Categorie archieven: Amerikaanse geschiedenis

Amerikaanse geschiedenis, Amerikaanse Schrijvers, Reisverhalen, Verenigde Staten

James Dodson – The Road That Made America

James Dodson The Road That Made America review, recensie en informatie boek over de Great Wagon Road in de Verenigde Staten. Op 1 juli 2025 verschijnt bij Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster het nieuwe boek van James Dodson, de uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijver. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het geschiedenisboek, de auteur en over de uitgave.

James Dodson The Road That Made America review en recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, review of recensie verschijnt van The Road That Made America, A Modern Pilgrim’s Journey on the Great Wagon Road, geschreven door James Dodson, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

James Dodson The Road That Made America

The Road That Made America

A Modern Pilgrim’s Journey on the Great Wagon Road

  • Auteur: James Dodson (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse geschiedenis, reisverhalen
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Avid Reader Press
  • Verschijnt: 1 juli 2025
  • Omvang: 416 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs:  $ 32,00 /  $ 16,99 /  $ 29,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst boek over de Great Wagon Road

The Road That Made America is a lively, epic account of one of the greatest untold stories in our nation’s history—the eight-hundred-mile long Great Wagon Road that 18th-century American settlers forged from Philadelphia to Georgia that expanded the country dramatically in the decades before we ventured west.

Little known today, the Great Wagon Road was the primary road of frontier America: a mass migration route that stretched more than eight hundred miles from Philadelphia to Augusta, Georgia. It opened the Southern frontier and wilderness east of the Appalachian Mountains to America’s first settlers, and later served as the gateway for the exploration of the American West. In the mid-1700s, waves of European colonists in search of land for new homes left Pennsylvania to settle in the colonial backcountry of Maryland, Virginia, and the Carolinas. More than one hundred thousand settlers made the arduous trek, those who would become the foundational generations of the world’s first true immigrant nation. In their newly formed village squares, democracy took root and bloomed. During the Revolutionary War, the road served as the key supply line to the American resistance in the western areas of the colonies, especially in the South.

Drawing on years of fieldwork and scholarship by an army of archeologists, academics, archivists, preservationists, and passionate history lovers, James Dodson sets out to follow the road’s original path from Philadelphia to Georgia. On his journey, he crosses six contiguous states and some of the most historic and hallowed landscapes of eastern America, touching many of the nation’s most sacred battlefields and burying grounds. Due to its strategic importance, military engagements were staged along the Great Wagon Road throughout North America’s three major wars, including the early days of the bloody French and Indian conflict and pivotal Revolutionary War encounters.

In time, the Great Wagon Road became America’s first technology highway, as growing roadside villages and towns and cities became, in effect, the first incubators of America’s early Industrial age. The people and ideas that traveled down the road shaped the character of the fledgling nation and helped define who we are today. Dodson’s ancestors on both sides took the Great Wagon Road to Maryland and North Carolina, respectively, giving him a personal stake in uncovering the road’s buried legacy. An illuminating and entertaining first-person history, The Road That Made America restores this long-forgotten route to its rightful place in our national story.

James Dodson is born in 1953. He the author of sixteen books, including Final Rounds, A Golfer’s Life (with Arnold Palmer), Ben Hogan: An American Life, American Triumvirate, and The Range Bucket List. His work has appeared in over fifty magazines and newspapers worldwide. He is the only two-time winner of the United States Golf Association’s Herbert Warren Wind Award for best golf book of the year. In 2011, Dodson was selected for membership in the Order of the Longleaf by the governor of North Carolina, a prestigious award for exemplary service to the state. He is the founding editor of O Henry magazine. He lives with his wife in North Carolina.

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Kenneth Manusama – (On)grondwettelijk

Kenneth Manusama Ongrondwettelijk recensie en informatie boek over de cruciale rol van het Hooggerechtshof in Amerika. Op 12 juni 2025 verschijnt bij Uitgeverij Thomas Rap het nieuwe boek van Amerikakenner en schrijver Kenneth Manusama. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave.

