Sex. Drugs. Radio. 📻 Journalist Steve Oney's ON AIR: THE TRIUMP AND TUMULT OF NPR, out today, is an epic, vibrant dive into the history of National Public Radio.
We're making space on our shelves today because TANGLED FORTUNES by @KatySchumaker is out NOW! 🤩 This is a "deeply researched, beautifully written" history of the century-long fight to restore the freedom to love, marry, and inherit.
📖Learn more: https://t.co/0O9aJomelk
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“It’s a compelling predicament to have a character embroiled in debt, with its automatic urgency and its built-in stakes, and there seems to be a universality to debt.” Saïd Sayrafiezadeh discusses his story “Minimum Payment Due.” https://t.co/sunbmwau8Z
The winner of the 2024 #CundillHistoryPrize is…
Kathleen DuVal (@KathleenADuVal) for ‘Native Nations: A Millennium in North America’, published by @randomhouse.
A ‘sweeping’ 1000-year history of North America from the rise of ancient cities to the present day.
Marietje Schaake's book THE TECH COUP... extracted today in @fastcompany
Tech companies aren’t just going to war. They’re owning the battlefield cc https://t.co/ygRtfH096z cc @PrincetonUPress
Introducing the 2024 #CundillHistoryPrize shortlist! ✨
From secret CIA plots to the hidden history of Black civil rights, from Indigenous American innovations to new takes on US gun culture and Indonesia’s struggle for independence. Find out more here: https://t.co/Hf6RnDuEOu
Happy Pub Day to Jerald Walker's MAGICALLY BLACK AND OTHER ESSAYS (@AmistadBooks), the sharp and insightful follow-up to his @nationalbook award-nominated book HOW TO MAKE A SLAVE.
Happy Publication Day to Pulitzer-Prize winning art critic Sebastian Smee, whose new book "PARIS IN RUINS: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism", is out today from @wwnorton in the US... Perfectly timed for: https://t.co/AWkIAAhqze @ngadc
We love this rave of Michelle King's CHOP FRY WATCH LEARN (out now from @wwnorton) by @Thessaly
in @nytbooks, who calls it a "moving and ambitious biography"! https://t.co/1BMuvIUHpq
Happy #PubDay to WIDE AWAKE by @smithsonian historian Jon Grinspan, a propulsive account of our history's most surprising, most consequential political club: the Wide Awake anti-slavery youth movement that marched America from the 1860 election to civil war (@BloomsburyPub).