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From CNN legal analyst Elliot Williams, a revelatory account of how one man, four teenagers, and a struggling city collided over race, vigilantism, and public safety . . .  exposing the fault lines of a nationOn a dirty New York subway car on December 22, 1984, Bernhard Goetz shot Barry Allen, Darrell Cabey, Troy Canty, and James Ramseur, four teenagers from the Bronx, at point blank range. Goetz claimed they were going to mug him; the teens claim that one of them had simply asked for five dollars.Crime was at an all-time high. So was racial tension. Was Goetz, who was white, a hero who finally fought back? Or a bigot whose itchy trigger finger seriously wounded three unarmed black kids and condemned a fourth to irreversible brain damage? By the time Goetz went on trial for quadruple attempted murder, the “Subway Vigilante” saga had become a global sensation, and New Yorkers across race and class were split over whether he deserved decades in prison…or a medal.In Five Bullets, Elliot Williams vaults back to gritty 1980s Manhattan and reexamines the first major true-crime story of the cable news era. Drawing on archives and interviews with many main characters, including Goetz, Williams presents a masterful and vivid tale that also tells the origin stories of larger-than-life figures: Al Sharpton, a polarizing young local activist rocketing to national prominence; Rudy Giuliani, a rising-star prosecutor with an important decision to make; the NRA, which needed a poster boy for its transition from hunting club to political juggernaut; and Rupert Murdoch, whose new purchase, the New York Post, grew his empire by keeping a scary story in the headlines.A shocking account of a pivotal moment in our history, Five Bullets demonstrates why, in order to understand today’s debates about race, crime, safety, and the media, it’s imperative to reflect on what went down in the subway four decades ago. As Williams’s powerful narrative reveals, it was not just Goetz on trial, but the conscience of a nation.Elliot Williams is a CNN legal analyst and regular guest host on SiriusXM and WAMU, NPR’s Washington, DC, station. He has spent his career thinking about law, crime, and politics, serving as a federal prosecutor and later as a senior official at the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security. A Brooklyn-born son of Jamaican immigrants, he grew up in New Jersey and vividly recalls the powder keg that was 1980s New York. He now lives in Washington, DC, with his wife and two children.Williams is in conversation with Dana Bash. Dana Bash is CNN’s chief political correspondent, anchor of Inside Politics with Dana Bash weekdays at 12pmET, and co-anchor of State of the Union with Jake Tapper and Dana Bash, the network’s Sunday morning newsmaker show. Bash is an award-winning journalist who plays a key role in the network’s political coverage, conducting high-profile interviews with candidates, serving as an anchor for CNN’s Election Night in America special coverage and frequently moderating presidential debates and town hall specials. In 2024, she co-moderated CNN’s historic Presidential Debate between President Joe Biden and President Donald Trump. Bash won the Radio and Television Correspondents Association’s Joan S. Barone Award for her original reporting on a STOCK Act loophole that led Congress to pass legislation to close it. She is also a winner of the National Press Foundation’s Sol Taishoff Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism and a three-time recipient of the Foundation’s Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for Distinguished Reporting of Congress. Raised in New Jersey, Bash is a 2025 inductee into the New Jersey Hall of Fame.PURCHASE: https://politics-prose.com/book/9780593833704?ic_referral=NbsJsPimbCpfXD_yUK1OyGLR1o2NZYRTUjStgiDRcCMwM0WF9TEZsOJweS-SD4K5v4aVg0YgLedG7dDK1lH4c_EN1k1ShKmpEwNNfbjWhlxIUpZZH8Y8KLZ7l8CgIzsBwi_Pq3w

The acclaimed economist and author of The Future of Money argues that the forces meant to stabilize the world’s economy are in fact driving global instabilityGlobal economic power is shifting, liberal market-oriented democracies face growing domestic turmoil, and international trade and financial integration are crumbling. How did we get here?In The Doom Loop, economist Eswar Prasad argues that the very forces that we long believed could stabilize the world order are fueling its destabilization. Rather than promoting shared prosperity, globalization has instead deepened economic inequality, stoked political backlash, and prompted escalating trade wars. Institutions like the International Monetary Fund and World Trade Organization, founded to foster international cooperation, have failed to adapt to twenty-first-century realities. The rise of “middle power” countries like India, Brazil, and Indonesia once suggested a stable multipolar future, but today, such nations are increasingly forced to pick sides as the United States and China fight for global dominance.Prasad argues that we are caught in a destructive feedback loop between economics, domestic politics, and geopolitics. The Doom Loop offers a clear-eyed and bracing account of a world spiraling into disorder, and makes it clear that old solutions cannot pull us out—we need radical new solutions to fix the world’s problems. Eswar S. Prasad is the Tolani Senior Professor of Trade Policy at Cornell University and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of The Future of Money, which was listed among the best books of the year by The Economist, the Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, and The Week. Prasad lives in Arlington, Virginia, and Ithaca, New York.Prasad is in conversation with Binyamin Appelbaum, who is the lead writer on economics and business for the Editorial Board of The New York Times. From 2010 to 2019, he was a Washington correspondent for the Times. He is the author of "The Economists' Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets and the Fracture of Society."PURCHASE: https://politics-prose.com/book/9781541705937?ic_referral=jmLk6918blWCdNgnapneUxw9wMAqXq5_kco3SoSCz-swM0CtPL_GONdWBXtdyJ6YYhnRloMdX_XOzry9mrSsnvEfNoOvbBmSbiKki19h5fC1AkXs0Wc53jzoD7mMiNYnFbHA7aw

