{"id":37775,"date":"2020-10-23T06:00:26","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T11:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=37775"},"modified":"2020-09-23T11:46:16","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T16:46:16","slug":"october-biography-pick-were-better-than-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/october-biography-pick-were-better-than-this\/","title":{"rendered":"October Biography Pick – We’re Better Than This<\/I>"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The October biography pick for the Best Sellers Club<\/a> is\u00a0We’re Better Than This<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>by Elijah Cummings with Jim Dale.<\/p>\n

For more information about what\u00a0We’re Better Than This<\/strong><\/em><\/a> is about, check out the following description provided by the publisher.<\/p>\n

A memoir by the late Congressman details how his experiences as a sharecroppers’ son in volatile South Baltimore shaped his life in activism, explaining how government oversight can become a positive part of a just American collective. <\/em><\/p>\n

Join our Best Sellers Club<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em> and automatically have selected titles put on hold for you. Want the hottest new release from your favorite author? Want to stay current with a celebrity book club? Love nonfiction? We’ve got that too! Choose any author, celebrity pick, and\/or nonfiction pick and have us put the latest title on hold for you automatically. Select as many as you want!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The October biography pick for the Best Sellers Club is\u00a0We’re Better Than This\u00a0by Elijah Cummings with Jim Dale. For more information about what\u00a0We’re Better Than This is about, check out the following description provided by the publisher. A memoir by the late Congressman details how his experiences as a sharecroppers’[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1,8],"tags":[2352,4710,5268,442,2007,5448,4126,3000,5450,4711,5449],"class_list":["post-37775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-reference","category-staff-picks","tag-african-american","tag-baltimore","tag-best-sellers-club","tag-biography","tag-congress","tag-elijah-cummings","tag-house","tag-jim-dale","tag-legislator","tag-maryland","tag-were-better-than-this"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-9Ph","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37777,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37775\/revisions\/37777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}