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Dijkstra Agency Hot List DIJKSTRA AGENCY HOT LIST Spring – Summer 2019 Sandra Dijkstra Elise Capron * Jill Marr * Thao Le Andrea Cavallaro * Roz Foster Jessica Watterson * Suzy Evans Jennifer Kim * Haneen Oriqat www.dijkstraagency.com COMING THIS FALL FROM ERIC FONER THE SECOND FOUNDING: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution (Norton, September 2019) From New York Times bestseller and Pulitzer Prize– winning historian, an authoritative story of the constitutional changes that built equality into the nation’s foundation. The Declaration of Independence announced equality as an American ideal, but it took the Civil War and the subsequent adoption of three constitutional amendments to establish that ideal as American law. The Reconstruction amendments abolished slavery, guaranteed due process and the equal protection of the law, and equipped black men with the right to vote. The federal government, not the states, was put in charge of enforcement. By grafting the principle of equality onto the Constitution, the amendments marked the second founding of the United States. Eric Foner’s rich, insightful history conveys the dramatic origins of these revolutionary amendments in citizen meetings and political negotiations. He explores the momentous court decisions that then narrowed and even nullified the rights guaranteed in these amendments. Today, issues of birthright citizenship, voting rights, due process, and equal protection are still in dispute, the ideal of equality yet to be achieved. Praise for Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad, awarded the American History Book Prize by New-York Historical Society: “Illuminating…an invaluable addition to our history.” — Kevin Baker, New York Times Book Review “Foner’s gripping account of slaves’ struggles to free themselves reveals the immense risks they, and their sympathizers, took to escape bondage.” —Publishers Weekly “Intellectually probing and emotionally resonant, Gateway to Freedom reminds us that history can be as stirring as the most gripping fiction.” — Wendy Smith, Los Angeles Times Eric Foner is the preeminent historian of his generation, highly respected by historians of every stripe―whether they specialize in political history or social history. His books have won the top awards in the profession, and he has been president of both major history organizations: the American Historical Association and the Organization of American Historians. He has worked on every detail of Give Me Liberty!, which displays all of his trademark strengths as a scholar, teacher, and writer. A specialist on the Civil War/Reconstruction period, he regularly teaches the nineteenth-century survey at Columbia University, where he is DeWitt Clinton Professor of History. In 2011, Foner's The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery won the Pulitzer Prize in History, the Bancroft Prize, and the Lincoln Prize. 2 | Sandra Dijkstra & Associates S p r i n g – Summer 2019 JOY LUCK CLUB 30th ANNIVERSARY EDITION THE JOY LUCK CLUB Amy Tan (Viking, May 2019) Includes a new preface by the author. The 30th anniversary of the New York Times bestselling, internationally beloved tale of mothers and daughters, which influenced a generation of readers and writers. “From the moment I first started reading it, I knew it was going to be incredible. For me, it was one of those once-in-a-lifetime reading experiences that you cherish forever. It inspired me as a writer and still remains hugely inspirational.” —Kevin Kwan, New York Times bestselling author of Crazy Rich Asians “You see the lives of these women, and you think about all the women who came before you… It’s among the canon of Asian American stories that are feminist and that are true to our being. It’s a book that has stayed with me and lived in me.” —Margaret Cho "Powerful as myth." —The Washington Post Book World "Beautifully written...a jewel of a book." —The New York Times Book Review "Powerful...full of magic...you won't be doing anything of importance until you have finished this book." —Los Angeles Times "Wonderful...a significant lesson in what storytelling has to do with memory and inheritance." —San Francisco Chronicle In 1949, four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mah jong, and talk. United in shared unspeakable loss and hope, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. With wit and sensitivity, Amy Tan’s debut novel—now widely regarded as a modern classic—examines the sometimes painful, often tender, and always deep connection between these four women and their American-born daughters. Amy Tan is the internationally bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God’s Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, The Bonesetter’s Daughter, The Valley of Amazement, The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life, and two children’s books. Her books have been sold in thirty four countries. Tan was also a co-producer and co-screenwriter of the film version of The Joy Luck Club. She lives with her husband and their dogs in California and New