A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History by Jeanne Theoharis

A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History

Jeanne Theoharis

288 pages first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history politics race informative reflective slow-paced
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Praised by The New York Times; O, The Oprah Magazine; Bitch Magazine; Slate; Publishers Weekly; and more, this is "a bracing corrective to a national mythology" (New York Times) around the civil rights movement. The civil rights movement has becom...

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informative 100%
challenging 60%
inspiring 53%
reflective 46%
emotional 33%
dark 13%
hopeful 13%
sad 13%
tense 13%

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slow 20%

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