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Dear Father, Dear Son: Two Lives... Eight Hours

10 best books like Dear Father, Dear Son: Two Lives... Eight Hours (Larry Elder): Desperate Sons: The Secret Band of Radicals Who Led the Colonies to War, An Unfinished Marriage, The Officers' Club, Islam: The Religion and the People, I am Scout: The Biography of Harper Lee, Split: A Memoir of Divorce, The Girl from Botany Bay, Show Me the Way: A Memoir in Stories, The Book of Man: Readings on the Path to Manhood, Relentless Pursuit: A Year in the Trenches with Teach for America

Desperate Sons: The Secret Band of Radicals Who Led the Colonies to War
AuthorLes Standiford
ISBN0061899550
Excellent examination of the events leading up to the Revolution...these pre-Revolution events are not often written about in depth. Great insights into why the Revolution began.

I didn't really like how the author described the colonists as "liberal," and inserted snide remarks against...
An Unfinished Marriage
AuthorJoan Anderson
ISBN0767908716
In this moving sequel to her national bestseller A Year by the Sea, Joan Anderson explores the challenges of rebuilding and renewing a marriage with her trademark candor, compassion, and insight.

With A Year by the Sea, Joan Anderson struck a chord in many tens of thousands of readers. Her brave...
The Officers' Club
AuthorRalph Peters
ISBN0765326809
Spring, 1981.  Vietnam is over, but the repercussions linger.  The military strives to recover as society reels from the excesses of the 1970s…

A sinister beauty and a dutiful soldier… a Hollywood lawyer running from a dirty past and a cast-off vet who seems to have no future…  dueling...
Islam: The Religion and the People
AuthorBernard Lewis
ISBN0132230852
Praise for Bernard Lewis "For newcomers to the subject[el]Bernard Lewis is the man." TIME Magazine "The doyen of Middle Eastern studies." The New York Times "No one writes about Muslim history with greater authority, or intelligence, or literary charm." British historian Hugh Trevor-Roper "Bernard...
I am Scout: The Biography of Harper Lee
AuthorCharles J. Shields
ISBN0805083340
To Kill a Mockingbird is one of the most widely read novels in American literature. It's also a perennial favorite in highschool English classrooms across the nation. Yet onetime author Harper Lee is a mysterious figure who leads a very private life in her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama, refusing...
Split: A Memoir of Divorce
AuthorSuzanne Finnamore
Bestselling and award-winning author Suzanne Finnamore writes a story of divorce that is �brilliant� (Augusten Burroughs) and sure to become a classic.

There are certain books that come to epitomize their painful subject matter, offering solace to those who share the same fate and...
The Girl from Botany Bay
AuthorCarolly Erickson
ISBN1405035889
s/t: The Extraordinary Story of Australia's Most Daring Escaped Convict
Veteran biographer Erickson (Great Harry, etc.) focuses on Mary Broad, who was arrested for robbery in 1786 and transported in sordid conditions to the new penal colony in Australia. But the book is, more generally, a stark...
Show Me the Way: A Memoir in Stories
AuthorJennifer Lauck
ISBN0743476395
Having lost both of her prents at an early age, Jennifer Lauck, acclaimed author of the memoir Blackbird and its follow-up, Still Waters, has in Show Me the Way made peace with her past in order to face the future as a mother herself.
In this luminous and mature work, Lauck offers an unflinching account...
The Book of Man: Readings on the Path to Manhood
AuthorWilliam J. Bennett
ISBN1595552715
WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A MAN

Raising up men has never been easy, but today is seems particularly tough.  The young and old need heroes to embody the eternal qualities of manhood: honor, duty, valor, and integrity.  In The Book of Man, William J. Bennett points the way, offering a positive, encouraging,...
Relentless Pursuit: A Year in the Trenches with Teach for America
AuthorDonna Foote
ISBN0307265714
A revealing look inside a national phenomenon, Teach For America, which, since its founding in 1990, has pursued one of the most daring—and controversial—strategies for closing the educational achievement gap between the richest and poorest students in the country.

The story is set...
Out of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa
AuthorKeith B. Richburg
ISBN0156005832
The author reminds of me of that friend you have who you can always rely on for a blunt and honest opinion-the one who would have no problem telling you that your ass looked fat in those jeans-and would probably not give a damn if anyone opposed what she said.

