Duuuuude. 5 Books for International Men’s Day
Tuesday November 19 is International Men's Day. It was created in 1999 as a counterpart to International Women's Day, which has been celebrated on March 8 since 1914.
Enjoy International Men's Day with a biography of a fascinating man.
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Banksy: the Man Behind the Wall by Will Ellsworth-Jones
A biography of the enigmatic, mysterious graffiti artist Banksy.
Learn more about Banksy in the documentary: Exit Through the Gift Shop
The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss
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• Talking Book (restricted to Print Disabled patrons)
General Alex Dumas, son of a black slave, rose to command 50,000 men at the peak of the French Revolution and inspired the swashbuckling works of his son, the novelist Alexandre Dumas.
Finding Everett Ruess: the Life and Unsolved Disappearance of a Legendary Wilderness Explorer by David Roberts
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Ruess spent 5 years wandering alone through the American Southwest and California during the Great Depression. He learned to speak Navajo, met Dorothea Lange and Ansel Adams, and immersed himself in the wilderness. He disappeared in 1934 and was never seen again but left behind a body of work–journals, poetry and art–that has fascinated generations.
A Man of Misconceptions: the Life of an Eccentric in an Age of Change by John Glassie
Athanasius Kircher was a 17th century Jesuit whose fascination with everything led to his expertise in a number of diverse fields including medicine, geology and Asian history. He is considered by some to be the father of Egyptology. He was one of the first people to view microbes through a microscope and determined the plague was caused by micro-organisms.
The Other Wes Moore: the Story of One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore
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Wes Moore was a Rhodes Scholar preparing to attend Oxford University when he read a story in the Baltimore Sun about another man named Wes Moore; he was a suspect in the killing of a police officer and the subject of a manhunt. Both men had similar backgrounds, but their lives took very different paths. Haunted by the coincidence, Moore contacted his namesake, now serving a life sentence for murder and began a correspondence with him.
One thought on “Duuuuude. 5 Books for International Men’s Day”
Is M. Elwood a man or a woman? If the latter, would any self-respecting feminist accept a reading list about women drawn up by a man?
Also, if biography is what we’re dealing with here, I don’t see The Fabulous Sylvester. Wrong kind of “dude”?
Please try harder.