Most of all, the book traces in breathtaking detail FDR’s revolutionary efforts with his New Deal legislation to transform the American political economy in order to save it, his forceful-and cagey-leadership before and during World War II, and his lasting legacy in creating the foundations of the postwar international order. Brands offers a compelling and intimate portrait of Roosevelt’s life and career.īrands explores the powerful influence of FDR’s dominating mother and the often tense and always unusual partnership between FDR and his wife, Eleanor, and her indispensable contributions to his presidency. Traitor to His Class sheds new light on FDR's formative years, his remarkable willingness to champion the concerns of the poor and disenfranchised, his combination of political genius, firm leadership, and matchless diplomacy in saving democracy in America during the Great Depression and the American cause of freedom in World War II.ĭrawing on archival materials, public speeches, personal correspondence, and accounts by family and close associates, acclaimed bestselling historian and biographer H. A sweeping, magisterial biography of the man generally considered the greatest president of the twentieth century, admired by Democrats and Republicans alike.
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In Novik’s books, this historic verisimilitude coexists with the magic. “You can’t suck blood from a stone,” a character complains, while another notes, “I walked home pleased as a cat.” The phrasings are colloquial, but slightly archaic: “My heart was glad as birds.” Such lines give the book the lyricism of a homey fable while anchoring it in Yiddish, or at least Eastern European, culture. The roots of this work are apparent in its language, its metaphors speaking of an older, primarily rural world. As imagined in Spinning Silver, Novik’s comprehensive re-telling of the Rumplestiltskin story, her characters deal with obstacles as deadly as poverty and anti-Semitism and as sharp as hunger and the biting cold. In the hands of fantasy author Naomi Novik, they acquire another dimension still she looks at these traditional societies, Jewish or gentile, by way of a contemporary sensibility, with a gloss of magic thrown in. These tales – the artful gleanings of survival-conscious Jews and other minorities – have remained relevant to generations removed from the shtetl. Spinning Silver, by Naomi Novik. Del Ray, $28, 480 pp.Įastern European folklore has long been mined by writers, inspiring authors as diverse as Isaac Bashevis Singer and Helen Oyeyemi. This is a winning book, conveying a strangely believable fantasy about three strong young women in a world not that far removed from our own. Leonie is simultaneously tormented and comforted by visions of her dead brother, which only come to her when she’s high Mam is dying of cancer and quiet, steady Pop tries to run the household and teach Jojo how to be a man. Jojo and his toddler sister, Kayla, live with their grandparents, Mam and Pop, and the occasional presence of their drug-addicted mother, Leonie, on a farm on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. Ward is a major American writer, multiply awarded and universally lauded, and in Sing, Unburied, Sing she is at the height of her powers. Drawing on Morrison and Faulkner, The Odyssey and the Old Testament, Ward gives us an epochal story, a journey through Mississippi’s past and present that is both an intimate portrait of a family and an epic tale of hope and struggle. Perfect camouflage against the sand and stone of the night desert. To our American heroes: find your hope, hold onto it, and never let it go.īlack armor glistened in the moonlight. Any resemblance to persons, living or dead, actual events, locale or organizations is entirely coincidental.Ĭrescent Moon Press electronic publication/print publication: December 2012 Dedication The names, characters, places and incidents are products of the writer’s imagination or have been used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. They cannot be sold, shared or given away as it is an infringement on the copyright of this work.Īll Rights Are Reserved. All rights reservedĮbooks/Books are not transferable. This stunning trilogy from a master poet and #1 New York Times bestselling author with nearly 3.5 million books in print is a testament to the harsh reality that addiction is never just one person’s problem. They find themselves pulled toward the one person who links them together, yet discover that it is in each other, and in themselves, that they find the trust, the courage, the hope to break the cycle. A new mother struggling-and failing-to stay clean, Kristina’s downward spiral continues in Glass, and the outcome is chronicled in Fallout, which follows the lives of three of her children. 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One that shapes a battlefield where pride must be broken enough to be restored, and where a prodigal son may finally know the healing peace of surrender and the boundless gift of forgiveness. Now Haakon faces the hardest choice of his life. Haakon’s cunning and strength hold the power to seal many fates, including Thor’s which is already at stake through a grave illness brought to him as the first prick of warfare. A decades-old feud with the neighboring farm has wrenched them into the fiercest confrontation on Blackbird Mountain since the Civil War. When the winds bear him home after four years away, Haakon finds the family on the brink of tragedy. Not even the beautiful Norwegian woman he’s pursued can ease the torment. Having fled the farm after trying to take Aven as his own, Haakon sails on the North Atlantic ice trade where his soul is plagued with regrets that distance cannot heal. Haakon-whose selfish choices shattered her trust in him. Yet while Thor holds her heart, it is his younger brother and rival who haunts her memories. That the Lord saw her along the winding journey and that Aven now carries Thor’s child are blessings beyond measure. Orphaned within an Irish workhouse, then widowed at just nineteen, she voyaged to America where she was wooed and wed by Thor Norgaard, a Deaf man in rural Appalachia. In his suicide letter, Mishima wrote: “Human life is limited, but I want to live forever.” He wanted to live and die as a man of ideas and a man of action. Mishima delivered his last manuscript to an hour before his death. In accordance with his aesthetic vision of reality, he preferred the dramatic and heroic death of a beautiful and powerful body to the slow death of an ageing and sick body. His quest for purity could only be glorified through the act of seppuku. For him, the synthesis between the Japanese philosophy of Bushido (the way of the warrior) and the Greek idealisation of physical beauty was only possible in the heroic act of death. For admirers, his suicide can be considered as the culmination of his life project, the unification of action and art.įrom a man of letters, Mishima became a man of sword, blurring the line between the writer and the samurai. The acute awareness of his body allowed him to find a harmonious balance between the power of creativity and physical strength. Mishima had been planning his suicide for years - he had trained his body with intensive physical exercises, including military training with the Tatenokai. Mishima’s creation of the Tatenokai or the Shield Society in 1966, in order to defend the Emperor of Japan against attacks from the left, was more a romantic quest for an exemplary death than a political and military adventure. She often comes off as closed-off, snarky, and insecure, although readers get a better glimpse into her mind when the perspective switches from Park’s to hers. Eleanor is described as an overweight redhead who comes from a poor, abusive household. He enjoys spending his time listening to music and reading comic books, and is also deeply insecure about his Korean identity. Park Sheridan is a half-Korean, half-white high school student from an upper-middle class family. The young love story takes place in the late 1980s, in Omaha, Nebraska. If it’s such a great romance novel that features the rare Asian-American protagonist, why didn’t I love it? Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature. Upon being published in 2012, the young adult novel by Rainbow Rowell received favorable reviews it made NPR’s list of Best Books of 2013, won the 2013 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction, and in 2014 was awarded the Michael L. I initially began reading Eleanor & Park because it features an Asian-American protagonist who doubles as the main love interest - a rare occurrence in popular contemporary American literature. |
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