The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill
10 best books like The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill (Ron Suskind): Plan of Attack, The Little Locksmith, The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000, Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America, Monsieur Proust, New Poems of Emily Dickinson, The Velvet Underground & Nico, Just a Couple of Days, How the Light Gets In, The Song Reader
| Author | Bob Woodward |
| ISBN | 0743255488 |
Plan of Attack is the definitive account of how and why President George W. Bush, his war council, and allies launched a preemptive attack to topple Saddam Hussein and occupy Iraq. Bob Woodward's latest landmark account of Washington decision making provides an original, authoritative narrative...
| Author | Katharine Butler Hathaway |
| ISBN | 1558612394 |
The Little Locksmith, Katharine Butler Hathaway's luminous memoir of disability, faith, and transformation, is a critically acclaimed but largely forgotten literary classic brought back into print for the first time in thirty years. The Little Locksmith begins in 1895 when a specialist straps...
Like his National Book Award—winning United States, Gore Vidal’s scintillating ninth collection, The Last Empire, affirms his reputation as our most provocative critic and observer of the modern American scene. In the essays collected here, Vidal brings his keen intellect, experience, and...
| Author | Arianna Huffington |
| ISBN | 1400051266 |
Who filled the trough? Who set the table at the banquet of greed? How has it been possible for corporate pigs to gorge themselves on grossly inflated pay packages and heaping helpings of stock options while the average American struggles to make do with their leftovers?
Provocative political...
| Author | Céleste Albaret |
| ISBN | 1590170598 |
Céleste Albaret was Marcel Proust's housekeeper in his last years, when he retreated from the world to devote himself to In Search of Lost Time. She could imitate his voice to perfection, and Proust himself said to her, "You know everything about me." Her reminiscences of her employer present an intimate...
| Author | Emily Dickinson |
| ISBN | 0807844160 |
For most of her life Emily Dickinson regularly embedded poems, disguised as prose, in her lively and thoughtful letters. Although many critics have commented on the poetic quality of Dickinson's letters, William Shurr is the first to draw fully developed poems from them. In this remarkable volume,...
| Author | Joe Harvard |
| ISBN | 0826415504 |
The Velvet Underground and Nico has influenced the sound of more bands than any other album. And remarkably, it still sounds as fresh and challenging today as it did upon its release in 1967. In this book, Joe Harvard covers everything from Lou Reed's lyrical genius to John Cale's groundbreaking instrumentation,...
| Author | Tony Vigorito |
| ISBN | 0156031221 |
"Just a Couple of Days may be the most unusual, the most original novel I have ever read." —TOM ROBBINS
"A lyrical, thoughtful, viral meme of a book. Read it!"
—CHRISTOPHER MOORE
Join cult favorite Tony Vigorito in his award-winning underground hit chronicling the party...
| Author | M.J. Hyland |
| ISBN | 1841956112 |
A powerful debut from a young Australian novelist that features one of the most likeable but contrary figures you are likely to meet in contemporary fiction life of poverty in Sydney. And when she is offered a place as an exchange student at a school in America it seems as if her dreams will be fulfilled....
| Author | Lisa Tucker |
| ISBN | 0743497007 |
Sure, we were a small family, but it wasn't lonely. We had the endless stream of my sister's customers and, of course, the music. Every day, all day, our stereo would play and Mary Beth would talk about the lyrics, what they really meant.
Leeann lives with her beautiful older sister -- the world's first...
Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 1: 1884-1933
| Author | Blanche Wiesen Cook |
| ISBN | 0140094601 |
Celebrated by feminists, historians, politicians & reviewers everywhere, Blanche Wiesen Cook's Eleanor Roosevelt presents an unprecedented portrait of the towering female figure of the 20th century. This volume begins with her harrowing childhood, describes the difficulties of her marriage...