This event will be in partnership with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.Alice Gerrard, an award-winning and storied folk and bluegrass musician for over 50 years, is one of the notable few women in a heavily male genre. Custom Made Woman tells Gerrard's story through the music, the folk festivals, the kids, and the relationships--both personal and professional--that defined her storied life and career. Her collaborations with Appalachian singer Hazel Dickens during the 1960s and 1970s were pivotal recordings during the decades after the American folk music boom of the midcentury; the duo produced four albums that have recently been rereleased by Rounder Records and Smithsonian Folkways. In addition to Dickens, Gerrard has worked with folks like Tommy Jarrell, Enoch Rutherford, Otis Burris, Luther Davis, and Matokie Slaughter, and founded The Old-Time Herald, based in Durham, North Carolina, serving as its editor-in-chief from 1987 until 2003.She's also a lifelong documentarian of the folkways scene, and this book features nearly 100 rare photos--many never before seen--of key musicians, including Doc Watson, Bill Monroe, Hazel Dickens, Elizabeth Cotten, Mike Seeger, and more. In telling the story of her time as a player of traditional music, Gerrard gives us a deeply personal way to understand and appreciate a quintessentially American genre that has a long history and thrives to this day.Alice Gerrard is a Grammy-nominated old-time and bluegrass musician whose career has spanned nearly six decades.Gerrard is in conversation with Maureen Loughran, the Director and Curator of Smithsonian Folkways. A public ethnomusicologist by training, Maureen was the senior producer for the nationally broadcast public radio program American Routes in New Orleans, producing long-feature documentaries and segments on Woody Guthrie, Bessie Smith and John Coltrane, among others. As a researcher, she documented the sacred and secular music traditions of Baton Rouge for the Louisiana Folklife Program, while her doctoral research explored underground radio, soundscape gentrification and cultural community organizing in her hometown of Washington, D.C. Maureen holds a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from Brown University.The iconic first two albums by Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard, Who's That Knocking? and Won't You Come and Sing For Me were released by Folkways Records. Smithsonian Folkways has kept the duo's legacy alive, issuing  Pioneering Women Of Bluegrass (The Definitive Edition) in 2022. Find out more by visiting their website at folkways.si.edu.PURCHASE: https://politics-prose.com/book/9781469690360?ic_referral=rMIwMBlN5etSr2Bovnz8KdJXnjG6PFtWCokAJbz7OqowM0-34HNsQU0dp1VyVuCcRcBgB5V9kJEeOgdQhtFtZ_2Sp85juStqKU06BP0I2LuOjhRwkO0Tw2v-BRWPfgMhSbzVkMM

How did the son of a laundress for local brothels end up one of America’s most powerful politicians and the Senate’s most bare-knuckled Democrat? Political journalist Jon Ralston gives us the first full biography of Harry Reid, the five-time Senator from Nevada whose ruthlessness and tenacity produced the most groundbreaking legislation of the late 20th century, and who also invented the tactics that would keep his Democratic Party in control. For that, he inspired loyalty and derision, admiration and disdain. But his legacy of change speaks for itself.Born in tiny Searchlight, Nevada, Harry Reid rose from a childhood in a ramshackle home in the middle of nowhere to become the Democratic leader who ensured Obamacare became law, that the nation’s banks played by the rules, and who helped rescue the American economy by pushing through a stimulus bill.His political instincts were forged in the take-no-prisoners culture of Nevada where he was once investigated by the FBI for his ties to the mob. He persuaded a Republican senator to switch parties to gain partisan control, and he changed the Senate filibuster rules to save President Obama’s lower court nominees. That maneuver later helped Republicans to cement the appointments of three Supreme Court justices. Reid also became a formidable force in Nevada, building a political machine that turned a red state blue and left an unmatched legacy on infrastructure and the environment—including squelching a planned nuclear waste dump.In The Game Changer, Ralston shows the endurance of his accomplishments, but also his role in the enduring dysfunction of what was once called the world’s greatest deliberative body. It is a complicated portrait of a man who would not be denied.Jon Ralston is the founder and CEO of The Nevada Independent. He has been covering politics in Nevada for more than thirty-five years and has been a columnist at the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Las Vegas Sun, and most recently at the Reno Gazette-Journal, which he left in November 2016 to start The Indy. He has hosted several TV programs over the years, including Ralston Live on Vegas PBS and Ralston Reports on KSNV News 3. In 2012, Politico named Ralston one of the Top 50 “Politicos to Watch.” He frequently appears on MSNBC, and he has also appeared on NBC’s long-running Meet the Press. He lives in Las Vegas.Ralston is in conversation with Major Garrett, who is the Chief Washington Correspondent for CBS News and the CBSN radio host of The Takeout and The Debrief. For over thirty years, his award-winning reporting and writing has tackled the nation's pressing issues. Garrett is the author of four books, Mr. Trump's Wild Ride, The Enduring Revolution, The 15 Biggest Lies in Politics, and Common Cents with former Rep. Tim Penny (D-Minnesota). He lives in Washington, D.C.PURCHASE: https://politics-prose.com/book/9781982194413?ic_referral=3qee-uhvK5mMXw5GuaT_QNl7GdxKZtsU-WZMgzyLg8MwM4vLvBggPiVpq39z-3sLT-PtQ7xfdSJOKVWL1mNSm70lBc8Iyyy-j921iWKOxOtq6vW4MXf17kkeTNgCXRcKBZu-6XQ

A founder of the iconic band Faith No More shares his coming-of-age and out-of-the-closet story in pre–tech boom San FranciscoThe Royal We is a poetic survey of a time set in a magical city that once was and is no more. It is a memoir written by Roddy Bottum, a musician and artist, that documents his coming of age and out of the closet in 1980s San Francisco, a charged era of bicycle messengers, punk rock, street witches, wheatgrass, and rebellion. The book follows his travels from Los Angeles, growing up gay with no role models, to San Francisco, where he formed Faith No More and went on to tour the world relentlessly, surviving heroin addiction and the plight of AIDS, to become a queer icon.The book is an elevated wallop of tongue and insight, much more than a tell-all. There are personal encounters with public figures like Kurt and Courtney and Guns N’ Roses, and recaps of gold records and arena rock—but it’s the testimonies of tragedy and addiction and preposterous life-spins that make this work so unique and intriguing. Bottum writes about his dark and harrowing past in a clear-eyed voice that is utterly devoid of self-pity, and his emboldened and confident pronouncements of achievement and unorthodox heroism flow in an unstoppable train that’s both captivating and inspirational.Roddy Bottum is a musician, writer, creator, and actor based in New York City. He started the band Faith No More in San Francisco in the early 1980s and toured the world, selling millions of records. In 1992, he came out of the closet and blew open the spectrum of what being gay in the world of rock music meant. That same year he also formed the critically acclaimed band Imperial Teen, cited as the original pioneers of alternative queer rock. Bottum moved to New York City in 2010 and has performed and created records with Crickets, Nastie Band, and Man on Man, a band with his partner, Joey Holman. He is developing his Sasquatch opera project into a musical in New York City, where he continues to live.Bottum will be in conversation with Rich Morel, s a singer, songwriter, producer, and remixer with a knack for turning knobs and turning heads. Alongside his own genre-blurring releases, he’s collaborated with a wildly eclectic lineup that includes Cyndi Lauper, Pet Shop Boys, New Order, Depeche Mode, Yoko Ono, and Lily Allen. But Morel doesn’t just make music — he builds worlds. From the glam-soul theatrics of Too Much with Ian Svenonius, to the post-punk pulse of Deathfix with Fugazi’s Brendan Canty, to the burly boy’s favorite Blowoff with Bob Mould, his projects are as bold as they are boundary-breaking. In 2020, he dropped his first musical album, Struck, on Broadway Records — a theatrical pop fever dream featuring a cast that included the incomparable AlanCumming. Now based on the windswept coast of Delaware, Morel paints, composes, and conjures new magic with his husband, Handsome Doug, in their art-pop duo Who Killed Teddy Bear. The curtain’s never really down — it just shifts to the next actPURCHASE: https://politics-prose.com/book/9781636142692?ic_referral=tujJAoqzKH_4Yuk0tGufXmxb83YNtmGw2ex6OECvkAgwMy-aOQx7ZOXR2G_Gn109wBTycfkG5Ud6q5K6wr1EfHAMXnGv8UacDOmpfVyM3lFZZP8GMS_Op2YOjXDGqbgdd41QHBY

