Smith: 13242 books
The Predicament
How Did It Happen? How Bad Is It? The Case For Radical Change Now!
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
In The Predicament, Dartmouth- and Stanford-trained economist and futurist David L. Smith reveals how the present domestic economic, financial and political dysfunctions emerged after the relatively balanced and prosperous Eisenhower years. In foreign policy, the author vividly describes the fulfillment...
The Presidents and the Pastime
The History of Baseball and the White House
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
The Presidents and the Pastime draws on Curt Smith’s extensive background as a former White House presidential speechwriter to chronicle the historic relationship between baseball, the “most American” sport, and the U.S. presidency.
Smith, who USA TODAY calls “America’s voice of...
by Amanda Smith
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
What is the place of Amanda Smith in American history? Has she any place there? Mrs. Smith is an historic character. The biography of great women, and especially great women of the Negro race, would be sadly deficient without her. Of this race in the United States, since 1020, there have appeared...
Red Velvet Underground
A Rock Memoir, with Recipes
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
Part memoir, part cookbook, and all rock and roll, Red Velvet Underground tells the story of how musician Freda Love Smith's indie-rock past grew into her family- and food-centric present.
Smith, born in Nashville and raised in Indiana, is best known as the drummer and co-founder of bands such...
Killer Elite
Completely Revised and Updated: The Inside Story of America's Most Secret Special Operations Team
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2006
For the first time ever, the explosive truth behind the world's most secret Special Operations organization
A top-secret U.S. Army Special Operations unit has been running covert missions all over the world, from leading death squads to the hideout of drug baron Pablo Escobar to capturing Saddam...
Assassination!
The Brick Chronicle of Attempts on the Lives of Twelve US Presidents
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Creator of the bestselling The Brick Bible: A New Spin on the Old Testament and The Brick Bible: The New Testament, author Brendan Powell Smith offers a new take on American history. For more than a decade, Smith has honed his masterful work using LEGO(R) to re-create scenes from the Bible. Now, he...
Adèle Hugo
La Misérable
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
When Victor Hugo died in 1885, the world was shocked to discover that he had a lone survivor: his daughter Adèle, incarcerated in an asylum for insane gentlewomen. Adèle Hugo was an accomplished, intelligent, and ambitious young woman whose potential shrank with every year she spent under her tyrannical...
Making Words Dance
Reflections on Red Smith, Journalism, and Writing
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Making Words Dance: Perspectives on Red Smith, Journalism, and Writing is a timely and timeless collection of lectures examining both the writer's art and the role of journalism in American culture.
Making Words Dance features lectures by fifteen of the country's most respected journalists...
Inside
A Top G-Man Exposes Spies, Lies, and Bureaucratic Bungling in the FBI
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2009
Reflecting on a career that spanned twenty-five years and four continents, Special Agent I.C. Smith gives you the inside story of the Bureau's greatest takedowns and biggest screw-ups. This intrepid G-man has seen it all.
From China to the South Pacific, from East Berlin to Arkansas, I.C. Smith...
by J. Douglas Smith
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Winner of the Henry Adams Prize from the Society for History in the Federal Government
A Washington Post Notable Work of Nonfiction
A Slate Best Book of 2014
The inside story of the Supreme Court decisions that brought true democracy to the United States
As chief justice of the U.S....
by Laura L. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
There's a reason Facebook has the Status Update, "It's Complicated." Follow four college roommates, Claire, Palmer, Hannah, and Kat as they maneuver crushes, confusion, and the crisis when pushy boys go too far. Complicated as it is, these four friends will pull through, guided by the strength...
by Randy D. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Well-known outdoor writer, Randy D. Smith, draws on over 40 years of coyote hunting experience to explain the mystery, challenge, and successful tactics of calling and hunting one of nature's most intelligent and illusive predators. Smith believes that the better an animal is known and understood,...
Naked Before God
The Autobiography of Dr. Tino W. Smith Sr.
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2000
Naked Before God is the compelling true story of a man torn between two roads. To his right is an Apostolic ministry. To his left a more social conscious Gospel like that of Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and Clayton Powell. Dr. Tino W. Smith knew that God had called him to be a leader before he...
by Gipsy Smith
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
This book is a selection of 19 talks given by Gipsy Smith which will provide inspirational reading, and be a source of help for speakers and teachers. There are also 20 "Two-Minute Sermonettes" at the end. Rodney "Gipsy" Smith was born in a Gipsy tent in Epping Forest, England...