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Memoir

Hyeseung Song – Docile Memoirs of a Not-So-perfect Asian Girl

Hyeseung Song Docile review, recensie en informatie memoirs of a not-so-perfect Asian girl, geschreven door de Koreaans-Amerikaanse schrijfster. Op 16 juli 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Simon & Schuster de memoir van de Amerikaanse schrijfster en schilder van Koreaanse afkomst Hyeseung Song. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijkgbaar of aangekondigd.

Hyeseung Song Docile Memoirs of a Not-So-perfect Asian Girl review en recensie

  • “Docile is the rarest of things: a scorchingly honest, beautiful, hugely evocative memoir that’s also a proper pageturner: I read it breathlessly in a single sitting, transported and deeply moved. It’s at one and the same time the story of a life and a meditation on identity, family, trauma, illness, and the nature of love, art, and success. It’s wonderful.” (Helen MacDonald, author of H is for Hawk)
  • “Choosing to live requires a crucial journey to discovering her true, unadorned self. Song’s literary self-portrait is formidable testimony to claiming her powerful artistry.” (Booklist)

Memoirs of a Not-So-perfect Asian Girl

Docile

Memoirs of a Not-So-Perfect Asian Girl

  • Auteur: Hyeseung Song (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: memoir
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 16 juli 2024
  • Omvang: 304 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: $27.99 / $14.99 / $29.99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de memoir van Hyeseung Song

A daughter of Korean immigrants, Hyeseung Song spends her earliest years in the cane fields of Texas where her loyalties are divided between a restless father in search of Big Money, and a beautiful yet domineering mother whose resentments about her own life compromises her relationship with her daughter. With her parents at constant odds, Song learns more words in Korean for hatred than for love. When the family’s fake Gucci business lands them in bankruptcy, Song moves to a new elementary school. On her first day, a girl asks the teacher: “Can she speak English?”

Neither rich nor white, Song does what is necessary to be visible: she internalizes the model minority myth as well as her beloved mother’s dreams to see her on a secure path. Song meets these expectations by attending the best Ivy League universities in the country. But when she wavers, in search of an artistic life on her own terms, her mother warns, “Happiness is what unexceptional people tell themselves when they don’t have the talent and drive to go after real success.” Years of self-erasure take a toll and Song experiences recurring episodes of depression and mania. A thought repeats: I want to die. I want to die. Song enters a psychiatric hospital where she meets patients with similar struggles. So begins her sweeping journey to heal herself by losing everything.

Unflinching and lyrical, Docile is one woman’s story of subverting the model minority myth, contending with mental illness, and finding her self-worth by looking within.

Hyeseung Song is a first-generation Korean American writer and painter. She lives in Brooklyn and upstate New York.

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Amerikaanse politiek, Memoir

Gretchen Whitmer – True Gretch

Gretchen Whitmer True Gretch recensie, review en informatie boek en memoir van de Amerikaanse Democratisch politicus en gouverneur van Michigan. Op 9 juli 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Simon & Schuster het autobiografische boek van Gretchen Whitmer. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling verkrijgbaar of aangekondigd.

Gretchen Whitmer True Gretch recensie en review

  • “Whether it’s confronting the patriarchy, domestic terrorist threats, or the perils of orthodontia, Governor Whitmer does so with grace, candor and a big dose of humor…Vulnerable with a side of gallows humor, True Gretch reads like you’ve got a seat at the table with the Governor and you just agreed to buy another round of Oberon.” (Jordan Klepper, The Daily Show)
  • “As someone who has been long committed to non-blurbing, this wonderful and, yes, exquisitely wacky how-to-be-a-shark-MF guide by That Woman from Michigan is a must read for badass ladies everywhere and anyone who aspires to be one. I laughed, I cried and now, god help me, I am a happy Half-Whit. (Also, sorry Big Gretch, but my UMich son requires it: Go Blue!)” (Kara Swisher)
  • “Getting to know Gretchen through this book was exhilarating. She uses humor as her superpower to tackle challenges that would knock out most. I am just amazed and inspired by her wit and grace. G, you really are a Wonder Woman!” (Lynda Carter, actor and singer-songwriter)

