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Lydia Hamilton Smith (1813-1884) was a prominent mixed-race businesswoman in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and the longtime housekeeper, life companion, and collaborator of the state’s abolitionist congressman Thaddeus Stevens. In his biography of this remarkable woman, Mark Kelley reveals how Smith served the cause of abolition, managed Stevens’s household, acquired property, and crossed racialized social boundaries.

In Berman's Confession, the second part of the Jed Berman novel series, Berman comes clean about what has driven him to pursue investigative journalism since he got in the business. As the story unfolds, Berman follows his old news director, Fred Demarco, to a job in Maine, and embeds with local Maine soldiers in Afghanistan, where he earns an assist for the shooting of a young Afghani soldier.

Berman's Lament is the first of a series of three novels featuring intrepid newspaper reporter turned broadcast news anchor, Jed Berman. In part one, Berman is lured from a successful position as an investigative reporter for a regional newspaper to the larger audience and accompanying celebrity of a local TV station. All goes well until a new generation of news directors shows up, focused on ratings, not telling viewers the truth about things that matter.

It's time to admit that we, the people of this planet, have lost faith in conventional tactics for maintaining order in the world. The time-tattered trio—violence, war, and self-serving politicians—have only made things worse. More importantly, we've lost faith in ourselves and the essential goodness of human nature.

Military leaders and historians have told the story of the atomic bomb. But the official accounts never focus on the thousands of ordinary Americans who helped make it happen. Rain of Ruin tells the story from their point of view for the first time.