![]() Ruth did not want to discuss the painful details of her early family life when her abusive father, Tateh, lorded over her sweet-tempered and meek mother, Mameh ("tateh" and "mameh" are Yiddish terms of endearment for "father" and "mother," roughly equivalent to "daddy and "mommy" ). ![]() James's childhood was spent in a chaotic household of twelve children who had neither the time nor the outlet to ponder questions of race and identity. ![]() Ruth married Andrew Dennis McBride, a black man from North Carolina. In The Color of Water author James McBride writes both his autobiography and a tribute to the life of his mother, Ruth McBride. The chapters alternate between James McBride's descriptions of his early life and first-person accounts of his mother Ruth's life, mostly taking place before her son was born. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother, is the autobiography and memoir of James McBride first published in 1995 it is also a tribute to his mother, whom he calls Mommy, or Ma. ![]()
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![]() Liberty's ten thousand undergraduates take courses like Evangelism 101 and follow a forty-six-page code of conduct that regulates every aspect of their social lives. Liberty is the late Reverend Jerry Falwell's "Bible Boot Camp" for young evangelicals, his training ground for the next generation of America's Religious Right. But when Roose leaves his Ivy League confines to spend a semester at Liberty University, a conservative Baptist school in Lynchburg, Virginia, obedience is no longer optional. As a sophomore at Brown University, he spent his days fitting right in with Brown's free-spirited, ultra-liberal student body. Kevin Roose wasn't used to rules like these. The hilarious and heartwarming, respectful and thought-provoking memoir of a college student's semester at Liberty University, the "Bible Boot Camp" for young evangelicals, that will inspire believers and nonbelievers alike. ![]() ![]() ![]() The protagonist’s social supports are her parents, Marg and Trevor her friends, Kate, Gary, and Susie and her son, Dan all are well-developed characters, including young Dan, who merits lots of direct dialogue as well as his own internal conflicts. This book touches on the themes of love, identity, and conflict in ways specific to the characters, but universal enough to draw the audience in. Even though she has a supportive, loving network of friends and family, she still yearns for a romantic love of her own. Mavis also tries to juggle fame with the need to keep her family intact. He wants to know the name and story of his biological father, and he dislikes sharing his mother with the hordes of fans that now surround them. ![]() Her son, Dan, now ten, has identity problems of his own. To that end, most people refer to her as Nikki, a name that symbolizes the confident woman she has become. Although people close to her still call her by the name on her birth certificate, she associates that name with the insecure teenager she once was. She grapples with whether to be referred to by her given name or her stage name, Nikki. Knight’s Song Bird: Matters of the Heart, the plucky singer introduced in Life Song again takes center stage as an international music star.ĭespite her fame, Mavis Mills still struggles with the issues that rendered Life Song so relatable and complex. An Australian music star must balance fame with family in this story filled with lush descriptions of the country. ![]() ![]() ![]() The book’s tone suffers as it oscillates between revisionist historical analyses and the application of fascist themes to American popular culture nonetheless, the controversial arc Goldberg draws from Mussolini to The Matrix Much of this will be music to conservatives’ ears, but other readers may be stopped cold by the parallels Goldberg draws between Nazi Germany and the New Deal. ![]() He lays low such lights of liberal history as Margaret Sanger, apparently a radical eugenicist, and JFK, whose cult of personality, according to Goldberg, reeks of fascist political theater. Goldberg’s study of the conceptual overlap between fascism and ideas emanating from the environmental movement, Hollywood, the Democratic Party and what he calls other left-wing organs is shocking and hilarious. ![]() With chapter titles such as “Adolf Hitler: Man of the Left†and “Brave New Village: Hillary Clinton and the Meaning of Liberal Fascismâ€â€”Goldberg argues that fascism “has always†been “a phenomenon of the left.†This is Goldberg’s first book, and he wisely curbs his wry National Review In this provocative and well-researched book, Goldberg probes modern liberalism’s spooky origins in early 20th-century fascist politics. ![]() |