Tag: Shirley

A More Perfect Party The Night Shirley Chisholm and Diahann Carroll Reshaped Politics


Free Download A More Perfect Party: The Night Shirley Chisholm and Diahann Carroll Reshaped Politics by Juanita Tolliver
English | January 14, 2025 | ISBN: 1538770229, 1538776669 | True EPUB | 224 pages | 1.1 MB
From an MSNBC Political Analyst, a riveting account of the legendary party hosted by Diahann Carroll for Shirley Chisholm’s 1972 presidential campaign, which changed the playing field for Black women in politics. Joy-Ann Reid calls A More Perfect Party, "a beautifully written political-social page turner."

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Expatriates of No Country The Letters of Shirley Hazzard and Donald Keene


Free Download Expatriates of No Country: The Letters of Shirley Hazzard and Donald Keene by Donald Keene, Shirley Hazzard, edited by Brigitta Olubas
English | October 22, 2024 | ISBN: 0231214448, 0231214456 | True EPUB | 224 pages | 1.6 MB
For more than thirty years, the acclaimed novelist Shirley Hazzard and the renowned scholar of Japanese literature Donald Keene maintained a remarkable epistolary friendship. Brought together by the death of a mutual friend in the late 1970s, they discovered a profound connection built on mutual affinities for literature and culture and common values of humanism and cosmopolitanism.

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