Vance is also the host of the “Hello World” TV show. Vance is an award winning feature writer for Bloomberg Businessweek magazine. ‘Half American’ begins with a chapter on the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, an integrated battalion of Americans who fought against Franco’s forces in the Spanish Civil War,” said the review.ĭelmont is an energetic storyteller, giving a vibrant sense of his subject in all of its dimensions, said Szalai.Īshlee Vance has written an excellent book detailing the many folks seeking to enter the privately owned space industry.
“For many Black Americans, the real war began several years before Pearl Harbor, with Mussolini’s invasion of Ethiopia in October 1935. Delmont vividly brings to life the heroism of African-American war veterans, the battles they constantly faced at home and abroad, and the horrific ways they were treated and targeted after their active war service ended.ĭelmont’s “definitive and deftly drawn history needs to be read, shared, and wide exposures,” said a review on .ĭelmont points out how so much of the Second World War “looks different when viewed from the African American perspective” - even the start date, said Jennifer Szalai in a review for The New York Times. African-American involvement in the Second World War has long been neglected or dismissed.
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