Gretchen Whitmer True Gretch

True Gretch

What I’ve Learned About Life, Leadership, and Everything in Between

  • Schrijfster: Gretchen Whitmer (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: memoir
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 9 juli 2024
  • Omvang: 176 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $26.99 / $12.99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek van Gretchen Whitmer, de gouverneur van Michigan

From trailblazing Michigan governor and rising Democratic star Gretchen Whitmer comes an unconventionally honest, personal, and funny account of her remarkable life and career, full of insights that guided her through a global pandemic, showdowns with high-profile bullies, and even a kidnapping and assassination plot.

When Gretchen Whitmer was growing up, her beloved grandmother Nino taught her that you can always find something good in other people. “Even the meanest person might have pretty eyes,” she would say. Nino’s words persuaded Whitmer to look for the good in any person or situation—just one of many colorful personal experiences that have shaped her political vision. (And, as Whitmer writes, one that resonated more than another piece of advice her grandmother offered, to “never part your hair in the middle.”)

In this candid and inspiring book, Whitmer reveals the principles and instincts that have shaped her extraordinary career, from her early days as a lawyer and legislator and her 2018 election as governor of Michigan, to her bold and innovative actions as she led the state through a series of unprecedented crises. Her motto in politics, she writes, is to “get shit done.”

Whitmer shares the lessons in resilience that steered her through some of the most challenging events in Michigan’s history, such as the Covid-19 pandemic, a five-hundred-year flood, the rise of domestic terrorism, and the fierce fight to protect reproductive rights.

Along the way, she tells stories about the outsize characters in her family, her lifelong clumsy streak, the wild comments she’s heard on the campaign trail, her self-deprecating social media campaigns (including her star turn as a talking potato with lipstick), and the slyly funny tactics she deploys to neutralize her opponents.

Written with Whitmer’s trademark sense of humor and straight-shooting style, True Gretch is not only a compelling account of her remarkable journey, but also a blueprint for anyone who wants to make a difference in their community, their country, or the world. It is a testament to the power of humor, perseverance, and compassion in the face of darkness.

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Non-Fictie, Politiek, Politieke Boeken, Verenigde Staten

Hillary Rodham Clinton – Something Lost, Something Gained

Hillary Rodham Clinton Something Lost, Something Gained recensie, review en informatie van het nieuwe boek. Op 17 september 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Simon & Schuster het nieuwe boek van Hillary Rodham Clinton. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Er is nog geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verschenen of aangekondigd.

Hillary Rodham Clinton Something Lost, Something Gained recensie en review

Mochten er in de media een boekbespreking, recensie of review verschijnen van Something Lost, Something Gained, Refelctions on Life, Love and Liberty, het nieuwe boek van Hillary Rodham Clinton, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Hillary Rodham Clinton Something Lost, Something Gained

Something Lost, Something Gained

Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty

  • Auteur: Hillary Rodham Clinton (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: non-fictie
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 17 september 2024
  • Omvang: 352 pagina’s
  • Uitgave/ gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $29.99 / $14.99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Hillary Rodham Clinton Something Lost, Something Gained recensie en review

Mochten er in de media een boekbespreking, recensie of review verschijnen van Something Lost, Something Gained, Refelctions on Life, Love and Liberty, het nieuwe boek van Hillary Rodham Clinton, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Flaptekst van het nieuwe boek van Hillary Rodham Clinton

What would it be like to sit down for an impassioned, entertaining conversation with Hillary Clinton? In Something Lost, Something Gained, Hillary offers her candid views on life and love, politics, liberty, democracy, the threats we face, and the future within our reach.

She describes the strength she draws from her deepest friendships, her Methodist faith, and the nearly fifty years she’s been married to President Bill Clinton—all with the wisdom that comes from looking back on a full life with fresh eyes. She takes us along as she returns to the classroom as a college professor, enjoys the bonds inside the exclusive club of former First Ladies, moves past her dream of being president, and dives into new activism for women and democracy.

