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He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, the writer Danzy Senna, and their children.","seoFriendlyUrl":"\/authors\/2012542\/percival-everett","attr":1001,"firstInitial":"P","lastInitial":"E","hasAuthorPhoto":true,"photoCredit":"Michael Avedon","photoDate":"2023","authorPhotoUrl":"https:\/\/images.penguinrandomhouse.com\/author\/2012542","primaryFlag":true}},"seoFriendlyUrl":"\/books\/738749\/james-by-percival-everett\/9780385550369","division":{"code":"13","description":"Doubleday Publishing"},"categories":[{"catId":2000000066,"catDesc":"Historical Fiction","catUri":"\/historical-fiction","menuText":"Historical Fiction","leafNode":true,"deepestNode":true,"seq":1},{"catId":2000000083,"catDesc":"Literary Fiction","catUri":"\/literary-fiction","menuText":"Literary","leafNode":true,"deepestNode":true,"seq":2},{"catId":2000000057,"catDesc":"Fiction","catUri":"\/fiction","menuText":"Fiction","leafNode":false,"deepestNode":false,"seq":0}],"aboutTheBook":"&lt;b&gt;#1&lt;i&gt; NEW YORK TIMES&lt;\/i&gt; BESTSELLER&lt;i&gt; &lt;\/i&gt;&amp;bull; NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER &amp;bull; A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of &lt;i&gt;Adventures of Huckleberry Finn&lt;\/i&gt;, both harrowing and darkly humorous, told from the enslaved Jim&#039;s point of view&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST &amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;ONE OF &lt;i&gt;THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW&#039;S &lt;\/i&gt;10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR &amp;bull; SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE&amp;nbsp;&amp;bull; KIRKUS PRIZE WINNER&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In development as a feature film to be produced by Steven Spielberg &amp;bull;&amp;nbsp; A Best Book of the Year: &lt;i&gt;The New York Times Book Review, LA Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Economist, TIME, &lt;\/i&gt;and more.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&quot;Genius&quot;&lt;i&gt;&amp;mdash;The Atlantic&amp;nbsp;&amp;bull; &lt;\/i&gt;&quot;A&amp;nbsp;masterpiece that will help redefine one of the classics of American literature, while also being a major achievement on its own.&quot;&lt;i&gt;&amp;mdash;Chicago Tribune&amp;nbsp;&amp;bull;&lt;\/i&gt; &quot;A provocative, enlightening literary work of art.&quot;&lt;i&gt;&amp;mdash;The Boston Globe&amp;nbsp;&amp;bull; &lt;\/i&gt;&quot;Everett&amp;rsquo;s most thrilling novel, but also his most soulful.&quot;&lt;i&gt;&amp;mdash;The New York Times&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father, recently returned to town. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and too-often-unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;While many narrative set pieces of &lt;i&gt;Adventures of Huckleberry Finn&lt;\/i&gt; remain in place (floods and storms, stumbling across both unexpected death and unexpected treasure in the myriad stopping points along the river&amp;rsquo;s banks, encountering the scam artists posing as the Duke and Dauphin&amp;hellip;), Jim&amp;rsquo;s agency, intelligence and compassion are shown in a radically new light.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Brimming with the electrifying humor and lacerating observations that have made Everett a &amp;ldquo;literary icon&amp;rdquo; (&lt;i&gt;Oprah Daily&lt;\/i&gt;), and one of the most decorated writers of our lifetime, &lt;i&gt;James &lt;\/i&gt;is destined to be a cornerstone of twenty-first century American literature.","flags":["READER_REWARDS","INSIGHT"],"otherFields":{"netInv":42950},"vendorIds":{"Amazon":"0385550367"},"cbRtnDate":null,"asset_types":[]}"> <span class="bookShelfControl">Add to Bookshelf</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2><a href="/books/738749/james-by-percival-everett/">James</a></h2> <h2 class="author">by <a href="/authors/2012542">Percival Everett</a> </h2> <div class="desc">Fiction 2024 <br><br>A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and darkly humorous, told from Jim’s point of view. 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His most recent books include &lt;i&gt;Dr. No&lt;\/i&gt; (finalist for the NBCC Award for Fiction and winner of the PEN\/ Jean Stein Book Award),&lt;i&gt; The Trees&lt;\/i&gt; (finalist for the Booker Prize and the PEN\/Faulkner Award for Fiction), &lt;i&gt;Telephone&lt;\/i&gt; (finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), &lt;i&gt;So Much Blue, Erasure,&lt;\/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;I Am Not Sidney Poitier.&lt;\/i&gt; He has received the NBCC Ivan Sandrof Life Achievement Award and The Windham Campbell Prize from Yale University. &lt;i&gt;American Fiction&lt;\/i&gt;, the feature film based on his novel &lt;i&gt;Erasure&lt;\/i&gt;, was released in 2023&amp;#160;and was awarded the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. 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Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father, recently returned to town. 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As those borders harden, the demand for smugglers who aid migrants across them increases every year. Yet the real lives and work of smugglers&amp;mdash;or &lt;i&gt;coyotes&lt;\/i&gt;, or guides, as they are often known by the migrants who hire their services&amp;mdash;are only ever reported on from a distance, using tired tropes and stereotypes, often depicted as boogie men and violent warlords. In an effort to better understand this essential yet extralegal billion dollar global industry, internationally recognized anthropologist and expert Jason De Le&amp;oacute;n embedded with a group of smugglers moving migrants across Mexico over the course of seven years.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The result of this unique and extraordinary access is SOLDIERS AND KINGS: the first ever in-depth, character-driven look at human smuggling. It is a heart-wrenching and intimate narrative that revolves around the life and death of one &lt;i&gt;coyote &lt;\/i&gt;who falls in love and tries to leave smuggling behind. In a powerful, original voice, De Le&amp;oacute;n expertly chronicles the lives of low-level foot soldiers breaking into the smuggling game, and morally conflicted gang leaders who oversee rag-tag crews of guides and informants along the migrant trail. SOLDIERS AND KINGS is not only a ground-breaking up-close glimpse of a difficult-to-access world, it is a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction.","flags":["READER_REWARDS","INSIGHT"],"otherFields":{"netInv":12961},"vendorIds":{"Amazon":"0593298586"},"cbRtnDate":null,"asset_types":[]}"> <span class="bookShelfControl">Add to Bookshelf</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2><a href="/books/672038/soldiers-and-kings-by-jason-de-leon/">Soldiers and Kings</a></h2> <h2 class="author">by <a href="/authors/2294002">Jason De León</a> </h2> <div class="desc">Nonfiction 2024 <br><br> An intense, intimate and first-of-its-kind look at the world of human smuggling in Latin America, by a MacArthur “genius” grant winner and anthropologist with unprecedented access. 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He is also executive director of the Undocumented Migration Project, a 501(c)(3) research, arts, and education collective that seeks to raise awareness about migration issues globally while also assisting families of missing migrants reunite with their loved ones. 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That storyline drives &lt;i&gt;Hell of a Book&lt;\/i&gt; and is the scaffolding of something much larger and more urgent: Mott&amp;rsquo;s novel also tells the story of Soot, a young Black boy living in a rural town in the recent past, and The Kid, a possibly imaginary child who appears to the author on his tour.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; As these characters&amp;rsquo; stories build and converge, they astonish. For while this heartbreaking and magical book entertains and is at once about family, love of parents and children, art and money, it&amp;rsquo;s also about the nation&amp;rsquo;s reckoning with a tragic police shooting playing over and over again on the news. And with what it can mean to be Black in America.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; Who has been killed? Who is The Kid? 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Throughout these six stories, Pulitzer Prize winner Adam Johnson delves deep into love and loss, natural disasters, the influence of technology, and how the political shapes the personal, giving voice to the perspectives we don’t often hear.