PositiveBooklistIn describing the road conditions, towns, and people, including celebrities, Wilkins encountered on her four-thousand-mile journey, Letts creates a nostalgic travelogue and a vibrant history of life in 1950s America. Thanks to deeply sourced research and her own travels along Wilkins’ route, Letts vividly portrays an audacious woman whose optimism, courage, and good humor are to be marveled at and admired. Upbeat and touching, Wilkins’ story is the perfect pandemic escapist read.
Jonathan Cohn
PositiveBooklistAcclaimed journalist Cohn is recognized as an expert on health care legislation, and within the framework of tracing the history of the Affordable Care Act passed by the Obama administration, he provides a précis of political shenanigans, governmental gridlock, and policy wrangling in a how-the-sausage-gets-made look at the legislative machinations that went into the ACA’s creation ... With writing that is lively, engaging, knowledgeable without being scholarly, detailed without being pedantic, Cohn is an exemplar of investigative, expository journalism at its best, and health care is a more urgent topic than ever as the COVID-19 pandemic continues.
