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This fall has brought two enormous new biographies of Ted Kennedy, both by writers who have won numerous awards for earlier biographies on prominent figures. Senate and compiled an extraordinary record. And Edward, known as Ted or Teddy Kennedy, was a senator and part of the Democratic Party conversation, as well as the national conversation, from the 1960s until he died almost four decades later. His brother Robert was running for president when he was assassinated. Three Kennedy brothers were elected to the U.S. Before the rise of Donald Trump or Barack Obama or Bill Clinton or Ronald Reagan, the definition of charisma in American politics was the Kennedys. "It was just a little dot, about two pixels big, three pixels big," she says. "I knew the data was coming back," she says, "and I wanted to see how it had turned out." She was searching through a database of images sent home by the Voyager 1 spacecraft, which at the time was nearly 4 billion miles away. "I was all alone, actually, that afternoon, in my office," she recalls. Two decades ago, Candice Hansen-Koharcheck became the first person to ever see that speck, sitting in front of a computer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab in California. That speck is the Earth, seen from very, very, very far away. It's a very dramatic photo, even though, at first glance, it's mostly dark and seems to show nothing at all.īut if you look closely, you can see a tiny speck of light. This week marks the 20th anniversary of a photograph. Historian Robert Poole Explores Images Of Earth Through The Ages Like Louise Meriwether’s Daddy Was a Number Runner and Dorothy Allison’s Bastard Out of Carolina, Jacqueline Woodson’s Another Brooklyn heartbreakingly illuminates the formative time when childhood gives way to adulthood-the promise and peril of growing up-and exquisitely renders a powerful, indelible, and fleeting friendship that united four young lives. A world where madness was just a sunset away and fathers found hope in religion. But beneath the hopeful veneer, there was another Brooklyn, a dangerous place where grown men reached for innocent girls in dark hallways, where ghosts haunted the night, where mothers disappeared. Description: 175 pages 22 cm Publisher: New York : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2016. For August and her girls, sharing confidences as they ambled through neighborhood streets, Brooklyn was a place where they believed that they were beautiful, talented, brilliant-a part of a future that belonged to them. Another Brooklyn : a novel / Jacqueline Woodson. Running into a long-ago friend sets memory from the 1970s in motion for August, transporting her to a time and a place where friendship was everything-until it wasn’t. A Finalist for the 2016 National Book Award New York Times Bestseller The acclaimed New York Times bestselling and National Book Award–winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming delivers her first adult novel in twenty years. An Amazon Best Book of August 2016: Another Brooklyn, Jacqueline Woodson’s first adult novel in twenty years is nothing short of remarkable.Her protagonist, August, is one of four girls coming of age in 1970s Brooklyn who become always and all ways friends until one by one their lives take different turns. |