Free Press: 1051 books
by Andrew Bushard
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
18+ Adults only: This short story, the third part of Andrew Bushard's Anita Sarkeesian trilogy, delights the reader with its political and sexual adventures. Andrew and Anita befriend a famous publisher and a famous YouTuber. They further cement their bond while advancing maverick politics. If you like political erotica, you should love this work.
Leonard Woolf
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2006
Award-winning biographer Victoria Glendinning draws on her deep knowledge of the twentieth century literary scene, and on her meticulous research into previously untapped sources, to write the first full biography of the extraordinary man who was the "dark star" at the center of the Bloomsbury...
by Martin Gilbert
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2005
In this stirring book, Martin Gilbert tells the intensely human story of Winston Churchill's profound connection to America, a relationship that resulted in an Anglo-American alliance that has stood at the center of international relations for more than a century.
Winston Churchill, whose mother,...
Your Call Is (Not That) Important to Us
Customer Service and What It Reveals About Our World and Our Lives
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2009
Bring up the subject of customer service phone calls and the blood pressure of everyone within earshot rises exponentially. Otherwise calm, rational, and intelligent people go into extended rants about an industry that seems to grow more inhuman and unhelpful with every phone call we make. And Americans...
Dead Certain
The Presidency of George W. Bush
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
In this ambitious work of political narrative, Robert Draper takes us inside the Bush White House and delivers an intimate portrait of a tumultuous decade and a beleaguered administration. Virtually every page of this book crackles with scenes, anecdotes, and dialogue that will surprise even long-...
Bloggers on the Bus
How the Internet Changed Politics and the Press
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2009
Ever since radio entered the American private home, technology has shaped political campaign strategy. Radio brought candidates more intimately and vividly into citizens' lives than newspapers could. The televised presidential debate of 1960 -- in which a strapping John F. Kennedy embarrassed a clammy...
The Death of Outrage
Bill Clinton and the Assault on American Ideals
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 1998
Today we see little public outrage about Bill Clinton's misconduct. With enormous skill, the president and his advisors have constructed a defensive wall built of bricks left over from Watergate: diversion, half-truth, equivocation, and sophistry. It is a wall that has remained unbreached. Until now.
In...
Empty Without You
The Intimate Letters Of Eleanor Roosevelt And Lorena Hickok
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 1999
The relationship between Eleanor Roosevelt and Associated Press reporter Lorena Hickok has sparked vociferous debate ever since 1978, when archivists at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library discovered eighteen boxes filled with letters the two women exchanged during their thirty-year friendship. But...
Turn Away Thy Son
Little Rock, the Crisis That Shocked the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2007
In September 1957, the nation was transfixed by nine black students attempting to integrate Central High School in Little Rock in the wake of the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision. Governor Orval Faubus had defied the city's integration plan by calling out the Arkansas National...
by Paul Martin
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Here at last is the indispensable resource that has helped the writers and editors of The Wall Street Journal earn a reputation for the most authoritative business writing anywhere. Originally written exclusively for the paper's staff, The Wall Street Journal Guide to Business Style and Usage is a...
The Writing on the Wall
Why We Must Embrace China as a Partner or Face It as an Enemy
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2006
The prevailing view of China is that the country is an economic juggernaut sure to become the dominant power of the twenty-first century. In this provocative and stimulating book critically acclaimed author Will Hutton warns instead that China is running up against a set of daunting challenges from...
by Henry Mintzberg
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 1994
In this definitive and revealing history, Henry Mintzberg, the iconoclastic former president of the Strategic Management Society, unmasks the press that has mesmerized so many organizations since 1965: strategic planning. One of our most brilliant and original management thinkers, Mintzberg concludes...
by Janet H. Murray
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Stories define how we think, the way we play, and the way we understand our lives. And just as Gutenberg made possible the stories that ushered in the Modem Era, so is the computer having a profound effect on the stories of the late 20th century. Today we are confronting the limits of books themselves...
Vietnam
The Necessary War
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
A quarter century after its end, the Vietnam War still divides Americans. Some, mostly on the left, claim that Indochina was of no strategic value to the United States and was not worth an American war. Others, mostly on the right, argue that timid civilian leaders and defeatists within the media...