Conscience: Two Soldiers, Two Pacifists, One Family--a Test of Will and Faith in World War I
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| Author | Michael Kazin |
| ISBN | 0307266281 |
A panoramic yet intimate history of the American left—of the reformers, radicals, and idealists who have fought for a more just and humane society, from the abolitionists to Michael Moore and Noam Chomsky—that gives us a revelatory new way of looking at two centuries of American politics and culture.
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The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915 - 1919
| Author | Mark Thompson |
| ISBN | 0571223338 |
On the hardcover version of Mark Thompson’s The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front, there’s a remarkable picture of tiny soldiers jumping out of their snow packed trenches. In front of them is the steep side of a mountain. Talk about the Mountains of Madness! But that’s pretty much the...
| Author | Tom Clavin |
| ISBN | 1416589287 |
"The definitive biography of the baseball legend who broke Babe Ruth's single-season home-run record--the natural way--and withstood a firestorm of media criticism to become one of his era's preeminent players. "ROGER MARIS may be the greatest ballplayer no one really knows. In 1961, the soft-spoken...
Queen Elizabeth in the Garden: A Story of Love, Rivalry, and Spectacular Gardens
| Author | Trea Martyn |
| ISBN | 1933346361 |
Why four stars when I continually fell asleep reading this book. First, it's about gardens we can no longer see so there are no photographs. If anyone had asked me, I would have suggested line drawings of the plants and flowers, many no longer known even to long-time (United States)gardeners. Such poetic...
| Author | Barbara Brown Taylor |
Gospel medicine is Barbara Taylor's metaphor for the healing power of God seen in the active and ongoing restoration of this broken world. In this new collection of sermons she practices the old-fashioned art of gospel home remedies like a true evangelist, summoning with piercing clarity and wit the...
| Author | Stephen Kuusisto |
| ISBN | 0393349586 |
Blind people are not casual listeners. Blind since birth, Stephen Kuusisto recounts with a poet's sense of detail the surprise that comes when we are actively listening to our surroundings. There is an art to eavesdropping. Like Annie Dillard's An American Childhood or Dorothy Allison's One or Two...
| Author | Elizabeth Stone |
| ISBN | 1565123158 |
One morning, a box was delivered to Elizabeth Stone's door. It held ten years of personal diaries and a letter that began "Dear Elizabeth, You must be wondering why I left you my diaries in my will. After all, we have not seen each other in over twenty years . . ." What followed was a remarkable year in Elizabeth's...
My bias... I am a straight male that views homosexuality as a choice, and a bad one at that with clear undeniably poor outcomes for people who choose it.
That said, I have an open mind, and I read this to try to put myself in the shoes of people on the other side of the ideological divide. This book provided...
| Author | Dale Peck |
| ISBN | 1616954418 |
Novelist and critic Dale Peck's latest work, part memoir, part extended essay, is a foray into what the author calls 'the second half of the first half of the AIDS epidemic'. Reminiscent of Joan Didion's The White Album and Kurt Vonnegut's Palm Sunday, Visions and Revisions has been assembled from over...
| Author | Béla Zombory-Moldován |
| ISBN | 1590178092 |
Publishing during the 100th Anniversary of World War I
An NYRB Classics Original
The budding young Hungarian artist Béla Zombory-Moldován was abroad on holiday when World War I broke out in August 1914. Called up by the army, he soon found himself hundreds of miles away, advancing...
| Author | Michelle Latiolais |
| ISBN | 1934137308 |
BELIEVER BOOK AWARD FINALIST
“In prose shimmering with intelligence and compassion, Michelle Latiolais dissects the essentials of everyday life to find the heartbeat within.”—Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones
“Widow is a hymn to reverence, simultaneously heartbroken...
Without exception, the Group were extremely positive about the book. “Absolutely marvellous”. “Great pace – I couldn’t put it down”. “Have read nothing approaching this, other than possibly Owen’s ‘Dulce et Decorum est’ ”. “Beautifully constructed, so that...
