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Canadese roman, Canadese schrijvers, Debuutroman, oorlogsroman, Tweede Wereldoorlog

Samuel Hawley – Daikon

Samuel Hawley Daikon recensie, review en informatie oorlogsroman van de Canadese schrijver die zich afspeelt in Japan aan het einde van de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Op 8 juli 2025 verschijnt bij Simon & Schuster de roman Samuel Healey. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is niet verkrijgbaar.

Samuel Hawley Daikon review en recensie

  • “A riveting tale about war, intrigue, love, and perseverance.” (John Grisham)
  • “I could not look away. This novel is storytelling at its finest.” (Karl Marlantes)
  • “Spellbinding…A breathtaking chain reaction that unleashes the true power of the novel.” (Adam Johnson)
  • “Extraordinary…Daikon will sweep you away.” (Jess Walter)

Samuel Hawley Daikon

Daikon

  • Auteur: Samuel Hawley (Canada)
  • Soort boek: Tweede Wereldoorlog roman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Avid Reader Press
  • Verschijnt: 8 juli 2025
  • Omvang: 352 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: $ 29,99 / $ 14,99 / $ 26,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de roman over de Tweede Wereldoorlog in Japan

A sweeping and suspenseful novel of love and war, set in Japan during the final days of World War II, with a shocking historical premise: three atomic bombs were actually delivered to the Pacific—not two—and when one of them falls into the hands of the Japanese, the fate of a couple that has been separated from one another becomes entangled with the fate of this terrifying new device.

War has taken everything from physicist Keizo Kan. His young daughter was killed in the Great Tokyo Air Raid, and now his Japanese American wife, Noriko, has been imprisoned by the brutal Thought Police. An American bomber, downed over Japan on the first day of August 1945, offers the scientist a surprising chance at salvation. The Imperial Army dispatches him to examine an unusual device recovered from the plane’s wreckage—a bomb containing uranium—and tells him that if he can unlock its mysteries, his wife will be released.

Working in secrecy under crushing pressure, Kan begins to disassemble the bomb and study its components. One of his assistants falls ill after mishandling the uranium, but his alarming deterioration, and Kan’s own symptoms, are ignored by the commanding officer demanding results. Desperate to stave off Japan’s surrender to the Allies, the army will stop at nothing to harness the weapon’s unimaginable power. They order Kan to prepare the bomb for manual detonation over a target—a suicide mission that will strike a devastating blow against the Americans. Kan is soon confronted with a series of agonizing decisions that will test his courage, his loyalty, and his very humanity.

An extraordinary debut novel that is the result of twenty-seven years of work by its author, Daikon is a gripping and powerfully moving saga that calls to mind such classics as Cold Mountain. It is set amid the chaos and despair of the world’s third largest city lying in ruins, its population starving and its leadership under escalating assault from without and within. Here is a haunting epic of love, survival, and impossible choices that introduces a singular new voice on the literary landscape.

Samuel Hawley is a Canadian writer who was born and raised in South Korea, as the son of Canadian missionaries, and taught English in Korea and Japan for nearly two decades. He is the author of the nonfiction book The Imjin War, the most comprehensive account in English of Japan’s 16th-century invasion of Korea and attempted conquest of China. He currently lives in Istanbul, Turkey. Daikon is his debut novel.

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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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Amerikaanse roman, Amerikaanse schrijfster, Amerikaanse thrillers, Gothic novel

Christina Li – The Manor of Dreams

Christina Li The Manor of Dreams recensie, review en informatie over de gothic roman van de Amerikaanse schrijfster van Chinese afkomst. Op 6 mei 2025 verschijnt bij Avid Reader Press de eerste roman en thriller voor volwassenen van de uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijfster Christina Li. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is niet verkrijgbaar.

Christina Li The Manor of Dreams recensie en review

  • “Li’s adult debut beautifully intertwines historical fiction, mystery, and romance, including an LGBTQ love story, in this multigenerational saga. A bewitching Chinese American gothic for fans of female-centric thrillers and ghost stories.” (Booklist)
  • “Christina Li heeft de worstelingen rond immigratie, de complexiteit van moeder-dochterrelaties, de wrok tussen ‘vrienden’ van boven en beneden, en de glitter en de teleurstellingen van Hollywood verweven tot een slim, onverwacht en weelderig spookverhaal. Ik kroop ineen met The Manor of Dreams en las het in één weekend uit.” (Lisa Si)

Christina Li The Manor of Dreams

The Manor of Dreams

  • Auteur: Christina Li (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse thriller, gothic novel
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Avid Reader Press
  • Verschijnt: 6 mei 2025
  • Omvang: 352 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: $ 28,99 / $ 14.,99 / $ 26,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de roman van Christina Li

Christina Li’s haunting novel is about the secrets that lie in wait in the crumbling mansion of a former Hollywood starlet, and the intertwined fates of the two Chinese American families fighting to inherit it.

