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Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson – Claire McCardell biografie

Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson Claire McCardell biografie recensie, review en informatie boek over de modeontwerper die vrouwen vrij maakte. Op 17 juni 2025 verschijnt bij Simon & Schuster de biografie van Claire McCardell. 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.

Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson Claire McCardell biografie recensie en review

  • “Claire McCardell tossed out the corsets and crinolines and changed the way women dress. This icon of mid-century modernism was the anti-Dior, and her life is a unique American drama of design, business, and sheer nerve. Today, her influence is so pervasive that we hardly see it.” (Ellen Lupton, curator emerita, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)
  • “This is a timely and important book, a testimony to a powerful woman whose legacy might be lost if not for the prodigious scholarship of Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson. It’s also just a darn good read.” (Laura Lippman)

Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson Claire McCardell biografie

Claire McCardell

The Designer Who Set Women Free

  • Auteur: Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: biografie, modeboek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 17 juni 2025
  • Omvang: 336 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: $ 29,99 / $ 14,99 / $ 25,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de biografie van modeontwerper Claire McCardell

The riveting hidden history of Claire McCardell, the most influential fashion designer you’ve never heard of.

Claire McCardell forever changed fashion—and most importantly, the lives of women. She shattered cultural norms around women’s clothes, and today much of what we wear traces back to her ingenious, rebellious mind. McCardell invented ballet flats and mix-and-match separates, and she introduced wrap dresses, hoodies, leggings, denim, and more into womenswear. She tossed out corsets in favor of a comfortably elegant look and insisted on pockets, even as male designers didn’t see a need for them. She made zippers easy to reach because a woman “may live alone and like it,” McCardell once wrote, “but you may regret it if you wrench your arm trying to zip a back zipper into place.”

After World War II, McCardell fought the severe, hyper-feminized silhouette championed by male designers, like Christian Dior. Dior claimed that he wanted to “save women from nature.” McCardell, by contrast, wanted to set women free. Claire McCardell became, as the young journalist Betty Friedan called her in 1955, “The Gal Who Defied Dior.”

Filled with personal drama and industry secrets, this story reveals how Claire McCardell built an empire at a time when women rarely made the upper echelons of business. At its core, hers is a story about our right to choose how we dress—and our right to choose how we live.

Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson is an award-winning journalist and author whose writing has been widely published in The New York Times, Harper’sThe New Yorker, The Southern Review, and The Washington Post Magazine, among many others. A National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow, Dickinson’s work has earned recognition in anthologies such as The Best American Essays and been awarded Maryland’s prestigious Mary Sawyers Imboden Prize for literature. Dickinson lives in Baltimore with her husband and daughter.

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Rob Franklin – Great Black Hope

Rob Franklin Great Black Hope recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud van de Amerikaanse debuutroman. Op 19 juni 2025 verschijnt bij Uitgeverij Simon & Schuster de eerste roman van de uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijver Rob Franklin. 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.

Rob Franklin Great Black Hope recensie en review

  • “Great Black Hope indeed! Rob Franklin’s brilliant storytelling explores and explodes every fact and fiction of those charged words; likewise, the intricacies and treacheries of privilege. Those categories we parse so confidently — class, race, gender sexuality — are shaped into nuanced individual stories. His prose is elegant and searching, his pace flawless from start to finish.” (Margo Jefferson, author of Negroland)
  • “Dynamic and excellent….Smith is a character worth spending time with, full of pathos and insightful observations as he lives through his wayward twenties….Franklin deftly develops his characters, vividly rendering their perceptions and bringing the reader into the scene through elegant prose.” (Allison Escoto, Booklist)
  • “If Tom Wolfe, Jay McInerney, and Margo Jefferson somehow collaborated, this might have been the delightful result.” (Boris Kachka, The Atlantic)

Rob Franklin Great Black Hope

Great Black Hope

  • Auteur: Rob Franklin (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Afro-Amerikaanse debuutroman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 17 juni 2025
  • Omvang: 320 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: $ 28,99 / $ 14,99 / $ 24,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de eerste roman van Rob Franklin

A gripping, elegant debut novel about a young Black man caught between worlds of race and class, glamour and tragedy, a friend’s mysterious death and his own arrest, from an electrifying new voice.