Kenneth Manusama Ongrondwettelijk recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking of recensie verschijnt van (On)grondwettelijk, het nieuwe boek over de Verenigde Staten van Amerikakenner Kenneth Manusama, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Kenneth Manusama Ongrondwettelijk

(On)grondwettelijk

Over de cruciale rol van het Hooggerechtshof in Amerika

  • Auteur: Kenneth Manusama (Nederland)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse geschiedenis
  • Uitgever: Thomas Rap
  • Verschijnt: 12 juni 2025
  • Omvang: 176 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: € 19,99 / € 10,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over het Amerikaanse hooggerechtshof van Kenneth Manusama

Nu president Trump weer aan de macht is, maken de Verenigde Staten een periode door van ingrijpende veranderingen die elkaar razendsnel opvolgen. Het Amerikaanse Hooggerechtshof speelt hierin een cruciale en unieke rol: als laatste instantie van constitutionele toetsing bepaalt het of wetten en besluiten in lijn zijn met de grondwet, en heeft het zo de macht om de koers van het land te sturen.

Het Hof heeft daarmee niet alleen invloed op het recht, maar ook op de politiek. Wat betekent deze vorm van constitutionele toetsing? Hoe solide is wet- en regelgeving op deze manier? In ( On)grondwettelijk zet Manusama uiteen hoe cruciaal de rol is die het Hof speelt en welke risico’s ermee gepaard gaan. Een onmisbaar boek voor iedereen die de politieke actualiteit in de Verenigde Staten wil kunnen volgen.

Kenneth Manusama is geboren op 17 augustus 1972. Hij is schrijver, jurist en Amerikakenner. Hij promoveerde aan de Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam en doceerde internationaal recht aan verschillende universiteiten in Nederland en New York. Recentelijk gaf hij ook les in het Amerikaanse constitutionele recht. In 2024 verscheen Democratie van het Wilde Westenvan zijn hand.

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Amerikaanse geschiedenis, Scheepvaart, Schepen

John U. Bacon – The Gales of November

John U. Bacon The Gales of November review, recensie en informatie boek over het vergaan van het schip Edmund Fitzgerald op Lake Superior op 10 november 1975. Op 10 juli 2025 verschijnt bij Liveright Publishing het nieuwe boek van de Amerikaanse schrijver John U. Bacon. 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.

John U. Bacon The Gales of November review en recensie

  • “Here is a work of spectral beauty destined to be a classic. Readers of Sebastian Junger’s The Perfect Storm, Erik Larsen’s Dead Wake, and Nathaniel Philbrick’s In the Heart of the Sea will love this deeply reported tale from our vast inland ocean. With Bacon’s graceful and poignant retelling, the saga of the Edmund Fitzgerald now takes its rightful place among the world’s greatest legends of shipwrecks and tempestuous seas.” (Hampton Sides)
  • “The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald has long fascinated and frustrated storytellers. Now, at last, the story is deftly and deeply explored by John U. Bacon in this terrific, gripping account.” (Jonathan Eig)

John U. Bacon The Gales of November

The Gales of November

The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald

  • Auteur: John U. Bacon (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse geschiedenis, scheepvaartboek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Liveright Publishing
  • Verschijnt: 10 juli 2025
  • Omvang: 432 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 35,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over de schipbreuk van de Edmund Fitzgerald

On the fiftieth anniversary of the Edmund Fitzgerald’s sinking, the bestselling author of The Great Halifax Explosion tells the definitive story of the “Mighty Fitz.”

For three decades following World War II, the Great Lakes overtook Europe as the epicenter of global economic strength. The region was the beating heart of the world economy, possessing all the power and prestige Silicon Valley does today. And no ship represented the apex of the American Century better than the 729-foot-long Edmund Fitzgerald—the biggest, best, and most profitable ship on the Lakes.

But on November 10, 1975, as the “storm of the century” threw 100 mile-per-hour winds and 50-foot waves on Lake Superior, the Mighty Fitz found itself at the worst possible place, at the worst possible time. When she sank, she took all 29 men onboard down with her, leaving the tragedy shrouded in mystery for a half century.

