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  Brandy Station and the March to...

  Editors Charles River

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  As Lee’s army moved into Pennsylvania, Stuart’s cavalry screened his movements, thereby engaging in the more traditional cavalry roles, but it’s widely believed that he was still smarting over the results of June 9. As a result, many historians think it likely that he had already planned to remove the negative effect of Brandy Station by duplicating one of his now famous rides around the enemy army, much as he did to McClellan’s Army of the Potomac during the Peninsula Campaign in 1862. This time, however, as Lee began his march north through the Shenandoah Valley in western Virginia, it is highly unlikely that is what he wanted or expected. 
  To complicate matters even more, as Stuart set out on June 25 on what was probably a glory-seeking mission, he was unaware that his intended path was blocked by columns of Union infantry that would invariably force him to veer farther east than he or Lee had anticipated. Ultimately, his decision would prevent him from linking up with Ewell as ordered and deprive Lee of his primary cavalry force as he advanced deeper and deeper into unfamiliar enemy territory. According to Halsey Wigfall (son of Confederate States Senator Louis Wigfall) who was in Stuart’s infantry, “Stuart and his cavalry left [Lee’s] army on June 24 and did not contact [his] army again until the afternoon of July 2, the second day of the [Gettysburg] battle.” 
  As it would turn out, Lee’s army inadvertently stumbled into Union cavalry and then the Union army at Gettysburg on the morning of July 1, 1863, unaware of the force in their front. From July 1-3, Lee’s army tried everything in its power to decisively defeat George Meade’s Union Army of the Potomac, unleashing ferocious assaults that inflicted nearly 50,000 casualties in all. Lee would try and fail to dislodge the Union army with attacks on both of its flanks during the second day and Pickett’s Charge on the third and final day. 

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  Summary of The Gifts of...

  William Beckett

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  *PLEASE NOTE: This concise summary is unofficial and is not authorized, approved, licensed, or endorsed by the original book's publisher or author.* 
  Short on time? Or maybe you’ve already read the book, but need a refresh on the most important takeaways. In a quick, easy listen, you can take the main principles from The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You’re Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are! 
  The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You’re Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are is a prominent self-help book by Brené Brown that has sold over two million copies and has been translated into thirty languages. This New York Times bestselling book uses anecdotes and research to create a coherent, enjoyable reading experience. Throughout the book, Brown teaches how we should learn wholehearted living, so we can fully embrace the different opportunities and joys life provides us. 
  An expert on shame, Brown brings her professional expertise to her book to show readers how to cultivate self-worth and let go of the perfectionistic tendencies that make it hard for people to feel fulfilled in life. Brown came upon her conclusions after she experienced burnout professionally and sought therapy to fix her broken relationship with success and worth. She shares professional and personal wisdom that helps readers reorient their relationships with themselves. Brown expertly leads readers, using ten guideposts that target different emotional entities, to improve our lives within our bodies, minds, and souls. 
  This audiobook encapsulates key takeaways found in the original book. We’ve also provided an in-depth analysis as well as removing any fluff to save you hours of your time. If you’ve read the original, then this audio summary will help you solidify the most important lessons.

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  How to Increase Your Emotional...

  Gabriel Carter

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  Inside, you’ll learn:  
  ✅ The 4-step method to stay emotionally centered—even when someone pushes your buttons on purpose  
  ✅ The 3 hidden emotional habits that quietly ruin relationships (and how to rewire them fast)  
  ✅ A simple way to name exactly what you feel—so you stop saying “I’m fine” when you're clearly not  
  ✅ The exact scripts to say “no” without guilt, set boundaries without drama, and ask for what you need without overexplaining  
  ✅ The 6 verbal traps used by aggressive people—and how to shut them down with calm authority  
  ✅ The real reason you absorb other people’s moods—and how to protect your emotional energy  
  ✅ How to respond to criticism without shrinking, overjustifying, or becoming passive-aggressive  
  ✅ What to do when you're overwhelmed—but expected to stay “professional”  
  ✅ The 3 questions emotionally intelligent people ask before answering under pressure  
  ✅ The difference between healthy empathy and emotional self-erasure—and how to stop losing yourself in others  
  ✅ Why most people misunderstand emotional intelligence—and how changing just a few words can change everything  
  ✅ How to stay emotionally available in your relationships without becoming everyone’s emotional sponge  
  If you’re tired of being caught off guard by your emotions…  
  If you want to stop overthinking, start communicating clearly, and feel more in control…  
  Then this is the emotional toolkit you’ve been missing.  
  You don’t need more advice. You need emotional clarity.  
  Start building it—today.

