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Forty Autumns
Forty Autumns (HarperCollins William Morrow) is a true story of escape, those that remained behind the Iron Curtain and an American spy mission into the heart of Soviet territory.
Internationally acclaimed for its narrative nonfiction storytelling, and praised for its "enduring resilience of the human spirit," Forty Autumns is the powerful and inspiring story of Willner's family divided by the Iron Read more of this blog post »
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"A staggering, compassionate, comprehensive, and definitive biography of Baldwin that succeeds despite the shortcomings of its own framing device, Baldwin: A Love Story will at the very least make fans of Baldwin fall in love with him all over again. "
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Great question. Both of my books are cautionary tales about the rise of authoritarianism. Wendell Phillips, abolitionist, said, "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." This is a call to action. We must remain vigilant always and confront hate, d
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“What will become of a country...when a mother cannot trust her own children, and they, in turn, cannot trust their own families?”
― Forty Autumns: A Family's Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall
― Forty Autumns: A Family's Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall
“It pained Oma to watch her children enter the youth movement. Nothing good, she thought, could come from the East German regime manipulating the minds of the country’s vulnerable youth. She could see how such pledges filled with propaganda had taken the place of prayers and hymns in the way that they invited worship of an ignoble and sinister power.”
― Forty Autumns: A Powerful Story of Family Separation, Courage, and Life Divided by the Berlin Wall
― Forty Autumns: A Powerful Story of Family Separation, Courage, and Life Divided by the Berlin Wall
“The first challenge the Soviets faced was to change the mind-set of the almost 19 million German citizens who, long before World War II, had been led to believe that communism was the greatest threat to the Western world. Stalin demanded the transition be swift, and the approach uncompromising”
― Forty Autumns: A Powerful Story of Family Separation, Courage, and Life Divided by the Berlin Wall
― Forty Autumns: A Powerful Story of Family Separation, Courage, and Life Divided by the Berlin Wall
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― A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
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“Freedom is the most valuable thing a human being can possess. The only people who know that are people who have had to live without it." - Peter Strelzyk, escapee”
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