</div> <div class="readdown-cover-wrap-mobile " href="/books/246829/fortune-smiles-by-adam-johnson/"> <span class=" deferred-view-scroll"> <img decoding="async" src="" data-src="https://images1.penguinrandomhouse.com/cover/9780812987232" alt="Fortune Smiles Book Cover Picture" loading="lazy" class="img-responsive lazyload" /></span> <div class="book-shelf-wrapper"> <div class="book-shelf-add" tabindex="0"> <img decoding="async" src="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/wp-content/themes/penguinrandomhouse/images/save-20x22.svg" width="20px" height="22px" role="button" alt="Add Fortune Smiles to bookshelf"> <div class="grid-item" data-workid="246829" data-work="{"workId":246829,"isbn":9780812987232,"title":"Fortune Smiles","subtitle":"Stories","author":"Adam Johnson","imprint":{"code":"RP","name":"Random House Trade Paperbacks","family":null},"onSaleDate":{"date":"2016-10-04","timezone_type":3,"timezone":"UTC"},"usPrice":17,"format":{"code":"TR","name":"Paperback","subcode":null,"subname":null,"family":"Paperback","description":"Trade Paperback"},"contributors":{"010-1001":{"id":98888,"display":"Adam Johnson","roleCode":"A","roleName":"Author","ontour":false,"spotlight":"&lt;b&gt;Adam Johnson&lt;\/b&gt; is the author of &lt;i&gt;Fortune Smiles, &lt;\/i&gt;winner of the National Book Award and the Story Prize and a finalist for the &lt;i&gt;Los Angeles Times &lt;\/i&gt;Book Prize, and &lt;i&gt;The Orphan Master&amp;rsquo;s Son, &lt;\/i&gt;winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and the California Book Award and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. 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Americans have built an empire on the idea of &amp;ldquo;race,&amp;rdquo; a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men&amp;mdash;bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can we all honestly reckon with this fraught history and free ourselves from its burden?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;Between the World and Me &lt;\/i&gt;is Ta-Nehisi Coates&amp;rsquo;s attempt to answer these questions in a letter to his adolescent son. Coates shares with his son&amp;mdash;and readers&amp;mdash;the story of his awakening to the truth about his place in the world through a series of revelatory experiences, from Howard University to Civil War battlefields, from the South Side of Chicago to Paris, from his childhood home to the living rooms of mothers whose children&amp;rsquo;s lives were taken as American plunder. Beautifully woven from personal narrative, reimagined history, and fresh, emotionally charged reportage, &lt;i&gt;Between the World and Me &lt;\/i&gt;clearly illuminates the past, bracingly confronts our present, and offers a transcendent vision for a way forward.","flags":["READER_REWARDS","INSIGHT"],"otherFields":{"netInv":1643},"vendorIds":{"Amazon":"0812993543"},"cbRtnDate":null,"asset_types":[]}"> <span class="bookShelfControl">Add to Bookshelf</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2><a href="/books/220290/between-the-world-and-me-by-ta-nehisi-coates/">Between the World and Me</a></h2> <h2 class="author">by <a href="/authors/84186">Ta-Nehisi Coates</a> </h2> <div class="desc">Nonfiction 2015 <br><br> Hailed by Toni Morrison as “required reading,” a bold and personal literary exploration of America’s racial history by “the most important essayist in a generation and a writer who changed the national political conversation about race” (<i>Rolling Stone</i>). </div> <div class="readdown-cover-wrap-mobile " href="/books/220290/between-the-world-and-me-by-ta-nehisi-coates/"> <span class=" deferred-view-scroll"> <img decoding="async" src="" data-src="https://images3.penguinrandomhouse.com/cover/9780812993547" alt="Between the World and Me Book Cover Picture" loading="lazy" class="img-responsive lazyload" /></span> <div class="book-shelf-wrapper"> <div class="book-shelf-add" tabindex="0"> <img decoding="async" src="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/wp-content/themes/penguinrandomhouse/images/save-20x22.svg" width="20px" height="22px" role="button" alt="Add Between the World and Me to bookshelf"> <div class="grid-item" data-workid="220290" data-work="{"workId":220290,"isbn":9780812993547,"title":"Between the World and Me","subtitle":null,"author":"Ta-Nehisi Coates","imprint":{"code":"OB","name":"One World","family":null},"onSaleDate":{"date":"2015-07-14","timezone_type":3,"timezone":"UTC"},"usPrice":26,"format":{"code":"HC","name":"Hardcover","subcode":null,"subname":null,"family":"Hardcover","description":"Hardcover"},"contributors":{"010-1001":{"id":84186,"display":"Ta-Nehisi Coates","roleCode":"A","roleName":"Author","ontour":false,"spotlight":"&lt;b&gt;Ta-Nehisi Coates&amp;#160;&lt;\/b&gt;is the author of&amp;#160;&lt;i&gt;The Beautiful Struggle, We Were Eight Years in Power, The Water Dancer,&amp;#160;&lt;\/i&gt;and&amp;#160;&lt;i&gt;Between the World and Me,&amp;#160;&lt;\/i&gt;which won the National Book Award in 2015. 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The book was also a finalist for the Hurston\/Wright Legacy Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Award, and it was named one of the best books of the year by &lt;i&gt;The New Yorker&lt;\/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;The New York Times. Literary Hub&lt;\/i&gt; named it one of the best books of the last twenty years. She is also the coauthor, with Kevin Young, of &lt;i&gt;Robert Rauschenberg: Thirty-Four Illustrations for Dante&amp;rsquo;s Inferno&lt;\/i&gt;. The former poet laureate of Los Angeles, Lewis holds a PhD in Poetry and Visual Studies from the University of Southern California, an MFA in poetry from New York University, an MTS in Sanskrit and comparative religious literature from the Divinity School at Harvard University, and a BA from Hampshire College in post-colonial literature and creative writing. Her work has appeared in various journals and anthologies, including &lt;i&gt;The New Yorker, The New York Times,&lt;\/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;The Paris Review, Transition,&lt;\/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;The Massachusetts Review&lt;\/i&gt;. Lewis has taught at Hampshire College, Hunter College, Wheaton College, and the NYU Low-Residency MFA in Paris. She is currently writer in residence at the University of Southern California.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;ROBIN COSTE LEWIS&amp;#160;is available for select speaking engagements. To inquire about a possible appearance, please contact Penguin Random House Speakers Bureau at speakers@penguinrandomhouse.com or visit prhspeakers.com.","seoFriendlyUrl":"\/authors\/304527\/robin-coste-lewis","attr":1001,"firstInitial":"R","lastInitial":"L","hasAuthorPhoto":true,"photoCredit":"Abigail Rudner","photoDate":"2022","authorPhotoUrl":"https:\/\/images.penguinrandomhouse.com\/author\/304527","primaryFlag":true}},"seoFriendlyUrl":"\/books\/250774\/voyage-of-the-sable-venus-by-robin-coste-lewis\/9781101911204","division":{"code":"73","description":"Knopf"},"categories":[{"catId":2000000111,"catDesc":"Nonfiction","catUri":"\/nonfiction","menuText":"Nonfiction","leafNode":false,"deepestNode":true,"seq":1},{"catId":2000000123,"catDesc":"Poetry","catUri":"\/poetry","menuText":"Poetry","leafNode":true,"deepestNode":true,"seq":2}],"aboutTheBook":"&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;This National Book Award-winning debut poetry collection is a &quot;powerfully evocative&quot; (&lt;i&gt;The New York Review of Books&lt;\/i&gt;) meditation on the black female figure through time. &lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Robin Coste Lewis&#039;s electrifying collection is a triptych that begins and ends with lyric poems meditating on the roles desire and race play in the construction of the self.&amp;#160;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In the center of the collection is the title poem, &quot;Voyage of the Sable Venus,&quot; an amazing narrative made up entirely of titles of artworks from ancient times to the present&amp;mdash;titles that feature or in some way comment on the black female figure in Western art. 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Yet she is also a cultural critic alert to the nuances of race and desire&amp;mdash;how they define us all, including her own sometimes painful history. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Lewis&#039;s book is a thrilling aesthetic anthem to the complexity of race&amp;mdash;a full embrace of its pleasure and horror, in equal parts.