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A Look Over My Shoulder
A Life in the Central Intelligence Agency
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2003
A Look over My Shoulder begins with President Nixon’s attempt to embroil the Central Intelligence Agency, of which Richard Helms was then the director, in the Watergate cover-up. Helms then recalls his education in Switzerland and Germany and at Williams College; his early career as a foreign correspondent...
Sweet Land of Liberty
The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2008
The struggle for racial equality in the North has been a footnote in most books about civil rights in America. Now this monumental new work from one of the most brilliant historians of his generation sets the record straight. Sweet Land of Liberty is an epic, revelatory account of the abiding quest...
Reagan and Gorbachev
How the Cold War Ended
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2004
In Reagan and Gorbachev, Jack F. Matlock, Jr., gives an eyewitness account of how the Cold War ended, with humankind declared the winner. As Reagan’s principal adviser on Soviet and European affairs, and later as the U.S. ambassador to the U.S.S.R., Matlock lived history: He was the point person...
The Guys
A Play
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2008
First performed in a hit off-off-Broadway production, and soon to be a film starring Sigourney Weaver and Anthony LaPaglia, The Guys is a timeless drama about the surprising truths people can discover in ordinary lives, and the connections we make with others and ourselves in times of tragedy.
Paralyzed...
Tension City
Inside the Presidential Debates
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
With an update by the author for the 2012 election.
A veteran newsman who has presided over eleven presidential and vice-presidential debates, Jim Lehrer gives readers a ringside seat for some of the epic political battles of our time, shedding light on all of the critical turning points and rhetorical...
by W. Timothy Gallwey
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2009
The classic guide to sharpening your mind and raising your performance—on the green, and in the game of life.
“The best sports psychology book ever written about golf.”—Inside Golf
W. Timothy Gallwey’s bestselling Inner Game books–with more than one million copies sold–have...
A Lethal Obsession
Anti-Semitism from Antiquity to the Global Jihad
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
In this unprecedented work two decades in the making, leading historian Robert S. Wistrich examines the long and ugly history of anti-Semitism, from the first recorded pogrom in 38 BCE to its shocking and widespread resurgence in the present day. As no other book has done before it, A Lethal Obsession...
Icon of Evil
Hitler's Mufti and the Rise of Radical Islam
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2008
A chilling, fascinating, and nearly forgotten historical figure is resurrected in a riveting work that links the fascism of the last century with the terrorism of our own. Written with verve and extraordinary access to primary sources in several languages, Icon of Evil is the definitive account of...
Stuff White People Like
A Definitive Guide to the Unique Taste of Millions
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2008
They love nothing better than sipping free-trade gourmet coffee, leafing through the Sunday New York Times, and listening to David Sedaris on NPR (ideally all at the same time). Apple products, indie music, food co-ops, and vintage T-shirts make them weak in the knees.
They believe they’re...
Going Up the River
Travels in a Prison Nation
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2001
The American prison system has grown tenfold in thirty years, while crime rates have been relatively flat: 2 million people are behind bars on any given day, more prisoners than in any other country in the world — half a million more than in Communist China, and the largest prison expansion the...
To Move the World
JFK's Quest for Peace
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
An inspiring look at the historic foreign policy triumph of John F. Kennedy’s presidency—the crusade for world peace that consumed his final year in office—by the New York Times bestselling author of The Price of Civilization, Common Wealth, and The End of Poverty
The last great campaign...
by Paul Lettow
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005
Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) has puzzled scholars and commentators. Some have claimed that it was a purely political maneuver, while others have explained it as a ruse conjured up by presidential advisers to weaken Soviet resolve.
These assumptions, however, fail to...
The Day the Earth Caved In
An American Mining Tragedy
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2007
The Day the Earth Caved In is an unprecedented and riveting account of the nation’s worst mine fire, beginning on Valentine’s Day, 1981, when twelve-year-old Todd Domboski plunged through the earth in his grandmother’s backyard in Centralia, Pennsylvania. In astonishing detail, award-winning...
by J. William Fulbright
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2011
“The Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has suddenly become the most celebrated public critic of the nation’s foreign politics. . . . His new book, The Arrogance of Power, is remarkable because it . . . transforms mere criticism into bitter condemnation. It portends, or perhaps...