Categorie archieven: Amerikaanse geschiedenis

Tweede Wereldoorlog, Amerikaanse geschiedenis, Oorlog, Verenigde Staten

Stanley Sandler – Segregated Skies

Stanley Sandler Segregated Skies review, recensie en informatie boek over Tuskegee All-Black Combat Squadrons uit de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Op 1 september 2025 verschijnt bij Grécy Publishing het boek Segregated Skies, Tuskegee All-Black Combat Squadrons of World War 2. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek over segregatie in het Amerikaanse leger tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog, de auteur en over de uitgave.

Stanley Sandler Segregated Skies review en recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, recensie of review verschijnt van Segregated Skies, Tuskegee All-Black Combat Squadrons of World War 2, het boek geschreven door Stanley Sandler, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Stanley Sandler Segregated Skies

Segregated Skies

Tuskegee All-Black Combat Squadrons of World War 2

  • Auteur: Stanley Sandler (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: oorlogsgeschiedenis
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Grécy Publishing
  • Verschijnt: 1 september 2025
  • Omvang: 296 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek
  • Prijs: £ 34,95
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst Tuskegee All-Black Combat Squadrons of World War 2 boek

A definitive account of the formation and operation of the segregated all black US squadrons which served in the Second World War.

The Tuskegee airmen as they came to be called took their name from Tuskegee Institute (now University) where they were educated, which was located near Tuskegee Alabama. Many of these first African-American military aviators in the United States Armed Forces came from states where blacks were still subject to the Jim Crow Laws. The American military was racially segregated, as was much of the federal government and the Tuskegee Airmen were frequently subjected to discrimination, both within and outside of the army.

The book goes into much detail on decisions made and not made at the highest military and civilian levels in wartime Washington as to the founding, use and value of a racially-segregated all-Black fighter squadrons. In the end, a decision had to be between a Black squadron or no Black squadron at all. The resultant 99th Fighter Squadron and the follow-on 100th, 201st and 203rd squadrons were decisive in opening the way for full US military integration a full decade before America’s civilian society began to go the same way.

This account of these squadrons examines the background to their formation, their training and operations in theatre. The book is based on interviews with many of the Tuskegee Airmen themselves. This is supported by research in USAF archives. The work deals not just with the pilots and their warplanes in battle but also with their everyday life on air bases in the segregated Deep South and in the field in wartime Italy.

Stanley Sandler is a retired military historian who has taught at the college and university level in the U.S. and Canada. He has published numerous peer-reviewed books and articles on military, naval and air power history. His last active history position was as Assistant Command Historian at the U.S. Army Special Warfare Center and School, Fort Bragg, North Carolina. He holds the B.A. (Houghton College) the M.A. (Columbia University) and the Ph. D. (Kings College, London University) where he studied under Sir Michael Howard.

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Vincent Bevins – De Jakartamethode

Vincent Bevins De Jakartamethode recensie en informatie boek over hoe het Amerikaanse anticommunisme de wereld veranderde. Op 22 augustus 2025 verschijnt bij Uitgeverij Omniboek de Nederlandse vertaling van The Jakarta Method, het boek van Vincent Bevins, de Amerikaanse journalist. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave.

Vincent Bevins De Jakartamethode recensie

  • “Een radicaal nieuwe geschiedenis van de Verenigde Staten in het buitenland.” (Wall Street Journal)
  • “De Jakartamethode is een duidelijke en onderbouwde aanklacht tegen het Amerikaanse interventionisme sinds 1945 … en verhaal is ook zo nu en dan aangrijpend.” (The Herald of Scotland)
  • “Het boek geeft een geeft een welkom inzicht op de misdaden die in Indonesië plaatsvonden, een geschiedenis die in het Westen grotendeels vergeten is… maar het stelt ook de fundamentele vraag waarom Amerika zulke wreedheden heeft gesteund… Bevins betoogt op overtuigende wijze dat het algehele anticommunisme van zijn land een soort fanatisme is, een irrationele drang die zijn oorsprong vindt in de oprichting van de Verenigde Staten.” (Times Literary Supplement)

