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Tears of a Clown: Glenn Beck and the Tea Bagging of America

10 best books like Tears of a Clown: Glenn Beck and the Tea Bagging of America (Dana Milbank): The Devil and Sonny Liston, Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul, A Wild Life: The Authorized Biography, King of the Godfathers, Teaching the Pig to Dance: A Memoir of Growing Up and Second Chances, The Last Opium Den, Black Earth: A Journey Through Russia After the Fall, But He Was Good to His Mother: The Lives and Crimes of Jewish Gangsters, My Name Escapes Me: The Diary of a Retiring Actor, Fools Die

The Devil and Sonny Liston
AuthorNick Tosches
ISBN0316897469
An interesting book, but not one I'd want to duplicate.

Tosches is clearly a skilled writer, and this book is full of good, muscular prose. The scope of the book is impressive, as is the thoroughness of research. Tosches covers a lot of ground—quite admirably, in fact—and is quite dexterous...
Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul
AuthorEddie S. Glaude Jr.
ISBN0804137412
A powerful polemic on the state of black America that savages the idea of a post-racial society
 
America’s great promise of equality has always rung hollow in the ears of African Americans. But today the situation has grown even more dire. From the murders of black youth by the police, to...
A Wild Life: The Authorized Biography
AuthorJeff Corwin
ISBN0142414034
A fascinating look at the real Jeff Corwin!

From growing up in an urban community near Boston, to falling in love with snakes, to traveling to exotic places, to becoming a beloved Emmy Award-winning television host of Animal Planet, this authorized biography will give readers a first-hand...
King of the Godfathers
AuthorAnthony M. DeStefano
ISBN0806528745
The Last Of The Old-World Mob Bosses--And The Ultimate Betrayal

For more than twenty years, Joseph "Big Joey" Massino ran what was called the largest criminal network in the U.S., employing over two hundred and fifty made men and untold numbers of associates. The Bonanno family was responsible...
Teaching the Pig to Dance: A Memoir of Growing Up and Second Chances
AuthorFred Thompson
ISBN0307460304
Fred Thompson has enjoyed a remarkable career in Hollywood and politics, but when he sat down to write a memoir about how he got to be the person he is, he discovered that his best stories all seemed to come out of the years he spent growing up in and around his hometown of Lawrenceburg, Tennessee. It was a...
The Last Opium Den
AuthorNick Tosches
Nick Tosches trades civilization and its discontents for the possibility of one moment of pure bliss.

Driven by romantic, spiritual, and medicinal imperatives, Nick Tosches goes in search of something everyone tells him no longer exists: an opium den. From Europe to Hong Kong to Thailand...
Black Earth: A Journey Through Russia After the Fall
AuthorAndrew Meier
ISBN0393326411
"A compassionate glimpse into the extremes where the new Russia meets the old," writes Robert Legvold (Foreign Affairs) about Andrew Meier's enthralling new work. Journeying across a resurgent and reputedly free land, Meier has produced a virtuosic mix of nuanced history, lyric travelogue, and...
But He Was Good to His Mother: The Lives and Crimes of Jewish Gangsters
AuthorRobert A. Rockaway
ISBN9652292494
A thoroughly compelling book and one of a kind. The apt title was chosen due to a response Rockaway’s mother gave when he was talking about a Jewish gangster – “But he was good to his mother!” What seemed to be common among most Jewish gangsters was the fact that they had strong family ties, and were...
My Name Escapes Me: The Diary of a Retiring Actor
AuthorAlec Guinness
ISBN0140277455
Having filled roles in films as varied as "Lawrence of Arabia" and "Star Wars," Guinness is one of the most distinguished and beloved - movie actors of his generation. His charmingly sincere diary entries offer a glimpse of the private side of his often very public life. What makes Guinness a fine and...
Fools Die
AuthorMario Puzo
ISBN0451160193
"A page-flipping tale of power, brutality and glamour (Library Journal) from the bestselling author of The Godfather.

Played out in the underground worlds of high-stakes gambling, publishing, and the film industry, this epic thriller follows two brothers, Merlyn and Arite, as they delve...
The Fortunate Pilgrim
AuthorMario Puzo
ISBN0345476727
Before The Godfather and The Last Don, there was Puzo's classic story about the loves, crimes and struggles confronted by one family of New York City immigrants living in Hell's Kitchen. Fresh from the farms in Italy, Lucia Santa struggles to hold her family together in a strange land. At turns poignant,...
The Hopkins Touch: Harry Hopkins and the Forging of the Alliance to Defeat Hitler
AuthorDavid L. Roll
ISBN0199891958
The Hopkins Touch offers the first portrait in over two decades of the most powerful man in Roosevelt's administration.

In this impressive biography, David Roll shows how Harry Hopkins, an Iowa-born social worker who had been an integral part of the New Deal's implementation, became the...
Petropolis
AuthorAnya Ulinich
ISBN0670038199
Sasha Goldberg is the ultimate outsider: she's a chubby, biracial Jewish girl from the Siberian town of Asbestos 2. Her father takes off for the United States, and leaves Sasha to navigate adolescence in a bleak apartment bloc with her overbearing mother. Sasha falls in love with an art school drop-out...
The Last Testament of Lucky Luciano
AuthorMartin A. Gosch
ISBN0316321400
If you are a mafia addict, this is one of the best books to read. Charlie Lacania tells his life story from start to finish. He is likeable, and I have friends who met him in a bar in Sicily when my ship visited Messina. And he was so happy to talk to Americans, they loved him. To read his life story is to read the...
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