An arrest for cocaine possession on the last day of a sweltering New York summer leaves Smith, a queer Black Stanford graduate, in a state of turmoil. Pulled into the court system and mandated treatment, he finds himself in an absurd but dangerous situation: his class protects him, but his race does not.

It’s just weeks after the death of his beloved roommate Elle, the daughter of a famous soul singer, and he’s still reeling from the tabloid spectacle—as well as lingering questions around how well he really knew his closest friend. He flees to his hometown of Atlanta, only to buckle under the weight of expectations from his family of doctors and lawyers and their history in America. But when Smith returns to New York, it’s not long before he begins to lose himself to his old life—drawn back into the city’s underworld, where his search for answers may end up costing him his freedom and his future.

Smith goes on a dizzying journey through the nightlife circuit, anonymous recovery rooms, Atlanta’s Black society set, police investigations and courtroom dramas, and a circle of friends coming of age in a new era. Great Black Hope is a propulsive, glittering story about what it means to exist between worlds, to be upwardly mobile yet spiraling downward, and how to find a way back to hope.

Born and raised in Atlanta, Rob Franklin is a writer of fiction and poetry, and a cofounder of Art for Black Lives. A Kimbilio Fiction Fellow and finalist for the New England Review Emerging Writer Award, he has published work in New England ReviewPrairie Schooner, and The Rumpus among others. Franklin lives in Brooklyn, New York, and teaches writing at the School of Visual Arts. Great Black Hope is his first novel.

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Todd S. Purdum – Desi Arnaz biografie

Todd S. Purdum Desi Arnaz biografie review, recensie en informatie boek over de man die televisie uitvond. Op 3 juni 2025 verschijnt bij Simon & Schuster de biografie van de Cubaans-Amerikaanse acteur en televisiemaker Desi Arnaz. 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.

Todd S. Purdum Desi Arnaz biografie review en recensie

  • “In many ways, Desi Arnaz was Ricky Ricardo, the character he played on television—creative, hardworking, excitable, lovable, an embracing personality, a natural entertainer. . . . Mr. Purdum tells this classic rise-and-fall story with an élan his subject would appreciate.” (Scott Eyman, The Wall Street Journal)
  • “Desi Arnaz’s life ricocheted between privilege and economic hardship, creative peaks and alcoholic lows — the stuff of high drama. But it was comedy that secured his legacy. . . . As Todd S. Purdum relates in his intimate, often poignant biography, Arnaz was the driving force behind [I Love Lucy] and a pioneer of early television. . . . A nuanced portrait of both Arnaz’s gifts and his tragic shortcomings.” (Julia M. Klein, The Los Angeles Times)

Todd S. Purdum Desi Arnaz Biografie

Desi Arnaz

The Man Who Invented Television

  • Auteur: Todd S. Purdum (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: biografie
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 3 juni 2025
  • Omvang: 368 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 29,99 / $ 14,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de biografie van Desi Arnaz

An illuminating biography of Desi Arnaz, the visionary, trailblazing Cuban American who revolutionized television and brought laughter to millions as Lucille Ball’s beloved husband on I Love Lucy, leaving a remarkable legacy that continues to influence American culture today.

Desi Arnaz is a name that resonates with fans of classic television, but few understand the depth of his contributions to the entertainment industry. In Desi Arnaz, Todd S. Purdum offers a captivating biography that dives into the groundbreaking Latino artist and businessman known to millions as Ricky Ricardo from I Love Lucy. Beyond his iconic role, Arnaz was a pioneering entrepreneur who fundamentally transformed the television landscape.