From canoeing with an ex-Nazi trying to deprogram white supremacists to sweltering with salt farmers in the desert trying to adapt to the climate crisis in India, Hillary brings us to the front lines of our biggest challenges. For the first time, Hillary shares the story of her operation to evacuate Afghan women to safety in the harrowing final days of America’s longest war. But we also meet the brave women dissidents defying dictators around the world, gain new personal insights about her old adversary Vladimir Putin, and learn the best ways that worried parents can protect kids from toxic technology. We also hear her fervent and persuasive warning to all American voters. In the end, Something Lost, Something Gained is a testament to the idea that the personal is political, and the political is personal, providing a blueprint for what each of us can do to make our lives better.

Hillary has “looked at life from both sides now.” In these pages, she shares the latest chapter of her inspiring life and shows us how to age with grace and keep moving forward, with grit, joy, purpose, and a sense of humor.

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Memoir, Olympische Spelen, Sport, Sportroman

Katie Ledecky – Just Add Water

Katie Ledecky Just Add Water recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de memoir van de Amerikaanse topzwemster en winnares van van vele Olympische medailles. Op 11 juni 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Simon & Schuter de memoir van meervoudig wjnnares van de gouden medaille tijdens de Olympische Spelen en Wereldkampioenschappen, de Amerikaanse zwemster Katie Ledecky. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar of aangekondigd.

Katie Ledecky Just Add Water recensie

Mochten er in de media een boekbespreking, recensie of review verschijnen van Just Add Water, My Swimming Lide, de memoir van de Amerikaanse topzwemster Katie Ledecky, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Katie Ledecky Just Add Water

Just Add Water

My Swimming Life

  • Auteur: Katie Ledecky (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: memoir, sportboek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 11 juni 2024
  • Omvang: 256 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $28.99 / $14.99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek van de Amerikaanse zwemster Katie Ledecky

A candid and inspiring memoir from Olympic gold medalist, world champion, and one of the best swimmers ever to compete: Katie Ledecky.

Katie Ledecky has won more individual Olympic races than any female swimmer in history. She is a three-time Olympian, a seven-time gold medalist, a twenty-one-time world champion, eight-time NCAA Champion, and a world record-holder in individual swimming events. Time and again, the question is posed to her family, her coaches, and to her—what makes her a champion? Now, for the first time, she shares what it takes to compete at an elite level.

Again and again, Ledecky has broken records: those of others and, increasingly, her own. She is both consistent and innovative—consistent at setting goals and shattering them, and innovative in the way she approaches her training. A true competitor, she sets her goals by choosing the ones that feel the scariest. But, crucially, she never sacrifices the joy of competition, even in the face of adversity. Her positive mental outlook and a great support system provides the springboard to her success.

Just Add Water charts Ledecky’s life in swimming. It details her start in Bethesda, Maryland, where she played sharks and minnows and first discovered the joy of the pool; her early foray into the Olympics at the tender age of fifteen where, as the youngest member of the American team, she stunned everyone by winning her first gold medal; her time balancing competition and her education at Stanford University; how she developed a champion’s mindset that has allowed her to persevere through so many meets, even under intense pressure; and how she has maintained her dominance in a sport where success depends on milliseconds. You learn how every element of her life—from the support of her family to the tutelage of her coaches, from her childhood spent in summer league swimming to the bright lights of Olympic pools in London, Rio, and Tokyo—set her up to become the champion she is.

In the end, Katie’s story is about testing yourself against the difficult, and seeing who you become on the other side.

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Biografie, Canada, Canadese schrijvers, Politiek, Politieke Boeken

Stephen Maher – The Prince

Stephen Maher The Prince Justin Trudeau biografie recensie en informatie van de inhoud van het boek over de Canadese premier. Op 28 mei 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Simon & Schuster de biografie over de Canadese premier en politicus Justin Trudreau, geschreven door Stepehn Maher. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijver en over de uitgave. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van de biografie verkrijgbaar of aangekondigd.