In The Gales of November, award-winning journalist John U. Bacon presents the definitive account of the disaster, drawing on more than 100 interviews with the families, friends, and former crewmates of those lost. Bacon explores the vital role Great Lakes shipping played in America’s economic boom, the uncommon lives the sailors led, the sinking’s most likely causes, and the heartbreaking aftermath for those left behind—”the wives, the sons, and the daughters,” as Gordon Lightfoot sang in his unforgettable ballad.

Focused on those directly affected by the tragedy, The Gales of November is both an emotional tribute to the lives lost and a propulsive, page-turning narrative history of America’s most-mourned maritime disaster.

John U. Bacon was born 3 July 1964. He has authored fourteen books on sports, business, health, and history, the last seven of which are critically acclaimed national bestsellers, including five New York Times bestsellers. He lives in Ann Arbor and northern Michigan with his wife and son.

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Amerikaanse geschiedenis, Amerikaanse journalist, Amerikaanse politiek, Verenigde Staten

Evan Osnos – The Haves and Have-Yachts

Evan Osnos The Haves and Have-Yachts review, recensie en informatie boek met essays over de ultrarijken in de Verenigde Staten. Op 3 juni 2025 verschijnt bij Scribner het nieuwe boek van de Amerikaanse schrijver en journalist Evan Osnos. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave.

Evan Osnos The Haves and Have-Yachts review en recensie

  • “The Gilded Age had Mark Twain, the Jazz Age had F. Scott Fitzgerald, and the Age of Trump, luckily, has Evan Osnos. In The Haves and the Have-Yachts, Osnos reveals the secret lives and preoccupations of America’s increasingly powerful oligarchs and probes their outsized impact on the rest of us. Osnos is an astute political reporter and a wonderful and witty stylist, making this menagerie of modern-day Robber Barons equal parts entertaining and appalling. Anyone trying to understand who really rules Trump’s America must read it.” (Jane Mayer, author of Dark Money)

Evan Osnos The Haves and Have-Yachts

The Haves and Have-Yachts

Dispatches on the Ultrarich

  • Auteur: Evan Osnos (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: journalistiek boek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Scribner
  • Verschijnt: 3 juni 2025
  • Omvang: 304 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 30,00 / $ 14.99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over de ultrarijke miljardairs van Amerika

From New York Times bestselling and National Book Award–winning author Evan Osnos comes a timely and provocative collection of essays exploring American oligarchy and the culture of excess, providing a wry, unfiltered look at how the ultrarich shape—and sometimes warp—our social and political landscape.

The ultrarich hold more of America’s wealth than they did in the heyday of the Carnegies and Rockefellers. Here, Evan Osnos’s incisive reportage yields an unforgettable portrait of the tactics and obsessions driving this new Gilded Age, in which superyachts, luxury bunkers, elite tax dodges, and a torrent of political donations bespeak staggering disparities of wealth and power.

With deft storytelling and meticulous reporting, this is a book about the indulgences, incentives, and psychological distortions that define our economic age. In each essay, Osnos delves into a world that is rarely visible, from the outrageous to the fabulous to the ridiculous: a private wealth manager who broke with members of an American dynasty and spilled their secrets; the pop stars who perform at lavish parties for thirteen-year-olds; the status anxieties that spill out of marinas in Monaco and Palm Beach like real-world episodes of Succession and The White Lotus; the ethos behind the largest Ponzi scheme in Hollywood history; the confessions of disgraced titans in a “white-collar support group.” A celebrated political reporter, Osnos delves into the unprecedented Washington influence of Silicon Valley and Wall Street, drawing on in-depth interviews with Mark Zuckerberg and other billionaires, about their power and the explosive backlash it stirs.

