Michael Kranish is a reporter in the Washington bureau of The Boston Globe. He is the co-author of the New York Times bestseller John F. Kerry: The Complete Biography, described by Michiko Kakutani as "a fascinating portrait...a harrowing, pictorial narrative."
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Bethanne Patrick talks with Michael Kranish about his book, Flight From Monticello: Thomas Jefferson at War.
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Submitted by Bethanne on Sun, 04/11/2010 - 8:49pm Giveaway: Alternate Versions
I've said it before in a giveaway (at least I think I have) -- history is usually written by winners of some sort. That's why I'm always happy to find books that tell the stories of people who didn't win. Maybe they lost. Maybe they left. Maybe they weren't trying to win in the first place! But it's always wonderful to read a book that illuminates something that could be overlooked, forgotten, or never told.
All three of this week's giveaway titles: "Nine Lives" by Dan Baum, "Flight from Monticello" by Michael Kranish, and "My Father's Paradise" by Ariel Sabar, are books like this. From a New Orleans wracked by Hurricane Katrina, to Thomas Jefferson's most ignominious moment, to a son's attempt at understanding his father's vanished world, these are nonfiction titles that will help change your perspective.
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Submitted by Bethanne on Fri, 03/05/2010 - 11:13am A Conversation with Michael Kranish
History has its winners, and we all know their names: Alexander the Great. Henry the Fifth. General Eisenhower. For hundreds of years, history books, schoolrooms, and popular media emphasized the winners, celebrating their names in stories, song, documentaries, and more.
However, over the past few decades writers have begun to investigate history's losers, and these stories can be fascinating. If Michael Kranish hadn't written "Flight from Monticello: Jefferson at War," I doubt I would ever have known that Benedict Arnold conducted at least one large-scale naval and military invasion of Virginia -- or that Thomas Jefferson, revered as one of our Founding Fathers, was vilified during that invasion for fleeing his post as Governor of Virginia.
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