Scott Christianson (1947–2017)
Auteur van 100 Diagrams That Changed the World: From the Earliest Cave Paintings to the Innovation of the iPod
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Scott Christianson is a writer, investigative reporter, and historian. He is the author of several acclaimed books, including With Liberty for Some: 500 Years of Imprisonment in America, winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award Distinguished Honors and a Choice Outstanding Book Award. His book toon meer Condemned: Inside the Sing Sing Death House was the subject of feature stories in the Village Voice, the New York Times, and The Nation, and on the History Channel. toon minder
Werken van Scott Christianson
100 Diagrams That Changed the World: From the Earliest Cave Paintings to the Innovation of the iPod (2012) 235 exemplaren
Fatal Airs: The Deadly History and Apocalyptic Future of Lethal Gases That Threaten Our World (2010) 2 exemplaren
Der Spion von Pariser Platz 2 exemplaren
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- Officiële naam
- Christianson, Keith Scott
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- Christianson, K. Scott
- Geboortedatum
- 1947-08-08
- Overlijdensdatum
- 2017-05-14
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- Great Barrington, Massachusetts, USA
- Woonplaatsen
- Great Barrington, Massachusetts, USA
Delmar, New York, USA
Albany, New York, USA - Opleiding
- University of Connecticut
State University of New York, Albany (MA, Ph.D) - Beroepen
- journalist
teacher - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Pulitzer Prize Nominee
Robert F. Kennedy Book Award
Choice Outstanding Book Award - Korte biografie
- Keith (K.) Scott Christianson (August 8, 1947 – May 14, 2017) was an American author and journalist, who wrote several popular works about a variety of subjects, including American history and politics, forensic science, crime, prison and the death penalty, and about other popular subjects such as the history of incarceration, runaway slaves and historical highlights of visualization.
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- #43,914
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- 3.4
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Not so much really. I'd say the editors did a fantastic job of choosing books that most people would agree significantly affected, if not changed, the course of society. I enjoyed the narratives written for each one too; I learned at least a little something about each book, in spite of at least 95 of them being familiar to me already.
I knocked the rating back a little because some of the choices would have had a more localised influence than others (A Book of Mediterranean Food and The Cat in the Hat come most quickly to mind), and because there was a slight but noticeable political bias to the choices. Whether that bias was the editors' or history's, I don't know, and I can't argue the impact most of these books had, so it's a pretty small quibble really.
A nice book for the bibliophile or the armchair historian who enjoys the trend of history through objects.… (meer)