Beacon Buzz: Interfaith Cooperation
September 14, 2012
Watch and Listen:
Sacred Ground: Pluralism, Prejudice, and the Promise of America by Eboo Patel
Melissa Harris-Perry Show on MSNBC
Interview on Christine Amanpour's show, "Amanpour" on CNN International
Tweet Land of Liberty: Irreverent Rhymes from the Political Circus by Elinor Lipman
Lipman was a guest on WBUR's "Here and Now"
Review and Interview in Shelf Awareness for Readers, and Book Trailer of the Day in Shelf Awareness for the Book Trade
Notable Mentions:
The Springs of Namje: A Ten-Year Journey from the Villages of Nepal to the Halls of Congress by Rajeev Goyal
Booklist review, in print Sept 15: “An honest and inspiring look at the hard work and reward of development efforts.”
Write-up and author interview in The Island Now, Sept. 06; The Island Now
When the World Calls: The Inside Story of the Peace Corps and Its First Fifty Years by Stanley Meisler
Stanley Meisler wins a Peace Corps Writers Award: 2011 Publisher’s Special Award, Peace Corps Worldwide
Coming Soon:
Defiant Brides: The Untold Story of Two Revolutionary-Era Women and the Radical Men They Married by Nancy Rubin Stuart (April 09, 2013)
"In this lively double-biography, Nancy Rubin Stuart reveals the resilient lives of a leading Patriot and a notorious Loyalist: both of them women. Lucy Flucker Knox and Peggy Shippen Arnold deftly performed the parlor politics that helped to shape the American Revolution in surprising ways."
--Alan Taylor, author of The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies