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Amerikaanse roman, Amerikaanse schrijfster

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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Film, filmboek, Televisie, Verenigde Staten

Jaleel White – Growing Up Urkel

Jaleel White Growing Up Urkel review, recensie en informatie over de memoir van de Amerikaanse acteur. Op 19 november 2024 verschijnt bij Simon & Schuster het boek van de uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstige acteur Jaleel White. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de memoir, de schrijver en over de uitgave. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Jaleel White Growing Up Urkel review, recensie en informatie

  • “Comedically gifted, crazy acting chops, wonderfully dressed, weirdly handsome, beyond perfect posture, and a crossover that’s guaranteed to put your ass in the blender. What? Oh, I thought this blurb was about me. That’s okay, Jaleel is pretty awesome too.” (Adam Sandler)

Jaleel White Growing Up Urkel

Growing Up Urkel

  • Auteur: Jaleel White (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: memoir, filmboek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 19 november 2024
  • Omvang: 336 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van het boek en memoir van acteur Jaleel White

An incisive and insightful memoir by one of the most beloved icons of nineties television Jaleel White, the actor who portrayed Steve Urkel on the hit sitcom Family Matters.

At the tender age of twelve, Jaleel White auditioned for the role of Steve Urkel, the socially inept genius, who was in love with his next-door neighbor, Laura.

Though Steve Urkel was intended to be in only one episode, Jaleel’s indelible performance catapulted Urkel into the pantheon of American pop culture. But success can cost as much as it pays. After nine years on the popular sitcom Family Matters, Jaleel is twenty-one, a UCLA undergrad, and adjusting to a world and industry that sees him as the nasally nerd in high water pants, suspenders, and coke bottle glasses.

In this wise and witty memoir, Growing Up Urkel takes you on a memorable journey through the peaks, valleys, and plateaus of fame and fortune.

Jaleel White is born on 27 November 1976 in Pasadena, California. He is an actor, producer, and screenwriter most known for his iconic role as Steve Urkel on the sitcom Family Matters. White has also starred in Big Fat Liar, Sonic the Hedgehog, Grown Ups, and Scooby Doo. White’s top guest appearances include Boston Legal, Dreamgirls, House, and most recently starred in the Netflix’s Hustle, starring Adam Sandler. In April of 2021, he launched a successful cannabis line called itsPurpl.

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Amerikaanse politiek, Biografie, Politiek, Politieke Boeken

Christopher Cox – Woodrow Wilson biografie

Christopher Cox Woodrow Wilson biografie recensie, review en informatie boek over de 28e president van de Verenigde Staten. Op 5 november 2024 verschijnt bij Simon & Schuster The Light Withdrawn, de biografie van president Woodrow Wilson. Het boek is geschreven door Christopher Cox. Op deze pagina lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Christopher Cox Woodrow Wilson biografie recensie, review en informatie

  • “Assessments of Woodrow Wilson tend to focus on his role leading America through WWI and its aftermath and in signing the Treaty of Versailles and League of Nations. From the vantage point of the twenty-first century, Wilson’s presidency looks much different…This biography will further stimulate reevaluation of Wilson’s legacy.” (Booklist)
  • “A reappraisal of our 28th president…Well researched, insightful, and dismaying.” (Kirkus Reviews)

Christopher Cox Woodrow Wilson biografie

Woodrow Wilson

The Light Withdrawn

  • Auteur: Christopher Cox (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: biografie
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 5 november 2024
  • Omvang: 640 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de biografie van president Woodrow Wilson

A timely reassessment of Woodrow Wilson and his role in the long national struggle for racial equality and women’s voting rights.

More than a century after he dominated American politics, Woodrow Wilson still fascinates. With panoramic sweep, Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn reassesses his life and his role in the movements for racial equality and women’s suffrage. The Wilson that emerges is a man superbly unsuited to the moment when he ascended to the presidency in 1912, as the struggle for women’s voting rights in America reached the tipping point.

The first southern Democrat to occupy the White House since the Civil War era brought with him to Washington like-minded men who quickly set to work segregating the federal government. Wilson’s own sympathy for Jim Crow and states’ rights animated his years-long hostility to the Susan B. Anthony Amendment, which promised universal suffrage backed by federal enforcement. Women demonstrating for voting rights found themselves demonized in government propaganda, beaten and starved while illegally imprisoned, and even confined to the insane asylum.

