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  1. Book Review: 'Half American,' by Matthew F. Delmont

    HALF AMERICAN: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad, by Matthew F. Delmont. In January of 1942, James G. Thompson, a 26-year-old Black man from Wichita ...

  2. HALF AMERICAN

    The narrative is disturbing and painful, but it provides important pages that have been missing from American history. A vital story well rendered, recounting a legacy that should be recognized, remembered, and applauded. 0. Pub Date: Oct. 18, 2022. ISBN: 978-1-984880-39-.

  3. In 'Half American,' Matthew Delmont explores mistreatment of Black

    Members of the all-Black aviation squadron known as the Tuskegee Airmen line up Jan. 23, 1942. Films and stories about World War II create a narrative of Americans united against a common enemy ...

  4. Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War

    • Winner of the 2023 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Nonfiction • A New York Times Notable Book • A Best Book of the Year from TIME, Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Washington Independent Review of Books, and more! The definitive history of World War II from the African American perspective, written by civil rights expert and Dartmouth history professor Matthew Delmont "Matthew F. Delmont ...

  5. Book Review: 'Half American' gives the whole story of the Black soldier

    On the topics of racism and war, "Half American" will tell you some tales. This is one of those books that fills in the blanks on the things you missed in history class - or the things you ...

  6. Half American by Matthew Delmont: Summary and reviews

    A radical reframing of the past and present of Black resistance—both nonviolent and violent—to white supremacy. The triumphant story of how an all-Black Broadway cast and crew changed musical theatre—and the world—forever. We have 5 read-alikes for Half American, but non-members are limited to two results.

  7. Half American by Matthew Delmont

    Guys I've just finished the most outstanding book: Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroadby Matthew F. Delmont. I can't stress enough how important this book is for any students of American history - whether or not one specializes in the WWII era. I found it to be among the most ...

  8. Half American by Matthew F. Delmont: 9781984880413

    About Half American • Winner of the 2023 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Nonfiction • A New York Times Notable Book • A Best Book of the Year from TIME, Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Washington Independent Review of Books, and more! The definitive history of World War II from the African American perspective, written by civil rights expert and Dartmouth history professor Matthew Delmont

  9. Review of Half American by Matthew Delmont

    Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad is an impeccably researched and deeply moving story of heroes, villains and white supremacy. With World War II as a grand backdrop, author Matthew Delmont weaves a breathless tale of black men who heroically fought for their country, but returned home to ...

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    Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad by Matthew F. Delmont has an overall rating of Rave based on 8 book reviews.

  11. Book Review: Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans

    Half American is a book that the far right would surely label as critical race theory (CRT) and thus ban. It is unabashedly up-front in its mission to highlight the systemic racism that kept African Americans from full equality in the military.

  12. Book review of Half American by Matthew F. Delmont

    During World War II, Black Americans had to fight for the right to combat racism abroad because of the racism at home. In Half American, Matthew F. Delmont chronicles that fight. World War II is remembered as a conflict between democratic and fascist countries. But during the 1940s, nearly 10% of the residents of the world's largest democracy ...

  13. Half American

    Half American bestows a fresh assessment of — and appreciation for — the Black soldiers and civilians who fought extraordinarily hard so "that no one would ever again be treated as ... She writes for multiple book-review publications, including Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, BookBrowse Review, Historical Novels Review, Open Letters ...

  14. Half American

    Half American The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad Matthew F. Delmont. Viking, New York, 2022, 400 pages. Book Review published on: April 19, 2024 During World War II, while battles and campaigns raged, the Black freedom struggle for civil rights waged as well, both at home and abroad.

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    • Winner of the 2023 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Nonfiction • A New York Times Notable Book • A Best Book of the Year from TIME, Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Washington Independent Review of Books, and more! The definitive history of World War II from the African American perspective, written by civil rights expert and Dartmouth history professor Matthew Delmont "Matthew F. Delmont ...

