Ch. 3 of #ThisLandIsYourLand #booksky #sentenceoftheday #UShistory #expulsion "During the 1820s & 1830s, the federal govt expelled not only the Five Civilized Tribes, but also Delawares and Kickapoos, Potawatomis & Miamis, Peorias & Meskwakis & Ottawas -- some 80,000 people, all told."

#sentenceoftheday #amreading #ThisLandIsYourLand #booksky #UShistory "In the spring of 1838, Andrew Jackson's handpicked successor Martin van Buren began sending US troops to round up all Cherokee . . . thrusting them into hastily constructed concentration camps to await deportation west."

#sentenceoftheday #BeverlyGage #ThisLandIsYourLand #booksky #USNationalParks #SaveOurParks "Despite recent budget cuts & political attacks, there's no traveling the country's historic sites without encountering the Park Service's fleet of good-hearted, army-green-clad, campaign-hat-wearing rangers."

#booksky #sentenceoftheday #amreading #UShistory #BeverlyGage #ThisLandIsYourLand #declarationofindependence The political theorist Daniel Allen has noted, "no more important sentence has ever been written" on the subject of equality than the Declaration's assertion that "all men are created equal."

#quoteoftheday #sentenceoftheday #amreading #ushistory #roadtrip #booksky #womenhistorians #wisdom #BeverlyGage #ThisLandIsYourLand "Americans can be patriots and critics, citizens and dissenters, all at once."

#booksky #sentenceoftheday #BeverlyGage #ThisLandIsYourLand #ushistory #womenhistorians "As a citizen, I love my country, & I hate when its patriotic symbols --the flag, the national anthem, the founding --are co-opted by narrow-minded people who claim that they & they alone are the true Americans."

Another #sentenceoftheday from #BeverlyGage #amreading #booksky #ThisLandIsYourLand #roadtrip: "I was taught early on that women had become equal too, and that 1972 was the best possible moment in all of human history for a little girl to be born."

#amreading #BeverlyGage #booksky #sentenceoftheday #nonfiction #ThisLandIsYourLand #UShistory "Like many Americans, I grew up on the progress story."

Started #ICameBackForYou today, and I'm already a 4th of the way through. It's nimble, w/c I appreciate. It's my 1st Kate White. #amreading #booksky #thriller #womenmysterywriters #sentenceoftheday "I was a fawner back then, but I have no intention of being one now."

Blazing through #DearDebbie, the book is such a hoot. #recommendedreading #FreidaMcFadden #amreading #booksky #sentenceoftheday Harley, who is having an affair w Debbie's husband: "I almost suggest that she help me chop the salad, but then I think better of giving her a knife."

Waaah! This book! #DearDebbie #amreading Book Club with housewives: "Maybe it's menopause?" #domesticthriller #booksky #sentenceoftheday #FreidaMcFadden

4th (or is it 5th) #sentenceoftheday #booksky #amreading #thrillers #DearDebbie #FreidaMcFadden
Cooper asks for a raise. Cooper's boss: "If that's how you feel . . . then I accept your resignation." Honestly, I would normally feel sympathy for Cooper, but I suspect he is having an affair.

Waaah, #DearDebbie is a treasure trove of #oneliners. 4th #sentenceoftheday #booksky #FreidaMcFadden #amreading
"You do well enough as a worker bee," he says thoughtfully.

I am sold on the idea of a housewife being a treasure trove of unique experience which lends itself to #suspense. #DearDebbie #FreidaMcFadden #domesticthriller #booksky #sentenceoftheday "I wasn't sure if I should invite Harley, because it would be mixing universes."

Third #FriedaMcFadden #sentenceoftheday #DearDebbie #amreading #booksky "I've never felt like more of a loser in my entire life."

#amreading #booksky #FreidaMcFadden #DearDebbie #thriller
Second #sentenceoftheday "But then the second Taylor Swift starts up again."

#amreading #DearDebbie #thriller #sentenceoftheday #booksky "I feel like I'm trying to reach the PRESIDENT or something."

#amreading #DearDebbie #thriller #FreidaMcFadden #booksky #sentenceoftheday "It's true that there are certain naive people who hide the keys to their front door in an easily found location: under a rock, in a flowerpot, or even under the welcome mat."

#booksky #amreading My 1st #FreidaMcFadden. The heroine is a stay-at-home mom of 2 girls who spends her entire day in yoga pants (I'm jealous, I too want 2 b a woman who spends her entire day in yoga pants) #sentenceoftheday "A miracle has occurred: my 17-yr-old is now speaking 2 me in the morning."

Hannah might have committed the biggest boo-boo of her LIFE! #amreading the last pages of The It Girl. #booksky #sentenceoftheday #thriller #spoileralert "Behind her she can hear Will's feet pounding down the stairs."