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David Laskin

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Born in Brooklyn and raised in Great Neck, New York, I grew up hearing stories that my immigrant Jewish grandparents told about the “old country” (Russia) that they left at the turn of the last century. When I was a teenager, my mother’s parents began making yearly trips to visit our relatives in Israel, and stories about the Israeli family sifted down to me as well. What I never heard growing up was that a third branch of the family had remained behind in the old country – and that all of them perished in the Holocaust. These are three branches whose intertwined stories I tell in THE FAMILY: THREE JOURNEYS INTO THE HEART OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.

An avid reader for as long as I remember, I graduated from Harvard College in 1975 with a degr ...more

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Average rating: 3.91 · 15,011 ratings · 1,963 reviews · 25 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Children's Blizzard 3.89 avg rating — 13,065 ratings — published 2004 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Family: Three Journeys into the Heart of the Twentieth Century 4.21 avg rating — 1,213 ratings — published 2013 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Long Way Home: An American Journey from Ellis Island to the Great War 3.91 avg rating — 517 ratings — published 2010 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What Sammy Knew: A Novel 3.36 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 2021 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rains All the Time: A Connoisseur's History of Weather in the Pacific Northwest 3.80 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Braving the Elements: The Stormy History of American Weather 3.69 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 1996 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Partisans: Marriage, Politics, and Betrayal Among the New York Intellectuals 3.63 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2000 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Reading Group Book: The Complete Guide to Starting and Sustaining a Reading Group... by David Laskin (Goodreads Author), Holly Hughes 3.48 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1995	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Common Life: Four Generations of American Literary Friendships and Influence 4.17 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1994 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Little Girl Book: Everything You Need To Know To Raise A Daughter Today by David Laskin (Goodreads Author), Kathleen O'Neill 3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1992 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“It was the age of confidence. Arrogance was epidemic.”
― David Laskin, The Children's Blizzard

tags: arrogance, confidence, gilded-age, social-commentary

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“Gro Rollag was no beauty, but she was a strong capable young woman with a long face, prominent cheekbones, high forehead, and a kindly intelligent look in her rather narrow eyes. According to family lore, she was not the most conscientious housekeeper because she preferred reading to housework. A love of books and reading ran in the family. Of all the possessions they were forced to sell or leave behind in Norway, what the Rollags remembered with deepest regret was the library they inherited from an eighteenth-century ancestor - lovely old books sold to pay for their passage to America.”
― David Laskin, The Children's Blizzard

tags: books, reading

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“hot and dry early that year, and by the Fourth of July the grass was parched and brown and stubby. The young Teddy Roosevelt, traveling through the north part of Dakota Territory on the way to his ranches near Medora, told a newspaper reporter in mid-July that “Between the drouth, the”
― David Laskin, The Children's Blizzard

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OK - Let's get this next Non-fiction poll open and going!! We will have our winner before April 1st and be well on our way!!

Please everyone vote for the non-fiction book that we will be reading over the next 3 months - April thru June. We have some great books to choose from.

Should we have a tie, there will be a very short 3 day additional poll to select one winner this quarter.

Please vote for your choice below...

Thanks and Happy Reading...

Heart in the Right Place

by Carolyn Jourdan

18 votes, 22.2%

January First: A Child's Descent into Madness and Her Father's Struggle to Save Her

by Michael Schofield

12 votes, 14.8%

Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities

by Flora Rheta Schreiber

10 votes, 12.3%

Between the World and Me

by Ta-Nehisi Coates

10 votes, 12.3%

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

by Bryan Stevenson

9 votes, 11.1%

Beneath a Ruthless Sun: A True Story of Violence, Race, and Justice Lost and Found

by Gilbert King

7 votes, 8.6%

The Boy on the Beach

by Tima Kurdi

6 votes, 7.4%

The Boy Who Shot the Sheriff: The Redemption of Herbert Niccolls Jr.

by Nancy Bartley

4 votes, 4.9%

Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West

by Hampton Sides

3 votes, 3.7%

The Family: Three Journeys into the Heart of the Twentieth Century

by David Laskin

2 votes, 2.5%

81 total votes

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