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Funny Letters from Famous People
by Charles OsgoodCharles Osgood provides humorous and informative commentary to put these letters in context. It's a fun peek at real correspondence! A very enjoyable read!
John F. Kennedy
by Judie Millsdescribes the life of the 35th president and also biographical sketches of the members of his family.
Karla Faye Tucker Set Free: Life And Faith On Death Row
by Linda StromKarla Faye Tucker, the first woman executed in Texas in over one hundred years, became an evangelist for Christ during her fourteen-year imprisonment on Death Row. This is the story of Karla's spiritual journey, the women and men she reached, and the God who offers redemption and hope to the hardest of hearts.
The Palace Guard
by Dan Rather Gary Paul GatesAnalysis of the people and events around Nixon's White House and the Watergate scandal
Lesbian Rabbis: The First Generation
by Shirley Idelson Sue Levi Elwell Rebecca T. AlpertStories of eighteen lesbian rabbis.
The One Best Way: Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency
by Robert Kanigellandmark biography of Frederick Winslow Taylor--the man whose ceaseless quest for "the one best way"--changed the very texture of twentieth-century life. "In the past man has been first. In the future the System will be first." These are the words of Frederick Winslow Taylor, who in 1874, at the age of eighteen, abandoned his wealthy family's plans for him to attend Harvard and instead went to work as a lowly apprentice in a hot, dirty Philadelphia machine shop. As he rose through the ranks of management, he became the first efficiency expert, progenitor of all the stopwatch-clicking engineers who stalk the factories of the industrial world. Taylor's famous industrial philosophy--Scientific Management--influenced Ford's assembly line and Lenin's Soviet Russia. Management guru Peter Drucker has ranked him with Freud and Darwin as a maker of the modern world. The One Besf Way is the compelling story of this driven man-and a fascinating re-creation of the vanished era of steam and steel in which he lived and worked.
First Great Triumph: How Five Americans Made Their Country a World Power
by Warren ZimmermannAmerican history around 1900 with a focus on five figures.
Ladies First: Revelations of a Strong Woman
by Queen Latifah Karen HunterAutobiography of a rap star.
The Nobel Peace Prize and the Laureates: An Illustrated Biographical History, 1901-1987
by Irwin AbramsHistory of the Nobel Peace Prize itself as well as those who have won it through 1987.
Safer Than a Known Way
by Pamela Rosewell Moorelife story of Pamela Roswell Moore, companion to Corrie Ten Boom for the last years of her life
From Bordello to Ballot Box: A First-hand Account of Legal Prostitution and Political Corruption
by Jessi Winchester W. Lane StartinAutobiography
The Long Haul: an Autobiography
by Herbert Kohl Judith Kohl Myles HortonIn his own direct, modest, plain-spoken style, Myles Horton tells the story of the Highlander Folk School. A major catalyst for social change in the United States for more than sixty years, this school has touched the lives of so many people, Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Pete Seeger. Filled with disarmingly honest insight and gentle humor, The Long Haul is an inspiring hymn to the possibility of social change. It is the story of Myles Horton, in his own words: the wise and moving recollections of a man of uncommon determination and dignity. [From the Book Jacket]
Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South
by Robert Corstad Raymond Gavins William H. ChafeInterviews with Southern Blacks about their experiences with Jim Crow laws.
Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence
by Ben CarsonConduct life with reference to God and your own talents.
Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment
by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston James D. HoustonA moving and intensely human true story of a Japanese American family during the internment of World War II and its aftermath
Breaking Clean
by Judy BluntA memoir of the fierce narrative force of an eastern Montana Blizard, rich in story and character, filled with the bone-chilling details of Blunt's childhood. A book for the ages.
The Union Soldier in Battle
by Earl J. HessA study of the experience of combat by union soldiers during the Civil War.
Give Me My Father's Body: The Life of Minik, the New York Eskimo
by Kenn HarperIn 1897 the arctic explorer Robert Peary brought six Eskimos from northern Greenland to the American Museum of Natural History in New York. For a brief time the Eskimos became a living exhibit. When four of the group died their skeletons were put on display. Six-year-old Minik, who managed to survive, was adopted by an American family and lost much of his Eskimo identity. Yet at 18 he chose to return to Greenland, where he struggled to rebuild his life among his own people. Meticulously researched and compellingly written, this is the poignant story of a young man who lived in two worlds and never fully belonged to either one. It is also the story of the scientific and economic exploitation of the indigenous people of the Arctic.
This Just In: What I couldn't Tell You On TV
by Bob SchiefferFrom Publishers Weekly It might not have occurred to anyone to clamor for longtime CBS reporter Schieffer's memoir, but now that it's in print, it makes for a highly engaging read. He's seen it all and has much wisdom about journalism and governance to impart. The book spans virtually every important domestic story of the past 40-odd years; among his captivating subjects are the 1962 integration of the University of Alabama, JFK's assassination, Vietnam, Nixon-era peace protests and Watergate. The book's emphasis changes subtly from events to personalities when Schieffer takes over Face the Nation. As the subtitle suggests, Schieffer wisely forgoes rehashing familiar tales like Watergate or the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal in favor of revealing the background action that went unreported at the time. He structures the book as a collection of anecdotes, and, unsurprisingly for such a seasoned pro, Schieffer has a sharp eye for intriguing details and an instinct for maintaining the proper focus on his subjects rather than on himself. When he does get personal, he admirably questions his occasional missteps in balancing family and career. The telling is so unfussy, modest and straightforward that it rarely prompts speculation about the juicy bits that he couldn't write in a book. Indeed, the work succeeds not only as America over the past 40 years.
The Satan-Seller
by Mike Warnke Les Jones Dave BalsigerMike Warnke describes his experiences as a Satanist high priest and conversion to Christianity.
Through Yup'ik Eyes: An Adopted Son Explores the Landscape of Family
by Colin ChisholmThe author, adopted as an infant by a Caucasian father and half-Eskimo mother, makes a series of trips to Alaska after his adoptive mother's death. There he connects with her Eskimo relatives, from whom she was separated at the age of six. Chisholm reconstructs the history of his adoptive mother's family in a series of fictional sketches based on stories he was told by the surviving members. This reconstruction gives him a new perspective on his mother's life and his own.
Bette
by Charles HighamThis candid biography vividly captures Bette Davis as she really was and includes a complete filmography.