Author jeff, you opened your recent book with this quote from Rick Perlstein the historian. Crosscutting motives and narratives the complexity that defies storybook simplicity that is usually the way history happens. I think it is the most cogent ive ever heard. Rick does a tremendous job himself, and its true no historic event happens in vacuum. Its tied to many other things and that is the fascination in research and writing on the narrative nonfiction history. To read a quote from you as well and this is from 2021 in the cleburnene times review a lt of people no longer want to buy nonfiction to learn things. They want nonfiction bks to reflect what they already believe, books to reinforce their opinions. They want books that tell them everything they believe is absolutely right and that the other side is even worse than they thought. If you take a look at the bestseller list for nonfiction for the last several years, theres three categories generally represented. The first books by
Fires up the fans as they takes control of the team. This is the cbs morning news control of the team. This is the cbs morning news for tuesday, august 19th, 2014. Captioning funded by cbs good morning. Good to be with you, im annemarie green. Well, it was another night of tension and violence in ferguson, missouri. Heres the latest, overnight, Police Used Tear Gas against those protesting the shooting of michael brown. Police say they came under heavy gunfire. 31 arrests were made and police treated two people who have been shot. A private and state autopsy found that brown was shot at least six times. Results of the federal autopsy will not be released. A grand jury could begin hearing evidence tomorrow to determine if officer Darren Wilson should be charged in browns death. And president obama is sending attorney general eric holder to missouri tomorrow. To meet fbi and other officials carrying out the investigation. Yesterday, the president said he understands the anger and frustra
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