Stephen Maher The Prince Justin Trudeau biografie recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, review of recensie verschijnt van The Prince, The Turbulent Reign of Justin Trudeau, geschreven door Stephen Maher, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Stephen Maher The Prince Justin Truedeau biografie

The Prince

The Turbulent Reign of Justin Trudeau

  • Auteur: Stephen Maher (Canada)
  • Soort boek: biografie, politiek boek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 28 mei 2024
  • Omvang: 400 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $29.99 / $14.99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst Stephen Maher The Prince Justin Truedeau biografie

The first comprehensive biography of Justin Trudeau as prime minister—an honest, compelling story of his government’s triumphs and failures, based on interviews with over 200 insiders and Trudeau himself.

As one of the longest-surviving prime ministers and son of the legendary Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Justin Trudeau is near royalty in Canada. But how did this former high school teacher with no noteworthy accomplishments put together a team that managed to take over the Liberal Party and bring it from third place to a majority government in 2015? The Prince shows just that. In this first comprehensive history of the Justin Trudeau government, veteran journalist Stephen Maher takes readers behind the scenes of a tumultuous decade of Canadian politics. Through hundreds of interviews with political insiders, he describes how Trudeau—a Canadian prince—had the famous name, the political instincts, the work ethic, and the confidence to overcome errors in judgment and build a global brand, winning in the boxing ring and on the debate stage. And then things changed as key people left the Trudeau team and the government lost direction.

Trudeau is an enigmatic figure—a politician who has been in the public eye since childhood and seeks attention but has always concealed his actual feelings from those around him. He has shown admirable strength and skill, deftly handling Donald Trump in trade deals and international meetings and in leading Canada through the COVID-19 pandemic. He has delivered substantial results for people within his political coalition—the most successful attack on poverty in a generation, real progress on climate change, and a sustained application of money and political capital to Indigenous reconciliation. Even as the government overcame major challenges, however, errors in judgment and personality conflicts wasted political capital. Trudeau has struggled to manage his own office, with devastating consequences, and alienated people outside his coalition, to the point where he can’t hold a public event without protesters screaming curses at him.

The Prince takes readers behind the curtain as the government goes from triumph to embarrassment and back again, revealing the people, the conflicts, and the struggles both in the government and on the opposition benches. Above all, it traces why this ambitious government led by a global media darling is now so unpopular it is in danger of imminent collapse.

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Biografie, Televisie

Susan Page – The Rulebraker Barbara Walters biografie

Susan Page The Rulebreaker Barbara Walters biografie recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud van het boek over de succesvolle en grensverleggende Amerikaanse televisiepresentatrice. Op 23 april 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Simon & Schuster de biografie van de Amerikaanse televisiejournaliste Barbara Walters, geschreven door Susan Page. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de biografie, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar of aangekondigd.

Susan Page The Rulebreeaker Barbara Walters biografie recensie en review

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, recensie of review verschijnt van The Rulebreaker, de biografie van Barbara Walters, geschreven door Susan Page, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

  • “…Soars and shines with intriguing story after story about such a legendary life… Page expertly portrays Walters as an important figure in society, but she also shows what made her human.. A definitive and deeply researched biography, likely to be in high demand at all libraries, especially those with book clubs.” (Library Journal)
  • “An impeccably researched and deeply sourced biography and a
    respectful and balanced portrait of this groundbreaking icon of American journalism.” (Booklist)

Susan Page The Rulebreaker Barbara Walters biografie

The Rulebreaker

The Life and Times of Barbara Walters

  • Auteur: Susan Page (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: biografie
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 23 april 2024
  • Omvang: 464 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $30.99 / $16.99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de biografie van Barbara Walters

The definitive biography of the most successful female broadcaster of all time—Barbara Walters—a woman whose personal demons fueled an ambition that broke all the rules and finally gave women a permanent place on the air, written by bestselling author Susan Page.

