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5 Nov 2013, 8:40 am by Matthew Crow
Johnson begins with Kidd but moves quickly to Thomas Jefferson, who dreamed of an empire of white settler liberty in the vast territory gained by the Louisiana Purchase, and who came to see, if only in his darkest dreams, that the enmeshment of bodies, land, cotton, steam, and steel in the materializing empire of liberty was an explosive combination. [read post]
18 Sep 2020, 6:26 pm by Amy Howe
Neither of her parents attended college: Her father, Nathan, came to the United States from Russia as a teenager and worked as a furrier; her mother, Celia Amster Bader, was born a few months after her parents arrived in the country from Austria and worked in a garment factory to put her brother through college. [read post]
12 Jul 2017, 3:50 am by Kevin LaCroix
Proof of Life’s screenplay was partly inspired by Thomas Hargrove’s book The Long March to Freedom, which recounts how the release of the once-kidnapped Hargrove was negotiated by Thomas Clayton, the founder of his eponymous kidnap-for-ransom consultancy Clayton Consultants (now part of risk management firm, Triple Canopy). [read post]