Vivian Yin is dead. The first Chinese actress to win an Oscar, the trailblazing ingénue rose to fame in the eighties, only to disappear from the spotlight at the height of her career to live out the rest of her life as a recluse.

Now her remaining family members are gathered for the reading of her will, and her daughters expect to inherit their childhood home: Vivian’s grand, sprawling, Southern California garden estate. But due to a last-minute change to the will, the house is passed on to another family instead—one that has suddenly returned after decades of estrangement.

In hopes of staking their claim, both families move into the mansion. As Vivian’s daughters race to piece together what happened in the last weeks of their mother’s life, disturbing visions and bizarre behaviors start to take hold of everyone in the house, forcing them to realize they are being haunted by something far more sinister and vengeful than their regrets. After so many years of silence, will the families finally confront the painful truth behind the house’s origins and the last, tragic summer they spent there—or will they cling to their secrets until it’s too late?

Told in dual timelines, spanning three generations, and brimming with romance, betrayal, ambition, and sacrifice, The Manor of Dreams is a thrilling family gothic that examines the true cost of the American Dream—and what happens when the roots we set down in this country turn to rot.

Christina Li is de bekroonde auteur van kinder- en jeugdboeken Clues to the Universe, Ruby Lost and Found en True Love and Other Impossible Odds. Deze boeken zijn geselecteerd door de Washington Post Summer Book Club, zijn een van de beste boeken van het jaar van NPR en de New York Public Library en hebben de Asian Pacific American Librarians’ Award for Best Children’s Literature gewonnen. Ze studeerde af aan Stanford University met een diploma in economie en overheidsbeleid. Ze groeide op in het Midwesten en Californië, maar woont nu in New York. The Manor of Dreams is haar debuut in de literatuur voor volwassenen.

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Amerikaanse geschiedenis, Amerikaanse journalist, Amerikaanse politiek, Verenigde Staten

Sarah Jones – Disposable

Sarah Jones Disposable recensie, review en informatie boek over Amerika’s minachting voor de onderklasse. Op 18 februari 2025 verschijnt bij Avid Reader Press het nieuwe boek van de Amerikaanse journalist en schrijfster Sarah Jones. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave.

Sarah Jones Disposable recensie, review en informatie

  • “Incisive . . . In the tradition of Barbara Ehrenreich, [Jones] combines interviews and firsthand observation of poverty with deeply researched history. . . . A full-throated, class-first critique of how the right-wing tendencies of American capitalism made the pandemic so devastating for the working poor . . . What Jones brings to this telling is an unflinching focus on American capital, its unholy marriage to the political class, and the way that union has eroded ordinary people’s faith in authorities.” (The New Republic)
  • “Jones, a senior writer for New York magazine covering politics and religion, offers a mix of reporting and personal narrative as she explores inequality in the United States. Using COVID as her marker, she exposes how the nation creates an underclass it then sacrifices; she also lays out arguments to turn the tide.” (Library Journal)

Sarah Jones Disposable

Disposable

America’s Contempt for the Underclass

  • Auteur: Sarah Jones (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: journalistiek boek, reportage
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Avid Reader Press
  • Verschijnt: 18 februari 2025
  • Omvang: 304 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: $ 30,00 / $ 14,99 / $ 25,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst boek van Sarah Jones over de onderklasse van Amerika

In a compelling blend of personal narrative and in-depth reporting, New York magazine senior writer Sarah Jones exposes the harsh reality of America’s racial and income inequality and the devastating impact of the pandemic on our nation’s most vulnerable people.

In the tradition of Matthew Desmond’s Evicted and Andrea Elliot’s Invisible Child, Disposable is a poignant exploration of America’s underclass, left vulnerable by systemic racism and capitalism. Here, Sarah Jones delves into the lives of the essential workers, seniors, and people with disabilities who were disproportionately affected by COVID-19—not due to their age or profession, but because of the systemic inequality and poverty that left them exposed.

