Most people know about President FDR, but do you know the woman who created his groundbreaking New Deal? As a young girl, Frances Perkins was very shy and quiet. But her grandmother encouraged Frances to always challenge herself. When...
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Author:Krull, KathleenSummary: - Author:Smith, R. J.Summary:
Smith profiles one of the 20th century's most innovative musical icons, the Godfather of Soul himself, James Brown. Drawing on extensive research and captivating interviews, Smith chronicles Brown's rise from abject poverty to the...
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Author:Jones, Elizabeth McDavidSummary:In 1918, caring for her family's homing pigeons while her father is away fighting in World War I, twelve-year-old Pam comes to suspect that a mysterious stranger in her small North Carolina town is a German spy.
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Author:MacFarlane, JulieSummary:Today's justice system and the legal profession have rendered the "lawyer-warrior" notion outdated, shifting toward conflict resolution rather than protracted litigation. The new lawyer's skills go beyond court battles to encompass...
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Argues that the War on Drugs and policies that deny convicted felons equal access to employment, housing, education, and public benefits create a permanent under caste based largely on race.
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Author:Perkins, JohnSummary:Economic hit men (EHMs) “are highly paid professionals who cheat countries out of trillions of dollars. Their tools include fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex, and murder.” John Perkins wrote those...
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In a devastated Europe at the end of World War II, the improbable relationship between fallen tyrant Hermann Göring and rising US Army physician Douglas Kelley becomes a hazardous quest into the nature of evil.
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Author:Friend, DavidSummary:David Friend examines the scandal-strafed decade when our public and private lives began to blur due to the rise of the web, reality television, and the tabloidization of pop culture.
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Joe Klein, best-selling author of Primary Colors and one of our most brilliant political analysts, now tackles the subject he knows best: Bill Clinton. Astute, even-handed, and keenly intelligent, The Natural is the only book to read if...
- Author:Dennis, David J.Summary:
A dynamic family exchange that pivots between the voices of a father and son, this is a unique work of oral history and memoir, chronicling the extraordinary story of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and its living legacy embodied...
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Author:Davis, Steven L., Minutaglio, BillSummary:Based on freshly uncovered primary sources and new firsthand interviews, this book takes readers along for the gonzo ride of a lifetime. Spanning twenty-eight months, President Nixon's careening, global manhunt for Dr. Timothy...
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Contrary to what is often reported in history books, the Morgenthau Plan was a major element in postwar planning led by Washington, before the war was even over. This book traces the roles played by Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Secretary of...
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Author:Rae, IssaSummary:In the bestselling tradition of Sloane Crosley's I Was Told There'd Be Cake and Mindy Kaling's Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me', a collection of humorous essays on what it's like to be unabashedly awkward in a world that regards...
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Author:Wagner, DavidSummary: - Author:Bergner, DanielSummary:
Using his brother's treatment for bipolar disorder as a case study, Daniel Bergner examines the evolution of how we treat our psyches. He reveals how the pharmaceutical industry has perpetuated our biological view of the mind and...
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Author:McCarry, CharlesSummary:Five international agents embark on a car trip in a Cadillac, traveling from Switzerland to the Sudan. Among them is Miernik, a Polish scientist who might be the leader of a terror force that could set the Cold War aflame.
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Hannah Sunderland is devastated when her brother is jailed for joining the Colonial cause. Spy Jeremiah Jones sees in Hannah a way to access the prison to obtain valuable information, but Hannah's Quaker beliefs stand in the way....
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Author:Radio ArchivesSummary:Before creating cinematic masterpieces like "Citizen Kane", Orson Welles established his creative credentials with "The Mercury Theatre on the Air", an hour-long showcase which allowed him, producer John Houseman,...
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Author:Sherman, William T.Summary:In vigorous, frank, and powerful prose, Sherman reveals his strategic planning for battles such as Bull Run, Shiloh, and Vicksburg and delivers classic lessons--and military philosophies--about this war.
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