Nominated twice for the pulitzer prize. The author of i think one of the great books about the civil war, america which was in the library a few years ago talking about it and talking about the importance of the evangelical religion in american politics leading up to the civil war and in some senses, the decline of evangelical religion, certainly the righteousness of evangelical religion after the civil war in the beginning of postreconstruction era and jim crow. It is i think a great book that refrains from what we have thought about the civil war and what we thought about race and religion in america. In a sense, you get his generation whose new book, when government was good is the subtitle. It may seem like a distant path for some of us today. We phrased also the conversation about the place of government in American History and particularly executiveleadership. Its really a book about truman and eisenhower and johnson who was the coda about those who came after. Here in kansas cit
That change your way of thinking, theres one book that did that for me when i was in college and that was the feminine misty misty my Betty Freeman and literally a lightbulb went on when i read that book and i decided that maybe my life was not going to consist of getting married and having children and living that kind of life that i should be thinking about taking care of myself and expanding my own horizons. I can honestly say that is one book that totally changed my way of thinking about myself. Is there any reading that you do like nonfiction or historical that helps you do your job in the senate . Well, theres a lot of reading that i do just on issues such as, i read a lot about immigrationin our country because , Immigration Reform is something that we need to address and thats very purposeful for me as an immigrant area i read about whats going on in the middle east, i read a lot of those kinds of articles. I read about whats going on in the Supreme Court and so those are the k
Ronald Davis talks about his art and how he started out in the 1960s, his friendship with Judy Chicago, playing chess with David Hockney and having a Scotch with Clement Greenberg
Earl Snipes, Retired, U.S. Air Force Major passed away. This is the full obituary where you can share condolences and memories. Published in the Valdosta Daily Times on 2024-02-08.