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vintageanchorbooks: ““Yet the winner [of the National Book Award] in general nonfiction… was “All God’s Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw,” an oral history of an illiterate black Alabama sharecropper. Its author, the man who compiled it from extensive...
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"Yet the winner [of the National Book Award] in general nonfiction… was “All God’s Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw,” an oral history of an illiterate black Alabama sharecropper. Its author, the man who compiled it from extensive interviews, was a writer named Theodore Rosengarten.  Read the full article here: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/19/books/all-gods-dangers-a-forgotten-autobiography.html

Theodore Rosengarten’s award-winning book, All God’s Dangers, is available as an eBook: http://ow.ly/vZAaO. Nate Shaw’s father was born under slavery. Nate Shaw was born into a bondage that was only a little gentler. At the age of nine, he was picking cotton for thirty-five cents an hour. At the age of forty-seven, he faced down a crowd of white deputies who had come to confiscate a neighbor’s crop. His defiance cost him twelve years in prison. This triumphant autobiography, assembled from the eighty-four-year-old Shaw’s oral reminiscences, is the plain-spoken story of an “over-average” man who witnessed wrenching changes in the lives of Southern black people — and whose unassuming courage helped bring those changes about.

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After combing through more than a thousand sources, law historian Annette Gordon-Reed’s research confirmed Founding Father Thomas Jefferson’s long-suspected intimate relationship with the enslaved Sally Hemings, who bore Jefferson six children— and who herself came from a large family of men and women related by blood to Jefferson’s wife Martha. Her groundbreaking book The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family won the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 2008.

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#NBAwards Finalist in Nonfiction, #Ta-Nehisi Coates writes the following in his personal memoir, Between the World and Me, an open letter to his teenage son:

“And so I had no sense that any just God was on my side. ‘The meek shall inherit the earth’ meant nothing to me. The meek were battered in West Baltimore, stomped out at Walbrook Junction, bashed up on Park Heights, and raped in the showers of the city jail.” 

Watch the #NBAwards ceremony live stream at nationalbook.org, xxpm, November 18.  For more from #BetweenTheWorldAndMe, visit: http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2015_nf_tcoates.html#.Vjos8269GSo

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“My understanding of the universe was physical, and its moral arc bent toward chaos then concluded in a box.”

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Novelist Edwidge Danticat became a National Book Award Finalist in 2007 for her moving family memoir Brother, I’m Dying. Born and raised in Port-au-Prince, Haiti until the age of twelve, Danticat recalls the lives of her father and uncle; two men who follow different paths to escape Haiti’s political turmoil. While one immigrates to the United States, the other remains until the country’s violent unrest destroys his livelihood. In sharing the lives and tragic deaths of these two men, Danticat tells a larger story of family and exile, the Haitian diaspora, and the harsh realities of US immigration policy in a post- 9/11 world.

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“Removal” lies at the heart of the story we commonly tell about Indians in the nineteenth century. At first glance, removal and the grand project of “civilizing” heathen peoples appear to be opposites. Yet on the deepest level, they were joined—were, indeed, different expressions of the same impulse. For the civilizing process imposed a complete renunciation of traditional lifeways; as such, it was another form, a cultural form, of removal.

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