Barbara Walters was a force from the time TV was exploding on the American scene in the 1960s to its waning dominance in a new world of competition from streaming services and social media half a century later. She was not just a groundbreaker for women (Oprah announced when she was seventeen that she wanted to be Barbara Walters), but also expanded the big TV interview and then dominated the genre. By the end of her career, she had interviewed more of the famous and infamous, from presidents to movie stars to criminals to despots, than any other journalist in history. Then at sixty-seven, past the age many female broadcasters found themselves involuntarily retired, she pioneered a new form of talk TV called The View. She is on the short list of those who have left the biggest imprints on television news and on our culture, male or female. So, who was the woman behind the legacy?

In The Rulebreaker, Susan Page conducts 150 interviews and extensive archival research to discover that Walters was driven to keep herself and her family afloat after her mercurial and famous impresario father attempted suicide. But she never lost the fear of an impending catastrophe, which is what led her to ask for things no woman had ever asked for before, to ignore the rules of misogynistic culture, to outcompete her most ferocious competitors, and to protect her complicated marriages and love life from scrutiny.

Page breaks news on every front—from the daring things Walters did to become the woman who reinvented the TV interview to the secrets she kept until her death. This is the eye-opening account of the woman who knew she had to break all the rules so she could break all the rules about what viewers deserved to know.

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Geschiedenisboeken, Memoir

Doris Kearns Goodwin – An Unfinished Love Story

Doris Kearns Goodwin An Unfinished Love Story recensie en informatie boek met A Personal History of the 1960s. Op 16 april 2024 verschijnt bij Uitgeverij Simon & Schuster het boek over de jaren 60 van de vorige eeuw van de Amerikaanse historicus en schrijfster Doris Kearns Goodwin. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar of aangekondigd.

Doris Kearns Goodwin An Unfinished Love Story recensie

Als er een boekbespreking of recensie verschijnt van An Unfinished Love Story, het persoonlijke geschiedenisboek en memoir over de jaren 60 van de Amerikaanse historicus Doris Kearns Goodwin, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

  • “Just as An Unfinished Love Story is a testament to the Kearns Goodwin marriage, so is it a love story of the United States and its democratic government. The many speeches written by Goodwin, the writings of Kearns Goodwin and both their reflections demonstrate that words do indeed matter.” (The Columbus Dispatch)

Doris Kearns Goodwin An Unfinished Love Story

An Unfinished Love Story

  • Auteur: Doris Kearns Goodwin (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: geschiedenisboek, memoir
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 16 april 2024
  • Omvang: 480 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $35.00 / $316.99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de memoir van Doris Kearns Goodwin

An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America’s most beloved historians, artfully weaves together biography, memoir, and history. She takes you along on the emotional journey she and her husband, Richard (Dick) Goodwin embarked upon in the last years of his life.

Dick and Doris Goodwin were married for forty-two years and married to American history even longer. In his twenties, Dick was one of the brilliant young men of John F. Kennedy’s New Frontier. In his thirties he both named and helped design Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society and was a speechwriter and close advisor to Robert Kennedy. Doris Kearns was a twenty-four-year-old graduate student when selected as a White House Fellow. She worked directly for Lyndon Johnson and later assisted on his memoir.

Over the years, with humor, anger, frustration, and in the end, a growing understanding, Dick and Doris had argued over the achievements and failings of the leaders they served and observed, debating the progress and unfinished promises of the country they both loved.

The Goodwins’ last great adventure involved finally opening the more than three hundred boxes of letters, diaries, documents, and memorabilia that Dick had saved for more than fifty years. They soon realized they had before them an unparalleled personal time capsule of the 1960s, illuminating public and private moments of a decade when individuals were powered by the conviction they could make a difference; a time, like today, marked by struggles for racial and economic justice, a time when lines were drawn and loyalties tested.

Their expedition gave Dick’s last years renewed purpose and determination. It gave Doris the opportunity to connect and reconnect with participants and witnesses of pivotal moments of the 1960s. And it gave them both an opportunity to make fresh assessments of the central figures of the time—John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Robert Kennedy, Eugene McCarthy, and especially Lyndon Johnson, who greatly impacted both their lives. The voyage of remembrance brought unexpected discoveries, forgiveness, and the renewal of old dreams, reviving the hope that the youth of today will carry forward this unfinished love story with America.

