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just out in paperback
Two of my favorite books from last year have just been issued in paperback.
SAVAGE PEACE - HOPE AND FEAR IN AMERICA 1919 (Simon&Schuster) by Ann Hagedorn is a book that will give you an entirely different perspective of history. In 1919 the First World War had just ended. America was in turmoil. Black veterans returning from the battlefields of France were being lynched. The young future FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover was wiretapping American telephones. In northern Russia the US Army was bogged down in a forgotten war. Sound familiar? I didn’t think so. Hagedorn, a Dayton native who now resides in Ripley, Ohio has written a powerful history of a year that should not be forgotten.
THE MINISTRY OF SPECIAL CASES(Vintage) by Nathan Englander. Set during Argentina’s dirty war, this searing novel depicts the heartbreak experienced by a family after their son is abducted and absorbed into the Argentine security state. His crime? Possessing forbidden books. Chilling.
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April 10, 2008 1:50 PM | Link to this
After reading your review of Savage Peace, I wandered into one of the last few independent book stores in Des Moines intending to purchase same. The wonderful lady behind the counter asked if she could help me find anything. Realizing I’d forgotten both the author and title, I asked if she would link to your blog. She did so happily and ordered it for me. She asked if I knew you, and was delighted to learn you once lived here. You now have a new admirer. She spent the remainder of my visit reading your reviews, and commented aloud about how well you “see what the writer communicates.”Just thought you’d like to know you have many fans back here in Iowa.