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When I am reading a book like this, I feel rich and profoundly relieved to be in the presence of someone who will share the truth with me, and throw the lights on a little, and I try to write these kinds of books. Books, for me, are medicine. [8] Lamott was featured on the second episode of the first season of the show The Midnight Gospel.
Welch's work was collected in Nothing but the Truth, an Anthology of Native American Literature. He is one of the early authors of what became called the Native American literary renaissance. [13] He wanted to explore Native American life in his writing, both its good and bad aspects as people struggled with modern United States culture. [1]
Thomas Hunt King was born in Roseville, California, on April 24, 1943. [2] [3] He self-identifies as being of Cherokee, Greek, and German descent, but the recognized cheokee tribes, tribes with some of the most detailed genealogy records in the USA, have no recorded documentation to support the claim that he or his father are cherokee.
Jill Lepore is an American historian and journalist. She is the David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History at Harvard University [1] and a staff writer at The New Yorker, where she has contributed since 2005.
James William Loewen (February 6, 1942 – August 19, 2021) was an American sociologist, historian, and author. He was best known for his 1995 book, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong.
Clinton "Clint" Smith III (born August 25, 1988) is an American writer, poet and scholar. He is the author of the number one New York Times Best Seller, How the Word Is Passed, which won the 2021 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction and was named one of the top ten books of 2021 by the New York Times.
Americans are indeed loaded with facts about the country, but it turns out even they don't know some of the oddest truths that lie outside a history book.
The book lampoons American and Western society in the same way that Innocents critiqued the various countries of Europe and the Middle East. Twain's next work was The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, his first attempt at writing a novel. The book, written with Twain's neighbor Charles Dudley Warner, is also his only collaboration.