The pandemic served as a stark revelation of the true state of America, a country where the dream of prosperity is a distant mirage for millions. Jones argues that the pandemic didn’t create these dynamics, but rather revealed the existing social mobility issues and wealth gap that have long plagued the nation. Behind the staggering death toll are stories of lives lost, injustices suffered, and institutions that failed to protect their people.

Jones brings these stories to the forefront, transforming the abstract concept of the pandemic into a deeply personal and political phenomenon. She argues that America has abandoned a sacrificial underclass of millions but insists that another future is possible. By addressing the pervasive issues of racial justice and public policy, Jones calls for a future where no one is seen as disposable again.

Sarah Jones is a senior writer for New York magazine, where she covers politics and religion. She was previously a staff writer for The New Republic and her work has been published by The Nation, the Columbia Journalism Review, and Dissent magazine. Jones won the 2019 Mirror Award for commentary and has been a fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She is active on social media (@OneSarahJones). Originally from rural Washington County, Virginia, she now lives in Brooklyn with her husband.

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Amerikaanse schrijfster, Familiegeschiedenis, Familieroman, Palestijnse roman, Palestijnse schrijfster, Palestina

Betty Shamieh – Too Soon

Betty Shamieh Too Soon recensie, review en informatie van de roman van de Palestijns-Amerikaanse schrijfster. Op 28 januari 2025 verschijnt bij Avid Reader Press de roman van de Palestijns-Amerikaanse toneelschrijfster Betty Shamieh. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is niet verkrijgbaar.

Betty Shamieh Too Soon recensie, review en informatie

  • “The novel, which opens in 2012, has all the beats of a romantic comedy—one that unfolds partly in the West Bank. The ribald humor, the over-the-top-ness that Shamieh brings to describing this struggle, reminded me—surprisingly—of mid-century Jewish American writers, especially Philip Roth. . . . These women are all antiheroes of a sort … Shakespeare would approve.” (Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic)
  • “Palestinian-American playwright Shamieh makes her wonderfully brash and sparkling fiction debut with this novel of three generations. . . . Funny, sexy, and often furious, this book fills in gaps in our understanding.” (Oprah Daily)
  • “For a book titled Too Soon, you will certainly not soon forget these powerful voices Shamieh presents to us.” (Chicago Review of Books)

Betty Shamieh Too Soon

Too Soon

  • Auteur: Betty Shamieh (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Palestijns-Amerikaanse familieroman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Avid Reader Press
  • Verschijnt: 28 januari 2025
  • Omvang: 336 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: $ 28,99 / $ 14,99 / $ 26,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de roman over de West Bank van Betty Shamieh

Arabella gets an unexpected chance at love when she’s thrust into a conflict and history she’s tried to avoid all her life. Zoya is playing matchmaker for her last unmarried granddaughter and stirring up buried memories. Naya is keeping a secret from her children that will change all their lives.

Thirty-five-year-old Arabella, a New York theatre director whose dating and career prospects are drying up, is offered an opportunity to direct a risqué cross-dressing interpretation of a Shakespeare classic—that might garner international attention—in the West Bank. Her mother, Naya, and grandmother, Zoya, hatch a plot to match her with Aziz, a Palestinian American doctor volunteering in Gaza. Arabella agrees to meet Aziz, since her growing feelings for Yoav, a celebrated Israeli American theatre designer, seem destined for disaster…

With biting hilarity, Too Soon introduces us to a trio of bold and unforgettable voices. This dramatic saga follows one family’s epic journey fleeing war-torn Jaffa in 1948, chasing the American Dream in Detroit and San Francisco in the sixties and seventies, hustling in the New York theatre scene post-9/11, and daring to stage a show in Palestine in 2012. Upon learning one of them is living on borrowed time, the three women fight to live, make art, and love on their own terms. A funny, sexy, and heart-wrenching literary debut, Too Soon illuminates our shared history and asks, how can we set ourselves free?

Betty Shamieh (she/her) was born in San Francisco. She is a Palestinian American writer and the author of fifteen plays. She is the playwright-in-residence at the Classical Theatre of Harlem. Her six New York play premieres include the sold-out off-Broadway runs of Roar and Malvolio, a sequel to Twelfth Night, which were both New York Times Critic’s Picks. Shamieh was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and named a UNESCO Young Artist for Intercultural Dialogue. She is a founding artistic director of The Semitic Root, a collective that supports innovative theatre cocreated by Arab and Jewish Americans. A graduate of Harvard College and the Yale School of Drama, she lives with her family in San Francisco.

