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Tagged book is releasing Tuesday. In our current time where the federal government is doing their best to white wash history this book may be a necessary antidote.

The blurb about the Baillie Gifford prize caught my eye due to Yiyun Li‘s memoir. I read an interview and was so fascinated.

I love seeing the book world ban together to promote children reading. Find ways to help get books in the hands of children.

A biography of the historian Steven Runciman. I found it rather heavy going during his childhood, only picking up once people I'd heard of before were introduced. But then it became an absolutely fascinating look at intellectual and celeb life from the 1920s onward.

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As a historian, this is like day one, class one of every graduate program. If you have a REALLY good undergrad prof, they might mention it then, but mostly they are focused on getting you into grad school. Go figure.
In fact, I was taught these two points in the opposite directions. Who wrote it first, then who paid them to write it?
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This author‘s work is reminiscent of that other western historian, Richard White, and more generally both of these were perhaps forerunners of the Howard Zinn style of historical narrative with a focus on the experience of the people who lived it instead of the deeds of conquering Europeans and later US officials. One of the great tasks of this book is to dispel the mythical western imagery from film and literature that became historical stand-in.

Decided to pick this up after a while. I know I disappeared, but things got hectic. Time to get back to relaxing. 😁😁😁