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Muziek

Alice Randall – My Black Country

Alice Randall My Black Country recensie en informatie boek over zwarte countrymuziek. Op 9 april 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Simon & Schuster het boek over zwarte countrymuziek, geschreven door Alice Randall. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Er is trouwens geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar of aangekondigd.

Alice Randall My Black Country recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking of recensie verschijnt van My Black Country, geschreven door Alice Randall, dan lees je erover op deze pagina.

  • “Randall beautifully weaves together history and her personal story in a narrative informed by a deep love of country music, her commitment to undoing an ugly legacy of whitewashing, and her determination to change the face of Nashville to create space for herself and other Black artists.” (Booklist)
  • “I loved reading about Alice Randall’s path to Nashville, as only she can tell it. My own journey to Music City could not have been more different than hers, but what we share is a passion for the music, and a determination to see the dream through, no matter the obstacle.” (Trisha Yearwood, Grammy, ACM, and CMA Award-winning artist)
  • “Randall’s knowledge and respect for the performers and musicians who came before her permeates this lyrical memoir/music history hybrid. Country music fans will relish reading it.” (Library Journal)

Alice Randall My Black Country

My Black Country

A Journey Through Country Music’s Black Past, Present, and Future

  • Auteur: Alice Randall (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: muziekboek over zwarte countrymuziek
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 9 april 2024
  • Omvang: 288 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $28.99 / $14.99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van het boek over zwarte countrymuziek

Country music had brought Randall and her activist mother together and even gave Randall a singular distinction in American music history: she is the first Black woman to cowrite a number one country hit, Trisha Yearwood’s “XXX’s and OOO’s”. Randall found inspiration and comfort in the sounds and history of the first family of Black country music: DeFord Bailey, Lil Hardin, Ray Charles, Charley Pride, and Herb Jeffries who, together, made up a community of Black Americans rising through hard times to create simple beauty, true joy, and sometimes profound eccentricity.

What emerges in My Black Country is a celebration of the most American of music genres and the radical joy in realizing the power of Black influence on American culture. As country music goes through a fresh renaissance today, with a new wave of Black artists enjoying success, My Black Country is the perfect gift for longtime country fans and a vibrant introduction to a new generation of listeners who previously were not invited to give the genre a chance.

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Journalistieke boeken, Memoir

Kara Swisher – Burn Book

Kara Swisher Burn Book recensie en informatie over de inhoud van het journalistieke memoir over de Amerikaanse techindustrie. Op 27 februari 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Simon & Schuster, Burn Book, A Tech Love Story, geschreven door de Amerikaanse podcastmaker en journalist Kara Swisher. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Kara Swisher Burn Book recensie

  • “Swisher, the bad-ass journalist and OG chronicler of Silicon Valley…takes no prisoners in this highly readable look at the evolution of the digital world…Bawdy, brash, and compulsively thought-provoking, just like its author, Burn Book sizzles” (Booklist, starred review)

Kara Swisher Burn Book

Burn Book

A Tech Love Story

  • Auteur: Kara Swisher (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: journalistieke memoir
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 27 februari 2024
  • Omvang: 320 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $30.00 / $14.99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over de Amerikaanse techindustrie van Kara Swisher

From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech industry and its founders who wanted to change the world but broke it instead.

Part memoir, part history, Burn Book is a necessary chronicle of tech’s most powerful players. From “the queen of all media” (Walt Mossberg, Wall Street Journal), this is the inside story we’ve all been waiting for about modern Silicon Valley and the biggest boom in wealth creation in the history of the world.

When tech titans crowed that they would “move fast and break things,” Kara Swisher was moving faster and breaking news. While covering the explosion of the digital sector in the early 1990s, she developed a long track record of digging up and reporting the facts about this new world order. Her consistent scoops drove one CEO to accuse her of “listening in the heating ducts” and prompted Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg to once observe: “It is a constant joke in the Valley when people write memos for them to say, ‘I hope Kara never sees this.’”