Originally published in The New Yorker, these essays have been revised and expanded to deliver an unflinching portrait of raw ambition, unimaginable fortune, and the rise of America’s modern oligarchy. Osnos’s essays are a wake-up call—a case against complacency in the face of unchecked excess, as the choices of the ultrarich ripple through our lives. Entertaining, unsettling, and eye-opening, The Haves and the Have-Yachts couldn’t be more relevant to today’s world.

Evan Osnos is born on 24 December 1976 in London, England. He has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2008. His most recent book, Wildland: The Making of America’s Fury, was a New York Times bestseller. He is also the author of Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China, which won the National Book Award. Previously, he was a foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune, where he shared two Pulitzer Prizes. He lives with his wife and children near Washington, DC.

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Mark Whitaker – The Afterlife of Malcolm X

Mark Whitaker The Afterlife of Malcolm X review, recensie en informatie boek over de blijvende impact van een outcast die een icoon werd in Amerika. Op 13 mei 2025 verschijnt bij Simon & Schuster het boek van de Amerikaanse journalist Mark Whitaker over de blijvende invloed op cultuur, politiek en burgerrechten van Malcolm X. Hier lees je informatie van de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Mark Whitaker The Afterlife of Malcolm X review en recensie

  • “Apart from providing a fascinating detective story, Whitaker documents the sometimes surprising ways in which Malcolm X remains a model of Black resistance—as, for example, an opera that “became a vehicle for making Malcolm newly relevant to the ‘Black Panther’ generation,” as well as the renewed interest in him with the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement. A complex, thoughtfully written book that ably lives up to its title.” (Kirkus)
  • “The Afterlife of Malcolm X is a sumptuous, essential book.” (Minnesota Star Tribune)
  • “Whitaker traces the vast streaks of light left by ‘our black shining prince’ across space and time since the shock of his cruel and brutal murder at the Audubon Ballroom in New York in February 1965. The lives Malcolm X has touched, generation to generation, from Eldridge Cleaver to Amiri Baraka, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to Spike Lee, Public Enemy to Black Lives Matter, make for an impressive and wide-ranging cultural history. At the same time, Whitaker reveals the stories of reporters and filmmakers who have dedicated themselves to finding justice not only for Malcolm but for those who did and did not take his life. His legacy lives on.” (Henry Louis Gates Jr., New York Times bestselling author of The Black Church)

Mark Whitaker The Afterlife of Malcolm X

The Afterlife of Malcolm X

An Outcast Turned Icon’s Enduring Impact on America

  • Auteur: Mark Whitaker (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse geschiedenis
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 13 mei 2025
  • Omvang: 448 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook  / luisterboek
  • Prijs: $ 30,99 / $ 16,99 / $ 29,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over de invloed van Malcolm X na zijn dood

Published to coincide with the hundredth anniversary of his birth, the first major study of Malcolm X’s influence in the sixty years since his assassination, exploring his enduring impact on culture, politics, and civil rights.

Malcolm X has become as much of an American icon as Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, or Martin Luther King. But when he was murdered in 1965, he was still seen as a dangerous outsider. White America found him alienating, mainstream African Americans found him divisive, and even his admirers found him bravely radical. Although Ossie Davis famously eulogized Malcolm X as “our own Black shining prince,” he never received the mainstream acceptance toward which he seemed to be striving in his final year. It is more in death than his life that Malcolm’s influence has blossomed and come to leave a deep imprint on the cultural landscape of America.

With impeccable research and original reporting, Mark Whitaker tells the story of Malcolm X’s far-reaching posthumous legacy. It stretches from founders of the Black Power Movement such as Stokely Carmichael and Huey Newton to hip-hop pioneers such as Public Enemy and Tupac Shakur. Leaders of the Black Arts and Free Jazz movements from Amiri Baraka to Maya Angelou, August Wilson, and John Coltrane credited their political awakening to Malcolm, as did some of the most influential athletes of our time, from Muhammad Ali to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and beyond. Spike’s movie biopic and the Black Lives Matter movement reintroduced Malcolm to subsequent generations. Across the political spectrum, he has been cited as a formative influence by both Barack Obama—who venerated Malcolm’s “unadorned insistence on respect”—and Clarence Thomas, who was drawn to Malcolm’s messages of self-improvement and economic self-help.

