{"title":"Paul Hendrickson","description":"Paul Hendrickson's book Sons of Mississippi won the 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction. Since 1998 he has been on the faculty of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Pennsylvania. For two decades before that he was a staff writer at the Washington Post. Among his other books are Looking for the Light: The Hidden Life and Art of Marion Post Wolcott (1992 finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award) and The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War (1996 finalist for the National Book Award). He has been the recipient of writing fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Lyndhurst Foundation, and the Alicia Patterson Foundation. In 2009 he was a joint visiting professor of documentary practice at Duke University and of American studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the father of two grown sons and lives with his wife, Cecilia, outside Philadelphia.","products":[{"product_id":"the-living-and-the-dead-robert-mcnamara-and-five-lives-of-a-lost-war-paperback","title":"The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eA New York Times Notable Book of the Year \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFinalist for the Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Meticulous in detail, epic in scope, psychologically sophisticated and spiritually rich, it ranks with The Best and the Brightest and All the President's Men.\"\u003cbr\u003e--San Francisco Chronicle \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMore than the two presidents he served or the 58,000 soldiers who died for his policies, Robert McNamara was the official face of Vietnam, the technocrat with steel-rimmed glasses and an ironclad faith in numbers who kept insisting that the war was winnable long after he had ceased to believe it was. This brilliantly insightful, morally devastating book tells us why he believed, how he lost faith, and what his deceptions cost five of the war's witnesses and McNamara himself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn The Living and the Dead, Paul Hendrickson juxtaposes McNamara's story with those of a wounded Marine, an Army nurse, a Vietnamese refugee, a Quaker who burned himself to death to protest the war, and an enraged artist who tried to kill the man he saw as the war's architect. The result is a book whose exhaustive research and imaginative power turn history into an act of reckoning, damning and profoundly sympathetic, impossible to put down and impossible to forget. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A masterpiece. . . . [Hendrickson] has a gift with language that most writers can only dream about. \"\u003cbr\u003e --Philadelphia Inquirer \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Approaches Shakespearian tragedy.\" \u003cbr\u003e--The New York Times Book Review\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA New York Times Notable Book of the Year \u003cbr\u003eFinalist for the Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism \u003cbr\u003e\"Meticulous in detail, epic in scope, psychologically sophisticated and spiritually rich, it ranks with The Best and the Brightest and All the President's Men.\"\u003cbr\u003e--San Francisco Chronicle \u003cbr\u003eMore than the two presidents he served or the 58,000 soldiers who died for his policies, Robert McNamara was the official face of Vietnam, the technocrat with steel-rimmed glasses and an ironclad faith in numbers who kept insisting that the war was winnable long after he had ceased to believe it was. This brilliantly insightful, morally devastating book tells us why he believed, how he lost faith, and what his deceptions cost five of the war's witnesses and McNamara himself. \u003cbr\u003eIn The Living and the Dead, Paul Hendrickson juxtaposes McNamara's story with those of a wounded Marine, an Army nurse, a Vietnamese refugee, a Quaker who burned himself to death to protest the war, and an enraged artist who tried to kill the man he saw as the war's architect. The result is a book whose exhaustive research and imaginative power turn history into an act of reckoning, damning and profoundly sympathetic, impossible to put down and impossible to forget. \u003cbr\u003e\"A masterpiece. . . . [Hendrickson] has a gift with language that most writers can only dream about. \"\u003cbr\u003e --Philadelphia Inquirer \u003cbr\u003e\"Approaches Shakespearian tragedy.\" \u003cbr\u003e--The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51368298086623,"sku":"9780679781172","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/S1K58f8hZl9780679781172.webp?v=1789125232"},{"product_id":"sons-of-mississippi-a-story-of-race-and-its-legacy-paperback","title":"Sons of Mississippi: A Story of Race and Its Legacy - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eThey stand as unselfconscious as if the photograph were being taken at a church picnic and not during one of the pitched battles of the civil rights struggle. None of them knows that the image will appear in \u003ci\u003eLife \u003c\/i\u003emagazine\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eor that it will become an icon of its era. The year is 1962, and these seven white Mississippi lawmen have gathered to stop James Meredith from integrating the University of Mississippi. One of them is swinging a billy club. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMore than thirty years later, award-winning journalist and author Paul Hendrickson sets out to discover who these men were, what happened to them after the photograph was taken, and how racist attitudes shaped the way they lived their lives. But his ultimate focus is on their children and grandchildren, and how the prejudice bequeathed by the fathers was transformed, or remained untouched, in the sons. \u003cb\u003eSons of Mississippi\u003c\/b\u003e is a scalding yet redemptive work of social history, a book of eloquence and subtlely that tracks the movement of racism across three generations and bears witness to its ravages among both black and white Americans.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey stand as unselfconscious as if the photograph were being taken at a church picnic and not during one of the pitched battles of the civil rights struggle. None of them knows that the image will appear in \"Life magazine\" or that it will become an icon of its era. The year is 1962, and these seven white Mississippi lawmen have gathered to stop James Meredith from integrating the University of Mississippi. One of them is swinging a billy club. \u003cbr\u003eMore than thirty years later, award-winning journalist and author Paul Hendrickson sets out to discover who these men were, what happened to them after the photograph was taken, and how racist attitudes shaped the way they lived their lives. But his ultimate focus is on their children and grandchildren, and how the prejudice bequeathed by the fathers was transformed, or remained untouched, in the sons. 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