An authoritative history of the radical environmental movement in the United States, No Option But Sabotage explores how far activists are willing to go to defend the planet in the face of repression and the escalating climate crisis.After 9/11, the radical environmental movement was considered the number one domestic terror threat by the U.S. government. But by the end of the decade the movement had largely gone silent. What happened? And given the threat from climate, why haven't more radical tactics re-emerged?In No Option But Sabotage, Thomas Zeitzoff traces the origins, rise, fall, and potential rise again of the movement. Using in-depth interviews with past and current activists, as well as experts, Zeitzoff covers the main factions and actors. These include: Earth First! and its early advocacy for "monkeywrenching;" the "Unabomber" Ted Kaczynski and his years-long anti-technology bombing campaign; the connections between animal liberation, punk, and the emergence of the Earth Liberation Front and its arson campaign; and more recent climate activists and their use of disruptive tactics. Along with providing a comprehensive overview of the movement and its various sub-movements that emerged over time, Zeitzoff also asks the bigger question-given the scope and threat from climate change why haven't activists escalated their tactics? Property destruction, sabotage, and even arson were once regular features of the movement in the 1990s and early 2000s--will activists use them again, or will they stick to non-violence? Will the threat of increasing state repression scare activists, or radicalize them?Not just a history of a major extremist movement, this book tells the story of radical environmentalism and highlights how activists are confronting the dual threats of climate change and repression, and asking themselves how far they are willing to go to protect the planet.Thomas Zeitzoff is a professor in the School of Public Affairs at American University. His research focuses on political violence, social media, and political psychology. His work has appeared in Science Advances, American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, International Organization, Political Psychology, among other journals and he is the author of Nasty Politics: The Logic of Insults, Threats, and Incitement.Zeitzoff is in conversation with JJ Green, who is the National Security Correspondent at WTOP radio in Washington, DC. He reports daily on international security, intelligence, foreign policy, terrorism, and cyber developments and provides regular on-air analysis on both radio and TV. He is also the author of The Noise War: How to Fight Disinformation and Find the Truth When Everything Is Lying to You. He hosts Global with JJ Green on YouTube, and the weekly WTOP podcast Target USA, which examines the threats facing the US. He has been embedded with the US military three times in war zones. He’s travelled extensively across Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia, South America, and Africa. He’s the recipient of more than 50 local, regional, and national journalism awards, including the 2017 Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation Award for Distinguished Reporting on National Defense for his series “Anatomy of a Russian Attack.” He also received a National Edward R. Murrow Award in 2009 for his reporting aboard a Los Angeles-class nuclear-powered submarine. In 2023, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by Champlain College in Vermont for his international security reporting, writing, and analysis.PURCHASE: https://politics-prose.com/product/no-option-sabotage-radical-environmental-movement-and-climate-crisis-thomas-zeitzoff?v=2099995&ic_referral=2Z4mPfXpbJnTCnL4gchdYXtF4YqOvCu2ndeYBBmbF-gwM-lZPxVqYlvBaGwtEW8Ku4pDCFh_n8twdJ8Hb-X4LwFGhY6p-JKQkHQAZ76M_XWd1LJ2Q41UWQWmdmVFbeMPuiCWmqM

Award-winning photographer and journalist J. Lester Feder shows us The Queer Face of War in this first-ever visual and oral history of a queer community in war. This remarkable collection of stunning portraits and moving profiles captures the many ways queer people can be vulnerable in armed conflict—and the many ways they feel especially called to fight.In its siege of Ukraine, Russia forged a strategy that has since been adopted by authoritarian leaders around the world: attacking queer people to undermine fundamental principles of democracy and human rights. Vladimir Putin justified his war in part as a crusade to protect “traditional values” from the LGBTQ+ movement. Queer Ukrainians have been fighting back, demanding equal rights while defending their country. Queer Ukrainians have come out in unprecedented ways—as soldiers, humanitarian volunteers, refugees, and survivors of war crimes—speaking out and taking up arms to defend democracy.For LGBTQ+ people, visibility is power. The portraits and profiles in this book are rare because recent wars have been fought in places where it is unsafe to come out. At a moment when LGBTQ+ people are under attack worldwide, The Queer Face of War is a crucial record of queer history—and a powerful testament to resistance and resilience.J. Lester Feder is an American journalist of Ukrainian descent who has been reporting in and around Ukraine for more than a decade. Originally from the Washington area, he was the senior world correspondent covering LGBTQ+ rights for BuzzFeed News from 2013-2020, and he has been a senior fellow at the global LGBTQ+ human rights organization Outright International and the Human Rights and Gender Justice Clinic of the City University of New York. His honors include a Journalist of the Year Award from the Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists, a GLAAD Media Award, and a Feature Shoot Emerging Photography Award. His photos and writing have appeared in numerous other outlets including The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, and Vanity Fair.Feder is in conversation with Chris Geidner, an award-winning journalist who covers the Supreme Court, law and politics at Law Dork. His more than two decades in journalism includes widely recognized coverage of the courts, LGBTQ issues, the criminal legal system, and other complex legal and political questions. He previously worked as the Supreme Court correspondent and legal editor at BuzzFeed News and has written for The New York Times, MSNBC, Bolts, Grid, The Appeal, Metro Weekly and elsewhere.PURCHASE: https://politics-prose.com/book/9783987411991?ic_referral=CPMBZK_ZpumDh-kBZmMXTb6WVfm9TchdFPTe8DVkG2swMyOg-LDAGfWYSWmT9IAFfJf7TD1O7SZr8DhzxizX5oMs0t8-DvJtPVv6lhCQUwkcsp0YCjlMOnDABSyyFXdPqCfLBNc