When, in the twilight of his second term, two-thirds of Congress stood on the threshold of passing the Anthony Amendment, Wilson abruptly switched his position. But in sympathy with like-minded southern Democrats, he acquiesced in a “race rider” that would protect Jim Crow. The heroes responsible for the eventual success of the unadulterated Anthony Amendment are brought to life by Christopher Cox, an author steeped in the ways of Washington and political power. This is a brilliant, carefully researched work that puts you at the center of one of the greatest advances in the history of American democracy.

Christopher Cox (16 Octobre 1952, St. Paul, Minnesota) is a Senior Scholar in Residence at the University of California, Irvine, a Life Trustee of the University of Southern California, Chair of the Rhodes Scholarship selection committee for Southern California and the Pacific, and a member of several nonprofit and for-profit boards. Between two decades as a practicing lawyer, he served as chair of the Homeland Security Committee in the US House of Representatives, chair of the US Securities and Exchange Commission, and senior associate counsel to the President. He has written for Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Forbes, The Detroit News, The Denver Post, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and dozens of other publications.

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Biografie, Televisie, Verenigde Staten

Bill Zehme – Carson the Magnificent

Bill Zehme Carson the Magnificent review, recensie en informatie over de biografie van de Amerikaanse televisiepresentator en talkshow host Johnny Carson. Op 5 november 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Simon & Schuster de biografie van Johnny Carson, geschreven door Bill Zehme in samenwerking met Mike Thomas. 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.

Bill Zehme Carson the Magnificent review, recensie en informatie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, review of recensie verschijnt van Carson the Magnificent, geschreven door Bill Zehme en Mike Thomas, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Bill Zehme Carson the Magnificent

Carson the Magnificent

  • Auteurs: Bill Zehme, Mike Thomas (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: biografie
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 5 november 2024
  • Omvang: 336 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de biografie van Johnny Carson

A much-anticipated biography—twenty years in the making—of the entertainer who redefined late-night television and reshaped American culture.

In 2002, Bill Zehme landed one of the most coveted assignments for a magazine writer: an interview with Johnny Carson—the only one he’d granted since retiring from hosting The Tonight Show a decade earlier. Zehme was tapped for the Esquire feature story thanks to his years of legendary celebrity profiles, and the resulting piece portrayed Carson as more human being than showbiz legend. Shortly after Carson’s death in 2005 and urged on by many of those closest to Carson, Zehme signed a contract to do an expansive biography. He toiled on the book for nearly a decade—interviewing dozens of Carson’s colleagues and friends and filling up a storage locker with his voluminous research—before a cancer diagnosis and ongoing treatments halted his progress. When he died in 2023 his obituaries mentioned the Carson book, with New York Times comedy critic Jason Zinoman calling it “one of the great unfinished biographies.”

Yet the hundreds of pages Zehme managed to complete are astounding both for the caliber of their writing and how they illuminate one of the most inscrutable figures in entertainment history: A man who brought so much joy and laughter to so many millions but was himself exceedingly shy and private. Zehme traces Carson’s rise from a magic-obsessed Nebraska boy to a Navy ensign in World War II to a burgeoning radio and TV personality to, eventually, host of The Tonight Show—which he transformed, along with the entirety of American popular culture, over the next three decades. Without Carson, there would be no late-night television as we know it. On a much more intimate level, Zehme also captures the turmoil and anguish that accompanied the success: four marriages, troubles with alcohol, and the devastating loss of a child.

In one passage, Zehme notes that when asked by an interviewer in the mid-80s for the secret to his success, Carson replied simply, “Be yourself and tell the truth.” Completed with help from journalist and Zehme’s former research assistant Mike Thomas, Carson the Magnificent offers just that: an honest assessment of who Johnny Carson really was.

Bill Zehme was the author of the New York Times bestseller The Way You Wear Your Hat: Frank Sinatra and the Lost Art of Livin’ and Lost in the Funhouse: The Life and Mind of Andy Kaufman. He coauthored memoirs by Jay Leno and Regis Philbin, served as a longtime writer at large for Esquire, and contributed to other publications including Rolling Stone, Playboy, and Vanity Fair. A native and lifelong resident of Chicago, he died on 26 March 2023 in the age of 65 in Chicago of colorectal cancer.

