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Review �Absorbing....so many surprises, absurdities and ironies....Segregation is not one story but many. Luxenberg has written his with energy, elegance and a heart aching for a world without it.� - James Goodman, New York Times Book Review�Luxenberg has chosen a fresh way to tell the story of Plessy....Separate is deeply researched, and it wears its learning lightly. It's a storytelling kind of book....[He] skillfully works the military and the political background into his narrative.� - Louis Menand, The New Yorker�[Luxenberg] is a fine writer who tells this story in an engaging manner....Separate reminds us that our history is not simply a narrative of greater and greater freedom.� - Eric Foner, Washington Post�Offers a striking view of Reconstruction and of the tragic stillbirth of freedom in that era....Luxenberg writes at the outset of his book that the story of Plessy is a reminder that �history is made, not ordained.� In his moving portrait of the many figures who played a role in the case, he confirms that idea as well as another: that even the most hopeless fool�s errand can emerge, in time, as an unassailable triumph.� - Charles S. Dameron, Wall Street Journal�A dazzlingly well-reported chronicle of an important period....Luxenberg repeatedly manages to tell us stories that capture both the hope and hopelessness that has been central to America�s long argument about race....An eye-opening journey through some of the darkest passages and haunting corridors of American history.� - Terence Samuel, NPR�A surprising, compelling, and brilliant milestone in understanding the history of race relations in America.� - Bob Woodward, author of Fear: Trump in the White House�Riveting and deeply researched, Separate tells the story surrounding one of the nation�s most devastating acts: drawing a sharp color line between black and white after the Civil War. The Plessy case was a knife that cleaved America, and Steve Luxenberg brilliantly reveals that divide with his rich narrative of admirable and flawed characters caught in the battle over racial justice. Every paragraph resonates in today�s headlines.� - Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs, and professor of history, Tulane University�Forensically researched, deeply moving, devastatingly relevant.� - Katherine Boo, author of Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity�This is a compulsively readable work of serious history, the absorbing and timely story of a disastrous U.S. Supreme Court decision, freshly told through the lives of those directly involved. Steve Luxenberg�s scholarship is deep and impressive; his writing even more so. This is history as it was lived, giving us a sense not only of the deep racism of the period, but the struggle of decent men and women to overcome it, in society and, most importantly, in themselves.� - Mark Bowden, author of Black Hawk Down and Hue 1968: A Turning Point in the American War in Vietnam�A magisterial assessment of a U.S. Supreme Court�s grievous moral collapse...a definitive work on the 1896 legal drama that afflicts us to this day.� - David Simon, author and creator of HBO's The Wire Read more About the Author Steve Luxenberg is the author of Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation and the critically acclaimed Annie�s Ghosts: A Journey into a Family Secret. During his thirty years as a Washington Post senior editor, he has overseen reporting that has earned numerous national honors, including two Pulitzer Prizes. Read more
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