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More praise for Votes of Confidence
With the 2024 election tomorrow, it’s a good time for a roundup of recent praise for Votes of Confidence: A Young Person’s Guide to American Elections. Here are a few examples. The Alameda County Library (which includes Oakland, California, briefly my home in 2024) included Votes in its election roundup of voting resources, Q&A, and […]
Foreword Reviews praises Civic Minded
I’ve been able to quote from it before now, but the November/December issue of Foreword Reviews has a full review of Civic Minded. The book came out on October 1 and has been gaining a lot of momentum lately, appearing on a lot of lists of best books for election season, which is really nice […]
“The Wampanoag” appears in The Brussels Review
My books have obviously taken most of my time and attention lately, but I also had three short stories accepted for fall 2024 publication and the first of those came out today in The Brussels Review. “The Wampanoag” is about two boys waiting to greet their older brother on his scheduled return from a trip […]
More nice accolades for the civics books
With the election coming up, both Votes of Confidence 3rd Edition and Civic Minded are getting some nice accolades. First, here’s a great downloadable Inspiring Future Voters guide put together by the American Library Association, ALA Booklist, and Association for Library Service to Children. It includes Votes of Confidence as one of its five recommended […]
Thank you to 57th Street Books
Last night was the in-person book launch for Civic Minded: What Everyone Should Know about the US Government at 57th Street Books in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood. We had a small but engaged crowd (6 p.m. is tough for people coming from the north side), and my friend David Nelson (get his book here) did […]
Civic Minded out today!
My third book of 2024 is now out in stores. Civic Minded: What Everyone Should Know about the US Government is available nationwide (and abroad) today and is already a #1 new release in category, and the launch event is at 57th Street Books in Chicago tomorrow. Foreword Reviews says: “Blending an encyclopedic scope with […]
Great review of Votes of Confidence 3rd Edition
There haven’t been a ton of reviews of the new edition of Votes of Confidence, particularly because it’s a third edition and most places already reviewed it (and gave it very generous praise) earlier. That said, Foreword Reviews has a great new review out. An excerpt: A masterful overview of the history and mechanics of […]
