Book excerpt: "The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi" by Wright Thompson
The author's New York Times bestseller explores the culture of silence that enveloped the Mississippi Delta over the 1955 ...
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Three new books capture an era when Jews were (literally) on the same page
In the mid-20th century, American Jewish reading tastes were shaped by the Cold War, assimilation and the gender gap.