North – Reading Along

Ways and Means – Roger Lowenstein

ByMichael October 13, 2024October 13, 2024

We started the new year on Saturday January 27, 2024 at Renee’s parents’ home in Rockland discussing Ways and Means: Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War by Roger Lowenstein, which was proposed by Michael. Salmon Chase, as Secretary of the Treasury, was the irascible hero of this story. As an…

Non-fiction

The Warm of Other Suns: the Epic Story of America’s Great Migration – Isabel Wilkerson

ByMichael September 5, 2022September 5, 2022

Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. Wilkerson compares this…