This multilayered work follows a group of Guantanamo detainees from a single Middle Eastern country, Kuwait, portraying their lives before their capture, to their experience at Guantanamo, to their ultimate release and the lives they have been challenged in remaking after returning home. It is an intimate look at real men held for years without charge and without hope. Eric L. Lewis has represented Guantanamo detainees for more than twenty years and he conducted the hearings that gained the release of the last two Kuwaiti 'forever prisoners.' As part of a committed team, he spent time with these men and their families, fighting to gain access to courts and navigating the politics and diplomacy of the Global War on Terror. As well as telling the story of his time with the Guantanamo detainees, Lewis also analyzes how Guantanamo has changed American law and culture, and how its legacy continues today.Eric Lewis is a human rights lawyer, Chair of the law firm Lewis Baach Kaufmann Middlemiss, and President of Reprieve US. Mr. Lewis, along with Reprieve, has represented over seventy Guantanamo detainees, and oversees the Life After Guantanamo project for returned detainees. He holds degrees from Princeton, Yale and Cambridge.Lewis is in conversation with David Remnick, he has been the editor of The New Yorker since 1998 and before that was a staff writer for the magazine for six years. He was previously The Washington Post’s correspondent in the Soviet Union. He is the author of several books, including Holding the Note and King of the World, a biography of Muhammad Ali, named the top nonfiction book of the year by Time magazine in 1998, and Lenin’s Tomb, winner of the Pulitzer Prize.PURCHASE: https://politics-prose.com/book/9781009681377?ic_referral=qYepgsGtE2Utdczoc5XDnIkAZlVWzUaB6JhH1tSpew0wM2p4XMycfUqy56RMsyT6QeIi5-lPLyEiHIN42031ijNRLhY5wRGXbM_eaOTz_5RHY06zG0YRoFrp4_6Q1r9zFFsL4HY

The first-ever Black history to center queer voices, this landmark study traces the lives of LGBTQ+ Black Americans from slavery to present dayGender and sexual expression have always been part of the Black freedom struggleIn this latest book in Beacon’s award-winning ReVisioning History series, Professors C. Riley Snorton and Darius Bost unearth the often overlooked history of the Black queer community in the United States.Arguing that both gender and sexual expression have been an intimate and intricate part of Black freedom struggle, Snorton and Bost present historical contributions of Black queer, trans, and gender non-conforming Americans from slavery to the present day to highlight how the fight against racial injustice has always been linked to that of sexual and gender justice.Interweaving stories of queer and trans figures such as:Private William Cathay/Cathay Williams, born female but enlisted in the Army as a man in the mid-1860sJosephine Baker, internationally known dancer and entertainer of the early 20th century who was also openly bisexualBayard Rustin, prominent Civil Rights activist whose well known homosexuality was viewed as a potential threat to the movementAmanda Milan, a black trans woman whose murder in 2000 unified the trans people of color community,This book includes a deep dive into the marginalization, unjust criminalization, and government legislation of Black queer and trans existence. It also shows how Black Americans have played an integral role in the modern LGBTQ rights movement, countering narratives that have predominantly focused on white Americans.Through storytelling and other narratives, Snorton and Bost show how the Black queer community has always existed, regardless of the attempts to stamp it out, and how those in it continue to fight for their rightful place in the world.C. Riley Snorton is professor of English Language and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and the author of Nobody Is Supposed to Know: Black Sexuality on the Down Low and Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity, which won numerous awards, including the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction, the Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies from the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, and an honorable mention from the American Library Association Stonewall Book Award Committee.Darius Bost is associate professor of Black Studies and Gender & Women’s Studies at the University of Illinois-Chicago. Bost is the author of the award-winning book, Evidence of Being: The Black Gay Cultural Renaissance and The Politics of Violence (University of Chicago Press, 2019).PURCHASE: https://politics-prose.com/book/9780807008553?ic_referral=OTPmFtrQRGYrq4k_idzY9nY5DmvublKisA40UtuIMHgwMyaTE_lHxO1uSrOW0ScCydzJUogOnKA7NdU8fzQnbIWxSdE3QgZ2XSCYp_bHH0mK7CSQmyAJbSm-CD0lWFkiJfcVC3I

With style and straight talk, musician and changemaker Lachi flips disability and neurodivergence into an empowering identity, a cultural movement, and an innovation engineWhat if the most taboo parts of our identity—the parts we’re taught to mask—are exactly the ones that hold our greatest power? Lachi is an award-winning singer and leader who awakens the world to this truth: Disability has long shaped our culture and is an identity worth brazenly reclaiming. In this book, Lachi reveals why dropping the stigma is the ultimate glow-up, and inspires readers to celebrate the boldest parts of themselves.I Identify as Blind pulses with energy. Through magnetic storytelling and pop-culture deep dives, Lachi challenges mainstream views on disability and neurodivergence with humor and heart. Because visionaries with disabilities have always driven progress. The book features trailblazing figures like Senator Tammy Duckworth, Breaking Bad star RJ Mitte, Microsoft executive Jenny Lay-Flurrie, and so many more. Lachi even takes readers behind the scenes at Coldplay concerts, since after Chris Martin developed tinnitus, he transformed his concerts into some of the most accessible in the world. Each story reframes disability not as a deficit but as a wellspring of collective strength. And inventions created for people with disabilities benefit everyone—from audiobooks to curb cuts to the internet. (Vint Cerf helped develop the first commercial email service, because he had trouble communicating by phone.)With punchy humor and radical honesty, Lachi dismantles stereotypes and builds a new narrative of Disability identity. I Identify as Blind is just what the world needs right now: an invitation to a cultural movement that celebrates disabilities as a source of power and pride.Come for the laughs, stay for the mic drops.Lachi is an award-winning recording artist, producer of a Grammy-nominated album, public speaker, and the first openly disabled National Trustee of the Recording Academy. She is the CEO of RAMPD (Recording Artists and Music Professionals with Disabilities), which has partnered with Netflix and Live Nation. Named a USA Today Woman of the Year and a “dedicated foot soldier for disability pride” by Forbes, Lachi hosted the PBS American Masters series Renegades, has appeared on Good Morning America, and she has spoken at The White House. She lives in New York City.Lachi is in conversation with Maria Town, the President and CEO of the American Association of People with Disabilities. In this role, she works to increase the political and economic power of people with disabilities. Town previously served as Director of the City of Houston Mayor’s Office for People with Disabilities, advocating for citizens with disabilities. Town also was the Senior Associate Director in the Obama White House Office of Public Engagement, managing disability community engagement and coordinating federal engagement. Town has expertise in areas of youth development, leadership, and promoting college and career readiness.PURCHASE: https://politics-prose.com/book/9780593851579?ic_referral=STCzzES-CDTWN0KXgg5sVNPUZZ_8nwMDpQS11lKusJQwMx7rn-M7N_cr6pJJyNmush4U-xDeCh5BHA4-8zhVPLMkrfwf3V5GTHIC6_8iTCQFe_pIp1ItqXGTAMVjsvAz37verL0

