book review short nights of the shadow catcher

Zachary Taylor died after eating cherries and drinking cold milk. William Howard Taft had a taste for possum. James Garfield and Dwight Eisenhower liked bowls of squirrel soup. “Presidential meals often had personal meaning, and sometimes contained coded political messages.

An on ramp to this book and conversation can be summarized in this passage: He is the coauthor of his aunt Julia Child's memoir, My Life in France, and merges Presidential history with dishes that were the height of sophistication at one point. 384 pages.Today on Here’s Where It Gets Interesting, Sharon sits down with author Alex Prud'homme about his book, Dinner with the President, all about White House food. Product Specifications Published by Mariner Books, paperback, 2013. He's also written several New York Times' bestsellers, including THE IMMORTAL IRISHMAN and THE BIG BURN. His book on photographer Edward Curtis, SHORT NIGHTS OF THE SHADOW CATCHER, was awarded the Carnegie Medal for nonfiction. His book on the Dust Bowl, THE WORST HARD TIME, won a National Book Award for nonfiction. TIMOTHY EGAN is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and the author of ten books, including the forthcoming, A FEVER IN THE HEARTLAND, which will be released on April 4. He writes a weekly opinion column for the New York Times. His book on the Dust Bowl, The Worst Hard Time, won a National Book Award for nonfiction and was named a New York Times Editors' Choice, a New York Times Notable Book, a Washington State Book Award winner, and a Book Sense Book of the Year Honor Book. About the Author Timothy Egan is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and the author of eight books, most recently THE IMMORTAL IRISHMAN, a New York Times Bestseller. In the process, the charming rogue with the grade school education created the most definitive archive of the American Indian. Curtis would amass more than 40,000 photographs and 10,000 audio recordings, and he is credited with making the first narrative documentary film. And the undertaking changed him profoundly, from detached observer to outraged advocate. It took tremendous perseverance - ten years alone to persuade the Hopi to allow him to observe their Snake Dance ceremony. Curtis spent the next three decades documenting the stories and rituals of more than eighty North American tribes.

But when he was thirty-two years old, in 1900, he gave it all up to pursue his Great Idea: to capture on film the continent’s original inhabitants before the old ways disappeared. He moved in rarefied circles, a friend to presidents, vaudeville stars, leading thinkers. Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis by Timothy EganĮdward Curtis was charismatic, handsome, a passionate mountaineer, and a famous portrait photographer, the Annie Leibovitz of his time.

Book review short nights of the shadow catcher