Liberty Street on Good Morning America!
What a thrill, my book up in lights! https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/Culture/video/jason-friedmans-liberty-street-weeks-gma-buzz-pick-113236335
What a thrill, my book up in lights! https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/Culture/video/jason-friedmans-liberty-street-weeks-gma-buzz-pick-113236335
I like reviews that truly engage with my book, and I completely agree that it “pushes the bounds of propriety in a work of history”! The reviewer goes on to say, “Yet it’s not clear that any other form, or any one of the several forms this book deploys, would quite do the story justice.
I’m so pleased by the Jewish Book Council’s support for this book.https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/bookselling/article/95196-book-club-picks-for-june-2024.html
I had a great time talking with Stan Deaton from the wonderful Georgia Historical Society, where I began my research for Liberty Street. https://www.deatonpath.georgiahistory.com/podcast-s7e15-liberty-street-a-savannah-family-its-golden-boy-and-the-civil-war/
https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/book/liberty-street-a-savannah-family-its-golden-boy-and-the-civil-war
Were you ever obsessed with a writer–until everyone else discovered him? https://lithub.com/hero-of-a-cult-of-one-on-loving-cormac-mccarthys-early-work/
I love that the host admits she didn’t get through all the books she recommended. Also that she called Liberty Street “a really different type of Civil War book.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76sM8Nx3vio&ab_channel=TheHistoryShelf
First review of my new book! https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781643364698
Thrilled with the cover of my book Liberty Street, out in April from the University of South Carolina Press. The modern sanserif font against the old picture, the overlay of a detail from the Solomon Cohen plot at Savannah’s Laurel Grove cemetery–or vines or whatever else people see–are meant to be mysterious, hopefully in a
Specifically category 18, Award for Excellence in North American Jewish History, Division B, second place. “Beautifully written,” begins the comment, which makes it all worthwhile. https://www.ajpa.org/page-18159