  16. Half American: The Heroic Story of African Americans Fighting World War

    Notes From Your Bookseller. Half American is the history of World War II but including the events and actors that history books have long erased. Telling the story of Black Americans who fought on two fronts, fighting for their rights in America and for the country abroad, this book compiles the stories of such Black heroes as Thurgood Marshall, Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., Ella Baker, James ...

  17. Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War

    Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad Matthew F. Delmont. Viking, $30 (400p) ISBN 978-1-984880-39- ... Book Reviews Articles. Making Roots: A ...

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    Half American belongs firmly within the canon of indispensable World War II books." —Clint Smith, #1 New York Times bestselling author of How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America Over one million Black men and women served in World War II.

  19. BOOK REVIEW: 'Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans

    As in the new book "Half American" by Matthew F. Delmont, there'll be no more doing things halfway. In the time before America entered World War II, Black Americans kept their eyes on what was happening overseas, particularly in Spain. ... book reviews, Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and ...

  20. BOOK REVIEW: 'Half American' is scholarly written

    "Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad," by Matthew F. Delmont, (Viking Press: New York), 2022, 357 pages, hardcover.

  21. Book review: "Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans

    Beware that this book can occasionally seem a bit academic - it's heavy with dates and site names, but the feeling passes quickly enough that armchair historians can still enjoy it greatly. If you need to know more about Black history in World War II, find "Half American" and raise your hand. c.2022, Viking. $30.00. 400 pages

  22. Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting WWII at

    Matthew F. Delmont is the Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor of History at Dartmouth College. A Guggenheim Fellow and expert on African American history and the history of civil rights, he is the author of Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad (Viking, 2022), as well four previous books: Black Quotidian, Why Busing Failed, Making ...

  23. Gorsuch in new book: Americans 'whacked' by too many regulations

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Ordinary Americans are "getting whacked" by too many laws and regulations, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch says in a new book that underscores his skepticism of federal agencies and the power they wield. "Too little law and we're not safe, and our liberties aren't protected," Gorsuch told The Associated Press in an interview in his Supreme Court office.

  24. Book Review: 'The Bookshop,' by Evan Friss

    100 Best Books of the 21st Century: As voted on by 503 novelists, nonfiction writers, poets, critics and other book lovers — with a little help from the staff of The New York Times Book Review.

  25. Southern Europe in the Age of Revolutions

    This book, well suited for scholars and students, guides readers through a tumultuous period in southern European history and is highly recommended. From the outbreak of war in the 13 British North American colonies in 1775 to the conflicts that erupted throughout the Spanish New World colonies in the 1810s, revolutions convulsed the Atlantic ...

  26. 55 Things to Know About Tim Walz, Kamala Harris' Pick for VP

    1. Walz was born in West Point, a Nebraska town of just 3,500 people. But he was raised in an even smaller town called Butte. 2. Walz graduated from Butte High School in 1982. "I come from a ...

  27. US authors make up almost half the 13 semifinalists for the Booker

    LONDON (AP) — Six American writers including Rachel Kushner, Percival Everett and Tommy Orange are among 13 semifinalists announced Tuesday for the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction.. Pulitzer Prize-winning Cheyenne and Arapaho author Orange is the first Native American Booker semifinalist for the 50,000 pound ($64,000) award with his centuries-spanning saga "Wandering Stars."

  28. It Ends with Us (2024)

    It Ends with Us: Directed by Justin Baldoni. With Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni, Jenny Slate, Brandon Sklenar. Adapted from the Colleen Hoover novel, Lily overcomes a traumatic childhood to embark on a new life. A chance meeting with a neurosurgeon sparks a connection but Lily begins to see sides of him that remind her of her parents' relationship.

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  30. Chicago Public Schools—From Worst to (Almost) First

    Across the country, the war against public education proceeds apace, and in many states the anti's are winning. Forty-one years ago, in "A Nation at Risk" (1983), a blue-ribbon national commission decried "the rising tide of mediocrity" in public schools. The report's rhetorically ...