In compelling new detail, Whitaker also retraces the long road to exoneration for two men wrongfully convicted of Malcolm’s murder, making The Afterlife of Malcolm X essential reading for anyone interested in true crime, American politics, culture, and history.

Mark Whitaker was born 7 September 1957 in  Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania. He is the former editor of Newsweek and the first African American to lead a national newsweekly. He then served as Washington Bureau Chief for NBC News and Managing Editor of CNN Worldwide. Whitaker’s memoir My Long Trip Home was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His social histories Smoketown: The Untold Story of the Other Great Black Renaissance and Saying it Loud: 1966—The Year Black Power Challenged the Civil Rights Movement were both named among the best nonfiction books of the year by The Washington Post.

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Amerikaanse geschiedenis, Amerikaanse historicus, Indianen

Donald L. Fixico – Chitto Harjo

Donald L. Fixico Chitto Harjo review en recensie boek over Native Patriotism and the Medicine Way. Op 22 april 2025 verschijnt bij Yale Universty Press het nieuwe boek van de Native American professor en historicus Donald L. Fixico in de reeks The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave.

Donald L. Fixico Chitto Harjo review en recensie

  • “This may be Donald Fixico’s best book in a long and distinguished career. He tells the dramatic story of Chitto Harjo and the Crazy Snake Rebellion to reveal a larger and longer struggle. Both personal and thoroughly researched, this revealing and quite original history traces how Native communalism and the Medicine Way resisted Christianity and American individualism within the Muscogee Nation.” (Richard White, Stanford University)
  • “Chitto Harjo (Crazy Snake) was a man caught in the grind between two worlds as the ancient one of the Muscogees met the overpowering one of Euro-American newcomers. Was he a troublemaker or patriot? Donald Fixico argues compellingly here for the latter, and by doing that he throws light on global colonization as a clash of spiritual and perceptual power as much as one of outward authority and command.” (Elliot West)

Donald L. Fixico Chitto Harjo

Chitto Harjo

Native Patriotism and the Medicine Way

  • Auteur: Donald L. Fixico (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse geschiedenis
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Yale University Press
  • Verschijnt: 22 april 2025
  • Omvang: 256 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 28,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van het boek over Chitto harjo van Donald L. Fixico

How a Mvskoke traditionalist leader forged a movement to resist the division of tribal lands and keep his people on the everlasting Medicine Way.

Chitto Harjo (“Crazy Snake”) had several names—Wilson Jones, Bill Jones, Bill Harjo, Bill Snake—and people called him many things: troublemaker, rebellion leader, uncivilized Indian, martyr, murderer. Many called him crazy for fighting against progress and for his commitment to traditions that they believed were outdated and dying out. Yet in the eyes of many Mvskokes and traditionalists of other nations, he was a hero, a defender of the old ways, a Native patriot, and a leader of the Medicine Way.

These traditionalists believed in the Mvskoke worldview, which has inspired the Mvskokes and other Southeastern peoples to carry on their traditions as they have done for hundreds of years. In this engaging account, historian Donald L. Fixico tells the story of the Mvskoke people and their fight for survival and unity amid enduring tensions between white “civilization” and traditional culture. A personal story that begins with Fixico attending a Green Corn Ceremony with his father and young son, this engrossing narrative integrates traditional knowledge with historical method to present an Indigenous perspective on Mvskoke and Native American history.

Donald L. Fixico (Muscogee, Seminole, Shawnee, and enrolled Sac and Fox), originally from Oklahoma, is Regents and Distinguished Foundation Professor of History at Arizona State University. A former Newberry Fellow, UCLA Postdoctoral Fellow, and Ford Fellow, he is the author and editor of seventeen books.

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Tim Weiner – De missie

Tim Weiner De missie recensie en informatie boek over de CIA in de eenentwintigste eeuw. Op 17 juli 2025 verschijnt bij Uitgeverij De Bezige Bij de Nederlandse vertaling van The Mission: The CIA in the 21st Century, geschreven door de Amerikaanse journalist en schrijver Tim Weiner. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave.

Tim Weiner De missie recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, review of recensie verschijnt van De missie, het boek over CIA in de eenentwintigste eeuw, geschreven door Tim Weiner, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Tim Weiner De missie

De missie

De CIA in de eenentwintigste eeuw

  • Auteur: Tim Weiner (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse geschiedenis
  • Origineel: The Mission: The CIA in the 21st Century (2025)
  • Nederlandse vertaling: Pon Ruiter, Aad Janssen
  • Uitgever: De Bezige Bij
  • Verschijnt: 17 juli 2025
  • Omvang: 352 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: € 27,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over de CIA van Tim Wiener

Aan het begin van deze eeuw raakte de cia in een zware crisis. Na de Koude Oorlog was de inlichtingendienst zijn oorspronkelijke doel kwijtgeraakt; buitenlandse posten werden gesloten, er werd gewerkt met verouderde technologie en cruciale informatie werd over het hoofd gezien. Later, na de aanslagen van 9/11, verschoof de focus naar paramilitaire activiteiten, met geheime gevangenissen en dodelijke drone-aanvallen, waarmee de kernmissie, het verzamelen van informatie, nog verder naar de achtergrond verdween. Dit had ernstige gevolgen: talloze buitenlandse agenten vonden de dood, personeelsdossiers werden gestolen door Chinese spionnen en computernetwerken werden door de Russische inlichtingendienst en Amerikaanse hackers geïnfiltreerd.

In De missie onderzoekt Tim Weiner de strijd van de cia om na deze jaren van mislukkingen zijn verloren spionagecapaciteiten te herstellen. Dit is de onthullende geschiedenis van de cia in de eenentwintigste eeuw, van 9/11 en de oorlogen in Afghanistan en Irak tot de huidige conflicten met Rusland en China.

Tim Weiner is geboren op 20 juni 1956 in White Plains, New York. Hij is schrijver en journalist. In 1988 won hij de Pulitzer Prize voor zijn reportages over nationale veiligheid. Hij rapporteerde over geheime operaties in Afghanistan, Soedan en Guyana en schreef artikelen en boeken over spionage, waaronder Vijanden van de staat. Voor zijn geschiedenis van de CIA, Een spoor van vernieling, ontving hij de National Book Award. In 2015 verscheen Eén man tegen de wereld, over Richard Nixon en in 2020 De stille oorlog.

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Amerikaanse geschiedenis, Amerikaanse Schrijvers, Biografie

Shelley Fisher Fishkin – Jim

Shelley Fisher Fishkin Jim recensie, review en informatie biografie en boek over het leven en het hiernamaals van de kameraad van Huckleberry Finn. Op 15 april 2025 verschijnt in de reeks Black Lifes van Yale University Press de biografie van Jim de kameraad van Huckleberry Finn uit de roman van Mark Twain, geschreven door de Amerikaanse professor Shelley Fisher Fishkin. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de biografie is niet verkrijgbaar.

Shelley Fisher Fishkin Jim recensie, review en informatie

  • “Fishkin stands at the pinnacle of Mark Twain studies and criticism. Her astonishing gifts have taken her, and us, far beyond the often-cramped field of enquiries into Mark Twain. She has stood virtually alone in her insistence on race as the thematic foundation of Mark Twain’s literary greatness, producing books, essays, papers and lectures that break open the deceptively bland yet wickedly subtle strategies through which Twain became a defiant truth-teller. …Jim, at the end, is nothing short of a call to hope: hope that even in morally chaotic times such as ours, words—written well, read responsibly, and evaluated with bold sophistication—can save us.” (Ron Powers, author of Mark Twain: a Life)

Shelley Fisher Fishkin Jim

Jim

The Life and Afterlives of Huckleberry Finn’s Comrade

  • Auteur: Shelley Fisher Fishkin (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: biografie
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Yale University Press
  • Reeks: Black Lifes
  • Verschijnt: 15 april 2025
  • Omvang: 464 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 28,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van het boek over de kameraad van Huckleberry Finn

The origins and influence of Jim, Mark Twain’s beloved yet polarizing literary figure.

