Author Panel: Amazing Women

The Festival

Location: Lahn Social Hall

Moderated by Anne McCracken, JCC Librarian

Sponsored by Valerie and David Gladfelter Endowment Fund of the JCF, Inc.

Jaqueline Friedland, The Stockwell Letters

With a par­tic­u­lar focus on the predica­ment of nine­teenth-cen­tu­ry women who want­ed to effect change despite the restric­tions soci­ety imposed on them, The Stock­well Let­ters takes a deep dive into the har­row­ing con­di­tions of the ante­bel­lum South and the obsta­cles faced by abo­li­tion­ists who fought tire­less­ly to erad­i­cate slav­ery. A fast-paced, arrest­ing recount­ing of Amer­i­ca’s not-so-dis­tant his­to­ry, the sto­ry will stay with read­ers long after the final page.

Christopher Gorham, The Confidante: The Untold Story of the Women who Helped Win WWll and Shape Modern America

The year was 1935, and the woman was Anna M. Rosen­berg, Region­al Direc­tor for New York office of Pres­i­dent Roosevelt’s New Deal agency, the NRA. This was only the begin­ning, as Rosen­berg went on to serve Roo­sevelt in var­i­ous capac­i­ties. She con­tin­ued her ser­vice with Pres­i­dents Tru­man, Eisen­how­er, Kennedy, and John­son, even­tu­al­ly reach­ing the pin­na­cle of her career as US Assis­tant Sec­re­tary of Defense. Her rise into the high­est polit­i­cal ech­e­lons was notable not only because she was a woman, but also because she was a Jew­ish immi­grant who had come to New York from Hun­gary in 1912. 

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