&lt;\/p&gt;","flags":["READER_REWARDS","INSIGHT"],"otherFields":{"netInv":-30},"vendorIds":{"Amazon":"1101911204"},"cbRtnDate":null,"asset_types":[]}"> <span class="bookShelfControl">Add to Bookshelf</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2><a href="/books/250774/voyage-of-the-sable-venus-by-robin-coste-lewis/">Voyage of the Sable Venus</a></h2> <h2 class="author">by <a href="/authors/304527">Robin Coste Lewis</a> </h2> <div class="desc">Poetry 2015 <br><br> This National Book Award-winning debut poetry collection is a “powerfully evocative” (<i>The New York Review of Books</i>) meditation on the black female figure through time. 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Her work has appeared in various journals and anthologies, including &lt;i&gt;The New Yorker, The New York Times,&lt;\/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;The Paris Review, Transition,&lt;\/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;The Massachusetts Review&lt;\/i&gt;. Lewis has taught at Hampshire College, Hunter College, Wheaton College, and the NYU Low-Residency MFA in Paris. She is currently writer in residence at the University of Southern California.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;ROBIN COSTE LEWIS&amp;#160;is available for select speaking engagements. 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Bracketed by Lewis&#039;s own autobiographical poems, &quot;Voyage&quot; is a tender and shocking meditation on the fragmentary mysteries of stereotype, juxtaposing our names for things with what we actually see and know. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;A new understanding of biography and the self, this collection questions just where, historically, do ideas about the black female figure truly begin&amp;mdash;five hundred years ago, five thousand, or even longer? And what role did art play in this ancient, often heinous story? Here we meet a poet who adores her culture and the beauty to be found within it. 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She is the author of dozens of award-winning books for young adults, middle graders, and children; among her many accolades, she is a four-time Newbery Honor winner, a four-time National Book Award finalist, and a three-time Coretta Scott King Award winner. Her books include Coretta Scott King Award and NAACP Image Award winner &lt;i&gt;Before the Ever After; New York Times&lt;\/i&gt; bestsellers &lt;i&gt;The Day You Begin&lt;\/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;Harbor Me&lt;\/i&gt;; &lt;i&gt;The Other Side&lt;\/i&gt;,&amp;#160;Caldecott Honor book &lt;i&gt;Coming On Home Soon&lt;\/i&gt;; Newbery Honor winners &lt;i&gt;Feathers&lt;\/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;Show Way&lt;\/i&gt;, and &lt;i&gt;After Tupac and D Foster&lt;\/i&gt;; &lt;i&gt;Miracle&#039;s Boys&lt;\/i&gt;, which received the &lt;i&gt;LA Times&lt;\/i&gt; Book Prize and the Coretta Scott King Award; and &lt;i&gt;Each Kindness&lt;\/i&gt;, which won the Jane Addams Children&amp;rsquo;s Book Award. Jacqueline is also a recipient of the Margaret A. 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Her love of stories inspired her and stayed with her, creating the first sparks of the gifted writer she was to become.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Includes 7 additional poems, including &quot;Brown Girl Dreaming.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;br&gt;Praise for Jacqueline Woodson:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&quot;Ms. Woodson writes with a sure understanding of the thoughts of young people, offering a poetic, eloquent narrative that is not simply a story . . . but a mature exploration of grown-up issues and self-discovery.&amp;rdquo;&amp;mdash;&lt;i&gt;The New York Times Book Review&lt;\/i&gt;","flags":["INSIGHT"],"otherFields":{"netInv":34375},"vendorIds":{"Amazon":"0147515823"},"cbRtnDate":null,"asset_types":[]}"> <span class="bookShelfControl">Add to Bookshelf</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2><a href="/books/304851/brown-girl-dreaming-by-jacqueline-woodson/">Brown Girl Dreaming</a></h2> <h2 class="author">by <a href="/authors/33705">Jacqueline Woodson</a> </h2> <div class="desc">Young People’s Literature 2014 <br><br> Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. 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She was the 2018&amp;ndash;2019 National Ambassador for Young People&amp;rsquo;s Literature,&amp;#160;and in 2015, she was named the Young People&amp;rsquo;s Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation.&amp;#160;She received the 2014 National Book Award for her &lt;i&gt;New York Times&lt;\/i&gt; bestselling memoir &lt;i&gt;Brown Girl Dreaming&lt;\/i&gt;, which was also a recipient of the Coretta Scott King Award, a Newbery Honor, the NAACP Image Award, and a Sibert Honor. She wrote the adult books &lt;i&gt;Red at the Bone&lt;\/i&gt;, a &lt;i&gt;New York Times&lt;\/i&gt; bestseller, and &lt;i&gt;Another Brooklyn&lt;\/i&gt;, a 2016 National Book Award finalist.&amp;#160;Born in Columbus, Ohio, Jacqueline grew up in Greenville, South Carolina, and Brooklyn, New York, and graduated from college with a B.A. in English. 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Hailed as a &amp;ldquo;fiercely original talent&amp;rdquo; (&lt;i&gt;San Francisco Chronicle&lt;\/i&gt;), award-winning novelist McCann has delivered a triumphantly American masterpiece that awakens in us a sense of what the novel can achieve, confront, and even heal.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;Praise for &lt;i&gt;Let the Great World Spin&lt;br&gt;&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;ldquo;This is a gorgeous book, multilayered and deeply felt, and it&amp;rsquo;s a damned lot of fun to read, too. Leave it to an Irishman to write one of the greatest-ever novels about New York. There&amp;rsquo;s so much passion and humor and pure lifeforce on every page of &lt;i&gt;Let the Great World Spin&lt;\/i&gt; that you&amp;rsquo;ll find yourself giddy, dizzy, overwhelmed.&amp;rdquo;&lt;b&gt;&amp;mdash;Dave Eggers&lt;br&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;ldquo;Stunning . . . [an] elegiac glimpse of hope . . . It&amp;rsquo;s a novel rooted firmly in time and place. 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And as always, McCann&amp;rsquo;s heart-stoppingly simple descriptions wow.&amp;rdquo;&lt;b&gt;&amp;mdash;&lt;i&gt;Entertainment Weekly&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;ldquo;An act of pure bravado, dizzying proof that to keep your balance you need to know how to fall.&amp;rdquo;&lt;b&gt;&amp;mdash;&lt;i&gt;O: The Oprah Magazine&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;","flags":["READER_REWARDS","INSIGHT"],"otherFields":{"netInv":96},"vendorIds":{"Amazon":"0812973992"},"cbRtnDate":null,"asset_types":[]}"> <span class="bookShelfControl">Add to Bookshelf</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2><a href="/books/110437/let-the-great-world-spin-by-colum-mccann/">Let the Great World Spin</a></h2> <h2 class="author">by <a href="/authors/59846">Colum McCann</a> </h2> <div class="desc">Fiction 2009 <br><br> In the dawning light of a late-summer morning, the people of lower Manhattan stand hushed, staring up in disbelief at the Twin Towers. It is August 1974, and a mysterious tightrope walker is running, dancing, leaping between the towers, suspended a quarter mile above the ground. 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Tillie, a thirty-eight-year-old grandmother, turns tricks alongside her teenage daughter, determined not only to take care of her family but to prove her own worth.&amp;#160;Elegantly weaving together these and other seemingly disparate lives, McCann&amp;rsquo;s powerful allegory comes alive in the unforgettable voices of the city&amp;rsquo;s people, unexpectedly drawn together by hope, beauty, and the &amp;ldquo;artistic crime of the century.&amp;rdquo;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;A sweeping and radical social novel, &lt;i&gt;Let the Great World Spin&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;\/b&gt;captures the spirit of America in a time of transition, extraordinary promise, and, in hindsight, heartbreaking innocence. 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Fenno, the eldest, a wry, introspective gay man, narrates the events of this unforeseen reunion. Far from his straitlaced expatriate life as a bookseller in Greenwich Village, Fenno is stunned by a series of revelations that threaten his carefully crafted defenses....