Models of God
10 best books like Models of God (Sallie McFague): The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream, Don Quixote, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany, Homage to Catalonia, Courting Mr. Lincoln, Robert Kennedy and His Times, Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West, Winning, Sexism and God Talk: Toward a Feminist Theology, Ball Four
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
| Author | Barack Obama |
| ISBN | 0307237699 |
The Audacity of Hope is Barack Obama's call for a new kind of politics—a politics that builds upon those shared understandings that pull us together as Americans. Lucid in his vision of America's place in the world, refreshingly candid about his family life and his time in the Senate, Obama here sets...
| Author | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra |
| ISBN | 0142437239 |
Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading chivalric romances that he determines to become a knight-errant himself. In the company of his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, his exploits blossom in all sorts of wonderful ways. While Quixote's fancy often leads him astray—he tilts at windmills,...
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
| Author | William L. Shirer |
| ISBN | 0671728687 |
Hitler boasted that The Third Reich would last a thousand years. It lasted only 12. But those 12 years contained some of the most catastrophic events Western civilization has ever known.No other powerful empire ever bequeathed such mountains of evidence about its birth and destruction as the Third...
| Author | George Orwell |
| ISBN | 0156421178 |
“All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.”
George Orwell is one of my favourite writers. 1984 and Animal Farm were game-changers for me when I first picked them up at 12 years old, and they fostered an interest in politics...
| Author | Louis Bayard |
| ISBN | 1616208473 |
From the prizewinning author of Mr. Timothy and The Pale Blue Eye comes Courting Mr. Lincoln, the page-turning and surprising story of a young Abraham Lincoln and the two people who loved him best: a sparky, marriageable Mary Todd and Lincoln’s best friend, Joshua Speed.
When Mary Todd meets...
Robert Kennedy and His Times
| Author | Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. |
| ISBN | 0618219285 |
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., chronicles the short life of the Kennedy family's second presidential hopeful in "a story that leaves the reader aching for what cannot be recaptured" (Miami Herald). Schlesinger's account vividly recalls the forces that shaped Robert Kennedy, from his position as the...
| Author | William Cronon |
| ISBN | 0393308731 |
In this groundbreaking work, William Cronon gives us an environmental perspective on the history of nineteenth-century America. By exploring the ecological and economic changes that made Chicago America's most dynamic city and the Great West its hinterland, Mr. Cronon opens a new window onto our...
| Author | Jack Welch |
| ISBN | 0060753943 |
Jack Welch knows how to win. During his forty-year career at General Electric, he led the company to year-after-year success around the globe, in multiple markets, against brutal competition. His honest, be-the-best style of management became the gold standard in business, with his relentless...
| Author | Rosemary Radford Ruether |
How did a religion whose founding proponents advocated a shocking disregard of earthly ties come to extol the virtues of the "traditional" family? In this richly textured history of the relationship between Christianity and the family Rosemary Radford Ruether traces the development of these centerpieces...
| Author | Jim Bouton |
| ISBN | 0020306652 |
Twentieth-anniversary edition of a baseball classic, with a new epilogue by Jim Bouton.
When first published in 1970, Ball Four stunned the sports world. The commissioner, executives, and players were shocked. Sportswriters called author Jim Bouton a traitor and "social leper." Baseball...
| Author | George F. Will |
| ISBN | 0060973722 |
There’s a lot of stuff goes on.
Tony LaRussa
This is a TOP TEN book in my baseball library.
Availability. 2010 edition, paperback, Kindle.
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This book, published more than twenty-five years ago (1990) by a noted...
| Author | William L. Shirer |
| ISBN | 0306805626 |
On June 17, 1940 William L. Shirer stood in the streets of Paris and watched the unending flow of gray German uniforms along its boulevards. In just six lovely weeks in the spring and summer of 1940 a single battle brought down in total military defeat one of the world's oldest, greatest, and most civilized...
Pitchforks and Torches: The Worst of the Worst, from Beck, Bill, and Bush to Palin and Other Posturing Republicans
| Author | Keith Olbermann |
| ISBN | 0470614471 |
An irresistible new collection from the New York Times bestselling author and host of MSNBC's Countdown with Keith OlbermannIn his particular wit and style, Keith Olbermann skewers politicians, celebrities, and people behaving badly every weeknight on MSNBC's increasingly popular Countdown...
Mary Poppins Opens the Door
| Author | P.L. Travers |
| ISBN | 0152058222 |
From the moment Mary Poppins arrives at Number Seventeen Cherry-Tree Lane, everyday life at the Banks house is forever changed. This classic series tells the story of the world's most beloved nanny, who brings enchantment and excitement with her everywhere she goes. Featuring the charming original...
Information Wars: How We Lost the Global Battle Against Disinformation and What We Can Do about It
| Author | Richard Stengel |
| ISBN | 0802147984 |
Disinformation is as old as humanity. When Satan told Eve nothing would happen if she bit the apple, that was disinformation. But the rise of social media has made disinformation even more pervasive and pernicious in our current era. In a disturbing turn of events, governments are increasingly using...
Make Gentle the Life of This World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy
| Author | Robert F. Kennedy |
| ISBN | 0767903714 |
Robert Kennedy's son tells us that Bobby and Jack (JFK) were both in the habit of collecting favourite quotes and writing down their thoughts/ideas - using them as inspiration for future writings and speeches. Max Kennedy is Bobby's ninth child and he has compiled some of his father's collection. He...
Everything Trump Touches Dies: A Republican Strategist Gets Real About the Worst President Ever
| Author | Rick Wilson |
| ISBN | 1982103124 |
A respected, long-time Republican strategist, ad-maker, and contributor for The Daily Beast, skewers the disease that is destroying the conservative movement and burning down the GOP: Trumpism.
In Everything Trump Touches Dies, political campaign strategist and commentator Rick Wilson...
Car Country: An Environmental History
| Author | Christopher W. Wells |
| ISBN | 0295994290 |
For most people in the United States, going almost anywhere begins with reaching for the car keys. This is true, Christopher Wells argues, because the United States is Car Country--a nation dominated by landscapes that are difficult, inconvenient, and often unsafe to navigate by those who are not...
