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An Infamous Hijacking, Revisited Through a Child s Eyes

In “My Hijacking,” Martha Hodes reconstructs the dramatic 1970 seizure of multiple planes by Palestinian militants and interrogates her own memories as a hostage.

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Book Deals: Week of July 12, 2021

Book Deals: Week of July 12, 2021
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Nonfiction Book Review: The Great Dissenter: The Story of John Marshall Harlan, America s Judicial Hero by Peter S Canellos Simon & Schuster, $30 (608p) ISBN 978-1-5011-8820-6

Last Lion) intertwines in this original and eye-opening biography the lives of Supreme Court justice John Marshall Harlan and his rumored half-brother, Robert Harlan, who was born a slave. Appointed to the court by President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1877 âas a kind of human olive branch to the South,â Kentucky-born Harlan was the lone dissenting voice in the Civil Rights Cases of 1883 and Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896, decisions that established the legal precedent for enforcing racial discrimination and segregation. Canellos contends that Harlanâs egalitarian impulses were informed by growing up alongside Robert, the rumored son of Harlanâs father and an enslaved woman, who made a fortune in the California Gold Rush and became a political power broker in Cincinnati. The second half of the book examines the cases that defined Harlanâs judicial legacy and their lasting impact on issues ranging from income tax to civil rights; Canellos notes that Harlanâs d

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Roth and the critics | TheArticle

Philip Roth 2002 (Dennis Van Tine/ABACAPRESS.COM) The reviews of Blake Bailey’s Philip Roth: The Biography have been pouring out on both sides of the Atlantic. What is striking is how badly written the British ones have been and how smart the American ones are. What makes the British reviews so much worse? First, the bizarre omissions. Tim Adams’s review in The Observer of Bailey’s biography doesn’t use the words “Jew” or “Jewish” once. This is extraordinary. Not only was Roth Jewish, he wrote constantly about Jews, from Anne Frank and Kafka to his own fictional characters Portnoy and Zuckerman. Roth couldn’t have been more Jewish. It’s not just the Jewish subject matter. Above all, it’s the voice, that distinctive mix of high and low, funny and serious. “If Yahweh wanted me to be calm,” he writes in

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As Political Divide Widens, Will Big Houses Rethink Conservative Publishing?

As Political Divide Widens, Will Big Houses Rethink Conservative Publishing?
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