#199: Megan Kate Nelson - "The Westerners: Mythmaking and Belonging on the American Frontier"
From the publisher: "From award-winning historian Megan Kate Nelson, an epic account of the creation of the American West in the 19th century, shattering the traditional frontier myth that has dominated popular American culture.The Westerners tells two richly detailed and interwo ...Show more
#198: Andrew Porwancher - "American Maccabee - Theodore Roosevelt and the Jews"
From the publisher: "A scion of the Protestant elite, Theodore Roosevelt was an unlikely ally of the waves of impoverished Jewish newcomers who crowded the docks at Ellis Island. Yet from his earliest years he forged ties with Jews never before witnessed in a president. American ...Show more