Jr Jr : 7350 books
by William Kemsley Jr
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2010
The author went to great length to research details of Maurin's life, visiting his home, baptismal place, school, dormitory, childhood church and interviewed members of his family in his homeland in France where the family has lived for 1,500 years.
Maurin was a modern-day Saint Philip Neri,...
Poe and the Subversion of American Literature
Satire, Fantasy, Critique
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2014
In Poe and the Subversion of American Literature, Robert T. Tally Jr. argues that Edgar Allan Poe is best understood, not merely as a talented artist or canny magazinist, but primarily as a practical joker who employs satire and fantasy to poke fun at...
Save Room for Pie
Food Songs and Chewy Ruminations
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Our best-laid plans will yield to fate.
And we will say, “We lived. We ate.”
Roy Blount Jr. is one of America’s most cherished comic writers. He’s been compared to Mark Twain and James Thurber, and his books have been called everything from “a work of art” (Robert W. Creamer, The...
by William F. Buckley Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2008
No two people were more important to American conservatism in the postwar era than William F. Buckley Jr. and Ronald Reagan. Buckley's writings provided the intellectual underpinnings, while Reagan brought the conservative movement into the White House.
They met in 1961 when Reagan introduced...
by John M. Brewer, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
The Bulldogs of Westinghouse High School were a legend in mid-century Pennsylvania as perennial Pittsburgh city football champs and much-feared exhibition-game opponents for elite, outlying Western Pennsylvania steel-town teams where many greats like Johnny Unitas, Joe Namath, and Joe Montana were...
by Walter S. Griggs Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Richmond's historic houses of worship cannot be separated from the city's storied past. A young Patrick Henry sparked a revolution with his "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death" speech inside St. John's Episcopal Church on Church Hill. Congregation Beth Ahabah, with its awe-inspiring windows and adjoining...
From Stone to Flesh
A Short History of the Buddha
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
We have come to admire Buddhism for being profound but accessible, as much a lifestyle as a religion. The credit for creating Buddhism goes to the Buddha, a figure widely respected across the Western world for his philosophical insight, his teachings of nonviolence, and his practice of meditation....
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2014
Wayne Lonergan was jailed for more than 20 years for the bludgeoning/strangling death of his socialite/heiress wife, Patricia Burton Lonergan. The 22-year-old beauty was murdered while he was in New York City on October 24, 1943. Lonergan joined the Royal Canadian Air Force following one of many arguments...
After Tocqueville
The Promise and Failure of Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
**The End of Democracy? **
The fall of the Berlin Wall. The collapse of the Iron Curtain. The Orange Revolution. The Arab Spring.
The rush of events in recent decades seems to confirm that Alexis de Tocqueville was right: the future belongs to democracy. But take a closer look. The...
The Double V
How Wars, Protest, and Harry Truman Desegregated America’s Military
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
Executive Order 9981, issued by President Harry Truman on July 26, 1948, desegregated all branches of the United States military by decree. EO 9981 is often portrayed as a heroic and unexpected move by Truman. But in reality, Truman's history-making order was the culmination of more than 150 years...
Nullification
How to Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Citizens across the country are fed up with the politicians in Washington telling us how to live our lives—and then sticking us with the bill. But what can we do? Actually, we can just say “no.” As New York Times bestselling author Thomas E. Woods, Jr., explains, “nullification” allows states...
Hoax
Hitler's Diaries, Lincoln's Assassins, and Other Famous Frauds
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
Did a collector with a knack for making sensational discoveries really find the first document ever printed in America? Did Adolf Hitler actually pen a revealing multivolume set of diaries? Has Jesus of Nazareth's burial cloth survived the ages? Can the shocking true account of Abraham Lincoln's assassination...
Aboard the Fabre Line to Providence
Immigration to Rhode Island
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
In an era when immigration was at its peak, the Fabre Line offered the only transatlantic route to southern New England. One of its most important ports was in Providence, Rhode Island. Nearly eighty-four thousand immigrants were admitted to the country between the years 1911 and 1934. Almost one in...
We Are the Change We Seek
The Speeches of Barack Obama
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
A collection of Barack Obama's greatest speeches, now including his farewell address, selected and introduced by columnist E.J. Dionne and MSNBC host Joy-Ann Reid.
"It is a political partisan's dream to see them [Obama's words] so finely gathered here." - Washington Post
We...