Hampton Sides, a columnist for Outside magazine, interviewed surviving Rangers and has assembled a gripping account of one of the most appalling examples of wartime brutality. The Human Stain Philip Roth Roth completes his trilogy about postwar American life with a nuanced look at prurience, privacy, and politics. Roth's alter ego, Nathan Zuckerman, narrates the story about a black classics professor at a small New England college who lived his adult life as a white man. His life is shattered after he unintentionally makes a racist remark to one of his classes. He didn't realize they were black.
Silk capitulates to the outrage and resigns.
He then has an affair with an illiterate janitor nearly 40 years his junior, which sparks another brouhaha among the school's feminists. The book pays particular attention to the complicated relationship between Thomas Jefferson and Adams, co-revolutionaries whose relationship soured as the party system flourished. McCullough delivers an epic that is steeped in fact but flows like a novel. Whatever you do, don't read the last page of the book first. The ending is a shocker, and will likely prompt many readers to turn back to page one for another, closer read.