Reissued Memoir From 1917

Long out of print, but Steve Weinberg thinks you should read it:

Lots of fascinating books from every era are out of print and pretty much forgotten. When a 21st-century publisher decides to reissue such books, the selection process might seem mysterious. I have no idea why the editors at the Minnesota State Historical Society Press decided to reissue A Son of the Middle Border and A Daughter of the Middle Border in 2007. But I am pleased they did. It is more than a memoir of a specific time. It is, actually, timeless in so many ways.

Comments

[Dan]

Memoirs can be great in lots of ways. If they're well written then they stand as literature, not much different than a novel. If they come from an important place/time (like Naim Kattan's Farewell, Babylon – a memoir of his childhood as a Jew in Iraq in the 1930s – from Godine next month) they can give vital insight into the modern world.

Memoirs are more than history books!