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How to be an Antiracist
by Ibram X. Kendi
A best-selling author, National Book Award-winner and professor combines ethics, history, law and science with a personal narrative to describe how to move beyond the awareness of racism and contribute to making society just and equitable.
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| The Women With Silver Wings: The Inspiring True Story of the Women Airforce Service... by Katherine Sharp LanddeckDoing their part: After the attack on Pearl Harbor, more than 1,000 American women joined the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) program, where they learned to fly planes big and small.
Author alert: Texas Woman's University history professor Katherine Sharp Landdeck imbues her engaging and richly detailed narrative with insights gleaned from her own experiences as a licensed pilot.
For fans of: Liza Mundy's Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II. |
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White Flights : Race, Fiction, and the American Imagination
by Jess Row
Examines the concept of “whiteness” in American fiction by comparing :”white flight” into suburbs or gentrified downtowns to white writers who set their stories in isolated of emotionally insulated landscapes, including Don DeLillo, Annie Dillard and David Foster Wallace.
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| The General vs. the President: MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War by H.W. BrandsWhat it's about: how President Harry Truman and General Douglas MacArthur's differing approaches to foreign policy at the outset of the Korean War led to Truman's ousting of MacArthur in 1951.
Read it for: a balanced and engaging view of the conflict.
Reviewers say: "the definitive history of a half-forgotten yet bitter controversy" (Publishers Weekly). |
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| King of Spies: The Dark Reign of an American Spymaster by Blaine HardenWhat it's about: After World War II, American motor pool sergeant Donald Nichols was plucked from obscurity to oversee intelligence operations during the Korean War.
What happened next: Because Nichols had close ties to the pro-American South Korean President Syngman Rhee, the U.S. government overlooked what Nichols deemed his "legal license to murder," as well as his predatory sexual behavior.
Is it for you? This chilling study of a disgraced figure frankly addresses American misconduct during the Korean War. |
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| Sgt. Reckless: America's War Horse by Robin HuttonStarring: Mongolian mare Staff Sergeant Reckless, who served as a pack horse for the 5th Marine Regiment during the Korean War.
Read it for: an engaging and impassioned tribute to the courageous "pride of the Marines."
Did you know? Reckless received two Purple Hearts for her accomplishments; in 2013, a statue of her was dedicated at the National Museum of the Marine Corps in Quantico, Virginia. |
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| Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice by Adam MakosWhat it is: an inspiring story of wartime camaraderie that reads like a novel.
Featuring: Jesse Brown, the U.S. Navy's first African American pilot; friend and fellow Fighter Squadron 32 pilot Tom Hudner, who risked his life to save Brown after the latter was shot down in battle.
For fans of: Laura Hillenbrand's Unbroken. |
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| On Desperate Ground: The Marines at the Reservoir, the Korean War's Greatest Battle by Hampton SidesWhat it's about: the harrowing 17-day battle between 30,000 American Marines and 120,000 Chinese soldiers at North Korea's frigid Chosin Reservoir in the winter of 1950.
Why you might like it: This fast-paced you-are-there account will appeal to readers looking for an accessible introduction to the conflict.
Reviewers say: "a masterpiece of storytelling about a war that is often given short shrift in American history" (Booklist). |
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