{"title":"David Laskin","description":"David Laskin is the author of The Children's Blizzard, which won the Washington State Book Award and Midwest Booksellers' Choice Award for nonfiction. The author of several other works of nonfiction, Laskin writes for The New York Times and The Washington Post. He and his wife, the parents of three grown daughters, live in Seattle.","products":[{"product_id":"the-long-way-home-an-american-journey-from-ellis-island-to-the-great-war-paperback","title":"The Long Way Home: An American Journey from Ellis Island to the Great War - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Moving, revealing, and lovingly researched, this book is a must read, and a great read, for any of us whose forebears came from overseas--meaning just about all of us.\" -- Erik Larson\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe author of the award-winning \u003cem\u003eThe Children's Blizzard\u003c\/em\u003e, David Laskin, returns with a remarkable true story of the immigrants who risked their lives fighting for America during the Great War.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Long Way Home\u003c\/em\u003e, award-winning writer David Laskin traces the lives of a dozen men who left their childhood homes in Europe, journeyed through Ellis Island, and started over in a strange land-only to cross the Atlantic again in uniform when their adopted country entered the Great War.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThough they had known little of America outside of tight-knit ghettos and backbreaking labor, these foreign-born conscripts were rapidly transformed into soldiers, American soldiers, in the ordeal of war. Two of the men in this book won the Medal of Honor. Three died in combat. Those who survived were profoundly altered-and their heroic service reshaped their families and ultimately the nation itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEpic, inspiring, and masterfully written, this book is an unforgettable true story of the Great War, the world it remade, and the humble, loyal men who became Americans by fighting for America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Long Way Home\u003c\/em\u003e, award-winning writer David Laskin traces the lives of a dozen men who left their childhood homes in Europe, journeyed through Ellis Island, and started over in a strange land-only to cross the Atlantic again in uniform when their adopted country entered the Great War.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThough they had known little of America outside of tight-knit ghettos and backbreaking labor, these foreign-born conscripts were rapidly transformed into soldiers, American soldiers, in the ordeal of war. 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Those who survived were profoundly altered-and their heroic service reshaped their families and ultimately the nation itself. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEpic, inspiring, and masterfully written, this book is an unforgettable true story of the Great War, the world it remade, and the humble, loyal men who became Americans by fighting for America. \u003c\/p\u003e--\u003cb\u003eErik Larson\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Devil in the White City\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Long Way Home\u003c\/em\u003e, award-winning writer David Laskin traces the lives of a dozen men who left their childhood homes in Europe, journeyed through Ellis Island, and started over in a strange land-only to cross the Atlantic again in uniform when their adopted country entered the Great War.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThough they had known little of America outside of tight-knit ghettos and backbreaking labor, these foreign-born conscripts were rapidly transformed into soldiers, American soldiers, in the ordeal of war. 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Those who survived were profoundly altered-and their heroic service reshaped their families and ultimately the nation itself. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEpic, inspiring, and masterfully written, this book is an unforgettable true story of the Great War, the world it remade, and the humble, loyal men who became Americans by fighting for America. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51365566480607,"sku":"9780061233340","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/y-eCAcbA0P9780061233340.webp?v=1789066400"},{"product_id":"the-childrens-blizzard-paperback-1","title":"The Children's Blizzard - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"David Laskin deploys historical fact of the finest grain to tell the story of a monstrous blizzard that caught the settlers of the Great Plains utterly by surprise. . . . This is a book best read with a fire roaring in the hearth and a blanket and box of tissues near at hand.\" -- Erik Larson, author of The Devil in the White City\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Heartbreaking. . . . This account of the 1888 blizzard reads like a thriller.\" -- Entertainment Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe gripping true story of an epic prairie snowstorm that killed hundreds of newly arrived homesteaders and cast a shadow on the promise of the American frontier.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJanuary 12, 1888, began as an unseasonably warm morning across the Great Plains of Nebraska, the Dakotas, and Minnesota, the weather so mild that children walked to school without coats and gloves. But that afternoon, without warning, the atmosphere suddenly, violently changed. One moment the air was calm; the next the sky exploded in a raging chaos of horizontal snow and hurricane-force winds. Temperatures plunged as an unprecedented cold front ripped through the center of the continent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy the next morning, some five hundred people lay dead on the drifted prairie after a devastating natural disaster, many of them children who had perished on their way home from country schools. In a few terrifying hours, the hopes of the pioneers had been blasted by the bitter realities of their harsh environment. Recent immigrants from Germany, Norway, Denmark, and the Ukraine learned that their free homestead was not a paradise but a hard, unforgiving place governed by natural forces they neither understood nor controlled.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith the storm as its dramatic, heartbreaking focal point, The Children's Blizzard captures this pivotal moment in American history by tracing the stories of five families who were forever changed that day. In this powerful work of narrative nonfiction, David Laskin has produced a masterful portrait of a tragic crucible in the settlement of the American heartland.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLaskin's meticulous account of this Gilded Age tragedy reveals: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ePioneer History: \u003c\/b\u003e The harrowing true story of settlers on the American frontier, lured by the promise of free land only to face an unforgiving environment they could not control.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eExtreme Weather: \u003c\/b\u003e A minute-by-minute account of January 12, 1888, when an unseasonably mild day exploded into a hurricane of snow, trapping hundreds of adults and children without warning.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA Survival Story: \u003c\/b\u003e The intertwined fates of five immigrant families whose lives were forever changed by a few terrifying hours, a pivotal event in 19th-century history.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eHistorical Nonfiction: \u003c\/b\u003e Meticulously researched and deeply moving, this portrait of an epic prairie snowstorm reads with the urgency of a thriller.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThousands of impoverished Northern European immigrants were promised that the prairie offered land, freedom, and hope. The disastrous blizzard of 1888 revealed that their free homestead was not a paradise but a hard, unforgiving place governed by natural forces they neither understood nor controlled, and America's heartland would never be the same.\u003c\/p\u003eThis P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.--The Washington Post\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThousands of impoverished Northern European immigrants were promised that the prairie offered \"land, freedom, and hope.\" The disastrous blizzard of 1888 revealed that their free homestead was not a paradise but a hard, unforgiving place governed by natural forces they neither understood nor controlled, and America's heartland would never be the same.\u003c\/p\u003eThis P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51365569724639,"sku":"9780060520762","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/GztZWuLidF9780060520762.webp?v=1789066421"},{"product_id":"the-family-a-journey-into-the-heart-of-the-twentieth-century-paperback","title":"The Family: A Journey into the Heart of the Twentieth Century - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe author of the \u003ci\u003eThe Children's Blizzard \u003c\/i\u003edelivers an epic work of twentieth century history through the riveting story of one extraordinary Jewish family\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn tracing the roots of this family--his own family--Laskin captures the epic sweep of the twentieth century. A modern-day scribe, Laskin honors the traditions, the lives, and the choices of his ancestors: revolutionaries and entrepreneurs, scholars and farmers, tycoons and truck drivers. \u003ci\u003eThe Family\u003c\/i\u003e is a deeply personal, dramatic, and emotional account of people caught in a cataclysmic time in world history. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA century and a half ago, a Torah scribe and his wife raised six children in a yeshivatown at the western fringe of the Russian empire. Bound by their customs and ancient faith, the pious couple expected their sons and daughter to carry family traditions into future generations. But the social and political crises of our time decreed otherwise. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe torrent of history took the scribe's family down three very different roads. 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