York. 3 | Sandra Dijkstra & Associates S p r i n g – Summer 2019 SPECIAL 20th ANNIVERSARY EDITION OF A CLASSIC STIFFED: THE ROOTS OF MODERN MALE RAGE Susan Faludi (Harper Collins, October 2019) Includes a new foreword by the author. The 20th anniversary edition of the New York Times bestselling author of Backlash and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of In the Darkroom. "Brilliant, important book…Faludi's reportorial and literary skills unfold with breathtaking confidence and beauty... She goes a long way toward eliminating the black and white, good and evil, male and female polarities that have driven the sexes in the past three decades..." –Time "A fair-minded and energetically reported book." —The New York Times "A sprawling combination of reportage, cultural analysis and pop psychology, is both a trenchant critique of American culture and an embodiment of its most pernicious aspects." —The Los Angeles Times In 1991, internationally renowned feminist journalist Susan Faludi ignited a revival of the women’s movement with her revelatory investigative reportage: Backlash was nothing less than a landmark, uncovering an “undeclared war” against women’s equality in the media, advertising, Hollywood, the workplace, and government—a war that is still being fought today. Stiffed may be even more essential than Backlash to understanding the cultural riptides that led to Trumpian America. Here, Faludi turns her attention to the so- called “Angry Male” politics plaguing the nation. Through deeply researched, nuanced, and empathetic character studies of distressed industrial workers, laid-off aerospace engineers, combat veterans, football fans, evangelical husbands, suburban and inner-city teenage boys, and Hollywood and porn actors, Stiffed goes beyond the easy explanations of male misbehavior—that it’s driven by chromosomes or hormones—to lay bare the powerful social and economic forces that have shattered the postwar compact defining American manhood. Faludi’s vivid storytelling illuminates the historic and traumatic paradigm shift from a “utilitarian” manliness, grounded in civic and communal service, to an “ornamental” masculinity shaped by entertainment, marketing, and performance values. Read in the light of Trumpian politics and the #MeToo movement, Faludi’s analysis speaks acutely to our present crisis, and to a foreboding future. Stiffed delivers a searing portrait of modern-day male America, and traces the provenance of a gender war that continues to rage, unabated. Susan Faludi is a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist and the author of the bestselling Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, and Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man. In her most recent book, The Terror Dream: Myth and Misogyny in an Insecure America, she examines the post-9/11 outpouring in the media, popular culture, and political life. Faludi's work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and The Nation, among other publications. 4 | Sandra Dijkstra & Associates S p r i n g – Summer 2019 FALL 2019 NON-FICTION HIGHLIGHTS DOUBLE CROSSED: The Missionaries Who Spied for the United States During the Second World War Matthew Avery Sutton (Basic, September 2019) The untold story of the Christian missionaries who played a crucial role in the allied victory in World War II. Sutton’s previous book, Jerry Falwell and the Rise of the Religious Right: A Brief History with Documents, provided an up-close look at the motivations and aspirations of the Religious Right. THE ACCUSATION: Blood Libel in An American Town Edward Berenson (Norton, September 2019) A fascinating investigation of America’s only alleged case of blood libel, and what it reveals about anti-Semitism in the United States and Europe. Berenson’s previous book, The Statue of Liberty: A Transatlantic Story, tells the little-known stories of the statue's improbable beginnings, transatlantic connections, and the changing meanings it has held for each successive American generation. AMERICA FOR AMERICANS: A History of Xenophobia in the United States Erika Lee (Basic, November 2019) An award-winning historian reframes our continuing debate over immigration with a compelling history of xenophobia in the United States and its devastating impact. Lee’s previous book, the definitive history of Asian Americans, The Making of Asian America: A History, was chosen for best non-fiction by Kirkus Reviews, The New York Times Book Review, and The Los Angeles Times. THE WINTER ARMY: The World War II Odyssey of the 10th Mountain Division, America's Elite Alpine Warriors Maurice Isserman (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, November 2019) The epic story of the U.S. Army’s 10th Mountain Division, whose elite soldiers broke the last line of German defenses in Italy’s mountains in 1945, spearheading the Allied advance to the Alps and final victory. Isserman’s previous book, Continental Divide: A History of American Mountaineering, was a 2016 National Outdoor Book Awards Honorable Mention in the outdoor literature category.
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