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Memoir, Televisie

Bethany Joy Lenz – Dinner for Vampires

Bethany Joy Lenz Dinner for Vampires review, recensie en informatie memoir over Life on a Cult TV Show van de Amerikaanse actrice en zangeres. Op 22 oktober 2024 verschijnt bij Simon & Schuster de memoir van de uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstige actrice Bethany Joy Lenz. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verschenen.

Bethany Joy Lenz Dinner for Vampires review, recensie en informatie

  • “Tart, refreshing.” (New York Times Book Review)

Bethany Joy Lenz Dinner for Vampires

Dinner for Vampires

Life on a Cult TV Show

  • Auteur: Bethany Joy Lenz (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: memoir
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 22 oktober 2024
  • Omvang: 320 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de memoir van actrice Bethany Joy Lenz

A deliciously witty and inspiring memoir by One Tree Hill star Bethany Joy Lenz about her decade in a cult and her quest to break free.

In the early 2000s, after years of hard work and determination to breakthrough as an actor, Bethany Joy Lenz was finally cast as one of the leads on the hit drama One Tree Hill. Her career was about to take off, but her personal life was slowly beginning to unravel. What none of the show’s millions of fans knew, hidden even from her costars, was her secret double life in a cult.

An only child who often had to fend for herself and always wanted a place to belong, Lenz found the safe haven she’d been searching for in a Bible study group with other Hollywood creatives. However, the group soon morphed into something more sinister—a slowly woven web of manipulation, abuse, and fear under the guise of a church covenant called The Big House Family. Piece by piece, Lenz began to give away her autonomy, ultimately relocating to the Family’s Pacific Northwest compound, overseen by a domineering minister who would convince Lenz to marry one of his sons and steadily drained millions of her TV income without her knowledge. Family “minders” assigned to her on set, “Maoist struggle session”–inspired meetings in the basement of a filthy house, and regular counseling with “Leadership” were just part of the tactics used to keep her loyal.

Only when she became a mother did Lenz find the courage to leave and spare her child from a similar fate. After nearly a decade (and with the unlikely help of a One Tree Hill superfan), she finally managed to escape the family’s grip and begin to heal from the deep trauma that forever altered her relationship with God and her understanding of faith.

Written with powerful honesty and dark humor, Dinner for Vampires is an inspiring story about the importance of identity and understanding what you believe.

Bethany Joy Lenz (2 April 1981, Hollywood) starred in the hit TV series One Tree Hill. Her other acting credits include Guiding Light, Grey’s Anatomy, Charmed, Felicity, Suits, Dexter, and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. She is also a recording artist who has released several albums. Lenz currently cohosts the podcast Drama Queens and is the founder/editor-in-chief of the broadsheet newspaper Modern Vintage News.

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Amerikaanse Schrijvers, Biografie, Verenigde Staten

David Greenberg – John Lewis biografie

David Greenberg John Lewis biografie recensie, review en informatie boek over de Amerikaanse burgerrechtenactivist. Op 8 oktober 2024 verschijnt bij Simon & Schuster het boek over John Lewis, geschreven door David Greenberg. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de biografie, de schrijver en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

David Greenberg John Lewis biografie recensie, review en informatie

  • “John Lewis was my friend, steadfast ally, and personal hero. I loved him and miss him very much. Every page of David Greenberg’s biography brings him back to life with rich details that reveal not only his legendary moral compass, but the pressures and practical realities he maneuvered in both protest and politics.” (President Bill Clinton)
  • “Greenberg captures Lewis’ life, achievements, and times with heartstopping precision….a passionately researched and defining portrait of an American hero.” (Booklist)

David Greenberg John Lewis biografie

John Lewis

A Life

  • Auteur: David Greenberg (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: biografie
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 8 oktober 2024
  • Omvang: 704 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de biografie van John Lewis

A comprehensive, authoritative biography of Civil Rights icon John Lewis, “the conscience of the Congress,” drawing on interviews with Lewis and approximately 275 others who knew him at various stages of his life, as well as never-before-used FBI files and documents.

Born into poverty in rural Alabama, Lewis would become second only to Martin Luther King, Jr. in his contributions to the Civil Rights Movement. He was a Freedom Rider who helped to integrate bus stations in the South, a leader of the Nashville sit-in movement, the youngest speaker at the 1963 March on Washington, and the chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), which he made into one of the major civil rights organizations. He may be best remembered as the victim of a vicious beating by Alabama state troopers at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, where he nearly died.

