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David Brent 📚

Just finished Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow, which of course was the inspiration for the hit Broadway show. Truly a fascinating life, where sometimes fact is stranger than fiction. It makes one wonder what might have happened had Hamilton's life not been cut short.

This quote stood out to me:

"His faith in Americans never quite matched his faith in America itself." It was like he had a crystal ball.

#Books #FridayReads #Bookstodon #AmReading #History #NonFiction #Biography @bookstodon

Cover for the book Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow, author of TItan and The House of Morgan. Cover image shows a classic portrait of the books title subject, as well as the logo for the Hamilton Broadway show.
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TheEdinburghBookshop

My Family & Other Rock Stars by Tiffany Murray was one of Joe's favourite reads of 2024 (we had a terrific event for the hardback release).

To celebrate the paperback release, we took it on a trip to fab & groovy Thorne Records, our close neighbours and a superb Indie vinyl store.

A total delight, packed with musical memory nuggets

Rosie of Indie vinyl shop Thorne Records, holding up a paperback copy of My Family and Other Rock Stars by Tiffany Murray
#books#livres#music
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Plain Reading Podcast

We're back with season 3 of Plain Reading! Check out our conversation with author and environmental studies professor Liam Heneghan—we're talking #Beckett, #biography, and a whole lot more!

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plainreading.libsyn.comPlain Reading: Beckett, Biography, and Absorbing Books: Liam HeneghanWe’re talking to environmental studies professor and author , who joins us to talk about sustained reading, the politics of biography, Samuel Beckett, and more! Intro and outro music: "" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay. Episode artwork: Samuel Beckett [cropped]. Public domain image by Roger Pic courtesy Bibliothèque national de France and . Want to learn more about the books—and other media!—we talked about on this episode? Check out the list below. You can also find us on , , and —and show your support at ! Samuel Beckett                       Samuel Beckett Deirdre Blair Patricia Claus ""                                                                       Charles Darwin Charles Darwin David Foster Wallace  Alan Garner "" Jack Halberstam Liam Heneghan James Joyce James Joyce Patrick Joyce Immanuel Kant Lucretius Thomas Mann David Marr Ottessa Moshfegh Ottessa Moshfegh Ottessa Moshfegh Ottessa Moshfegh Flannery O'Connor "" Gary Shteyngart "" Colm Tóibín "" Helen Vendler Patrick White Patrick White  
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The Kid Should See This 🌈🪐✨

📅 On this day in 1947: Jackie Robinson made his major league debut with the #Brooklyn #Dodgers, becoming the first African American to play in #MLB in the modern era. ⚾️🏆

Did you know? His brother Mack Robinson won a silver medal in the 1936 #Olympics, finishing just behind Jesse Owens. Both brothers are honored with memorial statues in their hometown of #Pasadena, California.

👉 Learn more: thekidshouldseethis.com/post/j

A photo of Jackie Robinson
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JuneSim63

"One of Graydon’s wizard wheezes at Spy was to send extremely small cheques to extremely rich people to see who would bother to bank them. The first cheques were for $1.11 and half the recipients succumbed. So then Spy sent cheques for $0.64, and 13 people, including Rupert Murdoch, banked them. The next cheques were for $0.13 and only two people banked them. One was Adnan Khashoggi, a notorious arms dealer; the other was Donald Trump"

#GraydonCarter #Biography

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The Guardian · When the Going Was Good by Graydon Carter review – all the fun of the FairBy Lynn Barber
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MikeDunnAuthor

Today In Labor History March 26, 1918: American anarchist Philip Grosser wrote about being tortured in the prison on Alcatraz Island, while serving time there for refusing to serve in World War I. By 1920, he was the only draft resistor still serving time at Alcatraz. Alexander Berkman referred to him as "one of [my] finest comrades."

#workingclass #LaborHistory #anarchism #philipgrosser #alexanderberkman #alcatraz #prison #torture #WarResistance #wwi #antiwar #writer #author #books #biography @bookstadon

Cover of Grosser's pamphlet, "Alactraz, Uncle Sam's Devil's Island," with blue cover and sketch of the prison building on Alcatraz island. The pamphlet is laying over a page in Grosser's biography, with a sketch of Grosser, looking straight ahead, clean shaven, in a suit and tie.
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Becoming Beauvoir by Kate Kirkpatrick, 2019

A symbol of liberated womanhood, Simone de Beauvoir's unconventional relationships inspired and scandalised her generation. A philosopher, writer, and feminist icon, she won prestigious literary prizes and transformed the way we think about gender with The Second Sex. But despite her successes, she wondered if she had sold herself short.

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#Beauvoir

Her liaison with Jean-Paul Sartre has been billed as one of the most legendary love affairs of the twentieth century. But for Beauvoir it came at a cost: for decades she was dismissed as an unoriginal thinker who 'applied' Sartre's ideas. In recent years new material has come to light revealing the ingenuity of Beauvoir's own philosophy and the importance of other lovers in her life. This ground-breaking biography draws on never-before-published diaries and letters to tell the fascinating story of how Simone de Beauvoir became herself.
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Flipboard Culture Desk

Maria Shriver is opening up about loss and grief in a big way. In her new book I Am Maria — a collection of poems and reflections by the author — Shriver, 69, revealed she was unable to get off the floor of her hotel room after learning of her husband Arnold Schwarzenegger’s infidelity. The news came soon after the deaths of both of her parents. @usweekly reports:
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Us Weekly · Maria Shriver Was ‘Consumed With Grief’ After Husband’s AffairBy Stephanie Kaloi
#ArnoldSchwarzenegger#MariaShriver#Celebrity
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Flipboard Culture Desk

Award-winning actor Courtney B. Vance will be narrating the first ever audio edition of one of the most acclaimed literary biographies of the past 30 years, David Levering Lewis’ two volume work on the scholar, author and civil rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois. @AssociatedPress reports:
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AP News · Courtney B. Vance to narrate audio edition of prize-winning W.E.B. Du Bois biographyAward-winning actor Courtney B. Vance will be narrating the first ever-audio edition of one of the most acclaimed literary biographies of the past 30 years, David Levering Lewis’ two-volume work on the scholar, author and civil rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois. The first volume is scheduled for June 17. Lewis received Pulitzer Prizes for each of his Du Bois books: “W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868–1919,” published in 1994, and “W. E. B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919–1963,” published in 2001.
#CourtneyBVance#Biography#AudioBook
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