Bøker av Mike Pride

"Northern Voices: Forty Years on the Poetry Beat, tells the story of journalist Mike Pride's relationships with several poets who lived and worked in New Hampshire, Maine, and Vermont from the 1970s through the present. Mike transformed the New Hampshire newspaper The Concord Monitor into a prizewinning paragon of regional journalism, mentoring generations of reporters and editors, defying the trope about the dying small-town newspaper and exerting an outsize impact on his profession. He carved out for himself, "The Poetry Beat," befriending poets including Charles Simic, Jane Kenyon, Donald Hall, Maxine Cumin, Hayden Carruth, Wes McNair, and Sharon Olds, among many others, whom he wrote about with regularity. Sadly Mike died before his "poetry memoir" Northern Voices was published. But in true Mike-style, he completed the manuscript and readied it for press"--

A few weeks after the Emancipation Proclamation took effect, James Montgomery sailed into Key West Harbor looking for black men to draft into the Union army. Eager to oblige him, the military commander in town ordered every black man from fifteen to fifty to report to the courthouse, ¿there to undergo a medical examination, preparatory to embarking for Hilton Head, S.C.¿ Montgomery swept away 126 men.Storm over Key West is a little-known story woven of many threads, but its main theme is the denial to black people of the equality central to the American ideal. After the island¿s slaves flocked to freedom during the summer of 1862, the white majority began a century-long campaign to deny black residents civil rights, education, literacy, respect, and the vote. Key West¿s harbor and two major federal forts were often referred to as ¿Americäs Gibraltar.¿ This Gibraltar guarded the Florida Straits between Key West and Cuba and thus access to the Gulf of Mexico. When Union forces seized it before the war, the southernmost point of the Confederacy slipped out of Confederate hands. This led to a naval blockade based in Key West that devastated commerce in Florida and beyond.This book is the widest-ranging narrative history to date of the military bastion in the Florida Keys.