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James Durkin Frederick (November 22, 1971 – July 31, 2014) was an American author and journalist who was an editor for Time magazine. Biography James Durkin Frederick was born in Lake Forest, Illinois, and graduated from Columbia University in 1993.In 2010, he wrote the best-selling book Black Hearts: One Platoon's Descent into Madness in Iraq's Triangle of Death, about the Mahmudiyah killings. He was married to Time senior editor Charlotte Greensit, whom he met while stationed in London. Frederick left Time in 2013, then settled in San Francisco to start a company, Hybrid Vigor Media.On July 31, 2014, Frederick died at the age of 42 in the Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Oakland, California, of cardiac arrest and arrhythmia. Works Jenkins, Charles Robert, and Jim Frederick. The Reluctant Communist: My Desertion, Court-Martial, and Forty-Year Imprisonment in North Korea. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. ISBN 9780520253339 Frederick, Jim. Black Hearts: One Platoon's Plunge into Madness in the Triangle of Death and the American Struggle in Iraq. New York: Harmony Books, 2010. ISBN 9780307450753 His friend Ken Kurson called this book "the single best book ever written about the war in Iraq and one of the greatest war books ever." The Commandant of Cadets at the United States Military Academy made it the inaugural book in his personal leadership development book club for cadets and told Frederick that he would be considered a lifetime friend of West Point.References . Discover the Jim Frederick popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Jim Frederick books.

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  • Rodney Stone synopsis, comments

    Rodney Stone

    Arthur Conan Doyle & Gabriel Chrisman

    From the creator of Sherlock Holmes, a comingofage combination of detective fiction and thrilling adventure.First published in 1896, Rodney Stone is a gothic comingofage story that...

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    Our War

    Christopher Somerville

    Never heard before real stories of soldiers who fought in WW2 'Extraordinary ...If they had not made our war their war also, victory might not have come in 1945' DAILY TELEGRAPHIn ...

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    Unmasking the Silence - 17 Powerful Slave Narratives in One Edition

    Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Solomon Northup, Willie Lynch, Nat Turner, Sojourner Truth, Mary Prince, William Craft, Ellen Craft, Louis Hughes, Jacob D. Green, Booker T. Washington, Olaudah Equiano, Elizabeth Keckley, William Still, Sarah H. Bradford, Josiah Henson & Harriet Beecher Stowe

    This unique collection of "UNMASKING THE SILENCE 17 Powerful Slave Narratives in One Edition" has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards. Contents: N...

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    Seen and Unseen

    Marc Lamont Hill & Todd Brewster

    A riveting exploration of how visual media has shifted the narrative on race and reignited the push towards justice by the author of the “worthy and necessary” (The New York Times)...

  • Black and White synopsis, comments

    Black and White

    T. Thomas Fortune, Robin D. G. Kelley & Seth Moglen

    Featuring a new foreword by Robin D. G. Kelley, this updated edition of the classic exploration of the economic inequality that fuels systematic racism, from one of the leading Bla...

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    Olympic Pride, American Prejudice

    Deborah Riley Draper, Blair Underwood & Travis Thrasher

    In this “mustread for anyone concerned with race, sports, and politics in America” (William C. Rhoden, New York Times bestselling author), the inspirational and largely unknown tru...

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    Stony the Road

    Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

    “Stony the Road presents a bracing alternative to Trumpera white nationalism. . . . In our current politics we recognize AfricanAmerican historythe spot under our country’s ru...

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    BURIED ALIVE BEHIND PRISON WALLS

    Thomas S. Gaines

    This carefully crafted ebook: "BURIED ALIVE BEHIND PRISON WALLS" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. William Walker was an Afric...

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    Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

    Frederick Douglass

    Packaged in handsome and affordable trade editions, Clydesdale Classics is a new series of essential literary works. From the musings of literary geniuses like Mark Twain in The Ad...

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    Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

    Frederick Douglass

    The story of Frederick Douglass is passionate, harrowing, and inspiring. As a former slave, impassioned abolitionist, gifted writer, newspaper editor, and powerful orator, Douglass...

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    A Long Time Coming

    Ray Anthony Shepard & R. Gregory Christie

    This YA biographyinverse of six important Black Americans from different eras, including Ona Judge, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Ida B. Wells, Martin Luther King Jr., and Ba...

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    Frederick Douglass

    David W. Blight

    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History“Extraordinary…a great American biography” (The New Yorker) of the most important AfricanAmerican of the nineteenth century: Frederick Dougla...

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    Reading with Patrick

    Michelle Kuo

    “In all of the literature addressing education, race, poverty, and criminal justice, there has been nothing quite like Reading with Patrick.”The AtlanticA memoir of the lifech...

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    Stark Mad Abolitionists

    Robert K. Sutton & Bob Dole

    A town at the center of the United States becomes the site of an ongoing struggle for freedom and equality.In May, 1854, Massachusetts was in an uproar. A judge, bound by the Fugit...

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    Rest in Pieces

    Bess Lovejoy

    A “marvelously macabre” (Kirkus Reviews) history of the bizarre afterlives of corpses of the celebrated and notorious dead.For some of the most influential figures in history, deat...

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    Buried Alive Behind Prison Walls

    Thomas S. Gaines

    William Walker was an African American man who was sold again and again to different slave owners and had to flee to Canada to realise his dreams of freedom. But little did he know...