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Mentors, Muses & Monsters
30 Writers on the People Who Changed Their Lives
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
Edited and with a contribution by Elizabeth Benedict, thirty of today's brightest literary lights turn their attention to the question of mentorship and influence.
For Denis Johnson, it was Leonard Gardner's cult favorite Fat City; for Jonathan Safran Foer, it was an encounter with Israeli...
by Albert E. Cowdrey
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1998
Fought on almost every continent, World War II confronted American GIs with the unprecedented threats to life and health posed by combat on Arctic ice floes and African deserts, in steamy jungles and remote mountain villages, in the stratosphere and the depths of the sea.
Last Men Out
The True Story of America's Heroic Final Hours in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
A “thrilling narrative of bravery, bravado, and loss” (Kirkus Reviews) that tells the “gripping story of a handful of marines who formed the last body of Americans to leave Saigon on April 30, 1975” (Booklist).
In a gripping, moment-by-moment narrative based on a wealth of recently...
Jefferson's Demons
Portrait of a Restless Mind
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
"I have often wondered for what good end the sensations of Grief could be intended."
-- Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson suffered during his life from periodic bouts of dejection and despair, shadowed intervals during which he was full of "gloomy forebodings" about what lay ahead.
Not...
Cindy in Iraq
A Civilian's Year in the War Zone
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2006
Cindy in Iraq is Cynthia Morgan's hair-raising yet jubilant chronicle of her perilous year in war-torn Iraq as a truck driver -- the most dangerous civilian job in the war zone.
In the summer of 2003, a friend in the National Guard stationed in Iraq wrote to Morgan about KBR, a Halliburton...
Yanks
The Epic Story of the American Army in World War I
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2001
Fought far from home, World War I was nonetheless a stirring American adventure. The achievements of the United States during that war, often underrated by military historians, were in fact remarkable, and they turned the tide of the conflict. So says John S. D. Eisenhower, one of today's most acclaimed...
11 Days in December
Christmas at the Bulge, 1944
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2006
In 11 Days In December, master historian and biographer Stanley Weintraub tells the remarkable story of the Battle of the Bulge as it has never been told before, from frozen foxholes to barn shelters to boxcars packed with wretched prisoners of war.
In late December 1944, as the Battle of the...
15 Stars
Eisenhower, MacArthur, Marshall: Three Generals Who Saved the American Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2007
In the closing days of World War II, America looked up to three five-star generals as its greatest heroes. George C. Marshall, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Douglas MacArthur personified victory, from the Pentagon to Normandy to the Far East. Counterparts and on occasion competitors, they had leapfrogged...
by Jean Jacques Rousseau
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
In Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Discourses on the Origin of Inequality, he outlines his own history of the development of human society. He explains in general terms how the differences between social and economic classes arose alongside the formation of modern states. He also explores the means by which...
Against All Enemies
Inside America's War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2004
"The [Bush] administration has squandered the opportunity to eliminate al Qaeda....A new al Qaeda has emerged and is growing stronger, in part because of our own actions and inactions. It is in many ways a tougher opponent than the original threat we faced before September 11, and we are not doing...
Sala's Gift
My Mother's Holocaust Story
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2006
"Do you know why I write so much? Because as long as you read, we are together."
-- Raizel Garncarz (Sala's sister),
April 24, 1941
Few family secrets have the power both to transform lives and to fill in crucial gaps in world history. But then, few families have a mother and a daughter quite...
The Book of Dahlia
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2008
From the author of the critically acclaimed story collection How This Night Is Different comes a dark, arresting, fearlessly funny story of one young woman's terminal illness. In The Book of Dahlia, Elisa Albert walks a dazzling line between gravitas and irreverence, mining an exhilarating blend of...
The Conservative Revolution
The Movement that Remade America
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 1999
The triumph of the conservative movement in reshaping American politics is one of the great untold stories of the past fifty years. At the end of World War II, hardly anyone in public life would admit to being a conservative, but as Lee Edwards shows in this magisterial work, in the 1950s, 1960s,...
When the Center Held
Gerald Ford and the Rescue of the American Presidency
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
“A personal look behind the scenes” (Publishers Weekly) of the presidency of Gerald Ford as seen through the eyes of Donald Rumsfeld—New York Times bestselling author and Ford’s former Secretary of Defense, Chief of Staff, and longtime personal confidant.
In the wake of Richard Nixon’s...