New Releases by Tara Westover

Lahir dari keluarga komunitas penyintas di pegunungan Idaho, Tara Westover berusia tujuh belas tahun saat pertama kali menginjakkan kakinya di ruang kelas. Keluarganya sangat terisolasi dari masyarakat kebanyakan sehingga tidak ada yang memastikan apakah anak-anak mereka mendapatkan pendidikan, dan tidak ada yang turun tangan ketika salah seorang kakak laki-laki Tara melakukan kekerasan. Ketika seorang kakak laki-lakinya yang lain masuk perguruan tinggi, Tara memutuskan untuk mencoba kehidupan baru. Pencariannya akan pengetahuan mengubahnya, membawanya melintasi lautan dan benua, ke Harvard University dan University of Cambridge. Baru setelah itu dia bertanya-tanya apakah dia telah bepergian terlalu jauh, apakah masih ada jalan pulang. ÒKisah yang luar biasa, dan benar-benar menginspirasi. Bahkan lebih bagus daripada yang Anda dengar. Ó ÑBill Gates ÒMenyentuh hati... bukti indah akan kekuatan pendidikan untuk membuka mata dan mengubah kehidupan.Ó ÑAmy Chua, The New York Times Book Review ÒWestover membawa pembaca jauh ke dunianya, ke lingkungan yang biasanya tersembunyi dari orang luar. Ó ÑThe Economist

#1 NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, AND BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER • One of the most acclaimed books of our time: an unforgettable memoir about a young woman who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University “Extraordinary . . . an act of courage and self-invention.”—The New York Times NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW • ONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR • BILL GATES’S HOLIDAY READING LIST • FINALIST: National Book Critics Circle’s Award In Autobiography and John Leonard Prize For Best First Book • PEN/Jean Stein Book Award • Los Angeles Times Book Prize Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Her family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education, and no one to intervene when one of Tara’s older brothers became violent. When another brother got himself into college, Tara decided to try a new kind of life. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge University. Only then would she wonder if she’d traveled too far, if there was still a way home. “Beautiful and propulsive . . . Despite the singularity of [Westover’s] childhood, the questions her book poses are universal: How much of ourselves should we give to those we love? And how much must we betray them to grow up?”—Vogue NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • O: The Oprah Magazine • Time • NPR • Good Morning America • San Francisco Chronicle • The Guardian • The Economist • Financial Times • Newsday • New York Post • theSkimm • Refinery29 • Bloomberg • Self • Real Simple • Town & Country • Bustle • Paste • Publishers Weekly • Library Journal • LibraryReads • Book Riot • Pamela Paul, KQED • New York Public Library

The author recounts her life growing up with her survivalist Mormon family in Idaho. She lacked any formal education, but began to educate herself and taught herself enough to be admitted to Brigham Young University and then Cambridge.

This thesis examines Thomas Babington Macaulay''s political writings on the two most notable issues of his time: parilamentary reform and the abolition of slavery. In particular, this project analyzes Macaulay''s employment of historical and contemporary events in these debates. Macaulay articulated a specific view of class divisions and their relationship to government; in his speeches and essays he determined the middle classes to be the natural repositories of political power.