Franklin Delano Roosevelt

6 best books like Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Alan Brinkley): Portnoy's Complaint, Leaving the Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life, Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life, Pnin, Neoliberalism: A Very Short Introduction, Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America

Portnoy's Complaint

Author	Philip Roth
ISBN	0099399016

The famous confession of Alexander Portnoy, who is thrust through life by his unappeasable sexuality, yet held back at the same time by the iron grip of his unforgettable childhood. Hilariously funny, boldly intimate, startlingly candid, Portnoy’s Complaint was an immediate bestseller upon...

Leaving the Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life

Author	Amber Scorah
ISBN	0735222541

A riveting memoir of losing faith and finding freedom while a covert missionary in one of the world's most restrictive countries.

A third-generation Jehovah's Witness, Amber Scorah had devoted her life to sounding God's warning of impending Armageddon. She volunteered to take the message...

Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

Author	Martin E.P. Seligman
ISBN	1400078393

Known as the father of the new science of positive psychology, Martin E.P. Seligman draws on more than twenty years of clinical research to demonstrate how optimism enchances the quality of life, and how anyone can learn to practice it. Offering many simple techniques, Dr. Seligman explains how to...

Pnin

Author	Vladimir Nabokov
ISBN	1400041988

One of the best-loved of Nabokov’s novels, Pnin features his funniest and most heart-rending character. Professor Timofey Pnin is a haplessly disoriented Russian émigré precariously employed on an American college campus in the 1950's. Pnin struggles to maintain his dignity through a series...

Neoliberalism: A Very Short Introduction

Author

Manfred B. Steger

Anchored in the principles of the free-market economics, "neoliberalism" has been associated with such different political leaders as Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Augusto Pinochet, and Junichiro Koizumi. In its heyday during the late 1990s, neoliberalism emerged...

Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America

Author	Chris Arnade
ISBN	0525534733

Widely acclaimed photographer and writer Chris Arnade shines new light on America's poor, drug-addicted, and forgotten--both urban and rural, blue state and red state--and indicts the elitists who've left them behind.

Like Jacob Riis in the 1890s, Walker Evans in the 1930s, or Michael...