So, while I'm not trying to equate opinions...
The Israel Test
AuthorGeorge Gilder
ISBN0980076358
Israel is the crucial battlefield for capitalism and freedom in our time. George Gilder's global best-seller ?Wealth and Poverty? made the moral case for capitalism. Now Gilder makes the case for Israel, portraying a conflict of barbarism and envy against civilization and creativity. Gilder reveals...
The World Turned Upside Down: The Global Battle over God, Truth, and Power
AuthorMelanie Phillips
ISBN1594033757
In what we tell ourselves is an age of reason, we are behaving increasingly irrationally. An astonishing number of people subscribe to celebrity endorsed cults, Mayan armageddon prophecies, scientism, and other varieties of new age, anti-enlightenment philosophies. Millions more advance popular...
Crucified Again: Exposing Islam's New War on Christians
AuthorRaymond Ibrahim
ISBN1621570258
Forget what the history textbooks told you about martyrdom being a thing of the past. Christians are being persecuted and slaughtered today.

Raymond Ibrahim unveils the shocking truth about Christians in the Muslim world. Believers in Jesus Christ suffer oppression and are massacred at...
Stealth Jihad: How Radical Islam Is Subverting America without Guns or Bombs
AuthorRobert Spencer
ISBN1596985569
Does America face a jihadist threat that's even bigger than terrorism?
While our homeland security efforts are focused on preventing terrorist attacks, another jihadist threat is growing right here in America--in plain sight.

In Stealth Jihad, Islam expert and New York Times bestselling...
American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation's Character
AuthorDiana West
ISBN0312630786
In The Death of the Grown-Up, Diana West diagnosed the demise of Western civilization by looking at its chief symptom: our inability to become adults who render judgments of right and wrong. In American Betrayal, West digs deeper to discover the root of this malaise and uncovers a body of lies that Americans...
The Mexican Mafia
AuthorTony Rafael
ISBN1594031959
The Mexican Mafia is a pioneering work that unveils the operations of this California prison gang and describes how it grew from a small clique into a transnational criminal organization. The Mexican Mafia controls every Hispanic neighborhood in Southern California and is rapidly expanding its...
Lost in America: A Dead-End Journey
AuthorColby Buzzell
ISBN0061841358
"Nothing less than the soul of an extremely interesting human being at war on ourbehalf." —Kurt Vonnegut
A stunning portrait of modern America by Colby Buzzell, the critically acclaimed author of My War: Killing Time in Iraq. Recounting his five-month journey through the country, from its...
Scientific Facts in the Bible: 100 Reasons to Believe the Bible is Supernatural in Origin
AuthorRay Comfort
ISBN0882708791
An elderly lady once left $20,000 and "my Bible and all it contains" to her nephew. The young man knew what the Bible contained so he didn't bother to open it. He merely picked it up and put it on a high shelf in his house, and headed for Las Vegas. It wasn't long until all his money was gone. He lived the next 60...
The Master Spy: The Story of Kim Philby
AuthorPhillip Knightley
ISBN0394578902
Bought this at a second-hand bookshop in Brisbane, because Philby was one of the Cambridge Four, and I loved the TV Show Cambridge Spies. The real story of Philby as presented in this book is even more thrilling than the TV (although the "Four" were far less connected in real life, which spoils the story...
The Ruling Class: How They Corrupted America and What We Can Do About It
AuthorAngelo M. Codevilla
ISBN0825305586
In this profound and incisive work, Angelo M. Codevilla introduces readers to the Ruling Class, the group of bipartisan political elites who run America. This Ruling Class, educated at prestigious universities and convinced of its own superiority, has everything to gain by raising taxes and expanding...
The Only Girl in the Car
AuthorKathy Dobie
ISBN0385318839
The Only Girl in the Car

Bookworm and dreamer, Kathy was a young girl with a tender heart, an adventurer’s spirit, and a child’s terrible confusion about her proper place in the world. As the oldest daughter in a family of six children, she seemed trapped in her role as Big Sister and Mommy’s...
My Grandfather's Son
AuthorClarence Thomas
ISBN0060565551
Provocative, inspiring, and unflinchingly honest, My Grandfather's Son is the story of one of America's most remarkable and controversial leaders, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, told in his own words.

Thomas speaks out, revealing the pieces of his life he holds dear, detailing...
Inside Hamas: The Untold Story of the Militant Islamic Movement
AuthorZaki Chehab
ISBN1568583958
What is the real nature of Hamas? Since its astonishing victory in the 2006 Palestinian elections, this has become the most hotly contested question in the Middle East. How does Hamas really operate? What personalities lie beneath the black-and-green uniforms? Inside Hamas is an acclaimed account...
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