Greenberg’s biography traces Lewis’s life through the post-Civil Rights years, when he headed the Voter Education Project, which enrolled millions of African American voters across the South. The book reveals the little-known story of his political ascent first locally in Atlanta, and then as a member of Congress. Tapped to be a part of the Democratic leadership in Congress, he earned respect on both sides of the aisle for the sacrifices he had made on behalf of nonviolent integration in the South and came to be known as the “conscience of the Congress.”

Thoroughly researched and dramatically told, Greenberg’s biography captures John Lewis’s influential career through documents from dozens of archives, interviews with hundreds of people who knew Lewis, and long-lost footage of Lewis himself speaking to reporters from his hospital bed following his severe beating on “Bloody Sunday” in Selma. With new details about his personal and professional relationships, John Lewis: A Life is the definitive biography of a man whose heroism during the Civil Rights movement helped to bring America a new birth of freedom.

David Greenberg is a professor of history and of journalism and media studies at Rutgers University and a frequent commentator on historical and political affairs. He is the author or editor of several books on American history and politics including Nixon’s Shadow: The History of an Image and Republic of Spin: An Inside History of the American Presidency. Formerly acting editor of The New Republic and then a columnist for Slate, Greenberg now writes regularly for Politico, Liberties, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. His work has also been featured in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, The Wall Street Journal, and numerous academic journals. In support of this book Greenberg won awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Cullman Center of the New York Public Library, and the Leon Levy Center for Biography. He holds a PhD in history from Columbia University and a BA from Yale and lives with his family in Manhattan.

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Amerikaanse Schrijvers, Journalistieke boeken, Oekraïne, Oorlog, Rusland, Verenigde Staten

Bob Woodward – War

Bob Woodward War recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud van het nieuwe boek van de Amerikaanse journalist. Op 15 oktober 2024 verschijnt bij Simon & Schuster het nieuwe boek van de uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijver en journalist Bob Woodward. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijver en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is nog niet verkrijgbaar of aangekondigd.

Bob Woodward War recensie, review en informatie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, recensie of review verschijnt van War, het nieuwe boek van de beroemde Amerikaanse journalist en schrijver Bob Woodward, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Bob Woodward War

War

  • Auteur: Bob Woodward (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: journalistieke non-fictie
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 15 oktober 2024
  • Omvang: 448 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het nieuwe boek van de Amerikaanse journalist Bob Woodward

Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Bob Woodward tells the revelatory, behind-the-scenes story of three wars—Ukraine, the Middle East and the struggle for the American Presidency.

War is an intimate and sweeping account of one of the most tumultuous periods in presidential politics and American history.

We see President Joe Biden and his top advisers in tense conversations with Russian president Vladimir Putin, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky. We also see Donald Trump, conducting a shadow presidency and seeking to regain political power.

With unrivaled, inside-the-room reporting, Woodward shows President Biden’s approach to managing the war in Ukraine, the most significant land war in Europe since World War II, and his tortured path to contain the bloody Middle East conflict between Israel and the terrorist group Hamas.

Woodward reveals the extraordinary complexity and consequence of wartime back-channel diplomacy and decision-making to deter the use of nuclear weapons and a rapid slide into World War III.

The raw cage-fight of politics accelerates as Americans prepare to vote in 2024, starting between President Biden and Trump, and ending with the unexpected elevation of Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee for president.

War provides an unvarnished examination of the vice president as she tries to embrace the Biden legacy and policies while beginning to chart a path of her own as a presidential candidate. Woodward’s reporting once again sets the standard for journalism at its most authoritative and illuminating.

Bob Woodward (26 March 1943, Geneva, Illinois) is the author of three consecutive #1 New York Times bestsellers on President Trump—Fear (2018), Rage (2020), and Peril (2021) with Robert Costa—and an audiobook of 20 interviews with Trump. He has authored 22 bestselling books, 15 of which have been #1 New York Times bestsellers, covering every president from Nixon to Biden.

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Amerikaanse roman, Amerikaanse Schrijvers, Debuutroman

Cebo Campbell – Sky Full of Elephants

Cebo Campbell Sky Full of Elephants recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud van de roman van de Afro-Amerikaanse schrijver. Op 10 september 2024 verschijnt bij Simon & Schuster de debuutroman van de uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijver Cebo Campbell. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de schrijver en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is niet verkrijgbaar.

