An African-American Democrat married to the white Republican former Secretary of Defense reveals how she used her anger from growing up in poverty, segregation, and prejudice to make a positive impact on the world, becoming a renowned journalist and the "First Lady" of the Pentagon. 40,000 first printing.

From Rage to Reason: My Life in Two Americas

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Kopelman, Alexander

COHEN, JANET LANGHART

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An African-American Democrat married to the white Republican former Secretary of Defense reveals how she used her anger from growing up in poverty, segregation, and prejudice to make a positive impact on the world, becoming a renowned journalist and the "First Lady" of the Pentagon. Reprint.

From Rage To Reason: My Life In Two Americas

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Anne & Emmett is an imaginary conversation between Anne Frank and Emmett Till, both victims of racial intolerance and hatred. Frank is the thirteen-year-old Jewish girl whose diary provided a gripping perspective of the Holocaust. Till is the fourteen-year-old African-American boy whose brutal murder in Mississippi sparked the modern American civil rights movement. The one-act play opens with the two teenagers meeting in memory, a place that isolates them from the cruelty they experienced during their lives. The beyond-the-grave encounter draws the startling similarities between the two youths' harrowing experiences at the hands of societies that couldn't protect them. In memory, Anne recounts hiding in a cramped attic with her family after German dictator Adolf Hitler ordered the Nazi military to round up Jewish people throughout Europe, and put them in concentration camps in route to gas chambers. At the age of fifteen, Anne died of typhus at the Bergen-Belsen Nazi concentration camp in March 1945, a few weeks before British troops liberated the camp. Emmett tells Anne how he, in 1955, ended up being brutally attacked by two white racists who beat and tortured him before shooting him in the head and tossing his body into the Tallahatchie River with a cotton-gin fan tied to his neck. This happened after he whistled at a white woman while visiting his uncle in Money, Mississippi.

Janet Langhart Cohen's Anne & Emmett: A One-Act Play

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Review\nAnne & Emmett should be seen in every classroom in America. -- Ruth Bader Ginsburg\nJanet Langhart Cohen has written a play that is emotional, educational and inspirational. I thought it was a beautifully acted. I’ve been following this play for a long time—great cast, fully directed. It was a real treat. -- Michael Douglas, Actor, Director\nAnne & Emmett is a powerful and haunting dramatization of the parallels in the lives of two historic young people. -- Quincy Jones\nI think it was very, very powerful, and such a message to us all today. We think that things like that are in the past, but it’s really the remembrance and trying to tell people that this is still going on. A very important play. -- Secretary of State Madeline Albright\nI think Janet did a great job in connecting the parallels that most people don't see. Explained the experience of Anne Frank and the experience of Emmett Till and how all people have had to come together as a result of these separate tragedies and build a better world like the way Anne did on that note, "spring to lightness, light the candles throughout the world." -- Gen. Colin Powell (Ret.), Former United States Secretary of State\nWell there are two very powerful stories that illustrate the injustice and hatred that exists in the world. It's part of human nature and we all have to make an attempt to rise above that. -- Alma Powell, Chairman, America's Promise\nBelongs on Broadway! -- Patricia Neal, Actress\nIn a word—brilliant. -- Robert Brustein, Theatrical critic, playwright, producer, educator\nCreated and handsomely rendered with boundless love, heart and soul, Anne & Emmett was a production of grace and enlightenment. Its poignancy in the face of the theme of the crushing—out of the young lives of Anne Frank and Emmett Till held me in rapt attention, as it grew in urgency and emotional wallop. -- David Siegel, DC Metro Arts\nIt is amazing that that story, the way she put it together, is in her head. And thank God she put it on paper. And that they put on this play. I'm moved beyond tears. -- Joe Madison, Syndicated radio talk show host, The Black Eagle\nI thoroughly enjoyed this play. It was powerful, emotional, moving. I hope that a lot of people out there, not only in the United States, but all over the world see this play. And what's most amazing is that everything we saw and heard tonight has the added advantage of all being true. And that's so sad, but at the same time it's so important. -- Wolf Blitzer, CNN Anchor, The Situation Room\nWe need to see this on Broadway in New York. It's that important. -- Bruce Gordon, former president, NAACP\nWhen I saw Anne & Emmett, I knew it had much to teach us in the police profession. -- William F. Bratton, Former NYPD Police Commissioner\nAnne & Emmett is a history lesson about the importance of tolerance, compassion and justice, to be acted out on stage, acted on in life. -- Courtland Malloy, Washington Post\nI am so moved and so shaken and I was crying in there. I mean, the writing is powerful. The acting and directing are extraordinary and bring Janet Cohen's words to life brilliantly and powerfully. And I am really overcome. I think it is timeless. -- Andrea Mitchell, MSNBC television correspondent\nThe play is a brilliant, call to action. There's no age limit to see this – young people, old people – we can never forget what happened to Anne. We can never forget what happened to Emmett. If we do forget, we do it at our own peril, so I encourage people go see this play. -- Robert L. Johnson, Founder, BET\nIt's really special, moving and heartbreaking. -- Doug Morris, Chairman, Sony Music Entertainment\nIt was beautiful and inspiring and very creative and very imaginative and really smart to think that these two individuals at different times in their lives, almost the same age, who experienced such tragedy, would have a lesson for all of us. And I cried during most of it. It was really beautifully done. -- Suzanne Malveaux, CNN tel

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From Rage to Reason: My Life in Two Americas

From Rage To Reason: My Life In Two Americas

Janet Langhart Cohen's Anne & Emmett: A One-Act Play

Janet Langhart Cohen's Anne & Emmett: A One-Act Play

Janet Langhart Cohen's Anne & Emmett