While still in college, Swisher got her start at The Washington Post, where she became one of the few people in journalism interested in covering the nascent Internet. She went on to work forThe Wall Street Journal, joining with Walt Mossberg to start the groundbreaking D: All Things Digital conference, as well as pioneering tech news sites.

Swisher has interviewed everyone who matters in tech over three decades, right when they presided over an explosion of world-changing innovation that has both helped and hurt our world. Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Sheryl Sandberg, Bob Iger, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Meg Whitman, Peter Thiel, Sam Altman, and Mark Zuckerberg are just a few whom Swisher made sweat—figuratively and, in Zuckerberg’s case, literally.

Despite the damage she chronicles, Swisher remains optimistic about tech’s potential to help solve problems and not just create them. She calls upon the industry to make better, more thoughtful choices, even as a new set of powerful AI tools are poised to change the world yet again. At its heart, this book is a love story to, for, and about tech from someone who knows it better than anyone.

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Rex Chapman – It’s Hard for Me to Live with Me

Rex Chapman It’s Hard for Me to Live with Me recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de memoir van de Amerikaanse basketballer. Op 27 februari 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Simon & Schuster de memoir, It’s Hard for Me to Live with Me van de basketballer Rex Chapman die hij samen met Seth Davis schreef. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Rex Chapman It’s Hard for Me to Live with Me recensie

  • “Chapman’s frank assessment of the toll his addictions took on his loved ones lends his account appealing humility….It’s the off-court sections that lend this sports memoir its power.” (Publishers Weekly)
  • “Readers will appreciate Chapman’s candor and hard-won perspective as he shares his up-and-down story as a cautionary tale.” (Booklist)
  • “A former basketball prodigy’s blunt memoir about stardom, addiction, and American culture…..Throughout, the author is raw [and] consistently candid….the most compelling and focused aspect of the book is Chapman’s frankness about the toll of his battle with painkillers and the hard work required on the long road to recovery.” (Kirkus Reviews)

Rex Chapman It's Hard for Me to Live with Me

It’s Hard for Me to Live with Me

  • Auteurs: Rex Chapman, Seth Davis (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: memoir, sportboek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 27 februari 2024
  • Omvang: 272 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $27.99 / $14.99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de memoir van de Amerikaanse basketballer Rex Chapman

A powerful memoir from the University of Kentucky basketball legend, NBA veteran, and social media influencer about his recovery from addiction.

He is considered by many the greatest basketball player ever produced by the hoops-crazy state of Kentucky. In two years at the University of Kentucky, he scored over 1,000 points, led the Wildcats to a Sweet Sixteen appearance and was nicknamed “King Rex.” The first player ever drafted by the Charlotte Hornets, he spent twelve seasons in the NBA, dazzling in dunk contests and sinking one of the most memorable buzzer-beaters in league history. But by the end of his career, Rex Chapman was harboring a destructive secret.

Years before America’s opioid crisis would become national news, Chapman developed a dependency on Vicodin and Oxycontin, ultimately ingesting fifty painkillers a day. In addition, he developed a severe gambling addiction, once nearly losing $400,000 at a Las Vegas blackjack table. All this would cost him his family as well as most of the $40 million fortune he’d made in basketball, leaving him to live in his car and shoplift to support his addictions. Only when he was arrested—and his mugshot made national news—did he finally commit to getting clean.

In It’s Hard for Me to Live With Me, Chapman—who has amassed millions of social media followers for his relatable and uplifting posts—tells the story of his addiction and recovery in unflinching detail. With equal frankness, he describes his history with depression; the racism he witnessed growing up and how that shaped his outspokenness on matters of social justice; and his complex and volatile relationship with his father, also a former professional basketball player. Cowritten with New York Times bestselling author Seth Davis, Chapman’s memoir is an equally devastating and inspiring story about the human struggle for self-acceptance.

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