Overview :Two teenagers, living worlds apart . . .A Jewish girl, with her parents, hiding from the Nazisin Amsterdam . . . A Black boy, living outside... Read More
Overview :Short of hurling yourself out of an airplane, Thomas Fensch's Skydiving is the best way yet devised to approximate the rush and the challeng... Read More
Overview :Masters of Despair analyzes one hundred years of dystopian fiction from: We, 1924; Brave New World, 1943; Darkness at Noon, 1932; Nineteen ... Read More
Overview :The author presents comprehensive articles about the top three anchors--Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings, and Dan Rather--and offers anaysis and c... Read More
Overview : In Conversations with James Thurber, this remarkable man, who has been called America's twentieth-century Mark Twain, and who was one of th... Read More
Overview :120 personal letters between John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev, kept secret until almost the year 2000, have been published for the firs... Read More
Overview :Over thirty years before Thomas Keneally wrote the book "Schindler's List," journalist Herbert Steinhouse interviewed Oskar Schindler. That ... Read More
Overview :This book begins with the Bubonic Plague that hit London in 1665-1666 that Daniel Defoe described in Journal of a Plague Year, written so ma... Read More
Overview :All readers have favorites from their personal history; "The Books That Haunt Us" is an analysis of 18 of the author's favorite books beginn... Read More
Overview :Elvis Presley was never accused of a crime, but for years the FBI kept a file on Presley because of the crimes that went on in the backgroun... Read More
Overview :Steinbeck and Covici is a major contribution to the literature about John Steinbeck. "Steinbeck Quarterly" magazine wrote, "Thomas Fensch of... Read More
Overview :A collection of 120 personal letters between John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev, kept secret until almost the year 2000, is published for... Read More
Overview :In the 1930s, John Steinbeck published "In Dubious Battle," a novel based on union organizing and anti-union sentiment in the rich and ferti... Read More
Overview :The C.I.A. and the U-2 Program, 1954-1974 is the formerly Top Secret C.I.A. internal history of the development of the U-2. It describes: th... Read More
Overview :"The Sordid Hypocrisy of To Protect and To Serve" ... ...is a savage indictment of the worst police practices in America. The Los Angeles Po... Read More