Mark Twain’s Jim, introduced in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), is a shrewd, self‑aware, and enormously admirable enslaved man, one of the first fully drawn Black fathers in American fiction. Haunted by the family he has left behind, Jim acts as father figure to Huck, the white boy who is his companion as they raft the Mississippi toward freedom. Jim is also a highly polarizing figure: he is viewed as an emblem both of Twain’s alleged racism and of his opposition to racism; a diminished character inflected by minstrelsy and a powerful challenge to minstrel stereotypes; a reason for banning Huckleberry Finn and a reason for teaching it; an embarrassment and a source of pride for Black readers.

Eminent Twain scholar Shelley Fisher Fishkin probes these controversies, exploring who Jim was, how Twain portrayed him, and how the world has responded to him. Fishkin also follows Jim’s many afterlives: in film, from Hollywood to the Soviet Union; in translation around the world; and in American high school classrooms today. The result is Jim as we have never seen him before—a fresh and compelling portrait of one of the most memorable Black characters in American fiction.

Shelley Fisher Fishkin was born 9 may 1950. She is the Joseph S. Atha Professor of Humanities, professor of English, and professor (by courtesy) of African and African American Studies at Stanford University. She is the author or editor of many books, including Writing America: Literary Landmarks from Walden Pond to Wounded Knee and Was Huck Black? Mark Twain and African American Voices, and editor of the twenty-nine-volume Oxford Mark Twain. She lives in Stanford, California.

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Clay Risen – Red Scare

Clay Risen Red Scare recensie, review en informatie boek over Zwarte lijsten, McCarthyisme en de wording van het moderne Amerika. Op 18 maart 2025 verschijnt bij Scribner het boek van de Amerikaanse journalist Clay Risen over de communistenjacht in de jaren vijftig van de vorige eeuw 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.

Clay Risen Red Scare recensie en review

  • “Lays out the many mechanisms of repression that made the Red Scare possible…[Red Scare] describes how something that once seemed so terrifying and interminable did, in fact, come to an end.” (The New Yorker)
  • “Risen’s fluent narrative…goes beyond the familiar Hollywood blacklists to reveal how conspiracy stories touched educators and people in various civil rights movements and led to the ‘canceling’ of individuals in business, government, and any sphere influential to the prevailing culture.” (Foreign Affairs)

Clay Risen Red Scare

Red Scare

Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America

  • Auteur: Clay Risen (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse geschiedenis
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Scribner
  • Verschijnt: 18 maart 2025
  • Omvang: 480 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: $ 31,00 / $ 16,99 / $ 29,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van het boek over het McCarthyisme van Clay Risen

As relevant as it is comprehensive, Red Scare tells the story of McCarthyism and the Red Scare—based in part on newly declassified sources—by an award-winning writer of history and New York Times reporter.

The film Oppenheimer has awakened interest in this vital period of American history. Now, for the first time in a generation, Red Scare presents a narrative history of the anti-Communist witch hunt that gripped America in the decade following World War II. The cultural phenomenon, most often referred to as McCarthyism, was an outgrowth of the conflict between social conservatives and New Deal progressives, coupled with the terrifying onset of the Cold War. This defining moment in American history, unlike any that preceded it, was marked by an unprecedented degree of political hysteria. Drawing upon newly declassified documents, journalist Clay Risen recounts how politicians like Joseph McCarthy, with the help of an extended network of other government officials and organizations, systematically ruined thousands of lives in their deluded pursuit of alleged Communist conspiracies.

Beginning with the origins of the era after WWI through to its conclusion in 1957, Risen brings to life the politics, patriotism, opportunism, courage, and delirium of those years through the lives and experiences of a cast of towering historical figures, including President Eisenhower, Roy Cohn, Paul Robeson, Robert Oppenheimer, Helen Gahagan Douglas, Richard Nixon, and many more individuals known and unknown. Red Scare takes us beyond the familiar story of McCarthyism and the Hollywood blacklists to a fuller understanding of what the country went through at a time of moral questioning and perceived threat from the left, and what we were capable of doing to each other as a result.

