RIP Jesse Jackson
Civil Rights leader, presidential candidate, and human rights advocate Jesse Jackson died yesterday. He was part of so much modern Black History.
Unpresidented by Martha Brockenbrough
Did you know that PNBA Award-winning novelist Martha Brockenbrough is a rigorous researcher and fact-smack-down nonfiction writer? Her most recent book, Unpresidented: A Biography of Donald Trump, is full of background information that might be particularly interesting to Americans following the impeachment process. The biography provides details and meticulously-noted documentation for facts that Trump probably …
Leadership in Turbulent Times by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Few historians are as well-positioned to elucidate the timeless qualities of our greatest presidents than Goodwin, and she does so here with aplomb. In an era when politics is reduced to tribal posturing and a disturbing willingness to cut off the nose to spite the face, this book is a much-needed reminder of how great …
Fear City by Kim Phillips-Fein
This book is a doozy, a colorful history of a specific time and place, which continues to have major implications today. New York in the early 1970s was facing many of the same economic problems as the rest of urban America: simultaneous blows of recession, inflation, and suburban flight sucked revenue out of the city and …
