New Reading List San Francisco Public Library - Spring 2018

The San Francisco Library continues to amaze me, with the collection of outstanding books. My current reading list, seems to reflect what is going on around me and within the country. From President Trump and his effort and presences in Asia (North Korea and China): which might result in a global trade war. To Swedish emigrants, who rooted venture forward to unknown land seeking LIBERTY and FREEDOM, is so well cemented in many Americans today.


 
1)  Not Without The Americans : A Personal History.  By: Beech Keyes (1971)
     This is the story of a former Vietnam solider, who decided to say in Asia, never
     to return to the United States. He details the reason why he came to that decision. He
     goes depth about the Vietnam War: Stating how he agrees with President Johnson's decision to 
     continue the war.  But frustrated at French soldiers who disliked the American soldiers and cause
     great havoc for them as they entered the war.
    

2) Who Votes Now?  By: Jan E. Leighley and Jonothan Nagler

 

 Takes a serious look into the 2012 election of President Obama against Mitt Romey to explains  the voter low turn out of that election. Even through both candidates raised enormous amounts o amounts of money.   Who Votes Now? compares the demographic characteristics and political    views of voters and nonvoters in American presidential elections since 1972 and examines how electoral reforms and the choices offered by candidates influence voter turnout. Drawing on a wealth of data from the U.S. Census Bureau's Current Population Survey and the American National Election Studies, Jan Leighley and Jonathan Nagler demonstrate that the rich have consistently voted more than the poor for the past four decades, and that voters are substantially more conservative in their economic views than nonvoters. They find that women are now more likely to vote than men, that the gap in voting rates between blacks and whites has largely disappeared, and that older Americans continue to vote more than younger Americans. Leighley and Nagler also show how electoral reforms such as Election Day voter registration and absentee voting have boosted voter turnout, and how turnout would also rise if parties offered more distinct choices. Providing the most systematic analysis available of modern voter turnout, Who Votes Now? reveals that persistent class bias in turnout has enduring political consequences, and that it really does matter who votes and who doesn't.



 3) THE EMIGRANT FAREWELL by: Robert L. Wright
 

 This book is a Swedish lyric book,  with lyrics written as far back as 1865, which detail the emotions of Swedish emigrants as they left their beloved Sweden to come to the new world and become nationalized Americans.
 

We Sold Our Farms  (page 72)

paragraph #5

-Here we place our money in a common pool

A check was later purchased in an English Bank

We received in exchange for our GOLD

So clean and pure

But when we tried to get it back

It was to us, FORBIDDEN

It was forwarded instead to a New York Banking House

We never did set eyes upon it 

The Gold we ne'-er did see

Because when we claimed payment

The money was taken out

There was an awful clamor as mentioned at the end of this song...

O'lord God protect us

Everyone on earth 

For giving oneself to danger and believing a HAWKERS word

My soul is a cold preventive

For those to take in

Who intended to Emigrant and have a unstable mind

Since older days - have lived pious folks good

It has happened so in bygone days 

It will happen so - FOREVER!!!