The Falcon Diaries
“An illuminating memoir of an American abroad that captures Arab and Israeli relations at a particular moment in time...it offers many insights into the Jordanian point of view that readers may not have encountered elsewhere.”
- Kirkus Reviews
The Falcon Diaries was featured in The New York Review of Books.
In the late 2000s, Emily Lodge, an Emmy-award-winning journalist and granddaughter of famed diplomat Henry Cabot Lodge, moved to Jordan where she discovered the true story of what happened to the families dispossessed of their lands in Palestine/Israel.
Unsure of what to expect from an area steeped in social, political, religious and military conflicts, Emily encountered a sophisticated culture consisting of serene people, who were keenly aware of their region’s history of broken promises, displacement and death, yet willing to compromise in order to live their lives in peace. For these Arabs, fairness rules in the face of injustice and inclusiveness is much preferred to jihad.
By the time she left Jordan, it was clear to Emily that Palestinians are credible partners for peace. They are just like your neighbors, and more importantly, they are people that you want to be your neighbors.
Emily captured her experiences in diary entries, including interviews with Israeli Ambassador, Jacob Rosen, who clings to the status quo, and Prince Hassan, whose goal is a regional solution.
Her writings are being published as The Falcon Diaries: a rich tapestry of sights and sounds that brings the reader into the heart of the Arab world, and provides a much needed antidote to the caricatures typically portrayed by Western media.
The Lodge Women, Their Men and Their Times
”a portrait of the United States in the late-19th and early-20th centuries—perhaps the last time that the country was so embodied by a single family.”
- Kirkus reviews
The Lodge Women, Their Men, And Their Times was featured in The New York Review of Books.
Like a Whitman poem, the saga of the Lodge family has unfolded in tandem with the history of the great American experiment itself. Yet while the biographies of the Lodge patriarchs have been well-documented, the stories of the influential Lodge women have never been authoritatively chronicled. From the earliest days of the American colonies, through the Gilded Age, and into the first years of the 21st century, The Lodge Women, Their Men and Their Times traces her family’s remarkable history through its female figures, constructing a narrative that is at once intensely personal, political, and wholly universal.
Based on archival research, interviews, and personal memoirs, Emily Lodge presents her ancestors' stories largely through their own voices, heard in a rich collection of personal letters exchanged with the luminaries of their times, whose lives were linked with the Lodges by politics, art, and family: Henry Adams, Henry James, Theodore Roosevelt, John Hay, Elizabeth Cameron and Edith Wharton, some of whose letters are published here for the first time. From her unique descendant’s view on a long line of prominent Lodge women, the author recalls their grace, dash, and political influence through a sweep of history that illuminates the pages with the incandescent human truths of a distinguished family's life and times.