Pulitzer Prize–winning former Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson tells our nation’s torturous racial history through his own family’s story, starting with his great-grandfather’s freedom from slavery and threading his way to his own narrative and reaching today’s Black Lives Matter movement, asking whether this time will be different.On March 27, 1829, a wealthy white planter and entrepreneur named Richard Fordham purchased four enslaved African Americans from a woman named Isabella Perman. One of them was journalist Eugene Robinson’s great-great-grandfather, a boy called Harry.Starting from this transaction, which took place in Charleston, South Carolina, Freedom Lost, Freedom Won brings to life 200 years of our nation’s history through the eyes of the remarkable family that Harry founded. Assigned a formal name—Henry Fordham—and put to work as a blacksmith, he achieved his own freedom a decade before the Civil War. He was there when victorious Union troops marched into Charleston in 1865, ending slavery and guaranteeing liberty for Black people—only on paper, though, and only for a time.Robinson traces the arc of his familial lineage through the repeated cycles in which African Americans have fought their way upward toward freedom and opportunity, been forced back down again, and renewed their determined climb.From his great-great-grandfather’s achievement in becoming a “free person of color” before emancipation to his great-grandfather’s Reconstruction-era success, from his father’s odyssey of the Great Migration to his own coming-of-age during the civil rights movement, Robinson delves into a rich archive of Black narratives, arguing that we still have a long way to go before it is possible to speak of a “post-racial America.”Setting his extensive research within the larger historical context, Robinson provides both an indictment of structural racism and an illustration of how it has been fought and, at times, courageously overcome. Freedom Lost, Freedom Won tells our country’s tortuous racial history through Robinson’s family’s story of struggle and survival, pushing us to consider how far the nation has come—willingly or not—and how far it still has to go.Eugene Robinson is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American journalist, former columnist, and associate editor of The Washington Post, author, and political analyst. His prior positions included foreign editor, London correspondent, and South American correspondent. Born in Orangeburg, South Carolina, he graduated from the University of Michigan and worked at the San Francisco Chronicle before joining The Washington Post.PURCHASE: https://politics-prose.com/book/9781982176716?ic_referral=CnxLnhEfqJQ1PQweggc8p7zcxsRBx3gZi4hdVcjQ78UwMyCJwgxfzBHAzQYi19N1dkDxyAWA7f1CdZ-UfTq2b2Q757fF6eH5xLL0_1PzJecY2wKxhNCfEitwsE3U7x8BU8zoC8c

For readers of Annette Gordon-Reed and Nikole Hannah-Jones, the shocking untold story of the British royal family’s centuries-long investment in slavery and continued profiting off its legacy—from Elizabeth I to the present—and the monarchy’s culpability in the racial injustice that gave birth to the United States.  For centuries, Britain has told itself and the world that it is an abolitionist nation, one that, unlike the United States, rejected human bondage and dismantled its Atlantic slave empire without tearing itself apart in violence. An abolitionist nation headed by a just, humane monarch who liberated enslaved Africans and recognized their descendants as free and equal subjects of the British Crown. As Prince William put it recently, “We’re very much not a racist family.” When slaveholding nations write their collective history, the enslavers hold the pen.Now, acclaimed historian Brooke Newman reveals the true story: the enslavers were supported by members of the royal family. From the 1560s to 1807, the British monarchy invested in the transatlantic slave trade and built a slave empire in colonial America and the Caribbean, with the labor of millions of enslaved Africans who would see none of its riches. It profited from African slave trading and hereditary bondage, setting the stage for other colonial powers to develop brutal slave systems that remained legal long after full emancipation in the British Empire in 1838. The scars of this history remain visible the world over, from economic inequality and educational and health disparities to racial discrimination and prejudice. Still, Crown officials continue to insist the legacies of slavery “belong to the past.” Newman focuses not on portraits of British monarchs but on their actions and investments that led to the rise and fall of the transatlantic slave trade and colonial slavery, and on some of the people whose lives it took, placing the struggles and sacrifices of innumerable individuals of African origin and ancestry at the center of Britain’s story.Brooke N. Newman is an award-winning historian at Virginia Commonwealth University and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Her previous book, A Dark Inheritance: Blood, Race, and Sex in Colonial Jamaica, was a finalist for the Frederick Douglass Book Prize. She has received fellowships from MacDowell, the American Philosophical Society, the Eccles Centre at the British Library, the Gilder Lehrman Center, and many others. Her essays have appeared in Slate, The Washington Post, The Guardian, and others, and her research has been featured in such outlets as the BBC, NPR, Vox, and Smithsonian Magazine. She lives in Richmond, Virginia.Newman is in conversation with Cassandra Good, the author of First Family: George Washington's Heirs and the Making of America. The book was a finalist for the George Washington Prize and the Library of Virginia Reader's Choice Award. She is also the author of Founding Friendships: Friendships Between Men and Women in the Early American Republic, and author and narrator of two Audible/The Great Courses programs, America's Founding Women and Early American Sex Scandals. Good teaches at Marymount University in Arlington, VA.PURCHASE : https://politics-prose.com/book/9780063290976?ic_referral=ofCoF4Vc9nnqGrGmkDzyGJHTDUIB13n1kDWXMgd4M80wM9e6DqLGvQZe8JmGfPzZkLT0fapUq0E2iMgtZ7Tbd8_lJkz9JPZvNisgwA2quUcI5My4yLd7qnQs44LtIYM7HmnONaU