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  A Dignified Life - Revised and...

  MPH David Troxel, MSW Virginia Bell

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  More than 5 million Americans are currently living with Alzheimer's disease or a related form of dementia. By the year 2030, experts estimate that as many as 66 million people will be faced with this life-altering disease. These statistics impact millions of caregivers. Compared with all types of caregivers, those who assist someone with dementia experience the highest levels of burnout, depression, poor health, and premature death. A Dignified Life, Revised and Expanded offers hope and help. 
   
   
   
  Ten years ago, the first edition of A Dignified Life changed the way the caregiving community approached Alzheimer's disease by showing caregivers how to act as a Best Friend to the person. Firmly grounded in the latest knowledge about dementia, this expanded edition offers a wealth of tips and advice. 
   
   
   
  While medical treatment of the disease hasn't changed, our understanding and awareness of treating people in a more caring way has changed. With no cure, respectful care by effective and compassionate care partners is the only real "treatment" available. The Best Friends Approach is successful because it sustains people's connection to their world, their loved ones, and themselves. A Dignified Life shows how to bring dignity, meaning, and peace of mind to the lives of both those who have Alzheimer's and dementia and those who care for them.

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  The Trouble with Tom - The...

  Paul Collins

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  Paul Collins travels the globe piecing together the missing body and soul of one of our most enigmatic founding fathers: Thomas Paine. 
  A typical book about an American founding father doesn’t start at a gay piano bar and end in a sewage ditch. But then, Tom Paine isn’t your typical founding father. A firebrand rebel and a radical on the run, Paine alone claims a key role in the development of three modern democracies. In death, his story turns truly bizarre. Shunned as an infidel by every church, he had to be interred in an open field on a New York farm. Ten years later, a former enemy converting to Paine’s cause dug up the bones and carried them back to Britain, where he planned to build a mausoleum in Paine’s honor. But he never got around to it. So what happened to the body of this founding father? 
  Well, it got lost. Paine’s missing bones, like saint’s relics, have been scattered for two centuries, and their travels are the trail of radical democracy itself. Paul Collins combines wry, present-day travelogue with an odyssey down the forgotten paths of history as he searches for the remains of Tom Paine and finds them hidden in, among other places, a Paris hotel, underneath a London tailor’s stool, and inside a roadside statue in New York. Along the way he crosses paths with everyone from Walt Whitman and Charles Darwin to sex reformers and hellfire ministers―not to mention a suicidal gunman, a Ferrari dealer, and berserk feral monkeys. 
  In the end, Collins’s search for Paine’s body instead finds the soul of democracy―for it is the story of how Paine’s struggles have lived on through his eccentric and idealistic followers.

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  The Book of the National Parks

  Robert Sterling Yard

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  Robert Sterling Yard was an American writer, journalist, and wilderness activist. Born in Haverstraw, New York, Yard graduated from Princeton University and spent the first twenty years of his career in the editing and publishing business. In 1915, he was recruited by his friend Stephen Mather to help publicize the need for an independent national park agency. Their numerous publications were part of a movement that resulted in legislative support for a National Park Service (NPS) in 1916. Yard worked to promote the national parks as well as educate Americans about their use. Creating high standards based on aesthetic ideals for park selection, he also opposed commercialism and industrialization of what he called "America's masterpieces". In 1935, he became one of the eight founding members of The Wilderness Society and acted as its first president from 1937 until his death eight years later. Yard is now considered an important figure in the modern wilderness movement.In the preface to  this book, published in 1919, he writes, "In offering the American public a carefully studied outline of its national park system, I have two principal objects. The one is to describe and differentiate the national parks in a manner which will enable the reader to appreciate their importance, scope, meaning, beauty, manifold uses and enormous value to individual and nation. The other is to use these parks, in which Nature is writing in large plain lines the story of America's making, as examples illustrating the several kinds of scenery, and what each kind means in terms of world building; in other words, to translate the practical findings of science into unscientific phrase for the reader's increased profit and pleasure, not only in his national parks but in all other scenic places great and small." (summary from wikipedia)

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