&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; Four years farther on, in yet another June, a chance meeting on the Long Island shore brings Fenno together with Fern Olitsky, the artist who once captivated his father. 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Caro has twice won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, has three times won the National Book Critics Circle Award, and has also won virtually every other major literary honor, including the National Book Award, the Gold Medal in Biography from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Francis Parkman Prize, awarded by the Society of American Historians to the book that best &amp;ldquo;exemplifies the union of the historian and the artist.&amp;rdquo; In 2010 President Barack Obama awarded Caro the National Humanities Medal, stating at the time: &amp;ldquo;I think about Robert Caro and reading &lt;i&gt;The Power Broker&lt;\/i&gt; back when I was twenty-two years old and just being mesmerized, and I&amp;rsquo;m sure it helped to shape how I think about politics.&amp;rdquo; In 2016 he received the National Book Award for Lifetime Achievement. The London &lt;i&gt;Sunday Times&lt;\/i&gt; has said that Caro is &amp;ldquo;The greatest political biographer of our times.&amp;rdquo;&lt;br&gt; &amp;#160;&lt;br&gt; Caro&amp;rsquo;s first book, &lt;i&gt;The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, &lt;\/i&gt;everywhere acclaimed as a modern classic, was chosen by the Modern Library as one of the hundred greatest nonfiction books of the twentieth century. It is, according to David Halberstam, &amp;ldquo;Surely the greatest book ever written about a city.&amp;rdquo; And &lt;i&gt;The New York Times Book Review&lt;\/i&gt; said: &amp;ldquo;In the future, the scholar who writes the history of American cities in the twentieth century will doubtless begin with this extraordinary effort.&amp;rdquo;&lt;br&gt; &amp;#160;&lt;br&gt; The first volume of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, &lt;i&gt;The Path to Power, &lt;\/i&gt;was cited by &lt;i&gt;The Washington Post&lt;\/i&gt; as &amp;ldquo;proof that we live in a great age of biography . . . [a book] of radiant excellence . . . Caro&amp;rsquo;s evocation of the Texas Hill Country, his elaboration of Johnson&amp;rsquo;s unsleeping ambition, his understanding of how politics actually work, are let it be said flat out&amp;mdash;at the summit of American historical writing.&amp;rdquo; Professor Henry F. Graff of Columbia University called the second volume, &lt;i&gt;Means of Ascent, &lt;\/i&gt;&amp;ldquo;brilliant. No review does justice to the drama of the story Caro is telling, which is nothing less than how present-day politics was born.&amp;rdquo; &lt;i&gt;The London Times&lt;\/i&gt; hailed volume three, &lt;i&gt;Master of the Senate,&lt;\/i&gt; as &amp;ldquo;a masterpiece . . . Robert Caro has written one of the truly great political biographies of the modern age.&amp;rdquo; &lt;i&gt;The Passage of Power, &lt;\/i&gt;volume four, has been called &amp;ldquo;Shakespearean . . . A breathtakingly dramatic story [told] with consummate artistry and ardor&amp;rdquo; (&lt;i&gt;The New York Times&lt;\/i&gt;) and &amp;ldquo;as absorbing as a political thriller . . . By writing the best presidential biography the country has ever seen, Caro has forever changed the way we think about, and read, American history&amp;rdquo; (NPR). On the cover of &lt;i&gt;The New York Times Book Review, &lt;\/i&gt;President Bill Clinton praised it as &amp;ldquo;Brilliant . . . Important . . . Remarkable. With this fascinating and meticulous account Robert Caro has once again done America a great service.&quot; In his newest book, &lt;i&gt;Working, &lt;\/i&gt;Caro gives us an unprecedented glimpse into his own life and work, in evocatively written, personal pieces.&lt;br&gt; &amp;#160;&lt;br&gt; &amp;ldquo;Caro has a unique place among American political biographers,&amp;rdquo; &lt;i&gt;The Boston Globe&lt;\/i&gt; said. &amp;ldquo;He has become, in many ways, the standard by which his fellows are measured.&amp;rdquo; And Nicholas von Hoffman wrote: &amp;ldquo;Caro has changed the art of political biography.&amp;rdquo;&lt;br&gt; &amp;#160;&lt;br&gt; Born and raised in New York City, Caro graduated from Princeton University, was later a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, and worked for six years as an investigative reporter for &lt;i&gt;Newsday.&lt;\/i&gt; He lives with his wife, the writer Ina Caro, in New York City, where he is at work on the fifth and final volume of The Years of Lyndon Johnson.","seoFriendlyUrl":"\/authors\/4318\/robert-a-caro","attr":1001,"firstInitial":"R","lastInitial":"C","hasAuthorPhoto":true,"photoCredit":"Joyce Ravid","photoDate":null,"authorPhotoUrl":"https:\/\/images.penguinrandomhouse.com\/author\/4318","primaryFlag":true}},"seoFriendlyUrl":"\/books\/24307\/master-of-the-senate-by-robert-a-caro\/9780394720951","division":{"code":"73","description":"Knopf"},"categories":[{"catId":2000000124,"catDesc":"Political Figure Biographies &amp; Memoirs","catUri":"\/political-biography-memoir","menuText":"Political","leafNode":true,"deepestNode":true,"seq":1},{"catId":2000000003,"catDesc":"20th Century U.S. History","catUri":"\/20th-century-us-history","menuText":"20th Century ","leafNode":true,"deepestNode":true,"seq":2},{"catId":2000000065,"catDesc":"Historical Figure Biographies &amp; Memoirs","catUri":"\/historical-biography-memoir","menuText":"Historical","leafNode":true,"deepestNode":true,"seq":3},{"catId":2000000021,"catDesc":"Biography &amp; Memoir","catUri":"\/biography-memoir","menuText":"Biography &amp; Memoir","leafNode":false,"deepestNode":false,"seq":0},{"catId":2000000070,"catDesc":"History","catUri":"\/history","menuText":"History","leafNode":false,"deepestNode":false,"seq":0},{"catId":2000000111,"catDesc":"Nonfiction","catUri":"\/nonfiction","menuText":"Nonfiction","leafNode":false,"deepestNode":false,"seq":0},{"catId":2000000157,"catDesc":"U.S. History","catUri":"\/us-history","menuText":"U.S. History","leafNode":false,"deepestNode":false,"seq":0}],"aboutTheBook":"&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Master of the Senate, &lt;\/i&gt;Book Three of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, carries Johnson&amp;rsquo;s story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from 1949 to 1960, in the United States Senate. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;At the heart of the book is its unprecedented revelation of how legislative power works in America, how the Senate works, and how Johnson, in his ascent to the presidency, mastered the Senate as no political leader before him had ever done.&lt;br&gt; &amp;#160;&lt;br&gt; It was during these years that all Johnson&amp;rsquo;s experience&amp;mdash;from his Texas Hill Country boyhood to his passionate representation in Congress of his hardscrabble constituents to his tireless construction of a political machine&amp;mdash;came to fruition. Caro introduces the story with a dramatic account of the Senate itself: how Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, and John C. Calhoun had made it the center of governmental energy, the forum in which the great issues of the country were thrashed out. And how, by the time Johnson arrived, it had dwindled into a body that merely responded to executive initiatives, all but impervious to the forces of change. Caro anatomizes the genius for political strategy and tactics by which, in an institution that had made the seniority system all-powerful for a century and more, Johnson became Majority Leader after only a single term-the youngest and greatest Senate Leader in our history; how he manipulated the Senate&amp;rsquo;s hallowed rules and customs and the weaknesses and strengths of his colleagues to change the &amp;ldquo;unchangeable&amp;rdquo; Senate from a loose confederation of sovereign senators to a whirring legislative machine under his own iron-fisted control.&lt;br&gt; &amp;#160;&lt;br&gt; Caro demonstrates how Johnson&amp;rsquo;s political genius enabled him to reconcile the unreconcilable: to retain the support of the southerners who controlled the Senate while earning the trust&amp;mdash;or at least the cooperation&amp;mdash;of the liberals, led by Paul Douglas and Hubert Humphrey, without whom he could not achieve his goal of winning the presidency. He shows the dark side of Johnson&amp;rsquo;s ambition: how he proved his loyalty to the great oil barons who had financed his rise to power by ruthlessly destroying the career of the New Dealer who was in charge of regulating them, Federal Power Commission Chairman Leland Olds. And we watch him achieve the impossible: convincing southerners that although he was firmly in their camp as the anointed successor to their leader, Richard Russell, it was essential that they allow him to make some progress toward civil rights. In a breathtaking tour de force, Caro details Johnson&amp;rsquo;s amazing triumph in maneuvering to passage the first civil rights legislation since 1875.