A big-hearted, wise, unceasingly buoyant novel about a woman who, after escaping a bruising marriage, theorizes that happiness is possible solely with the eradication of all romance--only to find a love that could change her life foreverSylvie Broder was taught early to embrace joy. The granddaughter of Holocaust survivors whose greatest priority was enjoying the life they'd snatched back from Hitler, Sylvie believes in the tenacious pursuit of pleasure—yet, somehow, finds herself trapped in a suffocating, emotionally abusive marriage. With enormous fortitude, Sylvie frees herself and turns to graduate school, where she develops a new philosophy: Straight women will find true liberation and happiness only once romance is eradicated.Now, Sylvie prides herself in separating sex from tenderness—having fun with men, but never committing to one. Then she meets Robbie and Abie, and finds her philosophy sorely tested. A warm and gentle man, Robbie treats Sylvie with patience and enormous kindness, offering her comfort she hasn't had since childhood. Abie is passionate and dynamic, a man who challenges Sylvie, and with whom she finds herself constantly disarmed. With both men, she feels a deep desire that looks, worryingly, a lot like love.Cleverly constructed, delightfully funny, and beautifully written, The End of Romance is an anti-romance romance novel that charts its fallible heroine's tumultuous journey to love and happiness with erudition and deep feeling—a story for anyone who, despite their very best efforts, has fallen in love, and wondered why.Lily Meyer is a translator, a critic, and the author of the novel Short War. She is also a contributing writer at The Atlantic. Her stories and translations can be found in The Dial, The Drift, The Sewanee Review, The Southern Review, and many other journals, and her essays and criticism appear in outlets including Bookforum, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Book Review.Meyer is in conversation will Hillary Kelly, literary critic and essayist. PURCHASE: https://politics-prose.com/book/9780593835142?ic_referral=Zw54v2jZhGeRClo4c7RPClsB6sN274OGZj7a6LJx-mQwM282yw4Q7-e4haHp8VutlCJgN_gfFEoZdCBFQRyVaU27cttKeh-GHU96LBqdEh4f0sIi_o3vHVlPq5jq_b_ZISdN5-s

From the Oscar-nominated filmmaker comes a complex and sweeping historical novel about Henry Ford — the Elon Musk of his day, in more ways than one — and his attempt to rule not only an automotive empire but the rambunctious city of Detroit. It is an epic tale ranging from the 1920s through the second World War, featuring violent labor disputes, misbegotten jungle expeditions, a tragic race riot, and the gestapo tactics of Ford’s private army . . .Already the gateway for illegal Canadian liquor during Prohibition, the Motor City becomes a crucible for America class conflict during the Great Depression, an army of laid off Ford workers drifting into the ranks of the burgeoning union movement — Henry Ford's worst nightmare.  To keep the hundreds of thousands still employed by him in thrall, the man who was formerly 'America's favorite tycoon' recruits black laborers migrating from the deep South to serve as 'strike insurance', and gives Harry Bennett, pugnacious as he is diminutive, free reign over the legion of barroom brawlers and ex-cons who make up the company’s 'Security Department'.The Model T mogul has also bought a sizable chunk of Brazil's Amazonian rainforest, vowing to grow his own rubber for tires, but stubbornly refusing to include a botanist in his troop of would-be jungle tamers. As a series of biological plagues descend on the Fordlandia plantation, the racial melting pot he has created in Detroit begins to boil over, and not even the Sage of Dearborn can control the forces that have been unleashed.The novel's cast — Ford workers black and white and their families, young radicals, cynical newsmen, gangsters, Brazilian rubber tappers, cameos from boxer Joe Louis and muralist Diego Rivera — create the tapestry of differing points of view that John Sayles has become famous for, the events portrayed fundamental to the country we live in today.John Sayles is an independent filmmaker, screenwriter, actor, and novelist. He has twice been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, and once for the National Book Award. He has written eight novels, including, most recently, Jamie MacGillivray and To Save the Man.PURCHASE: https://politics-prose.com/book/9781685892272?ic_referral=XRvA5lYVMbsdaBxtolVTva7bXCmGSAe4AF1mKEd8V6owMybIcKs2FtCkjGqnrMGs1gdIsOrAcVFzbKLgRbVxWy_3fYKkjEtNr-9ZnDf2S9N-a--wjwlz32DOTOAMpp9tWN6bD_4

NPR investigative journalist and the daughter of a Tuskegee Airman, Cheryl W. Thompson explores the stories of the 27 Tuskegee Airmen – the Black pilots who fought for America in WWII – who went missing in combat, the lives they lived, the reasons their planes went down, why the remains of all but two were never found, and the impact their disappearances had on their families and communities.In 1945, World War II ended one of the deadliest conflicts in history. Geared for battle were nearly 1,000 trailblazing Black pilots trained at the Tuskegee Army Air Field, an unrepentantly segregated facility in Alabama. Hailing from the Iowa cornfields to the Texas Gulf Coast to the tobacco plantations of North Carolina, the Tuskegee Airmen already proved, under the toughest circumstances, to be among the most resilient and defiantly patriotic men of the Army Air Corps.27 of them disappeared during the final critical missions in Europe. So, too, would the government’s efforts to find them or help to bring closure to the loved ones that the valiant 332nd Fighter Group left behind.In Forgotten Souls, award-winning investigative journalist Cheryl W. Thompson delves into the true stories of the Black combat pilots who faced unimaginable racism—before, during and after the war—from a military that told them they were less than, even as their courage and aviation prowess saved scores of White brothers-in-arms from the enemy and possibly death.As cruel as war itself could be, the friends, family, communities and fellow Tuskegee Airmen who mourned the lost pilots never imagined how unforgivable it could get. After 80 years, Forgotten Souls honors the impact they made, and the sacrifices they endured on America’s behalf.Cheryl W. Thompson is an award-winning investigative reporter for National Public Radio, an associate professor of journalism at George Washington University, and author of Forgotten Souls: The Search for the Lost Tuskegee Airmen. She is the recipient of more than 40 journalism awards, including an Emmy and 5 National Headliners, and served as reporting coach for the Pulitzer Prize-winning NPR podcast No Compromise. During more than 20 years as a reporter for The Washington Post, she was part of teams that won two Pulitzer Prizes for national reporting. She served as a Pulitzer Prize juror for the Investigative Reporting category in 2022 and chaired the jury in 2023. She is a member of the National Association of Black Journalists, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., and Investigative Reporters and Editors, where she was elected the first Black president in 2018 and served an unprecedented three terms. She is also a founding and current board member of the Center for Collaborative Investigative Journalism and a member of the advisory board for the Fund for Investigative Journalism. She is currently a member of the National Press Foundation Board and the Spotlight DC Board, and a two-time graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The daughter of a Tuskegee Airman, she is a Chicago native who lives outside Washington, DC, and can be found online at CherylWThompson.com.Thompson is in conversation with Leonard Downie Jr., who was the Executive Editor of the Washington Post. Downie has spent his entire journalistic career at the paper, where he started as a summer intern reporter in 1965. He soon became a prize-winning investigative reporter on the paper's Metro desk. In 1974, when he was Assistant Managing Editor for Metropolitan News, Downie oversaw the paper's Watergate coverage. PURCHASE: https://politics-prose.com/book/9781496750778?ic_referral=Ic6RZ2HQu6YqBZvMES5-icOKC3TjJ-7bXIXKpFF455AwMznekkPZl2pdCs9VuhmYcFqLCsJc07_lkpGVaPNe_H85BNLx7ZLfgvdFec59XIEn8pnxX11BbRa6f8PHod2G6JU-C6Y

