Authors Reveal: “The Book That Totally Surprised Me”

"David Halberstam's The Children. It's so terrifying and thrilling to watch those young, young kids—elegant and determined, defying their parents and risking their college educations and their lives—going by the busload to counties in the south whose sheriffs openly promised their deaths should they enter to set up voting registrations. I mean, Jesus Christ."
—Gabrielle Hamilton

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