Jeff Benedict: 13 books
The Mormon Way of Doing Business
How Nine Western Boys Reached the Top of Corporate America
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2007
The Founder of JetBlue. The former CEO of Dell Computers. The CEO of Deloitte & Touche. The former Dean of the Harvard Business School. They all have one thing in common. They are devout Mormons who spend their Sundays exclusively with their families, never work long hours, and always put their...
by Jeff Benedict, Armen Keteyian
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
“A confident and substantial book...It has torque and velocity...It makes a sweet sound, like a well-struck golf ball. I found it exhilarating, depressing, tawdry, and moving in almost equal measure. It’s a big American story.” —*The New York Times***
Based on years of reporting and...
Make a Choice
When You Are at the Intersection of Happiness and Despair
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2016
Jeff Benedict has seen both good and bad in his career as a journalist. Some of the best are the extraordinary people he has met who have made deliberate choices to live happier lives despite the extreme hardship that each of them have faced. Although life will knock us down from time to time, this book...
Little Pink House
A True Story of Defiance and Courage
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2009
SOON TO BE A MOTION PICTURE STARRING CATHERINE KEENER
"Catherine Keener nails the combination of anger, grace, and attitude that made Susette Kelo a nationally known crusader." -- Deadline Hollywood
Suzette Kelo was just trying to rebuild her life when she purchased a falling...
Out of Bounds
Inside the NBA's Culture of Rape, Violence, and Crime
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Out of Bounds: Inside the NBA's Culture of Rape, Violence, and Crime is a searing indictment of professional basketball players who live in a world where criminal laws and social norms don't exist, a world where they are given license to act above the law.
On the court, they dazzle us with...
QB
My Life Behind the Spiral
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"This book is gold.”—Peter King
“Intense.”—San Francisco Chronicle
“Steve Young is a hero of mine, and his story is a source of inspiration for me. His perseverance, intelligence, and, most of all, grace under pressure NFL-style, make this book a fascinating...
No Bone Unturned
Inside the World of a Top Forensic Scientist and His Work on America's Most Notorious Crimes and Disasters
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
A curator for the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, Doug Owsley painstakingly rebuilds skeletons, helping to identify them and determine their cause of death. He has worked on several notorious cases -- from mass graves uncovered in Croatia to the terrorist attacks on the Pentagon -- and has...
The System
The Glory and Scandal of Big-Time College Football
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
A Shelf Awareness Best Book of the Year
NCAA football is big business. Every Saturday millions of people file into massive stadiums or tune in on television as "athlete-students" give everything they've got to make their team a success. Billions of dollars now flow into the game....
Pros and Cons
The Criminals Who Play in the NFL
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1999
Discloses the names of the convicted criminals in the NFL, the stunning severity of their crimes, & why they're still playing.
by Jeff Benedict
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
Any entrepreneur will love and appreciate this fascinating story sharing the life lessons that Bill Child learned as he built R. C. Willey, a highly successful furniture business eventually bought out by the legendary Warren Buffett. Lessons on leadership, frugality, honesty, integrity, innovation, and...
by Jeff Benedict
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Tito Momen was raised Muhammad Momen. He was born in Nigeria and was taught to observe the strict teachings of Islam. At age five he woke at 4:45 every morning to attend the mosque and perform dawn prayer with the other men in his village. Training to memorize the Qur’an began at age six. It was at...
The Greatest and the Grandest Act
The Civil Rights Act of 1866 from Reconstruction to Today
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2018
In this volume ten expert historians and legal scholars examine the Civil Rights Act of 1866, the first federal civil rights statute in American history. The act declared that all persons born in the United States were citizens without regard to race, color, or previous condition of slavery. Designed...
by Barbara M. Benedict, Thomas Van der Goten, David Hopkins
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
Recent years have witnessed a growing fascination with the printed annotations accompanying eighteenth-century texts. Previous studies of annotation have revealed the margins as dynamic textual spaces both shaping and shaped by diverse aesthetic, historical, and political sensibilities. Yet previous...