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posted by sdshspress at 8:28 am (EST) on Dec 30, 2011
I noticed that you have James & Patricia Deetz's "The Times of Their Lives" on your reading list, so I thought you might be interested in a book I wrote, "Thanksgiving: The Pilgrims' First Year in America." It's been getting very good reviews and ratings here at LibraryThing and over at Goodreads.com.
You can read excerpts at NLLibrarium.com/librarything/thanksgiving.html . You can order it there, too, at a special discount offered to anybody who agrees to write a review of the book.
Note that is NOT a book about a holiday. it's about a bunch of PEOPLE and everything they did, everything that happened to them, in every detail I could find about them.
Let me add that this would be a good Father's Day gift for any fathers you happen to know who have an interest in history or the founding of America. What could be better for fathers than forefathers? If you get it as a gift, I recommend the hardcover edition, which has a red ribbon bookmark in it - the kind of book a father will want to pass on to a daughter or son. I'll be glad to sign the book and write a dedication in it. Just let me know what to write ("For my favorite forefather," for example, or "For my nephew the father" or whatever you like.)
As you'll see from the excerpts, it's a different kind of history - very graphic and dramatic but always sticking strictly to the facts. It's a book for everyone, not just historians. It covers just about every known detail about what happened in that crucial year between the landing of the Mayflower and the famous harvest feast of the following autumn.
I hope you get a chance to read it.
Sincerely,
Glenn Alan Cheney
Hanover, Conn.
posted by GlennCheney at 3:13 pm (EST) on May 28, 2010
A cover if you need it
posted by yeremenko at 6:21 pm (EST) on Nov 8, 2009