Vincent Bevins De Jakartamethode

De Jakartamethode

Hoe het Amerikaanse anticommunisme de wereld veranderde

  • Auteur: Vincent Bevins (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse geschiedenis
  • Origineel: The Jakarta Method (2021)
  • Nederlandse vertaling: Henk Moerdijk
  • Uitgever: Omniboek
  • Verschijnt: 22 augustus 2025
  • Omvang: 352 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: € 29,99 / € 14,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Boekenwereld / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst boek over het de geschiedenis van het Amerikaanse anticommunisme

In De Jakartamethode laat Vincent Bevins zien dat de brute uitroeiing van ongewapende linksdenkenden een belangrijk onderdeel was van een van de grootste Amerikaanse overwinningen tijdens de Koude Oorlog. In 1965 hielp de Amerikaanse regering het Indonesische leger bij een bloedige zuivering, waarbij naar schatting een miljoen vermeende communisten – vaak onschuldige burgers – om het leven kwamen. Met de vernietiging van de grootste communistische partij buiten China en de Sovjet-Unie werd niet alleen een politieke beweging uitgewist, maar ook de weg vrijgemaakt voor vergelijkbare terreurcampagnes elders in de wereld, zoals in Chili en Brazilië.

In deze nieuwe geschiedenis over de heksenjacht op het communisme tijdens de Koude Oorlog baseert Vincent Bevins zich op gedeclassificeerde documenten, archiefonderzoek en ooggetuigenverslagen. Hij weerlegt het idee dat de ontwikkelingswereld vreedzaam het kapitalistische systeem van de VS overnam.

Vincent Bevins is geboren op 11 juni 1984 in Santa Monica, Californië, Verenigde Staten. Hij is een prijswinnende journalist en correspondent. Voor de Washington Post was hij correspondent in Zuidoost-Azië, voor de Los Angeles Times in Brazilië. Tegenwoordig woont hij in Jakarta en schrijft hij onder andere voor de New York Times, The Economist en The Guardian.

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Doug Most – Launching Liberty

Doug Most Launching Liberty review, recensie en informatie boek  over de epische race om de schepen te bouwen die Amerika in de oorlog brachten. Op 19 augustus 2025 verschijnt bij Simon & Schuster het boek van Doug Most over de Liberty schepen die Amerika de Tweede Wereldoorlog in brachten en hielpen bij de overwinning. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Doug Most Launching Liberty review en recensie

  • “In Launching Liberty, Doug Most has brilliantly illuminated an important and undervalued step in how America prepared for its fight against fascism.” (David Maraniss, The Washington Post)
  • “Richly researched and ceaselessly captivating, Launching Liberty brings to life the overlooked story of an industrial miracle that proved essential in winning the war against Nazi Germany. Doug Most gives us a timely and much needed reminder of what the United States can achieve when government, titans of commerce and ordinary citizens join together in common cause and an urgent spirit of determination.” (Martin Baron)
  • “More than anything, Launching Liberty is the story of how to get tough things done—not always pretty, rarely perfect, but an achievement over daunting challenges, nonetheless. Doug Most skillfully delivers a tribute to American know-how and provides an instructive account of how America at all levels responded to crisis, united in common purpose, and accomplished the seemingly impossible.” (Walter R. Borneman)

Doug Most Launching Liberty

Launching Liberty

The Epic Race to Build the Ships That Took America to War

  • Auteur: Doug Most (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: oorlogsgeschiedenis, scheepvaart
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 19 augustus 2025
  • Omvang: 464 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: $ 30,99 / $ 16,99 / $ 29,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek van Doug Most over de Libertyschepen

Out of nothing but the government’s behest, a few bold men conjured a giant ship-building industry in 1940 and launched the ships that took America to war and to victory.

In 1940, the shadow of war loomed large over American life. President Roosevelt understood that it wasn’t a matter of if the United States would be pulled into battle, but when. He foresaw a “new kind of war,” one that hinged on efforts at home. Long before the attack on Pearl Harbor, German U-boats were relentlessly attacking American vessels, prompting Roosevelt to launch a monumental ship-building campaign. He knew that no matter how much weaponry and how many tanks, planes and trucks America built, the “Arsenal of Democracy” would be useless unless it could be brought in massive volume, and at breakneck speed, to troops fighting overseas.

