Tag: Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Book of the Day: Terrible Typhoid Mary by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

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I was sent a copy of Terrible Typhoid Mary by Susan Campbell Bartoletti   Terrible Typhoid Mary by Susan Campbell Bartoletti Release Date: August 4, 2015 What happens when a person’s reputation has been forever damaged? With archival photographs and text among other primary sources, this riveting biography of Mary Mallon by the Sibert medalist and Newbery Honor winner Susan Bartoletti looks beyond the tabloid scandal of Mary’s controversial life. How she was treated by medical and legal officials reveals a lesser-known story of human and constitutional rights, entangled with…

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Book of the Day: They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group

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I was sent a copy of They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group by Susan Campbell Bartoletti They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group by Susan Campbell Bartoletti Release Date: 2014-06-10 Boys, let us get up a club. With those words, six restless young men raided the linens at a friend’s mansion, pulled pillowcases over their heads, hopped on horses, and cavorted through the streets of Pulaski, Tennessee in 1866. The six friends named their club the Ku Klux Klan,…

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