&lt;br&gt; &amp;#160;&lt;br&gt; &lt;i&gt;Master of the Senate,&lt;\/i&gt; told with an abundance of rich detail that could only have come from Caro&amp;rsquo;s peerless research, is both a galvanizing portrait of the man himself&amp;mdash;the titan of Capital Hill, volcanic, mesmerizing&amp;mdash;and a definitive and revelatory study of the workings and personal and legislative power.","flags":["READER_REWARDS","INSIGHT"],"otherFields":{"netInv":2582},"vendorIds":{"Amazon":"0394720954"},"cbRtnDate":null,"asset_types":[]}"> <span class="bookShelfControl">Add to Bookshelf</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2><a href="/books/24307/master-of-the-senate-by-robert-a-caro/">Master of the Senate</a></h2> <h2 class="author">by <a href="/authors/4318">Robert A. Caro</a> </h2> <div class="desc">Nonfiction 2002 <br><br> <i>Master of the Senate</i>, book three of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, carries Johnson’s story through one of its most remarkable periods: His twelve years, from 1949 to 1960, in the United States Senate.</div> <div class="readdown-cover-wrap-mobile " href="/books/24307/master-of-the-senate-by-robert-a-caro/"> <span class=" deferred-view-scroll"> <img decoding="async" src="" data-src="https://images4.penguinrandomhouse.com/cover/9780394720951" alt="Master of the Senate Book Cover Picture" loading="lazy" class="img-responsive lazyload" /></span> <div class="book-shelf-wrapper"> <div class="book-shelf-add" tabindex="0"> <img decoding="async" src="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/wp-content/themes/penguinrandomhouse/images/save-20x22.svg" width="20px" height="22px" role="button" alt="Add Master of the Senate to bookshelf"> <div class="grid-item" data-workid="24307" data-work="{"workId":24307,"isbn":9780394720951,"title":"Master of the Senate","subtitle":"The Years of Lyndon Johnson III","author":"Robert A. Caro","imprint":{"code":"V2","name":"Vintage","family":null},"onSaleDate":{"date":"2003-04-25","timezone_type":3,"timezone":"UTC"},"usPrice":25,"format":{"code":"TR","name":"Paperback","subcode":null,"subname":null,"family":"Paperback","description":"Trade Paperback"},"contributors":{"010-1001":{"id":4318,"display":"Robert A. Caro","roleCode":"A","roleName":"Author","ontour":false,"spotlight":"For his biographies of Robert Moses and Lyndon Johnson, Robert A. Caro has twice won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, has three times won the National Book Critics Circle Award, and has also won virtually every other major literary honor, including the National Book Award, the Gold Medal in Biography from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Francis Parkman Prize, awarded by the Society of American Historians to the book that best &amp;ldquo;exemplifies the union of the historian and the artist.&amp;rdquo; In 2010 President Barack Obama awarded Caro the National Humanities Medal, stating at the time: &amp;ldquo;I think about Robert Caro and reading &lt;i&gt;The Power Broker&lt;\/i&gt; back when I was twenty-two years old and just being mesmerized, and I&amp;rsquo;m sure it helped to shape how I think about politics.&amp;rdquo; In 2016 he received the National Book Award for Lifetime Achievement. The London &lt;i&gt;Sunday Times&lt;\/i&gt; has said that Caro is &amp;ldquo;The greatest political biographer of our times.&amp;rdquo;&lt;br&gt; &amp;#160;&lt;br&gt; Caro&amp;rsquo;s first book, &lt;i&gt;The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, &lt;\/i&gt;everywhere acclaimed as a modern classic, was chosen by the Modern Library as one of the hundred greatest nonfiction books of the twentieth century. It is, according to David Halberstam, &amp;ldquo;Surely the greatest book ever written about a city.&amp;rdquo; And &lt;i&gt;The New York Times Book Review&lt;\/i&gt; said: &amp;ldquo;In the future, the scholar who writes the history of American cities in the twentieth century will doubtless begin with this extraordinary effort.&amp;rdquo;&lt;br&gt; &amp;#160;&lt;br&gt; The first volume of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, &lt;i&gt;The Path to Power, &lt;\/i&gt;was cited by &lt;i&gt;The Washington Post&lt;\/i&gt; as &amp;ldquo;proof that we live in a great age of biography . . . [a book] of radiant excellence . . . Caro&amp;rsquo;s evocation of the Texas Hill Country, his elaboration of Johnson&amp;rsquo;s unsleeping ambition, his understanding of how politics actually work, are let it be said flat out&amp;mdash;at the summit of American historical writing.&amp;rdquo; Professor Henry F. Graff of Columbia University called the second volume, &lt;i&gt;Means of Ascent, &lt;\/i&gt;&amp;ldquo;brilliant. No review does justice to the drama of the story Caro is telling, which is nothing less than how present-day politics was born.&amp;rdquo; &lt;i&gt;The London Times&lt;\/i&gt; hailed volume three, &lt;i&gt;Master of the Senate,&lt;\/i&gt; as &amp;ldquo;a masterpiece . . . Robert Caro has written one of the truly great political biographies of the modern age.&amp;rdquo; &lt;i&gt;The Passage of Power, &lt;\/i&gt;volume four, has been called &amp;ldquo;Shakespearean . . . A breathtakingly dramatic story [told] with consummate artistry and ardor&amp;rdquo; (&lt;i&gt;The New York Times&lt;\/i&gt;) and &amp;ldquo;as absorbing as a political thriller . . . By writing the best presidential biography the country has ever seen, Caro has forever changed the way we think about, and read, American history&amp;rdquo; (NPR). On the cover of &lt;i&gt;The New York Times Book Review, &lt;\/i&gt;President Bill Clinton praised it as &amp;ldquo;Brilliant . . . Important . . . Remarkable. With this fascinating and meticulous account Robert Caro has once again done America a great service.&quot; In his newest book, &lt;i&gt;Working, &lt;\/i&gt;Caro gives us an unprecedented glimpse into his own life and work, in evocatively written, personal pieces.&lt;br&gt; &amp;#160;&lt;br&gt; &amp;ldquo;Caro has a unique place among American political biographers,&amp;rdquo; &lt;i&gt;The Boston Globe&lt;\/i&gt; said. &amp;ldquo;He has become, in many ways, the standard by which his fellows are measured.&amp;rdquo; And Nicholas von Hoffman wrote: &amp;ldquo;Caro has changed the art of political biography.&amp;rdquo;&lt;br&gt; &amp;#160;&lt;br&gt; Born and raised in New York City, Caro graduated from Princeton University, was later a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, and worked for six years as an investigative reporter for &lt;i&gt;Newsday.&lt;\/i&gt; He lives with his wife, the writer Ina Caro, in New York City, where he is at work on the fifth and final volume of The Years of Lyndon Johnson.","seoFriendlyUrl":"\/authors\/4318\/robert-a-caro","attr":1001,"firstInitial":"R","lastInitial":"C","hasAuthorPhoto":true,"photoCredit":"Joyce Ravid","photoDate":null,"authorPhotoUrl":"https:\/\/images.penguinrandomhouse.com\/author\/4318","primaryFlag":true}},"seoFriendlyUrl":"\/books\/24307\/master-of-the-senate-by-robert-a-caro\/9780394720951","division":{"code":"73","description":"Knopf"},"categories":[{"catId":2000000124,"catDesc":"Political Figure Biographies &amp; Memoirs","catUri":"\/political-biography-memoir","menuText":"Political","leafNode":true,"deepestNode":true,"seq":1},{"catId":2000000003,"catDesc":"20th Century U.S. History","catUri":"\/20th-century-us-history","menuText":"20th Century ","leafNode":true,"deepestNode":true,"seq":2},{"catId":2000000065,"catDesc":"Historical Figure Biographies &amp; Memoirs","catUri":"\/historical-biography-memoir","menuText":"Historical","leafNode":true,"deepestNode":true,"seq":3},{"catId":2000000021,"catDesc":"Biography &amp; Memoir","catUri":"\/biography-memoir","menuText":"Biography &amp; Memoir","leafNode":false,"deepestNode":false,"seq":0},{"catId":2000000070,"catDesc":"History","catUri":"\/history","menuText":"History","leafNode":false,"deepestNode":false,"seq":0},{"catId":2000000111,"catDesc":"Nonfiction","catUri":"\/nonfiction","menuText":"Nonfiction","leafNode":false,"deepestNode":false,"seq":0},{"catId":2000000157,"catDesc":"U.S. History","catUri":"\/us-history","menuText":"U.S. History","leafNode":false,"deepestNode":false,"seq":0}],"aboutTheBook":"&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Master of the Senate, &lt;\/i&gt;Book Three of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, carries Johnson&amp;rsquo;s story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from 1949 to 1960, in the United States Senate. