NYT - Hardcover Nonfiction

New York Times - Hardcover Nonfiction
 

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1. Lovely one: a memoir

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Author:
Jackson, Ketanji Brown, 1970-
Notes:
#9 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-10-13. Last week it was ranked 9. It has been on the list for 4 week(s).
Formats:
Book, Large Print, OverDrive eAudiobook, OverDrive eBook
Description:
Supreme Court "Justice Jackson learned from her educator parents to take pride in her heritage since birth. She describes her resolve as a young girl to honor this legacy and realize her dreams: from hearing stories of her grandparents and parents breaking barriers in the segregated South, to honing her voice in high school as an oratory champion and student body president, to graduating magna cum laude from Harvard, where she performed in musical...

2. The demon of unrest: a saga of hubris, heartbreak, and heroism at the dawn of the Civil War

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Author:
Larson, Erik, 1954-
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Notes:
#14 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-10-13. It has been on the list for 21 week(s).
Formats:
Book, Large Print, OverDrive eAudiobook, OverDrive eBook
Description:
"On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the fluky victor in a tight race for president. The country was bitterly at odds; Southern extremists were moving ever closer to destroying the Union, with one state after another seceding and Lincoln powerless to stop them. Slavery fueled the conflict, but somehow the passions of North and South came to focus on a lonely federal fortress in Charleston Harbor: Fort Sumter. ...[An] account of the chaotic...