This week, we feature a look at the mysteries surrounding Amelia Earhart’s final flight and a heartwarming collection of letters between a British bookseller and a book-loving New Yorker.
Biography
‘The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchison’
By Bernard BailynWinner of two Pulitzer Prizes and a National Book Award—won for this book, Bernard Bailyn was a leading historian of the 20th century. Originally published during the nation’s bicentennial, this brilliant work was recently republished by Harvard Press for the semiquincentennial. It tackles the complexity of Hutchison’s position as governor of Massachusetts during the early days of the American Revolution. An insightful biographical study of a man struggling to stave off what he viewed as impending disaster.