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Amerikaanse roman, Amerikaanse Schrijvers, Debuutroman, Dystopische romans en boeken, Science Fiction

Benjamin Resnick – Next Stop

Benjamin Resnick Next Stop recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud van de Amerikaanse dystopische roman. Op 17 september 2024 verschijnt bij Avid Reader Press de nieuwe roman van de uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijver Benjamin Resnick. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de schrijver en over de uitgave.

Benjamin Resnick Next Stop recensie, review en informatie

  • “Resnick­’s prose is lucid and moves at a steady clip, nev­er dwelling any­where too long, avoid­ing the kind of teeth-gnash­ing mis­ery one might expect in a nov­el about per­se­cu­tion and eth­nic cleans­ing. For all its futur­is­tic ter­rors, this is real­ly a sto­ry about a fam­i­ly.” (Jewish Book Council)
  • “A striking debut. . . Resnick skillfully uses the raw materials of postapocalyptic fiction and speaks lucidly to his Jewish characters’ legacy of displacement. This timely tale will appeal to fans of speculative fantasies by Michael Chabon and Lavie Tidhar.” (Publishers Weekly)

Benjamin Resnick Next Stop

Next Stop

  • Auteur: Benjamin Resnick (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: dystopische roman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Avid Reader Press
  • Verschijnt: 17 september 2024
  • Omvang: 304 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de eerste roman van Benjamin Resnick

For readers of Leave the World Behind and Exit West, an astonishingly resonant novel that explores the precariousness of Jewish American life through one family after a black hole consumes the State of Israel and similar strange events occur in major cities around the world, ushering in a time of chaos as well as miracles.

When a black hole suddenly consumes Israel and as similar anomalies spread across the globe, a conspiracy takes hold: will the holes swallow the Jews, or will they swallow the earth?

Against a backdrop of antisemitic paranoia, restrictions on Jewish life, and spasms of violence, Ethan and Ella, Jewish citizens of a nameless American city, meet and fall in love. Ella, a photojournalist, documents the changes in daily life, particularly among the city’s Jewish residents. Some Jews, feeling inexplicably drawn to the unusual events, go underground to an abandoned subway system that seems to connect the entire world. Others leave for the south, forming militias and stockpiling weapons. But most, like Ethan, Ella, and her young son Michael, stay and try to make their way amid the hostility and small joys of the ever-changing landscape.

But then thousands of commercial planes are sucked from the sky. Air travel stops. Borders close. Refugees pour into the capital. Eventually all Jews in the city are forced to relocate to the Pale, an area sandwiched between a park and a river. There, under the watchful eye of border guards, drones, and robotic dogs, they form a fragile new society.

Suspenseful, thought-provoking, and brilliantly conceived, Next Stop is an enthralling novel that explores the fault lines between our collective, national, and individual memories and how our deepest bonds can be unexpectedly reshaped in moments of crisis.

Benjamin Resnick is the rabbi of the Pelham Jewish Center in New York. Ordained at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, he lives in Pelham with his family. Next Stop is his first novel.

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Biografie

Anupreeta Das Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King Bill Gates biografie

Anupreeta Das Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King recensie, review en informatie nieuwe Bill Gates biografie. Op 13 augustus 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Avid Reader Press het nieuwe boek over Bill Gates van de Indiase journalist en finance editor van The New York Times. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Anupreeta Das Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King recensie en review

  • “Das widens the lens through which Gates’ life and career is viewed. Each facet of his reputation is couched within a larger framework of capitalism, social justice, and entrepreneurship to question the outsized sway Gates and others of his rank hold over society writ large. Venturing deep into every aspect of Gates’ professional and private spheres, Das offers a balanced, perceptive, and thought-provoking portrait of a man and his times.” (Booklist)

Anupreeta Das Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King

Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King

Bill Gates and His Quest to Shape Our World

  • Auteur: Anupreeta Das (India)
  • Soort boek: journalistieke biografie
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Avid Reader Press
  • Verschijnt: 13 augustus 2024
  • Omvang: 336 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 32.00 / $ 16.99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol 

Flaptekst van het boek over Bill Gates van Anupreeta Das

From the finance editor of The New York Times, an examination of Bill Gates—one of the most powerful, fascinating, and contradictory figures of the past four decades—and an eye-opening exploration of our national fixation on billionaires.