An urgent, accessible, and important history, Red Scare reveals an all-too-familiar pattern of illiberal conspiracy-mongering and political and cultural backlash that speaks directly to the antagonism and divisiveness of our contemporary moment.

Clay Risen, a reporter and editor at The New York Times, is the author of The Crowded Hour, a New York Times Notable Book of 2019 and a finalist for the Gilder-Lehrman Prize in Military History. He is a member of the Society of American Historians and a fellow at the Perry World House at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also the author of two other acclaimed books on American history, A Nation on Fire and The Bill of the Century, as well as his most recent book on McCarthyism, Red Scare. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife and two young children.

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Elaine Weiss – Spell Freedom

Elaine Weiss Spell Freedom recensie, review en informatie boek over de ondergrondse scholen die de burgerrechtenbeweging hebben opgebouwd. Op 4 maart 2025 verschijnt bij Atria/One Signal Publishers het nieuwe boek van de Amerikaanse journalist en schrijfster Elaine Weiss . Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling is niet verkrijgbaar.

Elaine Weiss Weiss Spell Freedom recensie, review en informatie

  • “A richly researched and detailed new history of the underground schools that sprang up throughout the South…. Although Civil Rights leaders march through these pages, Weiss prefers the company of the unsung , the members of the irresistible army, the beauticians and bus drivers who risked their lives and their families’ well-being… Weiss is the author of two previous histories that elevated ordinary women doing extraordinary things [and] is highly attuned to the ingrained patriarchy of the era, including in much of the Civil Rights Movement, where women were the boots on the ground while men took leadership roles (and higher salaries).” (Phil Kloer, Atlanta Journal Constitution)
  • “Spell Freedom is a beautifully crafted and dramatic tale that testifies to the resilience of America’s dreamers and freedom fighters. How did so many ordinary people find the courage to stand up for their rights? How did they organize? How did they overcome apathy and disillusion? Elaine Weiss answers these timely questions in a brilliant book that illuminates not only the past but also a path forward.” (Jonathan Eig, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of King: A Life)

Elaine Weiss Spell Freedom

Spell Freedom

The Underground Schools That Built the Civil Rights Movement

  • Auteur Elaine Weiss (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse geschiedenis
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Atria / One Signal Publishers
  • Verschijnt: 4 maart 2025
  • Omvang: 384 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek /  ebook
  • Prijs: $ 29,99 / $ 14,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst boek over de ondergrondse scholen van de burgerrechtenbeweging

In the summer of 1954, educator Septima Clark and small businessman Esau Jenkins travelled to rural Tennessee’s Highlander Folk School, an interracial training center for social change founded by Myles Horton, a white southerner with roots in the labor movement. There, the trio united behind a shared mission: preparing Black southerners to pass the daunting Jim Crow era voter registration literacy tests that were designed to disenfranchise them.

Together with beautician-turned-teacher Bernice Robinson, they launched the underground Citizenship Schools project, which began with a single makeshift classroom hidden in the back of a rural grocery store. By the time the Voting Rights Act was signed into law in 1965, the secretive undertaking had established more than nine hundred citizenship schools across the South, preparing tens of thousands of Black citizens to read and write, demand their rights—and vote. Simultaneously, it nurtured a generation of activists—many of them women—trained in community organizing, political citizenship, and tactics of resistance and struggle who became the grassroots foundation of the Civil Rights Movement. Dr. King called Septima Clark, “Mother of the Movement.”

Elaine Weiss is an award-winning journalist, author, and public speaker. In addition to Spell Freedom, she is the author of Fruits of Victory: The Woman’s Land Army of the Great War; and The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote. Elaine lives with her husband in Baltimore, Maryland. Find out more at ElaineWeiss.com.

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