The Last Great Senate: Courage and Statesmanship in Times of Crisis
| Author | Ira Shapiro |
| ISBN | 1586489364 |
Journalists have called the U.S. Senate an empty chamber; politicians have lamented that the institution is broken--yet the Senate was once capable of greatness. Senators of the 1960s and '70s overcame southern opposition to civil rights, passed Great Society legislation, and battled the executive...
| Author | William Ecenbarger |
| ISBN | 1595586849 |
When thirteen-year-old Matthew appeared in front of Judge Mark Ciavarella for throwing a piece of steak at his mother’s boyfriend, he was sentenced to seven weeks at PA Child Care, a private, for-profit juvenile detention center in northeastern Pennsylvania. Angelia was fourteen when she and...
Sasha and Emma: The Anarchist Odyssey of Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman
| Author | Paul Avrich |
| ISBN | 0674065980 |
In 1889 two Russian immigrants, Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman, met in a coffee shop on the Lower East Side. Over the next fifty years Emma and Sasha would be fast friends, fleeting lovers, and loyal comrades. This dual biography offers an unprecedented glimpse into their intertwined lives, the...
| Author | Meryle Secrest |
| ISBN | 0307263681 |
“People like us . . . have different rights, different values than do ordinary people because we have different needs which put us . . . above their moral standards.” —Modigliani
Amedeo (“Beloved of God”) Modigliani was considered to be the quintessential bohemian artist, his...
No Ordinary Men: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Hans von Dohnanyi, Resisters Against Hitler in Church and State
| Author | Fritz Stern |
| ISBN | 1590176812 |
During the twelve years of Hitler’s Third Reich, very few Germans took the risk of actively opposing his tyranny and terror, and fewer still did so to protect the sanctity of law and faith. In No Ordinary Men, Elisabeth Sifton and Fritz Stern focus on two remarkable, courageous men who did—the pastor...
Clover Adams: A Gilded and Heartbreaking Life
| Author | Natalie Dykstra |
| ISBN | 0618873856 |
The hidden story of one of the most fascinating women of the Gilded Age
Clover Adams, a fiercely intelligent Boston Brahmin, married at twenty-eight the soon-to-be-eminent American historian Henry Adams. She thrived in her role as an intimate of power brokers in Gilded Age Washington, where...
| Author | Mulk Raj Anand |
| ISBN | 0865780811 |
'Across the Black Waters' is an English novel by the Indian writer Mulk Raj Anand first published in 1939. It describes the experience of Lalu, a sepoy in the Indian Army fighting on behalf of Britain against the Germans in France during World War I. He is portrayed by the author as an innocent peasant whose...
The Mantle of Command: FDR at War, 1941–1942
| Author | Nigel Hamilton |
| ISBN | 0547775245 |
Based on years of archival research and interviews with the last surviving aides and Roosevelt family members, Nigel Hamilton offers a definitive account of FDR’s masterful—and underappreciated—command of the Allied war effort. Hamilton takes readers inside FDR’s White House Oval...
| Author | A.T. Fitzroy |
| ISBN | 0854490639 |
In July 1914 a family gathers at a holiday hotel in Devon. There is a dominant father and a socially ambitious mother who adores her son Dennis. When he arrives it is at once clear to the reader why he does not fit in with his smugly conventional family.
Then, with the outbreak of war, the tone of the...
Remembering America: A Voice from the Sixties
| Author | Richard N. Goodwin |
| ISBN | 0060972416 |
A behind-the-scenes history of the most momentous decade in American politics, now with a new introduction by the author
Richard N. Goodwin entered public service in 1958 as a law clerk for Supreme Court Associate Justice Felix Frankfurter. He left politics ten years later in the aftermath...
| Author | Douglas MacArthur |
| ISBN | 1557504830 |
Written in his own hand and finished only weeks before his death, Gen. Douglas MacArthur's memoir spans more than half a century of modern history. His vantage point at center stage during major controversies of the twentieth century enabled him to present unique views of the conflicts in which he played...
Safe For Democracy: The Secret Wars Of The CIA
| Author | John Prados |
| ISBN | 1566635748 |
A broad, interesting and informative review of CIA covert action.
The CIA has been a symbol for the mysterious and given almost omnipotent power in the imaginations of those predisposed to paranoia. This very good book should set a number of these notions to rest. John Prados gives us a very...