His journey from Cuban aristocracy to world-class entertainer is remarkable. After losing everything during the 1933 Cuban revolution, Arnaz reinvented himself in pre-World War II Miami, tapping into the rising demand for Latin music. By twenty, he had formed his own band and sparked the conga dance craze in America. Behind the scenes, he revolutionized television production by filming I Love Lucy before a live studio audience with synchronized cameras, a model that remains a sitcom gold standard today.

Despite being underestimated due to his accent and origins, Arnaz’s legacy is monumental. Purdum’s biography, enriched with unpublished materials and interviews, reveals the man behind the legend and highlights his enduring contributions to pop culture and television. This book is a must-read biography about innovation, resilience and the relentless drive of a man who changed TV forever.

Todd S. Purdum was born 13 December 1959 in Macomb, Illinois. He is a veteran journalist and author. In a career of more than forty years, he has written widely about politics and culture, starting at The New York Times, where he spent twenty-three years, covering politics from city hall to the White House, later serving as diplomatic correspondent and Los Angeles bureau chief. He has also been a staff writer at Vanity FairPolitico, and The Atlantic. He is the author of Something Wonderful: Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Broadway Revolution and An Idea Whose Time Has Come: Two Presidents, Two Parties, and the Battle for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, the former White House press secretary Dee Dee Myers, with whom he has two grown children.

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Anne Irfan – A Short History of the Gaza Strip

Anne Irfan A Short History of the Gaza Strip review, recensie en informatie boek over de geschiedenis van de Gazastrook. Op 28 augustus 2025 verschijnt het boek over de geschiedenis van de Palestijnen op de Gazastrook, geschreven door Anne Irfan. 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.

Anne Irfan A Short History of the Gaza Strip review en recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, review of recensie verschijnt van het boek A Short History of the Gaza Strip, geschreven door Anne Irfan, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Anne Irfan A Short History of the Gaza Strip

A Short History of the Gaza Strip

  • Auteur: Anne Irfan
  • Soort boek: geschiedenisboek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 28 augustus 2025
  • Omvang: 304 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 16,99 / £ 7,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over de geschiedenis van de Gazastrook door Anne Irfan

The Gaza Strip is one of the most widely-reported on regions in the world—yet misinformation about its history and its people abound. In this vital book, historian Anne Irfan explains Gaza’s outsized political significance through six pivotal moments in its modern history, beginning with Israel’s expulsion of the Palestinian people upon its establishment in 1948, when the Gaza region was truncated to the “strip” we know today. As she takes us through Israel’s occupation of Gaza, the Palestinian national struggle and formation of the PLO, the first intifada, the creation of the Palestinian Authority and the rise of Hamas, she tackles widespread historical ignorance and untangles contradicting narratives.

Drawing on a decade of research, Irfan weaves in the voices of everyday Palestinians, from farmers and teachers to poets and activists. Written with remarkable clarity and compassion, A Short History of the Gaza Strip is an indispensable read for anyone seeking to understand Palestine today.

Anne Irfan is a multiple award-winning historian and lecturer in Interdisciplinary Race, Gender and Postcolonial Studies at University College London, where her work focuses on Israel-Palestine. She is a leading expert on Palestinian refugee rights and in 2023 published the academic book Refuge and Resistance: Palestinians and the International Refugee System. She was previously lecturer at the University of Oxford’s Refugee Studies Centre and has also taught at the London School of Economics.

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Barry Diller – Who Knew

Barry Diller Who Knew recensie, review en informatie van het boek en memoir van de Amerikaanse mediaondernemer. Op 20 mei 2025 verschijnt bij Simon & Schuster het boek van mediatycoon Barry Diller. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgrbaar.

