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Lanterns: A Memoir of Mentors
Marian Wright Edelman · Beacon Press
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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I am grateful beyond words for the example of the lanterns shared in this memoir whose lives I hope will illuminate my children's, your children's, and the paths of countless others coming behind.--Marian Wright Edelman, from the PrefaceMarian Wright Edelman, "the most influential... |
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Why America Slept: The Failure to Prevent 9/11
Gerald L Posner · Random House
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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The story of the years leading up to 9/11 is the story of what might have been, and also serves as a call to the defense of America's future. Since 9/11, one important question has persisted: What was really going on behind the scenes with intelligence services and government leaders... |
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Bush's Brain: How Karl Rove Made George W. Bush Presidential
James Moore · Wiley
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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Praise for Bush's Brain "Love him or hate him, Karl Rove is one of the most brilliant and successful political consultants of all time. In this riveting account, Wayne Slater and Jim Moore tell how he got there." - Paul Begala, CNN's Crossfire "Bush's Brain isn't... |
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killing rage: Ending Racism
Bell Hooks · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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Highlighting the female voice in the public discourse on race, a collection of twenty-three of bell hooks's most significant and recent writings addresses the difficulties of racism and envisions a world without racism. 50,000 first printing. Tour. |
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Paths of Life: American Indians of the Southwest and Northern Mexico
Thomas E Sheridan · University of Arizona Press
Pages: 298
Format: Hardcover
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Within these pages are living portraits of fifteen Native American groups of Arizona and northern Mexico. The Navajos, the Western Apaches, the Hualapais, Yavapais, and Havasupais, the Yaquis, the O?odham, the Tarahumaras, the Southern Paiutes, the Seris, the Colorado River Yumans--Quechan,... |
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Cheyenne Autumn, Second Edition
Mari Sandoz · University of Nebraska Press
Pages: 282
Format: Print book
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In the autumn of 1878 a band of Cheyenne Indians set out from Indian Territory, where they had been sent by the U.S. government, to return to their homeland in Yellowstone country. Mari Sandoz tells the saga of their heartbreaking fifteen-hundred-mile flight. Alan Boye provides an introduction... |
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Bobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit
Chris Matthews · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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A revealing new portrait of Robert F. Kennedy that gets closer to the man than any book before, by bestselling author Chris Matthews, an esteemed Kennedy expert and anchor of MSNBC's Hardball.
With his bestselling biography Jack Kennedy, Chris Matthews shared a new look... |
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One Man Against the World: The Tragedy of Richard Nixon
Tim Weiner · Henry Holt & Company
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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A shocking and riveting look at one of the most dramatic and disastrous presidencies in US history, from Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Tim WeinerBased largely on documents declassified only in the last few years, One Man Against the World paints a devastating portrait... |
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Dispatches from the War Room: In the Trenches with Five Extraordinary Leaders
Stanley B. Greenberg · Thomas Dunne Books; First Edition edition
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover
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The fascinating “war room” memoir of a political pollster and how he helped forge the agendas of five high-profile heads of state As a hired gun strategist, Greenberg—a seasoned pollster and political consultant—has seen it all. In his memoir, he recounts his work... |
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Bloody History of Paris: Riots, Revolution and Rat Pie
Betty Smith · Amber Books
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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'He who contemplates the depths of Paris is seized with vertigo. Nothing is more fantastic. Nothing is more tragic. Nothing is more sublime.' -- Victor Hugo Think of Paris and you might picture romantic images of elegant boulevards, bohemian artists and café society. Those aren't... |
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