Few billionaires have been in the public eye for as long, and in as many guises, as Bill Gates. At first heralded as a tech visionary, the Microsoft cofounder next morphed into a ruthless capitalist, only to change yet again when he fashioned himself into a global do-gooder. Along the way, Gates forever influenced how we think about tech founders, as the products they make and the ideas they sell continue to dominate our lives. Through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, he also set a new standard for high-profile, billionaire philanthropy. But there is more to Gates’s story, and here, Das’s revelatory reporting shows us that billionaires have secrets and philanthropy can have a dark side.

Drawing upon hundreds of interviews with current and former employees of the Gates Foundation, Microsoft, academics, nonprofits, and those with insight into the Gates universe, Das delves into Gates’s relationships with Warren Buffett, Jeffrey Epstein, Melinda French Gates, and others, to uncover the truths behind the public persona. In telling Gates’s story, Das also provides a new way to think about how billionaires wield their power, manipulate their image, and pursue philanthropy to become heroes, repair damaged reputations, and direct policy to achieve their preferred outcomes.

Insightful, illuminating, and timely, Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King is an important story of money and government, wealth and power, and media and image, and the ways in which the world’s richest people hold us in their thrall.

Anupreeta Das is the finance editor of The New York Times, overseeing coverage of Wall Street, including banking, investing, markets, insurance, and consumer finance. Previously, Das spent nearly a decade at the Wall Street Journal, where she helped run the paper’s coverage of business and technology, focusing on corporations and the issues affecting them. Das was also a reporter at the Journal. She wrote stories about finance, investing, and Wall Street, including a groundbreaking series she conceived and coauthored about family offices, the private investment firms of the extremely wealthy. She holds degrees from Boston University, the London School of Economics, and the University of Delhi. She is an avid hiker, having hiked across a Himalayan glacier as a teenager and summiting Mount Kilimanjaro. She is the author of Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King.

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Natuur, Natuurboeken, Vogels

Kenn Kaufman – The Birds That Audubon Missed

Kenn Kaufman The Birds That Audubon Missed recensie en informatie en informatie boek over de negentiende-eeuwse Amerikaanse ornitholoog en vogeltekenaar John James Audubon. Op 7 mei 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Avid Reader Press het nieuwste boek van de Amerikaanse naturalist en schrijver Kenn Kaufman. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijver en over de uitgave. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar of aangekondigd.

Kenn Kaufman The Birds That Audubon Missed recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, review of recensie verschijnt van The Birds That Audubon Missed, Discovery and Desire in the American Wilderness, het nieuwe boek van de Amerikaanse naturalist en schrijver Kenn Kaufman, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

  • “A must-read for birders curious about so much that lies hidden behind the names in our pastime… The Birds That Audubon Missed isn’t a dry history; it’s as alive as the birds it describes, thanks to the personal aspect Kaufman weaves into the narrative…The era of great discovery never ends if all discovery is personal. One’s own revelatory experiences in the natural world are what truly matter.” (Christian Cooper, Washington Post)
  • “Splendid… A high-flying study of Audubon’s scientific contributions and major missteps . . . The discerning attention Kaufman pays to overlooked corners of his subject’s biography reveals Audubon’s fabulist streak (he ginned up funds for his first book by inventing an eagle with a rumored 10-foot wingspan) and ethical lapses (he once passed off a hawk specimen from a fellow Academy of Natural Sciences member as his own). Kaufman includes his own illustrations of the birds discussed, gamely mimicking Audubon’s style while bringing a sensibility distinctly his own.” (Publishers Weekly)

Kenn Kaufman The Birds That Audubon Missed

The Birds That Audubon Missed

Discovery and Desire in the American Wilderness

  • Auteur: Kenn Kaufman (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: vogelboek, natuurboek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Avid Reader Press
  • Verschijnt: 7 mei 2024
  • Omvang: 400 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $32.50 / $16.99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst vogelboek over ornitholoog John James Audubon van Kenn Kaufman

Renowned naturalist Kenn Kaufman examines the scientific discoveries of John James Audubon and his artistic and ornithologist peers to show how what they saw (and what they missed) reflects how we perceive and understand the natural world.

