Steve Fiffer: 3 books
Three Quarters, Two Dimes and a Nickel
A Memoir of Becoming Whole
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 1999
What would you do if you were seventeen years old and broke your neck? It's tough enough to stand on the verge of adulthood without the extra burden of not being able to stand at all. Steve Fiffer had his whole life ahead of him in December 1967 when he fractured his fifth cervical vertebra in a wrestling...
Jimmie Lee & James
Two Lives, Two Deaths, and the Movement that Changed America
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
In the early months of 1965, the killings of two civil rights activists inspired the Selma-to-Montgomery marches, which became the driving force behind the passage of the Voting Rights Act. This is their story.
“Bloody Sunday”—March 7, 1965—was a pivotal moment in the civil rights struggle....
Desert Diplomat
Inside Saudi Arabia Following 9/11
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
In the spring of 2001, George W. Bush selected Dallas attorney Robert W. Jordan as the ambassador to Saudi Arabia. Jordan’s nomination sped through Congress in the wake of the terrorist attacks on 9/11, and he was at his post by early October, though with no prior diplomatic experience, as Saudi...