The real succession story of the Murdoch empire is more shocking than the fictional TV series.When Rupert Murdoch made a fateful decision about who should inherit his media colossus, he believed that pitting his children against each other would produce the most capable heir. Twenty-five years later, that gamble would tear apart one of the world’s most powerful families and trigger a multi-billion dollar reckoning in a succession battle featuring betrayals, lawsuits, and revenge plots.In Bonfire of the Murdochs, bestselling author Gabriel Sherman tells the inside story of this epic family war, one whose seeds were planted a half-century ago in Australia when the complicated patriarch left his homeland to conquer the world and please the ghost of his judgmental father. That quest culminated in a media empire that controlled Fox News, The Wall Street Journal, and tabloids on three continents, which wielded more political and cultural power than any single company in modern times.But Rupert’s plan to rip up the secret trust controlling his empire and anoint his conservative firstborn son Lachlan as successor set him on a collision course with his three more liberal children What price would Rupert pay to secure his legacy? For the aging patriarch, this would be his final and most personal deal.Based on interviews with more than 150 sources, Bonfire of the Murdochs is a richly textured narrative where each child plays their predestined role in a blood feud that explodes in a courtroom showdown. There, Murdoch’s children weaponize his own secrets against him. It is a tragedy Shakespeare would have appreciated, where getting everything you want costs everything you love.Gabriel Sherman is an award-winning journalist and screenwriter. He has been covering the Murdochs since 2008. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Loudest Voice in the Room about the late Fox News CEO Roger Ailes. He is the screenwriter of the twice Oscar-nominated film The Apprentice and has covered national politics for New York magazine and Vanity Fair. He lives in London with his wife, son, and daughter plus their dog and cat.Sherman is in conversation with Julia Ioffe, a Russian-born American journalist. Her articles have appeared in the Washington Post, the New York Times, the New Yorker, Foreign Policy, Forbes, Bloomberg Businessweek, The New Republic, Politico, and The Atlantic. Ioffe has appeared on television programs on MSNBC, CBS, PBS, and other news channels as a Russia expert. She is a founding partner and Washington correspondent at Puck.PURCHASE: https://politics-prose.com/book/9781982167417?ic_referral=OXQ8zQFntGd_6J66ZFXFobpeeiRp0xM5urgxKcA_0qUwM8lMXuWIVK_W9WUBdIjiy0WG7-raxp7uYsKriOcfdSmv7MnLfMVUxA6rlYMF0_IjG26CizM1gMgWhGm7SOZGmPYVL1k

From a seasoned political journalist, an eye-opening examination of Tucker Carlson’s rise through conservative media and politics, and his ideological transformation over the past thirty years, tracking the concurrent shifts in the political and media landscapes which have both influenced and succumbed to the hyperpartisan politics of today.To many, Tucker Carlson is synonymous with modern conservative politics. Carlson has been present on our screens for almost three decades and is as infamous for his bow tie as he is for his increasingly extreme right-wing views. But those who knew Carlson in his earlier days in political journalism remember a very different man—a serious and gifted writer and commentator who enjoyed debating with liberal friends and calling out conservative failures in equal measure. Now after watching Carlson turn away from measured reporting, while simultaneously gaining unparalleled power in Donald Trump’s Republican Party, most are left asking, What the hell happened to Tucker? New York Times Magazine writer Jason Zengerle’s rich and evocative character study of Carlson tells the story of how the former Fox News talking head rose through the ranks of conservative media, from his early days as a young writer at The Weekly Standard to his current perch as one of the most powerful voices in right-wing politics. Through deep reporting and a sweeping view of the political and media landscapes over the past thirty years, Zengerle reveals how Carlson’s career offers a unique lens into the radical transformation of American conservatism and, just as importantly, the media that covers and ultimately shapes it. As conservative news outlets fight daily over who can report the most disreputable stories, and clicks and views take precedence over facts and substance, Carlson’s evolution tells the larger story of how the right has radicalized and taken the media with it.Jason Zengerle is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine. He previously was the political correspondent for GQ, a contributing editor for New York Magazine, and a senior editor for The New Republic and has written for The Atlantic, Slate, Politico, and numerous other publications. His book Hated By All The Right People: Tucker Carlson and the Unraveling of the Conservative Mind publishes January 27 from Crooked Media Reads / Zando.Zengerle is in conversation with Jonathan Martin, the politics bureau chief and senior political columnist at POLITICO, where he writes a reported column.  Prior to starting his column in 2022, Martin was the national political correspondent for The New York Times.  Covering elections in all 50 states, he served as the publication’s top political reporter for nearly a decade.  He is the co-author This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America’s Future, which spent three weeks on The New York Times best-seller list and gave readers in-the-room access to the extraordinary events of the 2020 election and its aftermath.  Martin is a contributor to NBC's "Meet the Press."  He and his wife, Betsy, live in Washington and New Orleans.PURCHASE:https://politics-prose.com/book/9781638932932?ic_referral=fuMM0AkD5VgJPkcaERVK7_KXK9kSR8Mk04dOFnM7Gt0wM2DrUf4Uhc3cjHPv_7EYFSEd1TE4voh1YczjaN5hspr6iSh-5uBtj8qM-lcixz-e27oVevC0qVqN0KDv5Eueq90uqJY