Cebo Campbell Sky Full of Elephants recensie, review en informatie

  • “Replete with airline-less airports, sprawling mansions up for grabs, and an Alabaman monarchy, Sky Full of Elephants is a supremely imaginative exploration of family, loss, and the many roads to healing. Cebo Campbell gifts us a vivid odyssey full of possibility, proving that liberation doesn’t reside in the rejection of history, but in our embrace of it. This is a debut that dares us to tap into frequencies of freedom, to view ourselves as what we truly are and always have been: beings full of light worthy of love.” (Mateo Askaripour, author of Black Buck)
  • “A captivating near future fantasy… Campbell’s depiction of their trek across an altered and occasionally nightmarish Southern landscape evokes Cormac McCarthy’s THE ROAD, and he caps the narrative with fascinating revelations about the cause of the event. This stunning allegory will spark much discussion.” (Publishers Weekly)

Cebo Campbell Sky Full of Elephants

Sky Full of Elephants

  • Auteur: Cebo Campbell (Verenigde Staten)
  • Uitgever: Amerikaanse roman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 10 september 2024
  • Omvang: 304 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de eerste roman van de Amerikaanse schrijver Cebo Campbell

In a world without white people, what does it mean to be Black?

One day, a cataclysmic event occurs: all of the white people in America walk into the nearest body of water. A year later, Charlie Brunton is a Black man living in an entirely new world. Having served time in prison for a wrongful conviction, he’s now a professor of electric and solar power systems at Howard University when he receives a call from someone he wasn’t even sure existed: his daughter Sidney, a nineteen-year-old left behind by her white mother and step-family.

Traumatized by the event, and terrified of the outside world, Sidney has spent a year in isolation in Wisconsin. Desperate for help, she turns to the father she never met, a man she has always resented. Sidney and Charlie meet for the first time as they embark on a journey across a truly “post-racial” America in search for answers. But neither of them are prepared for this new world and how they see themselves in it.

Heading south toward what is now called the Kingdom of Alabama, everything Charlie and Sidney thought they knew about themselves, and the world, will be turned upside down. Brimming with heart and humor, Cebo Campbell’s astonishing debut novel is about the power of community and connection, about healing and self-actualization, and a reckoning with what it means to be Black in America, in both their world and ours.

Cebo Campbell is an author and creative director based in Brooklyn, New York. Winner of the Linda L. Ross Creative Writing Award and the Stories Award for Poetry, Cebo’s work has been featured in numerous publications. Cebo is the cofounder of the award-winning creative agency, Spherical, where he leads a team of creatives in shaping the best hotel brands in the world. Sky Full of Elephants is his debut novel.

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Amerikaanse politiek, Amerikaanse Schrijvers, Geschiedenisboeken, Non-Fictie

David M. Rubenstein – The Highest Calling

David M. Rubenstein The Highest Calling recensie, review en informatie boek met conversations on the American Presidency. Op 10 september 2024 verschijnt bij Simon & Schuster het boek over het Amerikaanse presidendentschap geschreven door David M. Rubinstein. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijver en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

David M. Rubenstein The Highest Calling recensie, review en informatie

  • “David Rubenstein’s latest book, The Highest Calling: Conversations on the American Presidency, is a masterful journey through the history of those who stood at the center of the world stage to lead mankind’s most powerful nation. His probing interviews with scholars and biographers detail the strengths and frailties of 21 presidents from Washington to Biden who shaped the history of the United States and the consequences of their time in the White House. As someone who served six of those presidents, I highly recommend The Highest Calling for anyone wanting a full-throated understanding about how this critical component of the American experiment in democracy truly works.” (James A. Baker III, 61st U.S. Secretary of State)

David M. Rubenstein The Highest Calling

The Highest Calling

Conversations on the American Presidency

  • Auteur: David M. Rubenstein (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: geschiedenisboek, Amerikaanse politiek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt 10 september 2024
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over Amerikaanse presidenten van David M. Rubenstein

From the New York Times bestselling author of The American Story and How to Lead and host of PBS’s History with David Rubenstein—David Rubenstein interviews living American presidents and top historians and journalists who reflect on the US presidency, including Joe Biden, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Maggie Haberman, Ron Chernow, and more.

For years, bestselling author David M. Rubenstein has distilled the contours of American democracy through conversations with noted leaders and historians. In The Highest Calling, he offers an enlightening overview of arguably the single most important position in the world: the American presidency.

