The Tubman Command
By Elizabeth Cobbs

"During the Civil War, Harriet Tubman... served as a scout and occasional spy for the Union Army. The narrative finds her amid Union ranks in South Carolina's Port Royal Island, where she spearheads a 'bushwhacking operation' up the Combahee River to destroy Southern crops and liberate 'contraband'—that is, more than 750 enslaved men, women and children…. Ultimately, the novel depicts a heroine as willing to out-argue a room of grizzled white officers as to sail into battle at the bow of a gunship. For reasons unknown, the U.S. Treasury appears to have shelved plans to put Tubman on the $20 bill. For those responsible for the decision, this book ought to be assigned reading." – The Wall Street Journal