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Who Let the Dogs In?
Incredible Political Animals I Have Known
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2004
The dazzling, inimitable Molly Ivins is back, with her own personal Hall of Fame of America’s most amazing and outlandish politicians–the wicked, the wise, the witty, and the witless–drawn from more than twenty years of reporting on the folks who attempt to run our government (in some cases,...
(Not that You Asked)
Rants, Exploits, and Obsessions
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2007
How does Steve Almond get himself into so much trouble? Could it be his incessant moralizing? His generally poor posture? The fact that he was raised by a pack of wolves? Frankly, we haven’t got a clue. What we do know is that Almond has a knack for converting his dustups into essays that are both...
The Thirteen American Arguments
Enduring Debates That Inspire and Define Our Country
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2008
Howard Fineman is one of our best-known and most trusted political journalists. Mixing vivid scenes and figures from the campaign trail with forays into four hundred years of American history, Fineman shows that every debate, from our nation’s founding to the present day, is rooted in one of thirteen...
Landslide
LBJ and Ronald Reagan at the Dawn of a New America
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
In politics, the man who takes the highest spot after a landslide is not standing on solid ground.
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In this riveting work of narrative nonfiction, Jonathan Darman tells the story of two giants of American politics, Lyndon Johnson and Ronald Reagan, and shows how, from 1963 to 1966, these two...
The Prince of Providence
The True Story of Buddy Cianci, America's Most Notorious Mayor, Some Wiseguys, and the Feds
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2003
COP: “Buddy, I think this is a whorehouse.”
BUDDY CIANCI: “Now I know why they made you a detective.”
Welcome to Providence, Rhode Island, where corruption is entertainment and Mayor Buddy Cianci presided over the longest-running lounge act in American politics. In The Prince...
You Must Set Forth at Dawn
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
The first African to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, as well as a political activist of prodigious energies, Wole Soyinka now follows his modern classic Ake: The Years of Childhood with an equally important chronicle of his turbulent life as an adult in (and in exile from) his beloved, beleaguered...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
A comprehensive collection of writings by the legendary philosopher, whose sweeping body of work influenced our ideas about psychology, religion, free will, and pragmatism.
In his introduction to this collection, John McDermott presents James's thinking in all its manifestations, stressing...
A Look Over My Shoulder
A Life in the Central Intelligence Agency
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2003
A Look over My Shoulder begins with President Nixon’s attempt to embroil the Central Intelligence Agency, of which Richard Helms was then the director, in the Watergate cover-up. Helms then recalls his education in Switzerland and Germany and at Williams College; his early career as a foreign correspondent...
Sweet Land of Liberty
The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2008
The struggle for racial equality in the North has been a footnote in most books about civil rights in America. Now this monumental new work from one of the most brilliant historians of his generation sets the record straight. Sweet Land of Liberty is an epic, revelatory account of the abiding quest...
Reagan and Gorbachev
How the Cold War Ended
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2004
In Reagan and Gorbachev, Jack F. Matlock, Jr., gives an eyewitness account of how the Cold War ended, with humankind declared the winner. As Reagan’s principal adviser on Soviet and European affairs, and later as the U.S. ambassador to the U.S.S.R., Matlock lived history: He was the point person...
The Guys
A Play
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2008
First performed in a hit off-off-Broadway production, and soon to be a film starring Sigourney Weaver and Anthony LaPaglia, The Guys is a timeless drama about the surprising truths people can discover in ordinary lives, and the connections we make with others and ourselves in times of tragedy.
Paralyzed...
Tension City
Inside the Presidential Debates
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
With an update by the author for the 2012 election.
A veteran newsman who has presided over eleven presidential and vice-presidential debates, Jim Lehrer gives readers a ringside seat for some of the epic political battles of our time, shedding light on all of the critical turning points and rhetorical...
by W. Timothy Gallwey
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2009
The classic guide to sharpening your mind and raising your performance—on the green, and in the game of life.
“The best sports psychology book ever written about golf.”—Inside Golf
W. Timothy Gallwey’s bestselling Inner Game books–with more than one million copies sold–have...
A Lethal Obsession
Anti-Semitism from Antiquity to the Global Jihad
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
In this unprecedented work two decades in the making, leading historian Robert S. Wistrich examines the long and ugly history of anti-Semitism, from the first recorded pogrom in 38 BCE to its shocking and widespread resurgence in the present day. As no other book has done before it, A Lethal Obsession...