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Keeping Hope Alive: One Woman: 90,000 Lives Changed
Hawa Abdi · Grand Central Publishing; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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The moving memoir of one brave woman who, along with her daughters, has kept 90,000 of her fellow citizens safe, healthy, and educated for over 20 years in Somalia. Dr. Hawa Abdi, the Mother Teresa of Somalia and Nobel Peace Prize nominee, is the founder of a massive camp for internally... |
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Stubborn Twig: Three Generations in the Life of a Japanese American Family (Oregon Reads)
Lauren Kessler · Oregon State University Press
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
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Stubborn Twig is a classic American story, a story of immigrants making their way in a new land. It is a living work of social history that rings with the power of truth and the drama of fiction, a moving saga about the challenges of becoming an American. Masuo Yasui traveled from Japan... |
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Decision Points
George W. Bush · Crown
Format: Hardcover
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In this candid and gripping account, President George W. Bush describes the critical decisions that shaped his presidency and personal life.George W. Bush served as president of the United States during eight of the most consequential years in American history. The decisions that reached... |
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A Nation Like No Other: Why American Exceptionalism Matters
Newt Gingrich · Regnery Publishing; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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It’s become fashionable among the liberal elite to downplay, deride, even deny America’s greatness. The political correctness police insist that America is “hated” around the world for being too big, too powerful, too rich, too successful, too loud, too intrusive.... |
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Catching Out: The Secret World of Day Laborers
Dick J Reavis · Simon & Schuster; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Reavis reported to a labor hall each morning hoping to “catch out,” or get job assignments. To supplement his savings for retirement, the sixty-two-year-old joined people dispatched by an agency to manual jobs for which they were paid at the end of each day. Reavis writes with... |
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13 Seconds: A Look Back at the Kent State Shootings
Philip Caputo · Chamberlain Bros.
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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Thirteen seconds passed. Sixty-seven shots were fired. One nation watched . . .
On May 4, 1970, Ohio's Kent State University was in chaos following President Richard Nixon's announcement that the U.S. bombing of Cambodia would continue, with student protesters on one side and the National... |
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The Partisan: The Life of William Rehnquist
John A. Jenkins · PublicAffairs; 1 edition
Format: Print book
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As a young lawyer practicing in Arizona, far from the political center of the country, William Hubbs Rehnquist’s iconoclasm made him a darling of Goldwater Republicans. He was brash and articulate. Although he was unquestionably ambitious and extraordinarily self-confident, his journey... |
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The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
John J. Mearsheimer · Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 1st edition
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover
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The Israel Lobby," by John J. Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen M. Walt of Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, was one of the most controversial articles in recent memory. Originally published in the London Review of Books in March 2006, it provoked... |
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My Life in Progressive Politics: Against the Grain
Joseph D Tydings · Texas A&M University Press
Pages: 376
Format: Hardcover
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Gun control, voting rights, family planning, and environmental protection--these are all hot-button issues today, but they were also the same difficult and intractable issues that Senator Joseph D. Tydings of Maryland faced during his tenure in the Senate in the 1960s. In this timely memoir,... |
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Five Years of My Life: An Innocent Man in Guantanamo
Murat Kurnaz · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 255
Format: Hardcover
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In October 2001, nineteen-year-old Murat Kurnaz traveled to Pakistan to visit a madrassa. During a security check a few weeks after his arrival, he was arrested without explanation and for a bounty of $3,000, the Pakistani police sold him to U.S. forces. He was first taken to Kandahar,... |
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