Despite warnings from Frederick Douglass that his plan to lead a raid at Harper’s Ferry and end slavery within two years was a suicidal mission with no chance of succeeding, Brown persisted with a ragtag group of 19 men.Īs it turned out, Brown was captured and hanged. John Brown was endowed with the unfettered zeal and blazing steel gray eyes of moral righteousness. Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War, Tony Horwitz (You can find my 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021 reviews here, here, here, and here.)Īnd I will review my five favorites in five sentences apiece. For the 5th consecutive time, I am reviewing five of the best non-fiction books I have read between January 1st and December 31st last year. Except when I eat the bacon jam at Unconventional Diner.Īnyway, 2022 could have been worse if not for the following books that kept me reading and wondering through the night. “Goblin mode” was voted the word of the year by Oxford Dictionaries, which I presume refers to behavior that is required to run for political office.īy the way: I’m Jewish, not Jew-ish. Elon Musk made me inform people that our 7-year-old was not named after him but because it means “oak tree” in Hebrew. Hello, comrades, colleagues, Canadians, and other groups starting with “c.”Ģ022 was quite an interesting year.
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