Barry Diller Who Knew recensie en review

  • “One of the defining figures of the ongoing media revolution.” (Rolling Stone)
  • “Over the past 55 years, as Diller’s magnificent, swashbuckling career has taken him from deckhand to mutineer to admiral, he’s navigated upheavals in media and technology while at the same time making big bets ahead of (and sometimes counter to) almost every major trend.” (Forbes)
  • “Because he is a taskmaster and a visionary and a billionaire, people in Hollywood and Silicon Valley pay close attention when he speaks.” (The New York Times)
  • “Forget F. Scott Fitzgerald’s line about there being no second acts in American lives: Diller is on his fourth or fifth.” (Financial Times)

Barry Diller Who Knew

Who Knew

  • Auteur: Barry Diller (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: memoir, economieboek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 20 mei 2025
  • Omvang: 336 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 30,00 / $ 14,99 / $ 26,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek van de Amerikaanse mediatycoon Barry Diller

Barry Diller, one of America’s most successful businessmen, reveals himself here—his successes, failures, and struggles—with surprising candor and intimacy in a memoir rich in Hollywood lore and filled with business acumen.

Writing in his singular voice, Barry Diller delivers an astute business memoir, an unvarnished look at Hollywood, a primer on media, and a surprisingly frank coming-of-age story.

“I want to work in the mail room at William Morris.” So begins Diller’s show business life. Diller did not aspire to be an agent, nor was he a glove fit for William Morris, the legendary talent agency he describes as resembling a “Jewish Vatican.” But he was a good assistant and student and took it all in.

Before long, Diller was offered a job at ABC. His ascent was meteoric, launching ABC TV’s Movie of the Week at age twenty-seven, becoming CEO of Paramount Pictures at age thirty-two, and launching the Fox TV network at age forty-four. Along the way, Diller oversaw the production of classic films such as Saturday Night FeverRaiders of the Lost Ark, and Home Alone (a film he credits with saving Rupert Murdoch’s career) and hit TV shows such as The SimpsonsMarried…with Children, and Cops. He programmed and developed by instinct—not by research or data.

Diller’s media savvy changed the course of American culture. His championing of Alex Haley’s Roots put long-form miniseries on the map. He was never cowed by the talent—actors, directors, and producers—and worked with them all. Indeed, throughout his career, Diller championed “creative conflict,” encouraging argument in every business he managed (“I’ve never thought decision-making should be peaceful,” he writes). Diller also recognized our digital future, founding IAC and growing it into a billion-dollar constellation of brands, including Match, Tinder, and Expedia.

Moving beyond business, Diller recounts his family life, personal struggles, and regrets, his joyful marriage to Diane von Furstenburg, and where he has found fulfillment.

Intimate, candid, and moving, Who Knew is a different kind of business memoir, one that holds nothing back.

Barry Diller was born on 2 february 1942 in San Francisco, California. His business career has ranged from the end of the golden age of Hollywood to the frontiers of media and technology. He began his career at ABC in the 1960s, where he invented the Movie of the Week format, revolutionizing television programming. Diller later became the CEO of Paramount Pictures from 1974 to 1984, where he oversaw the production of classic films such as Saturday Night FeverRaiders of the Lost Ark, and Grease. In 1984, Diller joined 20th Century Fox, where he launched the Fox Broadcasting Company, introducing hit shows such as The SimpsonsMarried…with Children, and Cops. In 1995, Diller founded IAC, a conglomerate focused on e-commerce, media, and internet companies. Under Diller’s leadership, IAC has grown into a digital powerhouse, owning brands such as Vimeo, Angi, and the Match Group (Tinder, Hinge, and OkCupid). Diller also chairs Expedia Group, one of the world’s largest travel companies. He is married to fashion designer and businesswoman Diane von Furstenberg and lives in New York City.

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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 newsweeklyHe 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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Vicky Nguyen – Boat Baby

Vicky Nguyen Boat Baby review, recensie en informatie memoir van de Amerikaans-Vietnamese journaliste over haar familie van bootvluchtelingen. Op 1 april 2025 verschijnt bij Simon & Schuster het boek van de Amerikaans-Vietnamese journalist en schrijfster Vicky Nguyen. 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.

