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World War II
Keeping History Alive—an Interview with Bett Fitzpatrick
by, Audrey Arnold
November 15, 2022

In the pre-dawn hours of February 18, 1942, three American warships zigzagged in convoy along the south coast of Newfoundland. Caught in a raging blizzard, the three ships ran aground on one of the most inhospitable stretches of coastline in the world—less than three miles apart, within eight minutes of each other. The Wilkes freed herself. The Truxton and Pollux could not. Fighting frigid temperatures, wild surf, and a heavy… [Read More]

Filed Under: Bett Fitzpatrick, book launch, Boulder Books, Hard Aground, Newfoundland, St. Lawrence, USS Pollux, USS Truxton, World War II
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Carl T. Rowan, Journalist Extraordinaire
by, Audrey Arnold
February 12, 2019

As many of you may know, February is Black History Month. President Gerald Ford recognized it during the celebration of the United States Bicentennial in 1976, urging Americans to “seize the opportunity to honor the too-often neglected accomplishments of black Americans in every area of endeavor throughout our history.” Today, we at Swenson Book Development would like to take time to recognize one outstanding man,… [Read More]

Filed Under: Autobiography, Biography, Black History Month, Breaking Barriers, Carl T. Rowan, Civil Rights Movement, Cuban Missile Crisis, Jackie Robinson, Madeleine Albright, Minneapolis Tribune, Oberlin College, President John F. Kennedy, Project Excellence, Thurgood Marshall, University of Minnesota, World War II
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Gated Grief by Leila Levinson
by, Ruth Goldhor Chlebowski
April 24, 2012

How does one combine memoir, ethnography, self-discovery, and history, while contributing to two important bodies of literature—Holocaust and psychotherapy—in an eminently readable book? Do what Leila Levinson has done in Gated Grief: The Daughter of a GI Concentration Camp Liberator Discovers a Legacy of Trauma (Cable Publishing, 2011). The breadth of her project is evident even in the awards it has won—one for women’s memoir… [Read More]

Filed Under: concentration camp, ethnography, Gated Grief, Holocaust, Leila Levinson, memoir, Nordhausen, post traumatic stress disorder, PTSD, transgenerational trauma, veterans, World War II
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