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;At the heart of the book is its unprecedented revelation of how legislative power works in America, how the Senate works, and how Johnson, in his ascent to the presidency, mastered the Senate as no political leader before him had ever done.&lt;br&gt; &amp;#160;&lt;br&gt; It was during these years that all Johnson&amp;rsquo;s experience&amp;mdash;from his Texas Hill Country boyhood to his passionate representation in Congress of his hardscrabble constituents to his tireless construction of a political machine&amp;mdash;came to fruition. Caro introduces the story with a dramatic account of the Senate itself: how Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, and John C. Calhoun had made it the center of governmental energy, the forum in which the great issues of the country were thrashed out. And how, by the time Johnson arrived, it had dwindled into a body that merely responded to executive initiatives, all but impervious to the forces of change. Caro anatomizes the genius for political strategy and tactics by which, in an institution that had made the seniority system all-powerful for a century and more, Johnson became Majority Leader after only a single term-the youngest and greatest Senate Leader in our history; how he manipulated the Senate&amp;rsquo;s hallowed rules and customs and the weaknesses and strengths of his colleagues to change the &amp;ldquo;unchangeable&amp;rdquo; Senate from a loose confederation of sovereign senators to a whirring legislative machine under his own iron-fisted control.&lt;br&gt; &amp;#160;&lt;br&gt; Caro demonstrates how Johnson&amp;rsquo;s political genius enabled him to reconcile the unreconcilable: to retain the support of the southerners who controlled the Senate while earning the trust&amp;mdash;or at least the cooperation&amp;mdash;of the liberals, led by Paul Douglas and Hubert Humphrey, without whom he could not achieve his goal of winning the presidency. He shows the dark side of Johnson&amp;rsquo;s ambition: how he proved his loyalty to the great oil barons who had financed his rise to power by ruthlessly destroying the career of the New Dealer who was in charge of regulating them, Federal Power Commission Chairman Leland Olds. And we watch him achieve the impossible: convincing southerners that although he was firmly in their camp as the anointed successor to their leader, Richard Russell, it was essential that they allow him to make some progress toward civil rights. In a breathtaking tour de force, Caro details Johnson&amp;rsquo;s amazing triumph in maneuvering to passage the first civil rights legislation since 1875.&lt;br&gt; &amp;#160;&lt;br&gt; &lt;i&gt;Master of the Senate,&lt;\/i&gt; told with an abundance of rich detail that could only have come from Caro&amp;rsquo;s peerless research, is both a galvanizing portrait of the man himself&amp;mdash;the titan of Capital Hill, volcanic, mesmerizing&amp;mdash;and a definitive and revelatory study of the workings and personal and legislative power.","flags":["READER_REWARDS","INSIGHT"],"otherFields":{"netInv":2582},"vendorIds":{"Amazon":"0394720954"},"cbRtnDate":null,"asset_types":[]}"> <span class="bookShelfControl">Add to Bookshelf</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="buy"> <div class="buy_clmn buy_small"> <h3>Paperback<div class="buy-price">$25.00</div></h3> <div class="cart-bttns"> <form action="https://cart.penguinrandomhouse.com/prhcart/prhcart.php" method="post" content-type="application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8" class="cart-bttn"> <button type="submit" aria-label="Add Master of the Senate to cart">Add to cart</button> <input type="hidden" name="itemISBN" value="9780394720951"> <input type="hidden" name="itemQuantity" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="siteName" value="prh"> <input type="hidden" name="siteReturnURL" value="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/the-read-down/national-book-awards/"> <input type="hidden" name="itemReturnURL" value="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/24307/master-of-the-senate-by-robert-a-caro/9780394720951"> <input type="hidden" name="referringSite" value="prh"> </form> </div> </div> <div class="buy_clmn"> <div class="ajax-wait hidden"></div> <h3>Buy from Other Retailers:</h3> <div class="btn buy hidden"></div> <div class="hidden parking-lot 9780394720951 by_work amazonlast"></div> </div> </div> </div> </li> <li class="inner-facade no-bg-el" id="book33" format-data="Paperback,Ebook,Audio" imprint-data="Penguin Books" cat-data="World History | Science & Technology" isbn="9780141001821" ttl="In the Heart of the Sea" data-isbn="9780141001821" data-ebook="9781101221570" workid="332426" data-format="Paperback" data-format-name="Paperback" authid="61063" author="Nathaniel Philbrick" > <div class="container relative"> <div class="list-number"><span>33</span></div> <div class="list-meta-wrap"> <div class="list-meta"> <div class="readdown-cover-wrap-desktop" href="/books/332426/in-the-heart-of-the-sea-by-nathaniel-philbrick/"> <div class="cover"> <span class=" deferred-view-scroll"> <img decoding="async" src="" data-src="https://images3.penguinrandomhouse.com/cover/9780141001821" alt="In the Heart of the Sea Book Cover Picture" loading="lazy" class="img-responsive lazyload" /></span> </div> <div class="book-shelf-wrapper"> <div class="book-shelf-add" tabindex="0"> <img decoding="async" src="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/wp-content/themes/penguinrandomhouse/images/save-20x22.svg" width="20px" height="22px" role="button" alt="Add In the Heart of the Sea to bookshelf"> <div class="grid-item" data-workid="332426" data-work="{"workId":332426,"isbn":9780141001821,"title":"In the Heart of the Sea","subtitle":"The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (National Book Award Winner)","author":"Nathaniel Philbrick","imprint":{"code":"ID","name":"Penguin Books","family":"Penguin Books"},"onSaleDate":{"date":"2001-05-01","timezone_type":3,"timezone":"UTC"},"usPrice":19,"format":{"code":"TR","name":"Paperback","subcode":null,"subname":null,"family":"Paperback","description":"Trade Paperback"},"contributors":{"010-1001":{"id":61063,"display":"Nathaniel Philbrick","roleCode":"A","roleName":"Author","ontour":false,"spotlight":"&lt;b&gt;Nathaniel Philbrick&lt;\/b&gt; grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and earned a BA in English from Brown University and an MA in America Literature from Duke University, where he was a James B. 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The book also inspired a 2001 Dateline special on NBC as well as the 2010 two-hour PBS American Experience film &lt;i&gt;Into the Deep&lt;\/i&gt; by Ric Burns.\n &amp;nbsp;\n Philbrick&amp;rsquo;s writing has appeared in&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;Vanity Fair&lt;\/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;The&amp;nbsp;New York Times Book Review&lt;\/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;The&amp;nbsp;Wall Street Journal&lt;\/i&gt;, the&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;Los Angeles Times&lt;\/i&gt;, and the&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;Boston Globe&lt;\/i&gt;. He has appeared on the &lt;i&gt;Today&lt;\/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;show, &lt;i&gt;The Morning Show&lt;\/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;Dateline&lt;\/i&gt;, PBS&amp;rsquo;s &lt;i&gt;American Experience&lt;\/i&gt;, C-SPAN, and NPR. 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These proletarian heroes, with names like Lonnie, Loo, Sweet Pea, and Packy, work the furnaces, forges, slag heaps, assembly lines, and loading docks at places with unglamorous names like Brass Craft or Feinberg and Breslin&amp;rsquo;s First-Rate Plumbing and Plating. Only Studs Terkel&amp;rsquo;s &lt;i&gt;Working&lt;\/i&gt; approaches the pathos and beauty of this book. But Levine&amp;rsquo;s characters are also significant for their inner lives, not merely their jobs. They are unusually artistic, living &amp;lsquo;at the borders of dreams.&amp;rsquo; One reads &lt;i&gt;The Tempest &lt;\/i&gt;&amp;lsquo;slowly to himself&amp;rsquo;; another ponders a diagonal chalk line drawn by his teacher to suggest a triangle, the roof of a barn, or the mysterious separation of &amp;lsquo;the dark from the dark.&amp;rsquo; &lt;i&gt;What Work Is&lt;\/i&gt; ranks as a major work by a major poet . . . very accessible and utterly American in tone and language.&amp;rdquo;&lt;br&gt; &amp;mdash;Daniel L. 