Vicky Nguyen Boat Baby review en recensie

  • “How could I love and respect Vicky Nguyen even more? I read her book. Vicky’s life story reads like a thriller-and a love story-and a how-to on finding your voice. I am in awe!” (Hoda Kotb, NBC TODAY show anchor)
  • “Uniquely personal and universally inspiring. Equal parts funny, inspiring, and authentic. Vicky’s memoir informs, uplifts and reminds us all that America is a place where anything can happen.” (Andrew Yang)

Vicky Nguyen Boat Baby

Boat Baby

  • Auteur: Vicky Nguyen (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: memoir
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 1 april 2025
  • Omvang: 320 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs:  $ 29,99 /  $ 14,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de memoir van Vicky Nguyen

In a memoir where heroism meets humor, NBC News anchor and correspondent Vicky Nguyen tells the story of her family’s daring escape from communist Vietnam and her unlikely journey from refugee to reporter with laughter and fierce love.

Starting in 1975, Vietnam’s “boat people”—desperate families seeking freedom—fled the Communist government and violence in their country any way they could, usually by boat across the South China Sea. Vicky Nguyen and her family were among them. Attacked at sea by pirates before reaching a refugee camp in Malaysia, Vicky’s family survived on rations and waited months until they were sponsored to go to America.

But deciding to leave and start a new life in a new country is half the story…figuring out how to be American is the other. Boat Baby is Vicky’s memoir of growing up in America with unconventional Vietnamese parents who didn’t always know how to bridge the cultural gaps. It’s a childhood filled with misadventures and misunderstandings, from almost stabbing the neighborhood racist with a butter knife to getting caught stealing Cosmo in the hope of learning Do You Really Think You Know Everything About Sex?

Vicky’s parents approached life with the attitude, “Why not us?” In the face of prejudice, they taught her to be gritty and resilient, skills Vicky used as she combatted stereotyping throughout her career, fending off the question “Aren’t you Connie Chung?” to become a leading Asian American journalist on television. She delivers a uniquely transparent account of her life, revealing how she negotiated her salary in a competitive industry, the challenges of starting a family, and the struggle to be a dutiful daughter.

Funny, nostalgic, and poignant, Boat Baby is a testament to the messy glue that bonds a family. Vicky Nguyen offers an optimistic story full of heart that illuminates the promise of what America can be.

Vicky Nguyen is born in 1979 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. She is an NBC News senior consumer investigative correspondent and anchor of NBC News Daily. She reports for the Today show, Nightly News with Lester Holt and NBC News Now. She graduated as valedictorian from the University of San Francisco. Vicky lives in New York with her husband and three daughters. Her parents are always nearby.

Lam Ngo Verdreven naar de zee recensieLam Ngo (Vietnam) – Verdreven naar de zee
Verhalen van Vietnamese bootvluchtelingen in Nederland
Uitgever: Walburg Pers
Verschijnt: 20 maart 2025

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Jeffrey Toobin – The Pardon

Jeffrey Toobin The Pardon recensie, review en informatie boek over de kracht van het Amerikaanse presidentiële pardon. Op 11 februari 2025 verschijnt bij Simon & Schuster het nieuwe boek van Jeffrey Toobin de Amerikaanse journalist en legal commentator bij CNN. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijver en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de uitgave is niet verkrijgbaar.

Jeffrey Toobin The Pardon recensie, review en informatie

  • “A splendid narrative about political power and mercy.” (David Grann)

Jeffrey Toobin The Pardon

The Pardon

The Politics of Presidential Mercy

  • Auteur: Jeffrey Toobin (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse politiek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 11 februari 2025
  • Omvang: 304 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 29,99 / $ 14,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van het boek over het Amerikaanse presidentiële pardon

The power of the presidential pardon has our national attention now more than ever before. In The Pardon, author and CNN legal commentator Jeffrey Toobin provides a timely and compelling narrative of the most controversial presidential pardon in American history—Gerald Ford’s pardon of Richard Nixon, revealing the profound implications for our current political landscape, and how it is already affecting the legacies of both Presidents Biden and Trump.