Raging ambition. Towering egos. Competition under a veneer of courtesy. Heroic effort combined with plagiarism, theft, exaggeration, and fraud. This was the state of bird study in eastern North America during the early 1800s, as a handful of intrepid men raced to find the last few birds that were still unknown to science.

The most famous name in the bird world was John James Audubon, who painted spectacular portraits of birds. But although his images were beautiful, creating great art was not his main goal. Instead, he aimed to illustrate (and write about) as many different species as possible, obsessed with trying to outdo his rival, Alexander Wilson. George Ord, a fan and protégé of Wilson, held a bitter grudge against Audubon for years, claiming he had faked much of his information and his scientific claims. A few of Audubon’s birds were pure fiction, and some of his writing was invented or plagiarized. Other naturalists of the era, including Charles Bonaparte (nephew of Napoleon), John Townsend, and Thomas Nuttall, also became entangled in the scientific derby, as they stumbled toward an understanding of the natural world—an endeavor that continues to this day.

Despite this intense competition, a few species—including some surprisingly common songbirds, hawks, sandpipers, and more—managed to evade discovery for years. Here, renowned bird expert and artist Kenn Kaufman explores this period in history from a new angle, by considering the birds these people discovered and, especially, the ones they missed. Kaufman has created portraits of the birds that Audubon never saw, attempting to paint them in that artist’s own stunning style, as a way of examining the history of natural sciences and nature art. He shows how our understanding of birds continues to gain clarity, even as some mysteries persist from Audubon’s time until ours.

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Jeff Benedict – LeBron

Jeff Benedict LeBron recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de biografie van de beroemde Amerikaanse basketballer LeBron James. Op 11 april 2023 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Avid Reader Press het boek over basketballegende LeBron James. Er is nog geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar of aangekondigd.

Jeff Benedict LeBron recensie en informatie

Als de redactie het boek leest, kun je op deze pagina de recensie en waardering vinden van LeBron. Het boek is geschreven door Jeff Benedict. Daarnaast zijn hier gegevens van de uitgave en bestelmogelijkheden opgenomen. Bovendien kun je op deze pagina informatie lezen over de van de biografie van LeBron James, geschreven door de Amerikaanse sportbiograaf Jeff Benedict.

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LeBron

  • Schrijver: Jeff Benedict (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: sportbiografie
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 11 april 2023
  • Omvang: 576 pagina’s
  • Prijs: $ 32,00
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook

Flaptekst van de biografie van basketballer LeBron James

LeBron James is the greatest basketball player of the twenty-first century, and he’s in the conversation with Michael Jordan as the greatest of all time. The reigning king of the game and the first active NBA player to become a billionaire, LeBron wears the crown like he was born with it. Yet his ascent has been anything but effortless and predetermined— the truth is vastly more interesting than that.

What makes LeBron’s story so compelling is how he won his destiny despite overwhelmingly long odds, in a drama worthy of a Dickens novel. As a child, he was a scared and lonely little boy living a nomadic existence in Akron, Ohio. His mother, who had LeBron when she was sixteen, would sometimes leave him on his own. Destitute and fatherless, he missed close to one hundred days of school in the fourth grade. Desperate, his mother placed him with a family that gave him stability and put a basketball in his hands.

LeBron tells the full, riveting saga of how a child adrift found the will to become a titan. Jeff Benedict, the most celebrated sports biographer of our time, paints a vivid picture of LeBron’s epic origin story, showing the gradual rise of a star who, surrounded by a tight-knit group of teenage friends and adult mentors, accelerated into a speeding comet during high school. Today LeBron produces Hollywood films and television shows, has a social media presence that includes more than one hundred million followers, engages in political activism, takes outspoken stances on racism and social injustice, and transforms lives through his visionary philanthropy. He went from a lost boy in Akron to a beloved hero who uses his fortune to educate underprivileged children and lift up needy families—and brought home Cleveland’s first NBA championship.

But LeBron is more than just the origin story of a GOAT or a recap of his multi-championship, multi-MVP, gold medal–decorated career on the court. Benedict delves into LeBron’s relationship with fame and power: how he has cultivated it, harnessed it, suffered from it, and leveraged it. In these pages, we go behind the scenes of LeBron’s grappling with his seismic celebrity, from appearing on the cover of Sports Illustrated as a high school junior to The Decision, which briefly turned the nation against him. We also watch his evolution from a player who avoided politics and was widely criticized for not joining his teammates in protesting China’s role in the Darfur genocide to becoming an athlete who partnered with President Obama; campaigned for Hillary Clinton; became an advocate against gun violence, racism, and voter suppression; and openly clashed with President Trump, empowering other athletes to speak out against social injustice.

