RaveNational ReviewIt requires artistry to write beautifully about children suffering at the hands of evil men, and from the riveting first sentence of his slender new novel The Nickel Boys...Colson Whitehead’s prose unfurls with controlled fury as he reimagines life at what was the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys in Marianna, Florida. The fact that Whitehead never raises his authorial voice enhances its wallop ... [a] searing reminder that what happened not long ago, and here, was not unthinkable.
Ron Chernow
RaveThe National Review...Chernow’s book is a tutorial on measured, mature judgment ... Chernow, laden with honors for his biographies of George Washington and Alexander Hamilton, is a true friend of the general who did so much to preserve the nation ...clear-eyed in examining and evenhanded in assessing Grant’s defects ... Chernow’s Grant is a gift to a nation presently much in need of measured judgments about its past.