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In 2009 he was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize, honoring a writer&amp;rsquo;s lifetime achievement in fiction, and in 2012 he was inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame and won the PEN\/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction, which is given to an author whose &amp;ldquo;scale of achievement over a sustained career [places] him in the highest rank of American literature.&amp;rdquo; In 2013 he received the Gold Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation. Doctorow died in 2015.","seoFriendlyUrl":"\/authors\/7163\/el-doctorow","attr":1001,"firstInitial":"E","lastInitial":"D","hasAuthorPhoto":true,"photoCredit":"Gasper Tringale","photoDate":null,"authorPhotoUrl":"https:\/\/images.penguinrandomhouse.com\/author\/7163","primaryFlag":true}},"seoFriendlyUrl":"\/books\/41537\/worlds-fair-by-e-l-doctorow\/9780812978209","division":{"code":"70","description":"Random House Group"},"categories":[{"catId":2000000083,"catDesc":"Literary Fiction","catUri":"\/literary-fiction","menuText":"Literary","leafNode":true,"deepestNode":true,"seq":1},{"catId":2000000066,"catDesc":"Historical Fiction","catUri":"\/historical-fiction","menuText":"Historical Fiction","leafNode":true,"deepestNode":true,"seq":2},{"catId":2000000057,"catDesc":"Fiction","catUri":"\/fiction","menuText":"Fiction","leafNode":false,"deepestNode":false,"seq":0}],"aboutTheBook":"&lt;b&gt;Winner of the National Book Award&lt;\/b&gt; &amp;bull; &lt;b&gt;&amp;ldquo;Marvelous . . . You get lost in &lt;i&gt;World&amp;rsquo;s Fair &lt;\/i&gt;as if it were an exotic adventure. You devour it with the avidity usually provoked by a suspense thriller.&amp;rdquo;&amp;mdash;&lt;i&gt;The New York Times&lt;br&gt;&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;Hailed by critics from coast to coast and by readers of all ages, this resonant novel is one of E.L. Doctorow&amp;rsquo;s greatest works of fiction. It is 1939, and even as the rumbles of progress are being felt worldwide, New York City clings to remnants of the past, with horse-drawn wagons, street peddlers, and hurdy-gurdy men still toiling in its streets. For nine-year-old Edgar Altschuler, life is stoopball and radio serials, idolizing Joe DiMaggio, and enduring the conflicts between his realist mother and his dreamer of a father. The forthcoming Word&amp;rsquo;s Fair beckons, an amazing vision of American automation, inventiveness, and prosperity&amp;mdash;and Edgar Altschuler responds.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;A marvelous work from a master storyteller, &lt;i&gt;World&amp;rsquo;s Fair&lt;\/i&gt;&amp;#160;is a book about a boy who must surrender his innocence to come of age, and a generation that must survive great hardship to reach its future.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;Praise for &lt;i&gt;World&amp;rsquo;s Fair&lt;br&gt;&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;ldquo;Something close to magic.&amp;rdquo;&lt;b&gt;&amp;mdash;&lt;i&gt;Los Angeles Times&lt;br&gt;&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;ldquo;&lt;i&gt;World&amp;rsquo;s Fair&lt;\/i&gt;&amp;#160;is better than a time capsule; it&amp;rsquo;s an actual slice of a long-ago world, and we emerge from it as dazed as those visitors standing on the corner of the future.&amp;rdquo;&lt;b&gt;&amp;mdash;Anne Tyler&lt;br&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;ldquo;Doctorow has managed to regain the awed perspective of a child in this novel of rare warmth and intimacy. . . . Stony indeed in the heart that cannot be moved by this book.&amp;rdquo;&lt;b&gt;&amp;mdash;&lt;i&gt;People&lt;br&gt;&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;ldquo;Fascinating . . . exquisitely rendered details of a lost way of life.&amp;rdquo;&lt;b&gt;&amp;mdash;&lt;i&gt;Newsweek&lt;br&gt;&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;ldquo;Wonderful reading.&amp;rdquo;&lt;b&gt;&amp;mdash;&lt;i&gt;USA Today&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;","flags":["READER_REWARDS"],"otherFields":{"netInv":0},"vendorIds":{"Amazon":"081297820X"},"cbRtnDate":null,"asset_types":[]}"> <span class="bookShelfControl">Add to Bookshelf</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2><a href="/books/41537/worlds-fair-by-e-l-doctorow/">World’s Fair</a></h2> <h2 class="author">by <a href="/authors/7163">E.L. Doctorow</a> </h2> <div class="desc">Fiction 1986 <br><br> A marvelous work from a master storyteller, <i>World’s Fair</i> is a book about a boy who must surrender his innocence to come of age, and a generation that must survive great hardship to reach its future.</div> <div class="readdown-cover-wrap-mobile " href="/books/41537/worlds-fair-by-e-l-doctorow/"> <span class=" deferred-view-scroll"> <img decoding="async" src="" data-src="https://images1.penguinrandomhouse.com/cover/9780812978209" alt="World's Fair Book Cover Picture" loading="lazy" class="img-responsive lazyload" /></span> <div class="book-shelf-wrapper"> <div class="book-shelf-add" tabindex="0"> <img decoding="async" src="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/wp-content/themes/penguinrandomhouse/images/save-20x22.svg" width="20px" height="22px" role="button" alt="Add World's Fair to bookshelf"> <div class="grid-item" data-workid="41537" data-work="{"workId":41537,"isbn":9780812978209,"title":"World&#039;s Fair","subtitle":"A Novel","author":"E. 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In 2009 he was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize, honoring a writer&amp;rsquo;s lifetime achievement in fiction, and in 2012 he was inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame and won the PEN\/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction, which is given to an author whose &amp;ldquo;scale of achievement over a sustained career [places] him in the highest rank of American literature.&amp;rdquo; In 2013 he received the Gold Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation. 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You get lost in &lt;i&gt;World&amp;rsquo;s Fair &lt;\/i&gt;as if it were an exotic adventure. You devour it with the avidity usually provoked by a suspense thriller.&amp;rdquo;&amp;mdash;&lt;i&gt;The New York Times&lt;br&gt;&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;Hailed by critics from coast to coast and by readers of all ages, this resonant novel is one of E.L. Doctorow&amp;rsquo;s greatest works of fiction. It is 1939, and even as the rumbles of progress are being felt worldwide, New York City clings to remnants of the past, with horse-drawn wagons, street peddlers, and hurdy-gurdy men still toiling in its streets. For nine-year-old Edgar Altschuler, life is stoopball and radio serials, idolizing Joe DiMaggio, and enduring the conflicts between his realist mother and his dreamer of a father. The forthcoming Word&amp;rsquo;s Fair beckons, an amazing vision of American automation, inventiveness, and prosperity&amp;mdash;and Edgar Altschuler responds.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;A marvelous work from a master storyteller, &lt;i&gt;World&amp;rsquo;s Fair&lt;\/i&gt;&amp;#160;is a book about a boy who must surrender his innocence to come of age, and a generation that must survive great hardship to reach its future.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;Praise for &lt;i&gt;World&amp;rsquo;s Fair&lt;br&gt;&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;ldquo;Something close to magic.&amp;rdquo;&lt;b&gt;&amp;mdash;&lt;i&gt;Los Angeles Times&lt;br&gt;&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;ldquo;&lt;i&gt;World&amp;rsquo;s Fair&lt;\/i&gt;&amp;#160;is better than a time capsule; it&amp;rsquo;s an actual slice of a long-ago world, and we emerge from it as dazed as those visitors standing on the corner of the future.&amp;rdquo;&lt;b&gt;&amp;mdash;Anne Tyler&lt;br&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;ldquo;Doctorow has managed to regain the awed perspective of a child in this novel of rare warmth and intimacy. . . . 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His Cyclopean gaze reflects on the degradations of city life while looking deep into the sufferings of the human soul. 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But it was precisely those elements of Vonnegut&amp;rsquo;s writing&amp;mdash;the political edginess, the genre-bending inventiveness, the frank violence, the transgressive wit&amp;mdash;that have inspired generations of readers not just to look differently at the world around them but to find the confidence to say something about it. Authors as wide-ranging as Norman Mailer, John Irving, Michael Crichton, Tim O&amp;rsquo;Brien, Margaret Atwood, Elizabeth Strout, David Sedaris, Jennifer Egan, and J. K. Rowling have all found inspiration in Vonnegut&amp;rsquo;s words. Jonathan Safran Foer has described Vonnegut as &amp;ldquo;the kind of writer who made people&amp;mdash;young people especially&amp;mdash;want to write.