edited by Andrew Tisch & Mary Skafidas ‧ RELEASE DATE: July 3, 2018
More than 70 voices combine to create a powerful chorus singing a hymn of hope and gratitude.
A collection of pieces by immigrants in America (and some by their descendants), essays that coalesce to counter the narrative of fear offered by the loud anti-immigrant voices throughout the country.
The editors (also contributors) are both executives with the Loews Corporation. Divided into 10 sections, the text comprises the recollections and ruminations of a wide array of people with diverse personal histories from all over the world. Some contributors are well-known—e.g., Cory Booker, Michael Bloomberg, Barbara Boxer, Dr. Mehmet Oz, Tony Bennett, Marlo Thomas—while others are simply human beings whose stories feature events that are harrowing, inspiring, comforting, and sometimes depressing and shocking. Near the end are some contributions by representatives of a few institutions that help immigrants, including the American Ballet Theatre and the New-York Historical Society. There is even space for readers to write their own stories and a website to which to submit them. What emerges? Repeatedly the essayists write about the importance of education: For some, it was why they came here; for others, it became salvation once they arrived. Equally important is family. We read stories of families separated and reunited, of families who struggled here in poverty but worked hard and changed their lives. But the overwhelming message is clear: “Give us a chance.” These words, in various forms, come from Jews who escaped the Holocaust and the Soviet Union, from those fleeing poverty and hopelessness on just about every continent as well as religious and/or political persecution. Several evoke the lines from the Statue of Liberty: “Give me your tired, your poor.” Not everyone here is a writer—there are few impressive verbal displays—the power here resides in the lives, not necessarily the words. Other notable contributors include Nancy Pelosi, Gabrielle Giffords, and Wes Moore.
More than 70 voices combine to create a powerful chorus singing a hymn of hope and gratitude.Pub Date: July 3, 2018
ISBN: 978-1-948122-01-6
Page Count: 360
Publisher: RosettaBooks
Review Posted Online: May 5, 2018
Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 1, 2018
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by David Grann ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 18, 2017
Dogged original research and superb narrative skills come together in this gripping account of pitiless evil.
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Greed, depravity, and serial murder in 1920s Oklahoma.
During that time, enrolled members of the Osage Indian nation were among the wealthiest people per capita in the world. The rich oil fields beneath their reservation brought millions of dollars into the tribe annually, distributed to tribal members holding "headrights" that could not be bought or sold but only inherited. This vast wealth attracted the attention of unscrupulous whites who found ways to divert it to themselves by marrying Osage women or by having Osage declared legally incompetent so the whites could fleece them through the administration of their estates. For some, however, these deceptive tactics were not enough, and a plague of violent death—by shooting, poison, orchestrated automobile accident, and bombing—began to decimate the Osage in what they came to call the "Reign of Terror." Corrupt and incompetent law enforcement and judicial systems ensured that the perpetrators were never found or punished until the young J. Edgar Hoover saw cracking these cases as a means of burnishing the reputation of the newly professionalized FBI. Bestselling New Yorker staff writer Grann (The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession, 2010, etc.) follows Special Agent Tom White and his assistants as they track the killers of one extended Osage family through a closed local culture of greed, bigotry, and lies in pursuit of protection for the survivors and justice for the dead. But he doesn't stop there; relying almost entirely on primary and unpublished sources, the author goes on to expose a web of conspiracy and corruption that extended far wider than even the FBI ever suspected. This page-turner surges forward with the pacing of a true-crime thriller, elevated by Grann's crisp and evocative prose and enhanced by dozens of period photographs.
Dogged original research and superb narrative skills come together in this gripping account of pitiless evil.Pub Date: April 18, 2017
ISBN: 978-0-385-53424-6
Page Count: 352
Publisher: Doubleday
Review Posted Online: Feb. 1, 2017
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 15, 2017
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by Elie Wiesel & translated by Marion Wiesel ‧ RELEASE DATE: Jan. 16, 2006
The author's youthfulness helps to assure the inevitable comparison with the Anne Frank diary although over and above the...
Elie Wiesel spent his early years in a small Transylvanian town as one of four children.
He was the only one of the family to survive what Francois Maurois, in his introduction, calls the "human holocaust" of the persecution of the Jews, which began with the restrictions, the singularization of the yellow star, the enclosure within the ghetto, and went on to the mass deportations to the ovens of Auschwitz and Buchenwald. There are unforgettable and horrifying scenes here in this spare and sombre memoir of this experience of the hanging of a child, of his first farewell with his father who leaves him an inheritance of a knife and a spoon, and of his last goodbye at Buchenwald his father's corpse is already cold let alone the long months of survival under unconscionable conditions.
Pub Date: Jan. 16, 2006
ISBN: 0374500010
Page Count: 120
Publisher: Hill & Wang
Review Posted Online: Oct. 7, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan. 15, 2006
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