A propulsive debut novel following a has-been reality TV star and a disgraced producer who get one last shot at redemption on a show set on a remote island, only to discover that the plot twists are beyond what they ever imagined.Everyone gets the story arc they deserve.Kent Duvall, a faded reality show winner, just wants another chance at glory—to find his way out of his depressing life and back to his highlight reel. When a scandal is captured on camera at a charity event, he gets his shot, on a new jungle survival show with seven other contestants. Each of them has been cast as a type—Ruddy the bully, Miriam the nerd, Ashley the love interest—but everyone is more than they appear. The contestants’ goals seem simple—survive the wild, build a raft, win treasure. But Beck Bermann, a reality producer who suffered her own public shaming, sees them as characters in her redemption arc.As the schemes and strategies spiral out, breakout camps sabotage each other and rival producers struggle to control the storyline. Soon the question becomes less about who will win than who will make it out in one piece.Stephen Fishbach is a Pushcart Prize–winning writer and former television executive. A two-time Survivor contestant (voted onto the show the second time by more than ten million fans), he’s worked on the network side as a vice president at MTV and freelanced for a reality producers’ trade group. He cohosts a weekly Survivor podcast as well as the literary podcast Paraphrase. Stephen graduated with honors from Yale and received an MFA in fiction at NYU. In 2009 he was named one of People magazine’s hottest bachelors. His short story “To Sharks”—an excerpt from Escape!—was published by One Story and garnered Stephen the Pushcart Prize. He lives in Washington, DC, with his wife and two daughters.Fishbach is in conversation with Dalton Ross, an Editorial Director at Entertainment Weekly, where he has covered all things pop culture for over 26 years. He has written several weekly columns for the magazine, including “What to Watch,” “The Hit List,” “Ask Dalton,” and a back page column titled "The Glutton" that alternated in a rotation along with writers Stephen King and Mark Harris. In addition to writing and editing for EW, Ross also hosted a daily morning radio show on SiriusXM for eight years titled EW Live, and has appeared on TV shows such as American Idol, The View, The Talking Dead, NBC’s TODAY, ABC’s Good Morning America, and CBS This Morning, as well as MTV, ESPN, VH1, Bravo, AMC, Fox News, and CNBC.  PURCHASE: https://politics-prose.com/book/9798217048151?ic_referral=ffE3Wc2r9VZWmgaUrkipP8T83oI_YGOfrNqYy-_1VLkwMzAax1JkgcNdVSW4Fe9g_aieuXUWBO8Eup4pQJbJgpzgUDmptETsSKArmpfxerzQFtEXKh2FU1-rBwv4Ug-lZfKnNDo

As the first volume in the new series Art &, this book signals a bold new vision for a more dynamic study of artEach essay in this groundbreaking volume—the first in an exciting new series from the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts—engages aesthetic and cultural debates that situate research on the arts at the intersection of various disciplines, including architecture, film, literature, curatorial and museum studies, and the arts of performance. Reflecting the series’ goal to engage with different cultural contexts and time periods, newly commissioned essays from emerging and established scholars address subjects ranging from medieval dance and ancient Assyrian reliefs to expressions of gender embodiment and the art of the Afro-Atlantic. First-person narratives ground theoretical considerations of the theme. Reflecting a commitment to embracing the book form as a space for art itself, the book includes a detachable accordion-fold insert with a work from Miami-based artist Glexis Novoa. One of his signature horizon lines unites Washington, DC, and the artist’s native Havana. Meticulous drawings executed on travertine marble entangle the two cities and their monuments, symbolizing both violent and triumphant histories and their ideological reversals.Lisa Gail Collins is professor of art on the Sarah Gibson Blanding Chair and director of the American studies program at Vassar College. She received her BA in art history from Dartmouth College and her PhD in American studies from University of Minnesota. Her latest book, Stitching Love and Loss: A Gee’s Bend Quilt—a meditation on suffering, creativity, resilience, and grace—was recently published by University of Washington Press.Glexis Novoa was a key participant in the vibrant art scene known as the renaissance of Cuban art in the 1980s. He was the founder of the Grupo Provisional, a pioneer of performance, political activism, and collectivist practices. Residing in Miami since 1995, Novoa is recognized for his site-specific wall drawings, which exist on the border between ephemeral art and architecture.Collins and Novoa are in conversation with Kaira M. Cabañas, associate dean for academic programs and publications at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (the Center) at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. She is the author of multiple volumes, including Immanent Vitalities: Meaning and Materiality in Modern and Contemporary Art (2021) and Learning from Madness: Brazilian Modernism and Global Contemporary Art (2018).PURCHASE:https://politics-prose.com/product/art-histories?v=1945890&ic_referral=Y0j62qs9sOGV37K1pIe0N9lHhsq5ttWTaZJG9OGmfCowM8OdfQb5XGDs6ff16N7317Fxa7hV0R1uzT-jvYC54w3IQiPyhVQiDHtI04cPQK-I2IDNrZTU24nzl2rIkfnUqAgjEDs

Since 1925, the Library of Congress has presented one of the most prestigious and innovative concert series in the United States. Philanthropist Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge founded the series with the purpose of sharing music of the highest caliber with the American people. Her vision was clear: concerts would be free and open to all, the finest touring artists and ensembles would appear, and both traditional and new repertoire would be performed.The Library's Coolidge Auditorium, renowned for its sublime acoustics, has hosted the world premiere of Martha Graham and Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring, (1944), residencies by the likes of Rosanne Cash and John Adams, and the 2023 Salute to Strayhorn festival marking the arrival of the jazz legend's collection at the Library. Among the more than 700 new works commissioned by the Library of Congress are compositions by stalwarts of twentieth century music, such as Igor Stravinsky and Arnold Schoenberg, and newer voices including George Walker and Tania Le n.Let the People Hear It: Concerts from the Library of Congress at 100 shares the history of this remarkable series through the people, music, and collections that have inspired countless listeners. Photographs, historical documents, and unique music manuscripts demonstrate how the concert series enriched and preserved America's musical, dance, and theater heritage, all while fostering a community of music lovers.Nicholas A. Brown-Cáceres is acting chief of the Library of Congress's Music Division. He previously served in senior leadership roles at the Prince George's County Memorial Library System and Washington Performing Arts and he is a former Army bandsman.Dr. David H. Plylar is a music specialist and concert producer at the Library of Congress. He is also a composer and pianist who writes about music.PURCHASE:https://politics-prose.com/book/9780844495941?ic_referral=73m1eSRR_nobz-dWPGdDy9YCBghDSVZo8TOHzhTlQMswM2tWThoR1odYj-DpNqDt0fRllbDhnJ4aw9CSRggCA5A-3jPlM_v5689ZeJnX56nITrnudrZnJ8wJaZOlh9VhSp7zoc4