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Non-Fiction
In reply to the discussion: What Non-Fiction are you currently/just read? [View all]ExWhoDoesntCare
(4,741 posts)59. This is a big non-fiction week for me
I have three I'd like to get to, if possible:
Bully Pulpit, by Doris Kearns Goodwin, about the rise and fall of the friendship between Teddy Roosevelt and William Taft. It's Goodwin, so the 923 page count turned out to be not-so-scary once I remembered that at least 1/4 of the count would be citations and indexes, LOL.
Unorthodox by Deborah Feldman, memoir about a young woman who broke free of her Hasidic upbringing in Brooklyn.
The Men with the Pink Triangle by Heinz Heger, a recent release about gays sent to Nazi death camps.
Yeesh. I think I'll steer clear of the oven and sharp objects this week...just to stay on the safe side.
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