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  Thomas Jefferson Survives -...

  Peter S. Onuf, Francis D....

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  “Does Thomas Jefferson still matter?” ask two leading historians on the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. 
    
  Thomas Jefferson has been reinvented more than perhaps any American president in history. In the nineteenth century, slavery’s defenders invoked Jefferson’s defense of states’ rights while abolitionists drew on his antislavery writings in support of their cause. After the Civil War, Jefferson’s reputation declined because of his association with secession and disunion, but in the twentieth century, his image soared as he came to embody the democratic values America fought for during World War II.  
    
  Unsurprisingly, Jefferson’s legacy has shifted yet again in the twenty-first century, effectively becoming a partisan talisman—jettisoned by the left as a plantation patriarch and repurposed by the right as an avatar of white nationalism. Dissatisfied with these political caricatures and manic swings, leading Jefferson scholars Peter S. Onuf and Francis D. Cogliano instead situate the founding father in his complicated historical context and reveal how his wisdom can be applied today.  
    
  In a series of three interrelated essays, the authors paint a nuanced portrait. “Generations” elucidates how Jefferson’s understanding of history shaped his responses to the major problems of his time. “My Country” delves into how he conceived of the American homeland, and “The People” unravels how Jefferson articulated a new national identity in the Declaration of Independence.  
    
  Taken together, Thomas Jefferson Survives demonstrates how even amid crisis, Jefferson managed to articulate a capacious and optimistic vision for the future of the American people. As Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed writes in her foreword, “As much as Jefferson reflected the often-benighted times in which he lived, he rose above them in ways that have a great deal to tell us about the political straits in which we find ourselves.” After all, Jefferson knew better than anyone that 1776 was an important moment, but not the only moment, for Americans to write a better future. 
    
  “A powerful argument for the continuing importance of Thomas Jefferson in our troubled and turbulent times. These two great scholars of Jeffersonian America, using Jefferson’s belief in generational sovereignty and his utter faith in us, that is, the future generations of American people, have brilliantly described for us the various ways Jefferson still matters.”—Gordon Wood, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian and author of Friends Divided

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  Incidents in the Life of a Slave...

  Harriet Jacobs

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  Born into the brutal reality of the antebellum South, one woman’s battle for bodily autonomy and freedom will echo through the ages.
   
  In this powerful and gripping true story, Harriet Jacobs—writing under the pseudonym Linda Brent—exposes the horrific, unique trials faced by enslaved women. Subjected to the relentless, predatory obsession of her master, Dr. Flint, and the vengeful jealousy of her mistress, Linda realizes she cannot wait for salvation; she must forge her own desperate path. Caught in a nightmarish web of psychological torture and the agonizing threat of losing her children to the auction block, she makes impossible choices that test the very limits of human endurance.
   
  You will be captivated by this seminal Autobiography / Slave Narrative because it does more than document historical trauma—it paints a breathtaking portrait of fierce maternal love and defiant resistance. Fans of essential American history and unforgettable true stories of survival will find themselves breathless as Linda outwits her oppressors, utilizing cunning, secrecy, and unyielding courage to break the chains binding her family.
   
  About the Author: Harriet Jacobs (1813–1897) was an African-American writer, abolitionist, and fierce advocate for the formerly enslaved. Her monumental autobiography stands as one of the most significant and detailed firsthand accounts of the unique intersection of racial and gendered oppression in American history.

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  Mera Dagistan

  Rasool Hamzatov

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  "Mera Dagistan" is a famous book by Russian writer Rasool Hamzatov, in which he writes about his homeland, Dagestan, its cultural heritage, the lives of its people, their customs, and its history. The book is beautifully written, filled with poetic expression, as Gamzatov shares his emotions, memories, and deep connection with his native land. He considers forgetting one's mother tongue a great tragedy. The book conveys the idea that a person's true identity is deeply rooted in the land where they are born and raised.

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  Breaking the Medicine Monopolies...

  Alfred Engelberg

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  Breaking the Medicine Monopolies is a lawyer's personal narrative of the events that led to the widespread use of low-cost generic drugs and the current drug price crisis. 
   
   
   
  Breaking the Medicine Monopolies is a personal narrative about Alfred Engelberg's fifty years of legal work in the drug industry. He takes you inside the mysterious world of patents to provide a basic understanding of how drug makers have gamed the laws governing brand and generic competition, misused patents to prolong monopolies, and delayed generic competition on old drugs instead of focusing on discovering new ones. In this book, Engelberg provides listeners with an understanding of how the growing use of low-cost generic drugs led to the highest prices in the world for new drugs, and how middlemen in the drug distribution chain have exploited a lack of price transparency in order to earn excessive profits. Breaking the Medicine Monopolies is a must-listen for anyone who wants to understand how ill-considered policy decisions and an inept patent system led to unaffordable prices for new drugs, and what can be done to correct the problem.

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  As Happy As I Can Stand - The...

  Charles McCormack

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  McCormack was asked two questions by his children that unerringly targeted issues he had struggled with his entire life: "Who are you?" and "What is life about?" Hatching Charlie, his attempt to respond, rocketed him down a wormhole through time, his past made present. He re-lives the disruptions of military family life, family violence, the racism of the Jim Crowe South, and the tidal wave of fear and confusion when exiled to a boarding school in France as a child. 
  With unalloyed frankness, McCormack, an award-winning psychotherapist, author, and lecturer, takes us into the mental illness in his own family, and the destructive influence of his cratered childhood upon his adulthood. During this journey, we go behind the scenes of psychiatric treatment, including a vivid portrayal of McCormack’s experience in psychoanalysis and as a psychiatric social worker in a locked-door inpatient treatment unit. There, we become engulfed in penetrating horror and self-doubt when confronted with the suicide of several patients, as well as the profound sense of fulfillment experienced when able to help those who had been unable to help themselves. 
  In his striving for happiness and meaning, McCormack arrives at the realization that there was an enduring block to happiness and that it resided within himself. Rejecting this self-limiting fate, he pecks away at the shells that confine him like a Russian nesting doll and discovers first-hand the hidden power of incomplete mourning to constrict happiness like English ivy strangles a tree. In this moving memoir, there is wisdom about life, love, and relationships that will bring tears to your eyes and a smile to your face.

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  Nudges from Grandfather -...

  Chris Kavelin

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  In 1938 the German Reich inflicted a wave of violent, all night attacks on several Jewish communities (Kristallnacht). Far away in Australia, William Cooper, a distinguished Elder of the Yorta Yorta Nation, led a little-known march to the German Consulate to deliver his protest regarding the violation of those human rights. 
  How contemporary Jewish and Aboriginal communities re-connected with that protest is but one chapter in a book recounting true stories of many miraculous chains of events. 
  Each chapter has its own story, each story its own theme, but common throughout are lessons on the reality of spiritual technologies: following steps of prayerful, contemplative action; acting with ceaseless energy; working mindfully with ancestors; and expressing gratitude for the emerging blessings. 
  We are each connected with the spiritual realm. Some may call spiritual forces ancestors, others angels or still others, the names of forms of divine power in their traditions. Whatever their names, these forces work intimately with us when we seek to be of service to others. When asked to perform an act of service beyond one’s abilities or education, there are those in the next world who can make suggestions.

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