What book reviewers are saying this week
WHAT REVIEWERS ARE SAYING...
CAPITOL MEN: The Epic Story of Reconstruction Through the Lives of the First Black Congressmen
By Philip Dray / Houghton Mifflin
鈥淒ray casts fresh light on the positive aspects of Reconstruction and ... dramatizes its negative side. His well-researched book聽 ... offers a collective biography of several black congressmen in the South during Reconstruction who bravely took a public stance against racial prejudice.鈥�
鈥� DAVID S. REYNOLDS, The New York Times
IN COD WE TRUST: Living the Norwegian Dream
By Eric Dregni / University of Minnesota Press
鈥淸A] distinctly personal tale of a year spent in Norway ... as [the author] traces ... his great-grandfather Ellef鈥檚 1893 journey from the deepest branch of the storied Sognefjord to Minnesota.鈥�
鈥� CHUCK HAGA, Minneapolis Star Tribune
THE WHISKEY REBELS: A Novel
By David Liss / Random House
鈥淭reasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton triggers the novel鈥檚 action .... [with his] whiskey tax ... that ignited the historical Whiskey Rebellion.... educational, entertaining and thoughtful.鈥�
鈥� DAVID HENDRICKS, San Antonio Express-News