In this deeply reported book, Toobin explores why the Founding Fathers gave the power of pardon to the President and recreates the behind-the-scenes political melodrama during the tumultuous period around Nixon’s resignation. The story features a rich cast of characters, including Alexander Haig, Nixon’s last chief of staff, who pushed for the pardon, and a young Justice Department lawyer named Antonin Scalia, who provided the legal justification.

Ford’s shocking decision to pardon Nixon was widely criticized at the time, yet it has since been reevaluated as a healing gesture for a divided country. But Toobin argues that Ford’s pardon was an unwise gift to an undeserving recipient and an unsettling political precedent. The Pardon explores those that followed: Jimmy Carter’s amnesty for Vietnam draft resisters, Bill Clinton’s pardon of Marc Rich, and the extraordinary story of Trump’s unprecedented pardons at the end of his first term.

The Pardon is a must-read for anyone interested in American history, the complex dynamics of power within the highest office in the nation, and the implications of presidential mercy.

Jeffrey Toobin was born on the 25 May 1960 in New York City. He is, the longtime CNN legal commentator, is the author of ten books, including The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court, The Run of His Life: The People vs. O.J. Simpson, Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism, American Heiress, The Oath, Too Close to Call, and A Vast Conspiracy. A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School, he lives with his family in New York.

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Judith Giesberg – Last Seen

Judith Giesberg Last Seen recensie, review en informatie boek van de Amerikaanse historicus over de voortdurende zoektocht van voorheen tot slaaf gemaakte mensen om hun verloren familie te vinden. Op 3 februari 2025 verschijnt bij Simon & Schuster het boek van Judith Giesberg over de zoektocht naar de verloren families van Amerikaanse tot slaaf gemaakten. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het geschiedenisboek, de auteur en over de uitgave.

Judith Giesberg Last Seen recensie, review en informatie

  • “Heartbreaking, and essential.” (Jill Lepore, Amerikaanse historicus en schrijfster)
  • “This unvarnished account reminds us that centuries of suffering have yet to be fully acknowledged or atoned for. Informative and sobering.” (Kirkus Reviews)
  • “Love speaks across miles, decades and centuries in this meticulously excavated tribute to the formerly enslaved mothers, fathers, siblings, and kin who published “last seen” advertisements in search of loved ones stolen from them in bondage. Patience and Clara Bashop, Hagar Outlaw, Tally Miller, and the other seekers featured here may or may not have succeeded in having their beloveds restored to them, but the power of their loving, the spirit of their loved ones, and the immense scope of their courage breathe off the page in this vital work of recovery.” (Ilyon Woo, author of Master, Slave, Husband, Wife)

Judith Giesberg Last Seen

Last Seen

The Enduring Search by Formerly Enslaved People to Find Their Lost Families

  • Auteur: Judith Giesberg (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse geschiedenis, slavernijgeschiedenis
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 4 februari 2025
  • Omvang: 336 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: $ 29,99 / $ 14,99 / $ 25,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over de zoektocht van voorheen tot slaaf gemaakte mensen naar hun verloren familie

Drawing from an archive of nearly five thousand letters and advertisements, the riveting, dramatic story of formerly enslaved people who spent years searching for family members stolen away during slavery.

Of all the many horrors of slavery, the cruelest was the separation of families in slave auctions. Spouses and siblings were sold away from one other. Young children were separated from their mothers. Fathers were sent down river and never saw their families again.

As soon as slavery ended in 1865, family members began to search for one another, in some cases persisting until as late as the 1920s. They took out “information wanted” advertisements in newspapers and sent letters to the editor. Pastors in churches across the country read these advertisements from the pulpit, expanding the search to those who had never learned to read or who did not have access to newspapers. These documents demonstrate that even as most white Americans—and even some younger Black Americans, too—wanted to put slavery in the past, many former slaves, members of the “Freedom Generation,” continued for years, and even decades, to search for one another. These letters and advertisements are testaments to formerly enslaved people’s enduring love for the families they lost in slavery, yet they spent many years buried in the storage of local historical societies or on microfilm reels that time forgot.