&amp;rdquo; George Saunders has declared Vonnegut to be &amp;ldquo;the great, urgent, passionate American writer of our century, who offers us . . . a model of the kind of compassionate thinking that might yet save us from ourselves.&amp;rdquo;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;More than fifty years after its initial publication at the height of the Vietnam War, Vonnegut&amp;rsquo;s portrayal of political disillusionment, PTSD, and postwar anxiety feels as relevant, darkly humorous, and profoundly affecting as ever, an enduring beacon through our own era&amp;rsquo;s uncertainties.","flags":["READER_REWARDS","INSIGHT"],"otherFields":{"netInv":2757},"vendorIds":{"Amazon":"0385333846"},"cbRtnDate":null,"asset_types":[]}"> <span class="bookShelfControl">Add to Bookshelf</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2><a href="/books/184345/slaughterhouse-five-by-kurt-vonnegut/">Slaughterhouse-Five</a></h2> <h2 class="author">by <a href="/authors/32175">Kurt Vonnegut</a> </h2> <div class="desc">Fiction 1970 <br><br> Kurt Vonnegut’s masterpiece, <i>Slaughterhouse-Five</i> is “a desperate, painfully honest attempt to confront the monstrous crimes of the twentieth century” (<i>Time</i>). 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He is the author of more than thirty books. &lt;i&gt;The Castle in the Forest,&lt;\/i&gt; his last novel, was his eleventh &lt;i&gt;New York Times&lt;\/i&gt; bestseller. His first novel, &lt;i&gt;The Naked and the Dead, &lt;\/i&gt;has never gone out of print. His 1968 nonfiction narrative, &lt;i&gt;The Armies of the Night,&lt;\/i&gt; won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. He won a second Pulitzer for &lt;i&gt;The Executioner&amp;rsquo;s Song&lt;\/i&gt; and is the only person to date to have won Pulitzers in both fiction and nonfiction. Five of his books were nominated for National Book Awards, and he won a lifetime achievement award from the National Book Foundation in 2005. 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Winner of America&amp;rsquo;s two highest literary awards, &lt;i&gt;The Armies of the Night&lt;\/i&gt; uniquely and unforgettably captures the Sixties&amp;rsquo; tidal wave of love and rage at its crest and a towering genius at his peak.&lt;i&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;\/i&gt;&lt;br&gt; The time is October 21, 1967. The place is Washington, D.C. Depending on the paper you read, 20,000 to 200,000 protestors are marching to end the war in Vietnam, while helicopters hover overhead and federal marshals and soldiers with fixed bayonets await them on the Pentagon steps. Among the marchers is a writer named Norman Mailer. From his own singular participation in the day&amp;rsquo;s events and his even more extraordinary perceptions comes a classic work that shatters the mold of traditional reportage. 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Winner of America&amp;rsquo;s two highest literary awards, &lt;i&gt;The Armies of the Night&lt;\/i&gt; uniquely and unforgettably captures the Sixties&amp;rsquo; tidal wave of love and rage at its crest and a towering genius at his peak.&lt;i&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;\/i&gt;&lt;br&gt; The time is October 21, 1967. The place is Washington, D.C. Depending on the paper you read, 20,000 to 200,000 protestors are marching to end the war in Vietnam, while helicopters hover overhead and federal marshals and soldiers with fixed bayonets await them on the Pentagon steps. Among the marchers is a writer named Norman Mailer. From his own singular participation in the day&amp;rsquo;s events and his even more extraordinary perceptions comes a classic work that shatters the mold of traditional reportage. 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In 2005&amp;#160;&lt;i&gt;The Plot Against America &lt;\/i&gt;received&lt;i&gt; &lt;\/i&gt;the Society of American Historians&amp;rsquo; Prize for &amp;ldquo;the outstanding&lt;i&gt; &lt;\/i&gt;historical novel on an American theme for 2003&amp;ndash;2004.&amp;rdquo;&lt;i&gt; &lt;\/i&gt;Roth received PEN&amp;rsquo;s two most prestigious awards:&lt;i&gt; &lt;\/i&gt;in 2006 the PEN\/Nabokov Award and in 2007 the PEN\/Bellow Award for achievement in American fiction. In 2011 he received the National Humanities&lt;i&gt; &lt;\/i&gt;Medal at the White House, and was later named the fourth&lt;i&gt; &lt;\/i&gt;recipient of the Man Booker International Prize. 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He received his bachelor&#039;s degree from Northwestern University in 1937. His novel&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;The Adventures of Augie March&lt;\/i&gt; won the National Book Award for fiction in 1954. His further awards include the Pulitzer Prize&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;\/b&gt;for&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Humboldt&#039;s Gift&lt;\/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;(1975); the International Literary Prize for&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;Herzog&lt;\/i&gt;, for which he became the first American recipient; and the Croix de Chevalier des Arts et Lettres, the highest literary distinction awarded by France to non-citizens. 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In 2005&amp;#160;&lt;i&gt;The Plot Against America &lt;\/i&gt;received&lt;i&gt; &lt;\/i&gt;the Society of American Historians&amp;rsquo; Prize for &amp;ldquo;the outstanding&lt;i&gt; &lt;\/i&gt;historical novel on an American theme for 2003&amp;ndash;2004.&amp;rdquo;&lt;i&gt; &lt;\/i&gt;Roth received PEN&amp;rsquo;s two most prestigious awards:&lt;i&gt; &lt;\/i&gt;in 2006 the PEN\/Nabokov Award and in 2007 the PEN\/Bellow Award for achievement in American fiction. In 2011 he received the National Humanities&lt;i&gt; &lt;\/i&gt;Medal at the White House, and was later named the fourth&lt;i&gt; &lt;\/i&gt;recipient of the Man Booker International Prize. 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But as his daughter looks back on his life, a different man emerges: One in conflict with his ambitious and shrewish wife, terrified that the misdeeds of his children will dash his political dreams, and in love with a model half his age. 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Now the original language has at last been restored to the most important American novel to come out of World War II. &lt;i&gt;From Here to Eternity&lt;\/i&gt; re-creates the authentic soldier experience and captures, like nothing else, the honor and savagery of man.&lt;br&gt; &amp;#160;&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;Foreword by William Styron&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160; &lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;#160;&lt;br&gt; &amp;ldquo;A work of genius.&amp;rdquo;&lt;b&gt;&amp;mdash;&lt;i&gt;Saturday Review&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;i&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;ldquo;Extraordinary and utterly irresistible . . . a compelling and compassionate story.&amp;rdquo;&lt;b&gt;&amp;mdash;&lt;i&gt;Los Angeles Times&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;#160;&lt;br&gt; &amp;ldquo;A blockbuster of a book . . . raw and brutal and angry.&amp;rdquo;&lt;b&gt;&amp;mdash;&lt;i&gt;The New York Times&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;ldquo;Ferocious . . . the most realistic and forceful novel I&amp;rsquo;ve read about life in the army.&amp;rdquo;&lt;b&gt;&amp;mdash;&lt;i&gt;The New Yorker&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;","flags":["READER_REWARDS","INSIGHT"],"otherFields":{"netInv":27},"vendorIds":{"Amazon":"0812984315"},"cbRtnDate":null,"asset_types":[]}"> <span class="bookShelfControl">Add to Bookshelf</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2><a href="/books/88405/from-here-to-eternity-by-james-jones/">From Here to Eternity</a></h2> <h2 class="author">by <a href="/authors/14739">James Jones</a> </h2> <div class="desc">Fiction 1952 <br><br> 1941: Pvt. Robert E. Lee Prewitt is a champion welterweight and a fine bugler. But when he refuses to join the company’s boxing team, he gets “the treatment” that may break him or kill him. First Sgt. Milton Anthony Warden knows how to soldier better than almost anyone, yet he’s risking his career to have an affair with his commanding officer’s wife. 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