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"September 11, 2001" Two teenagers on opposite sides of the globe flee everything they know. In a world turned upside down by tragedy, they are refugees. Sixteen-year-old Dawn runs away from her unhappy foster home in California and travels to New York City. Johar, an Afghani teenager, sees his world crumble before him. He flees his war-ravaged village and the Taliban, and makes a dangerous trek to a refugee camp in Pakistan. Thanks to his knowledge of English, Johar finds a job at the camp assisting Louise, the Red Cross doctor--and Dawn's foster mother. Through e-mails and phone calls, Dawn and Johar begin to share and protect each other's secrets, fears, and dreams, and a remarkable bond forms that gives each of them hope and the courage to find a path home. "From the Hardcover edition."… (plus d'informations)
Sandberg was born 13 years after the Civil War concluded (1865), and after visiting over a hundred libraries and more sites, he writes as a newspaperman from his Goat Farm, with a great emphasis on the documents, quotations, and portraits of the period. He finished the first volume in 1939.
I know that this is a 'classic', but I found the writing tedious at times. At one spot, there were two complete pages that contained a single sentence. I actually skipped a few chapters. There was some interesting material, and it is good that this brings together an incredible number of sources (its main benefit), but there are other biographies I liked much better. ( )
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The famous lawyer, Rufus Choate, listening to foreign-language grand opera in New York, had told his daughter to be sure to let him know when to laugh or cry or just sit still and keep cool.
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In times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and in eternity.
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The original (1939) edition of The War Years was four volumes. There was a one volume abridged edition of the total six volume The Prairie Years and The War Years in 1954, which was later broken out into two volumes. This is the four-volume edition.
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"September 11, 2001" Two teenagers on opposite sides of the globe flee everything they know. In a world turned upside down by tragedy, they are refugees. Sixteen-year-old Dawn runs away from her unhappy foster home in California and travels to New York City. Johar, an Afghani teenager, sees his world crumble before him. He flees his war-ravaged village and the Taliban, and makes a dangerous trek to a refugee camp in Pakistan. Thanks to his knowledge of English, Johar finds a job at the camp assisting Louise, the Red Cross doctor--and Dawn's foster mother. Through e-mails and phone calls, Dawn and Johar begin to share and protect each other's secrets, fears, and dreams, and a remarkable bond forms that gives each of them hope and the courage to find a path home. "From the Hardcover edition."
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