Judith Giesberg draws on the archive that she founded—containing almost five thousand letters and advertisements placed by members of the Freedom Generation—to compile these stories in a narrative form for the first time. Her in-depth research turned up additional information about the writers, their families, and their enslavers. With this critical context, she recounts the moving stories of the people who placed the advertisements, the loved ones they tried to find, and the outcome of their quests to reunite.

This story underscores the cruelest horror of slavery—the forced breakup of families—and the resilience and determination of the formerly enslaved. Thoughtful, heart-wrenching, and illuminating, Last Seen finally gives this lesser-known aspect of slavery the attention it deserves.

Judith Giesberg was born 11 June 1966 in Texas. She is professor of history and Robert M. Birmingham chair in the humanities at Villanova University. She is the founder and director of the Last Seen archive, and the author of several books on Civil War history, including Army at HomeEmilie Davis’s Civil War, and Last Seen.

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Lola Kirke – Wild West Village

Lola Kirke Wild West Village recensie, review en informatie memoir in essays van de in Londen geboren Amerikaanse actrice en singer songwriter. Op 28 januari 2025 verschijnt bij Simon & Schuster het memoir-in-essays van Lola Kirke. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling is niet verkrijgbaar.

Lola Kirke Wild West Village recensie, review en informatie

  • “In Wild West Village, the actor and country singer recounts her glamorous yet dysfunctional upbringing alongside sisters Domino and Jemima Kirke. Spanning New York City, Los Angeles, and, finally, Nashville, Kirke constructs a portrait of an ambitious young woman coming into her own.” (Harpers Bazar)
  • “Wildly entertaining, riotously funny and disarmingly self-aware. Wild West Village has all the tenets of a great country song: emotion, soul, and a damn good story. I devoured it in one delicous sitting and could have come back for more. Needless to say, I adored it.” (Coco Mellors, author of Blue Sisters)
  • “Lola Kirke has captured more than just her own wild and specific New York upbringing (one that resonates more profoundly than I’d like it to.) She has captured the yearning of a generation raised on seductive yet dangerous images of young starlets run amok, and her path through and out of these delusions of grandeur and into the grandeur of self. She is a wise, witty and unsparing writer and her memoir proves it in a voice as lovely as the one she uses to sing.” (Lena Dunham)

Lola Kirke Wild West Village

Wild West Village

Not a Memoir

  • Auteur: Lola Kirke (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: memoir-in-essays
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 28 januari 2025
  • Omvang: 272 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: $ 28,99 / $ 14,99 / $ 18,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek van actrice en zangeres Lola Kirke

In this darkly humorous memoir-in-essays, actress and singer-songwriter Lola Kirke untangles an extraordinary upbringing in a family of eccentric, messy artists and explains how a big city girl went a little bit country.

The youngest daughter of a rock star father and clothing designer mother, Lola and her siblings (including actress Jemima and celebrity doula Domino), spent their childhoods freshly plucked from their English heritage in an eclectic West Village brownstone, hosting everyone from Cuban exiles to Courtney Love. But behind the enviable exterior of worldly coolness, was a home in disarray.

In Wild West Village, Kirke chronicles a search for self amidst the chaos of the affairs, addictions, and afflictions surrounding her, detailing misadventures in everything from masturbation to marijuana, Cadbury’s to country music, and a dream of salvation on the silver screen.

Filled with unforgettable characters and insights into identities forged in fire, Wild West Village locates humor and lightness in life’s darker situations. Irreverent and high-spirited, these are the stories of a young woman, teetering between a twang and a British accent, trying to fit in with larger-than-life personalities while secretly coming into her own.

Lola Kirke is born on 27 september 1990 in Portland Hospital in London, England. She is the daughter of rock drummer bands Bad Company and Free and is an acclaimed actress (Mistress AmericaGone Girl, and Mozart in the Jungle) and singer-songwriter. Wild West Village is her first book.

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