Samuel G. Freedman
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The Inheritance: How Three Families and America Moved from Roosevelt to Reagan and Beyond
Samuel G. Freedman
In a chronicle of three generations of three working-class families, award-winning journalist Samuel G. Freedman tells the human story of the political transformation of twentieth-century America—the rise and fall of FDR’s New Deal coalition and its displacement by the new conservatism of Ronald Reagan and Newt Gingrich. This is the single most important political phenomenon of our times.
Freedman has selected three families who are at once singular and broadly representative. They are families who reached this country just as the century was beginning and…
Small Victories: The Real World of a Teacher, Her Students, and Their High School
Samuel G. Freedman
Small Victories is Samuel Freedman’s remarkable story of life on the front lines in the sort of high school that seems like a disaster with walls—old, urban, overcrowded, and overwhelmingly minority. Seaward Park High School, on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, has been ranked among the worst 10 percent of high schools in the state—yet 92 percent of its graduates go on to higher education. The reason is dedicated teachers, one of whom, English instructor Jessica Siegel, is the subject of Freedman’s unforgettably dramatic humanization of the education crisis.…
