportages
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 7 januari 2025
  • Omvang: 464 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: $ 29,99 / $ 14,99 / $ 29,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over Montana van Amy Gamerman

A dazzling piece of narrative nonfiction about land lust and the American West, The Crazies tells the story of a wind farm that triggers a 21st century range war between a struggling fifth-generation rancher and the billionaires next door.

Most locals in Big Timber, Montana learn to live with the wind. Rick Jarrett sought his fortune in it. Like his pioneer ancestors who staked their claims in the Treasure State, he believed in his right to make a living off the land—and its newest precious resource, million-dollar wind.

Trouble was, Jarrett’s neighbors were some of the wealthiest and most influential men in America, trophy ranchers who’d come West to enjoy magnificent mountain views, not stare at 500-foot wind turbines.

And so began an epic showdown that would pull in an ever-widening cast of larger-than-life characters, including a Texas oil and gas tycoon, a roguish wind prospector, a Crow activist fighting for his tribe’s rights to the mountains they hold sacred, and an Olympic athlete-turned-attorney whose path to redemption would lead to Jarrett’s wind farm. A wildly entertaining yarn, the brawl over Crazy Mountain Wind would become a fight over the values that define us as Americans—and a window into how this country actually works. All the while, the most coveted rangeland in the West was being threatened by forces more powerful than anything one man could muster: dwindling snowpack, record drought, raging wildfires.

The Crazies is a Western for a warming planet, full of cowboys and billionaires and billionaire cowboys. But it’s also so much more. It’s an exquisitely reported, ruggedly beautiful elegy for a vanishing way of life and a bighearted inquiry into how you can love a place so much you risk destroying it.

Amy Gamerman has written about real estate and culture for The Wall Street Journal for more than two decades. The Crazies is her first book.

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Jimmy Carter – An Hour before Daylight

Jimmy Carter An Hour before Daylight recensie, review en informatie boek en memoir van de Amerikaanse president die op 29 december 2024, 100 jaar oud, overleed. In 2001 verscheen het boek met de politieke memoires van Jimmy Carter die de president van was van de 39e President van de Verenigde Staten was van 1977 tot 1981. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is op dit moment niet verkrijgbaar.

Jimmy Carter An Hour before Daylight recensie, review en informatie

  • “A lovely and haunting piece of work…conveys with quiet passion…its author’s love for the place in which he grew up and where, he says, he expects to rest for eternity.” (Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post)
  • “More than just an engaging memoir, this book is first-rate social history, a portrait of a subculture of America…a genetic road map of the making of a president.” (Ray Jenkins, Baltimore Sun)
  • “An American classic.” (The New Yorker)

Jimmy Carter An Hour before Daylight

An Hour before Daylight

Memories of a Rural Boyhood

  • Auteur: Jimmy Carter (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: memoir
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschenen: 2001
  • Omvang: 288 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 17,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst het boek met jeugdherinneringen van Jimmy Carter

An American story of enduring importance, Jimmy Carter recreates his Depression-era boyhood on a Georgia farm, before the civil rights movement that changed it and the country.

In this powerful memoir, former President and bestselling author Jimmy Carter writes about the powerful rhythms of countryside and community in a sharecropping economy. He offers an unforgettable portrait of his father, a brilliant farmer and strict segregationist who treated black workers with his own brand of ‘separate’ respect and fairness; and his strong-willed and well-read mother, a nurse who cared for all in need. He describes the five other people who shaped his early life, only two of them white; his eccentric relatives; and the boyhood friends with whom he worked the farm and hunted with slingshots and boomerangs, but who could not attend the same school. Carter’s clean and eloquent prose evokes a time when the cycles of life were predictable and simple and the rules were heart-breaking and complex.

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Sarah Blakley-Cartwright – Alice Sadie Celine

Sarah Blakley-Cartwright Alice Sadie Celine review, recensie en informatie van de nieuwe Amerikaanse roman. Op 10 december 2024 verschijnt bij Simon & Schuster de nieuwe roman van de uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijfster Sarah Blakley-Cartwright. 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.

Sarah Blakley-Cartwright Alice Sadie Celine review, recensie en informatie

  • “The absence of commas in the title of Sarah Blakley-Cartwright’s richly intimate debut adult novel hints at the characters’ boundary-less enmeshment in one another’s lives… Wickedly delightful.” (The New York Times Book Review)
  • “A heartfelt, smart, and keenly observed take on friendship and fulfillment, and what it means to start thinking of parents as actual people.” (Town & Country Magazine)

Sarah Blakley-Cartwright Alice Sadie Celine

Alice Sadie Celine

  • Auteur: Sarah Blakley-Cartwright (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 10 december 2024
  • Omvang: 272 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 26,99 / $ 17,99 / $ 12,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de roman van Sarah Blakley-Cartwright

It’s opening night, but Alice’s performance in the local Bay Area production of The Winter’s Tale is far from glamorous. She doesn’t have dreams of stardom, but the basement theater in a wildfire-choked town isn’t exactly what she envisioned for her career back home in Los Angeles. To make matters worse, her best friend Sadie is not even coming.

Pragmatic, serious Sadie and flighty, creative Alice have been best friends since high school—really one another’s only friends—but now that they are through with college (which they attended together) and living on opposite ends of California, Alice would at least expect her friend’s support. Sadie, determined not to cancel her plans with her boyfriend, ends up enlisting the help of her mother, Celine.

A professor of women’s and gender studies at UC Berkeley, Celine’s landmark treatise on sex and identity made her notorious, but she’s struggling to write her new book in a post-second-wave feminist world. So, when Sadie begs her to attend Alice’s play, she relents, if only to escape writer’s block. But in a turn of perplexing events, Celine becomes entranced by Alice’s performance and realizes that her daughter’s once lanky, slightly annoying best friend is now an irresistible young woman.

Set over the course of decades—from Alice and Sadie’s early friendship days and Celine’s decision to leave her husband to the radical movements of 1990s Berkeley and navigating contemporary Hollywood—Alice and Celine’s affair will test the limits of their love for Sadie and their own beliefs of power, agency, and feminism. Witty and relatable, sexy and surprising, Sarah Blakley-Cartwright’s debut adult novel is a mesmerizing portrait of the inner lives of three very different women.

Sarah Blakley-Cartwright is born on 11 March 1988 in Los Angeles, California. She is the author of Red Riding Hood, a #1 New York Times bestseller published worldwide in thirty-eight editions and fifteen languages. She is the editor of Hauser & Wirth’s The Artist’s Library for Ursula magazine. She is publishing director of the Chicago Review of Books, and associate editor of A Public Space.

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