{"id":29934,"date":"2018-07-24T11:14:27","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T16:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/?p=29934"},"modified":"2018-07-24T11:14:27","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T16:14:27","slug":"lincoln-serling-al-sharif-books-cheap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/24\/lincoln-serling-al-sharif-books-cheap\/","title":{"rendered":"Lincoln, Serling, Al-Sharif Books Cheap"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three books that will be of interest to my readers, cheap for the Kindle.<\/p>\n

As I Knew Him: My Dad, Rod Serling<\/a>\"\" by Serling’s Daughter, Anne.<\/p>\n

In this intimate, lyrical memoir about her iconic father, Anne Serling reveals the fun-loving dad and family man behind the imposing figure the public saw hosting The Twilight Zone each week. After his unexpected, early death, Anne, just 20, was left stunned. But through talking to his friends, poring over old correspondence, and recording her childhood memories, Anne not only found solace, but gained a deeper understanding of this remarkable man. Now she shares her discoveries, along with personal photos, revealing letters, and scenes of his childhood, war years, and their family’s time together. A tribute to Rod Serling’s legacy as a visionary, storyteller, and humanist, As I Knew Him is also a moving testament to the love between fathers and daughters. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman’s Awakening<\/a>\"\" by Manal Al-Sharif.<\/p>\n

\u201cA vital, inspiring book\u201d (O, The Oprah Magazine): a ferociously intimate memoir by a devout woman from a modest family in Saudi Arabia who became the unexpected leader of the courageous movement that won Saudi women the right to drive.<\/p>\n

Manal al-Sharif grew up in Mecca the second daughter of a taxi driver, born the year strict fundamentalism took hold. In her adolescence, she was a religious radical, melting her brother\u2019s boy band cassettes in the oven because music was haram: forbidden by Islamic law. But what a difference an education can make. By her twenties Manal was a computer security engineer, one of few women working in a desert compound built to resemble suburban America. That\u2019s when the Saudi kingdom\u2019s contradictions became too much to bear: she was labeled a slut for chatting with male colleagues, her school-age brother chaperoned her on a business trip, and while she kept a car in the garage, she was forbidden from driving on Saudi streets.<\/p>\n

Manal al-Sharif\u2019s memoir is an \u201ceye-opening\u201d (The Christian Science Monitor) account of the making of an accidental activist, a vivid story of a young Muslim woman who stood up to a kingdom of men\u2014and won. Daring to Drive is \u201ca brave, extraordinary, heartbreakingly personal\u201d (Associated Press) celebration of resilience in the face of tyranny and \u201ca testament to how women in Muslim countries are helping change their culture, one step at a time\u201d (New York Journal of Books).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A. Lincoln: A Biography<\/a>\"\" by Ronald White.<\/p>\n

This is an excellent bio.<\/p>\n

Everyone wants to define the man who signed his name \u201cA. Lincoln.\u201d In his lifetime and ever since, friend and foe have taken it upon themselves to characterize Lincoln according to their own label or libel. In this magnificent book, Ronald C. White, Jr., offers a fresh and compelling definition of Lincoln as a man of integrity\u2013what today\u2019s commentators would call \u201cauthenticity\u201d\u2013whose moral compass holds the key to understanding his life.<\/p>\n

Through meticulous research of the newly completed Lincoln Legal Papers, as well as of recently discovered letters and photographs, White provides a portrait of Lincoln\u2019s personal, political, and moral evolution. White shows us Lincoln as a man who would leave a trail of thoughts in his wake, jotting ideas on scraps of paper and filing them in his top hat or the bottom drawer of his desk; a country lawyer who asked questions in order to figure out his own thinking on an issue, as much as to argue the case; a hands-on commander in chief who, as soldiers and sailors watched in amazement, commandeered a boat and ordered an attack on Confederate shore batteries at the tip of the Virginia peninsula; a man who struggled with the immorality of slavery and as president acted publicly and privately to outlaw it forever; and finally, a president involved in a religious odyssey who wrote, for his own eyes only, a profound meditation on \u201cthe will of God\u201d in the Civil War that would become the basis of his finest address.<\/p>\n

Most enlightening, the Abraham Lincoln who comes into focus in this stellar narrative is a person of intellectual curiosity, comfortable with ambiguity, unafraid to \u201cthink anew and act anew.\u201d <\/p>\n

A transcendent, sweeping, passionately written biography that greatly expands our knowledge and understanding of its subject, A. Lincoln will engage a whole new generation of Americans. It is poised to shed a profound light on our greatest president just as America commemorates the bicentennial of his birth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Three books that will be of interest to my readers, cheap for the Kindle. As I Knew Him: My Dad, Rod Serling by Serling’s Daughter, Anne. In this intimate, lyrical memoir about her iconic father, Anne Serling reveals the fun-loving dad and family man behind the imposing figure the public saw hosting The Twilight Zone … Continue reading Lincoln, Serling, Al-Sharif Books Cheap<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5044],"tags":[1038,1612,5380],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Kindle_Books_Cheap_Greg_Laden_Blog.png?fit=456%2C412&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-7MO","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29934"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29936,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29934\/revisions\/29936"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}