[bksvol-discuss] Fw: History and Current Events February 2010

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Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 09:26:47 -0500
New and Recently Released!

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea - by Barbara Demick
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
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Pub Date: 12/29/2009
ISBN-13: 9780385523905
ISBN-10: 0385523904
North Korea's schoolchildren sing anthems praising their leader and their 
country; many also suffer from malnutrition and lack of health care. Adults who
are lucky enough to have jobs often go unpaid; those who complain can be 
imprisoned or put to death. Though the vast majority of North Koreans know as
little about the outside world as we do about what goes on under the repressive 
reign of Kim Jong-il, this analysis of North Korea throughout the past
15 years may change at least half that equation. Based on seven years of 
interviews with six North Koreans who escaped, Nothing to Envy is grim, but also
"fascinating and deeply personal" (Publishers Weekly).
First Chapter

Crash Course: The American Automobile Industry's Road from Glory to Disaster - 
by Paul Ingrassia
Publisher: Random House
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Pub Date: 01/05/2010
ISBN-13: 9781400068630
ISBN-10: 1400068630
Having covered the U.S. auto industry for 25 years, Pulitzer Prize-winning 
journalist Paul Ingrassia is well-positioned to offer not only a history of the
American car-making world but also a detailed look at how its fortunes sunk to 
the point that the headline of a 2009 cover story in The Economist read
"Detroitosaurus Wrecks." From the early days of Henry Ford to the bankruptcies 
of GM and Chrysler, Ingrassia "conducts a brilliant industry autopsy" (Kirkus
Reviews) and covers Detroit's successes and failures--and competition. If 
you've got an interest--or a stake--in the American auto industry, you won't
want to miss Crash Course.
First Chapter

The Marne, 1914: The Opening of World War I and the Battle that Changed the 
World - by Holger H. Herwig
Publisher: Random House
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Pub Date: 12/01/2009
ISBN-13: 9781400066711
ISBN-10: 1400066719
Historian Holger Herwig believes that the Battle of the Marne was the most 
important land battle fought in Europe since the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.
As the opening salvo in World War I (really the first six weeks of fighting), 
it certainly set the course of the war: Germany had been expecting a quick
victory, but their defeat led to a long and catastrophic trench war. Throughout 
this well-researched book Herwig also disproves several long-held myths,
discusses the implications of various events, and explores how things could 
have ended differently. If you're a World War I history buff, you won't want
to miss this "apt microcosm of the war to end all wars" (Publishers Weekly).
First Chapter
Table of Contents

Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and 
Pakistan - by Greg Mortenson
Publisher: Viking
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Pub Date: 12/01/2009
ISBN-13: 9780670021154
ISBN-10: 0670021156
Greg Mortenson became a household name with the success of Three Cups of Tea; 
now, he follows that bestselling book with the continuation of the story of
his efforts to build schools in disadvantaged and dangerous regions of 
Afghanistan and Pakistan. In addition to describing the work of the local staff
he calls "The Dirty Dozen," Mortenson explains just how powerful an effect 
educating girls has on their lives and their communities and the futures of
both (he calls this the Girl Effect). Despite ever-present threats of 
kidnapping and violence, Mortenson's work with local leaders remains effective, 
inspiring,
and hopeful.
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Focus on: Civil Rights

The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a 
Nation - by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff
Publisher: Vintage Books
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Pub Date: 09/04/2007
ISBN-13: 9780679735656
ISBN-10: 0679735658
In The Race Beat, veteran journalists Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff, who were 
themselves "race beat" reporters in the 1950s and 60s, analyze how the American
press helped to transform the nation's attitudes toward civil rights in the 
South. Using news stories, editorials, interviews, and oral histories, the
two reporters examine the coverage of events such as the murder of Emmett Till, 
the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and the Birmingham bombings. Publishers Weekly
says that this gripping, anecdote-rich book is a "page-turner."
First Chapter
Table of Contents

Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63 - by Taylor Branch
Publisher: Simon and Schuster Paperbacks
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Pub Date: 06/30/2006
ISBN-13: 9780844672953
ISBN-10: 0844672955
First published in 1988, Parting the Waters is the Pulitzer Prize-winning first 
volume in a trilogy chronicling the life of Martin Luther King, Jr., and
the American civil rights movement. Focusing on the early years of the 
burgeoning movement, Branch ends this volume with the assassination of President
Kennedy, but not before covering the founding (in 1867) of the church where, 
decades later, King's movement gained strength and assessing the multiple
difficulties that King and his followers faced. You can follow this "stirring, 
vivid tapestry" (Publishers Weekly) with the remaining two volumes--Pillar
of Fire and At Canaan's Edge.

Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Laws 
that Changed America - by Nick Kotz
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
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Pub Date: 01/13/2006
ISBN-13: 9780618641833
ISBN-10: 0618641831
Using interviews, FBI wiretap logs, U.S. President Johnson's taped telephone 
conversations, and other previously undisclosed communications between the
president and civil rights leader Martin Luther King, this comprehensive 
account paints a fascinating portrait of the fruitful, if fragile and often 
tense,
relationship between the two men. Though initially wary of each other, the two 
leaders worked together to push through civil rights legislation that promoted
and supported equality; they eventually fell out over differing opinions on 
Vietnam. Both informative and compelling, Judgment Days is one of "the best
books about the black freedom struggle" (The New York Times).
First Chapter

Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights 
Revolution - by Diane McWhorter
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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Pub Date: 01/01/2002
ISBN-13: 9780743217729
ISBN-10: 0743217721
In 1963, the local Ku Klux Klan in Birmingham, Alabama, bombed a church, 
killing four black girls. This violent event was just one of the many terrible
obstacles thrown in the path of civil rights demonstrators as they fought to 
end segregation. Journalist Diane McWhorter was a child growing up in Birmingham
at the time; though she was mostly unaffected by the movement, she grew up with 
the knowledge that her family may have been involved--on the wrong side.
Part personal narrative, part exhaustive research into the era, this chronicle 
of the fight for civil rights is "groundbreaking" (Booklist).
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Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North - 
by Thomas J. Sugrue
Publisher: Random House
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Pub Date: 11/04/2008
ISBN-13: 9780679643036
ISBN-10: 0679643036
Most American schoolchildren grow up learning about the Woolworth's lunch 
counter sit-ins and bus boycotts across the southern U.S., but historian Thomas
Sugrue focuses on racial inequality and the struggle for equal rights in the 
North, especially in urban areas. Starting with the Great Migration of the
1920s and running all the way up to the present day, he offers a close-up look 
at the North's struggle for civil rights and analyzes how it was both different
from and inspired by events in the South. Featuring individual activists as 
well as grassroots organizations, this wide-ranging history will be of interest
to students of race relations as well as those interested in civil rights.
First Chapter
Table of Contents

Lift Every Voice: The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement - by 
Patricia Sullivan
Publisher: New Press
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Pub Date: 07/28/2009
ISBN-13: 9781595584465
ISBN-10: 1595584463
Published to coincide with the National Association for the Advancement of 
Colored People's centennial celebration last year, this chronological history
begins with the little-known early decades of the NAACP, which was founded and 
led by an inter-racial group of equal rights activists. Lift Every Voice
then moves on to the NAACP's activities during World War I and after, including 
how it moved into the areas of law and litigation and found success with
Brown v. Board of Education. Hugely influential, the NAACP was vital to ending 
segregation; this book offers an excellent picture of both the organization
and the civil rights movement it supported.
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The civil rights movement in America : 1954-1968 - Landau, Elaine
Publisher: Children's Press
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Pub Date: 09/01/2003
ISBN-13: 9780516242194
ISBN-10: 0516242199
This is a great resource for discussing the Civil Rights movement with young 
people.



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