To capture LeBron’s extraordinary life, Benedict conducted hundreds of interviews with the people who were involved with LeBron at different stages of his life. He also obtained thousands of pages of primary source documents and mined hundreds of hours of video footage. Destined to be the authoritative account of LeBron’s life, LeBron is a gripping, inspiring, and unprecedented portrait of one of the world’s most captivating figures.

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Rinker Buck – Life on the Mississippi

Rinker Buck Life on the Mississippi recensie en informatie van dit Amerikaanse reisverhaal. Op 9 augustus 2022 verschijnt bij Avid Reader Press het boek over leven en werken op de rivier Mississippi aan het begin van de 19e eeuw, geschreven door de Amerikaanse historicus Rinker Buck. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar of aangekondigd.

Rinker Buck Life on the Mississippi recensie en informatie

Als de redactie het boek leest, kun je op deze pagina de recensie en waardering vinden van Life on the Mississippi, An Epic American Adventure. Het boek is geschreven door Rinker Buck. Daarnaast zijn hier gegevens van de uitgave en bestelmogelijkheden opgenomen. Bovendien kun je op deze pagina informatie lezen over de inhoud van dit boek over het leven op en aan de Mississippi River in de Verenigde Staten in de 19e eeuw.

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Life on the Mississippi

An Epic American Adventure

  • Schrijver: Rinker Buck (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaans reisverhaal
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Avid Reader Press
  • Verschijnt: 9 augustus 2022
  • Omvang: 416 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van het boek over de Mississippi rivier van Ronker Buck

Seven years ago, readers around the country fell in love with a singular American voice: Rinker Buck, whose infectious curiosity about history launched him across the West in a covered wagon pulled by mules and propelled his book about the trip, The Oregon Trail, to ten weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Now, Buck returns to chronicle his latest incredible adventure: building a wooden flatboat from the bygone era of the early 1800s and journeying down the Mississippi River to New Orleans.

A modern-day Huck Finn, Buck casts off down the river on the flatboat Patience accompanied by an eccentric crew of daring shipmates. Over the course of his voyage, Buck steers his fragile wooden craft through narrow channels dominated by massive cargo barges, rescues his first mate gone overboard, sails blindly through fog, breaks his ribs not once but twice, and camps every night on sandbars, remote islands, and steep levees. As he charts his own journey, he also delivers a richly satisfying work of history that brings to life a lost era.

The role of the flatboat in our country’s evolution is far more significant than most Americans realize. Between 1800 and 1840, millions of farmers, merchants, and teenage adventurers embarked from states like Pennsylvania and Virginia on flatboats headed beyond the Appalachians to Kentucky, Mississippi, and Louisiana. Like the Nile, the Thames, or the Seine before them, the western rivers in America became a floating supply chain that fueled national growth. Settler families repurposed the wood from their boats to build their first cabins in the wilderness; cargo boats were broken apart and sold to build the boomtowns along the water route. Joining the river traffic were floating brothels, called “gun boats”; “smithy boats” for blacksmiths; even “whiskey boats” with taverns mounted on jaunty rafts. In the present day, America’s inland rivers are a superhighway dominated by leviathan barges—carrying $80 billion of cargo annually—all descended from flatboats like the ramshackle Patience, which must avoid being crushed alongside their metal hulls.

As a historian, Buck resurrects the era’s adventurous spirit, but he also challenges familiar myths about American expansion, confronting the bloody truth behind settlers’ push for land and wealth. The Indian Removal Act of 1830 forced more than 125,000 members of the Cherokee, Choctaw, and several other tribes to travel the Mississippi on a brutal journey en route to the barrens of Oklahoma. Simultaneously, almost a million enslaved African Americans were carried in flatboats and marched by foot 1,000 miles over the Appalachians to the cotton and cane fields of Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana, birthing the term “sold down the river.” Weaving together a tapestry of first-person histories, Buck portrays this watershed era of American expansion as it was really lived.

With a rare narrative power that blends stirring adventure with absorbing untold history, Life on the Mississippi is a mus­cular and majestic feat of storytelling from a writer who may be the closest that we have today to Mark Twain.

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