Blending history and anecdote, Rubenstein chronicles the journeys of the presidents who have defined America as it exists now, what they envision for its future, and their legacy on the world stage. Drawing from his own experience in the Carter administration, he engages in dialogues with our nation’s presidents and the historians who study them. Get exclusive access to fresh perspectives, including:

  • Original interviews with most of the living US presidents
  • Interviews with noted presidential historians like Annette Gordon-Reed, Ron Chernow, Candice Millard, and more

Through insightful analysis, Rubenstein captures our country’s most prominent leaders, the political genius and frays of the presidential role, and the wisdom that emerges from it.

David M. Rubenstein (11 August 1949, Baltimore, Maryland) is the New York Times bestselling author of How to Invest, How to Lead, The American Experiment, and The American Story. He is cofounder and cochairman of The Carlyle Group, one of the world’s largest and most successful private equity firms. Rubenstein is Chairman of the Boards of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Council on Foreign Relations, the National Gallery of Art, the Economic Club of Washington, and the University of Chicago. He is an original signer of The Giving Pledge and a recipient of the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy and the MoMA’s David Rockefeller Award. The host of PBS’s History with David Rubenstein, Bloomberg Wealth with David Rubenstein, and The David Rubenstein Show: Peer-to-Peer Conversations on Bloomberg TV and PBS, he lives in the Washington, DC, area.

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Richard Grant – A Race to the Bottom of Crazy

Richard Grant A Race to the Bottom of Crazy recensie, review en informatie boek over de Amerikaanse staat Arizona. Op 17 september 2024 verschijnt bij Simon & Schuster het boek A Race to the Bottom of Crazy, Dispatches from Arizone, van de Amerikaanse journalist en filmmaker Richard Grant. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijver en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Richard Grant A Race to the Bottom of Crazy recensie, review en informatie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, recensie of review verschijnt van A Race to the Bottom of Crazy, het boek over Arizona van Richard Grant dan besteden we er hier aandacht aan.

Richard Grant A Race to the Bottom of Crazy

A Race to the Bottom of Crazy

Dispatches from Arizona

  • Auteur: Richard Grant (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: memoir, boek over Arizona
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 17 september 2024
  • Omvang: 320 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over Arizona van Richard Grant

The bestselling author of Dispatches from Pluto and The Deepest South of All turns his sharp wit and observational powers on the epicenter of America’s most divisive issues: Arizona.

When Richard Grant and his wife moved with their four-year-old daughter back to Tucson, Arizona, where the couple first met, he expected to easily rekindle his love of the region. Instead, he found a housing market gone haywire, rampant election conspiracies, and right-wing political violence alarmingly close to his home and family. Undocumented immigration was surging, and the state was also on the front lines of climate change, breaking heat and drought records, and running out of long-term water supplies. Under these circumstances, Grant wondered how he might raise a happy, well-adjusted child who believes in the future. Yet these concerns weren’t keeping people away: Arizona was simultaneously experiencing some of the nation’s highest population growth.

In A Race to the Bottom of Crazy, Grant mixes memoir, research, and reporting in a quest to understand what makes Arizona such a confounding and irresistible place. He visits the world’s largest machine-gun shoot; takes a sunset boat cruise with a US Congressman and a group of far-right patriots; rides through the desert with a Border Patrol agent; and goes camping with his family in breathtaking mountain ranges that rise out of the desert like islands in the sky. Interspersed with these adventures are recollections of his previous stint in the state, including his friendship with cult writer Charles Bowden and years living off the grid with smugglers, dope farmers, and outlaws on the Mexican border. Ultimately, Grant arrives at the conclusion that Arizona has always been a scattershot improvisation, with bizarre and extreme behavior in its DNA.

This book is an entertaining, illuminating, and essential guide to understanding modern America at its most overheated.

Richard Grant is an author of nonfiction books, a journalist, and a documentary film writer. His last two books, Dispatches from Pluto and The Deepest South of All, were New York Times bestsellers. His previous books include the adventure travel classic God’s Middle Finger: Into the Heart of the Sierra Madre and American Nomads, which was made into an acclaimed BBC documentary with Grant as the writer and star. Currently a contributor to Smithsonian magazine, Grant has published journalism in Esquire, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and many other publications. Originally from London, England, now a US citizen, he has traveled extensively and written books about Mexico and East Africa. After several years of living in a remote farmhouse in the Mississippi Delta, an experience chronicled in the multi-award-winning Dispatches from Pluto, Grant is living in Tucson, Arizona, with his wife and daughter.

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