Todd Brewster
Autor(a) de The Century
About the Author
Todd Brewster has served as Don E. Ackerman Director of Oral History at the United States Military Academy, West Point, and is a longtime journalist who has worked as an editor for Time and Life and as senior producer for ABC News. He has written for Vanity Fair, Time, Life, the Raffington Post, mostrar mais the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the New York Times, and is the coauthor with the late Peter Jennings of the bestselling books The Century, The Century for YoungPeople, and In Search of America. He lives with his wife and two sons in Ridgefield, Connecticut. mostrar menos
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Obras por Todd Brewster
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Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond (2016) — Prefácio, algumas edições — 245 exemplares
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- journalist
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- Time
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Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- Todd Brewster is an American author, journalist, and film producer.
Brewster served as Senior Editorial Producer for ABC News and co-authored three books with the late Peter Jennings: The Century, The Century for Young People, and In Search of America. The Century, a 600-page book on the history of the twentieth century, was originally designed as a companion book for ABC's 1999 documentary series of the same name, but months before the series debuted, the book had already topped the New York Times Best Seller List. It remained near the top of the list for nearly a year and is believed to have sold more than 1.5 million copies, more than any "companion book" in publishing history. [from Todd Brewster in Wikipedia]
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Excellent...great as a go-to for refreshers on recent history, and engaging enough to read from cover to cover which is what I did:) It will stay where I can grab it for reference.
OK, this isn't the type of book you sit and read from front to back, but it's worth reading pockets of it. It's amazing how much is crammed into this book, not that it's small.
I ended up using sections of this book as a resource for some writing. I thought initially that the section might have been to thin on information, but further research at multiple websites had it standing up quite well.
I ended up using sections of this book as a resource for some writing. I thought initially that the section might have been to thin on information, but further research at multiple websites had it standing up quite well.
I didn't realize that I really didn't know that much about Lincoln and the story behind the Emancipation Proclamation. I'm glad that I had the opportunity to read this book. I can only imagine the struggles that he went through as he prepared this proclamation, all while dealing with his cabinet members that often times had other ideas on what to do with this subject.
It took me a little while to read the book, as I kept going back to pages to reread them in order to really understand what was happening. However, I'm glad that I did - my prior lack of knowledge on this subject was very evident to me, and I wanted to ensure that by the time I was done with the book that I would really understand what was happening - I feel I succeeded with that.
For anyone that is interested in this subject I would highly recommend that you add this book to the list of your reading materials - you won't be disappointed.… (mais)
It took me a little while to read the book, as I kept going back to pages to reread them in order to really understand what was happening. However, I'm glad that I did - my prior lack of knowledge on this subject was very evident to me, and I wanted to ensure that by the time I was done with the book that I would really understand what was happening - I feel I succeeded with that.
For anyone that is interested in this subject I would highly recommend that you add this book to the list of your reading materials - you won't be disappointed.… (mais)
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While a nice size for a coffee table book, and it would make an excellent one, don't think that this isn't also very informative. You will want to read the essays, whether before flipping through the entire book (something I can't do with an image-rich volume) or after taking a quick trip through all of the wonderful photographs (the way I have to do it).
The essays certainly add some perspective to both the development of what we now call childhood and the functions photographs have performed over the years. But don't turn off your critical approach once you start focusing on the pictures. Look at them as actively as you read the essays. They speak volumes, not always positively, about our society and how it has, or has not, evolved.
I went off on several tangents that, to me, helps to make this an even more enjoyable and valuable book. I will mention two of them to highlight what else you can get from this book.
First, on a personal note, I saw a photograph that was from a town I lived in but don't see very often in books or other popular culture. Sure, I see some of the places I've lived everywhere, namely LA (and the San Fernando Valley), NYC, and even Hawaii. But I don't see a lot about Greenbelt, MD. The picture is from 1942 and is off a high school band. Using the credits in the back, I tracked down many other photographs taken at the same time (gotta love the Library of Congress archives!). Many of the buildings took me back to my time there in the late 60s. Even better, I discovered how amazing those archives are, so now I can spend some time looking up other interesting and/or important places. In other words, I found a new, for me, resource.
Second, on a less pleasant but far more important note, there is a picture of a classroom in Selma, AL from 1965. That same year I went from 1st to 2nd grade, roughly the same age as the child pictured. Even given some degree of ruralness to the area, there was no reason, beyond Jim Crow, for any child in the US to have had to go to a school in that condition. None of the schools I attended, rural, suburban, or urban, were anywhere near as run down. Separate but equal my ass! Again, I went to the credits and looked up other pictures by the same photographer. One was absolutely chilling, a photograph of where Viola Liuzzo's car came to rest when the KKK killed her for helping citizens exercise their voting rights. Not much has changed, except they're back to legislating their voter suppression rather than running down and shooting those doing good work.
Obviously the tangents I went off on have to do with what I find interesting or important. But with so many pictures from such a diverse range of children and locations, I think most readers will find things they would like to know more about. And any book that is so interesting that it makes me want to do more research is a success in my eyes. Your interests may be centered on the picture of Walken as a child, entertaining friends, or unknown children playing, or even portraits from over a century ago of children whose stories are lost to history. So many ways into and around this book.
Reviewed from a copy made available by the publisher via NetGalley.… (mais)