Launching Liberty tells the remarkable story of how FDR partnered with private businessmen to begin the production of cargo freighters longer than a football field—ships he affectionately dubbed “ugly ducklings.” These colossal Liberty Ships took over six months to build at the start of his $350 million emergency shipbuilding program, far too long. The government turned to Henry Kaiser, the man who had delivered the Boulder Dam ahead of schedule and under budget, but had never built a ship in his life. Kaiser established a network of shipyards from coast to coast and recruited tens of thousands of workers eager to contribute to the war effort. Many, particularly African Americans and women, traveled from some of the most downtrodden, rural parts of the nation to help their country and to find a better life of greater equality.

As German U-boats maintained their pace of attack, Roosevelt and Kaiser initiated a bold, nationwide competition among shipyards to see who could construct ships the fastest. Driven by duty and the thrill of innovation, workers reduced the shipbuilding timeline from months to weeks and then to days. Launching Liberty is a tapestry of voices reflecting the diverse American experience of World War II. From the halls of the White House to the cramped quarters of half-finished cargo ships, we hear from naval architects, welders, nurses, engineers, daycare providers, and mothers balancing family life with the demands of wartime economy. This book uncovers the inspiring, untold stories of those who rose to the challenge during one of America’s most tumultuous times.

Doug Most was born in 1968 in Boston and is a native of Rhode Island, is a lifelong journalist and author whose career has spanned newspapers, magazines, and universities up and down the East Coast, with stops in Washington, DC; South Carolina; New Jersey; and Boston. He was named Journalist of the Year while at The Record in Bergen County, New Jersey, for his coverage of a tragic story about two teens charged with killing their newborn, a story he turned into a true-crime book titled Always in Our Hearts. After a stint at Boston Magazine, he worked for fifteen years at The Boston Globe, as the Sunday Magazine editor, and deputy managing editor/special projects. His articles have appeared in Best American Sports Writing and Best American Crime Writing. His 2014 nonfiction book, The Race Underground, told the story about the birth of subways in America, in the late 1800s and was adapted into a PBS/American Experience documentary. The New York Times called the book “a sweeping narrative of late-19th-century intrigue.” He works now as the executive editor and an assistant vice president at Boston University. He holds a BA from George Washington University in political communication.

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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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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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Edward Ward – American Aircraft of World War II

Edward Ward American Aircraft of World War II review, recensie en informatie boek over Amerikaanse vliegtuigen uit de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Op 14 juli 2025 verschijnt bij Amber Books Aircraft of World War II, Fighters, Bombers, Transports and Seaplanes. Het boek is geschreven door Edward Ward. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van de uitgave verkrijgbaar.

Edward Ward American Aircraft of World War II review en recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, recensie of review verschijnt van American Aircraft of World War II, geschreven door Edward Ward,. dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Edward Ward American Aircraft of World War II

American Aircraft of World War II

Fighters Bombers Transports Seaplanes

  • Auteur: Edward Ward
  • Soort boek: vliegtuigen uit WOII
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Amber Books
  • Verschijnt: 14 juli 2025
  • Omvang: 256 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over Amerikaanse oorlogsvliegtuigen uit WOII

The United States Army Air Force (USAAF) came into its own during World War II, building some of the most innovative fighters and effective strategic bombers of the era, which came to dominate the skies across Europe and the Pacific. American Aircraft of World War II is a detailed guide to the main fighters and bombers deployed by the USAAF and US Navy from 1941 to 1945.

Organised by type and chronologically, this book includes all the great types, such as the B-17 Flying Fortress, which led the daylight bombing campaign against German industrial targets; the B-24 Liberator, which carried out the famous raid on the Ploesti oil refinery in Romania in 1943; the highly-adaptable P-51 Mustang fighter escort and the carrier-based F6F Hellcat – which outperformed the legendary Japanese A6M Zero fighter – as well as the Lockheed P-38 Lightning, with its distinctive twin-boom design; and the B-29 Superfortress, the aircraft most responsible for degrading Japan’s ability to wage war with their constant aerial attacks in 1944 and 1945.

The guide is illustrated with profile artworks and three-views, as well as two-page dynamic artworks of some of the more famous aircraft in service, such as the highly-adaptable B-25 Mitchell, which served in every theatre in a variety of roles, the twin- engined P-61 Black Widow night-fighter, and the robust P-47 Thunderbolt fighter-bomber.

Illustrated with more than 200 authentic artworks with accurate markings and camouflage, American Aircraft of World War II is an essential reference guide for modellers and military aviation enthusiasts.

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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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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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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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