Book DescriptionBook Sleeve Content Jack Kerouac’s On the Road was a landmark event in American fiction when it was published in 1957, a counter-cultural credo that made Kerouac the reluctant figurehead of a generation that saw itself mirrored in his cast of restless seekers, “mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous…
Book DescriptionBook Sleeve Content During his two terms as the fortieth president of the United States, Ronald Reagan kept a daily diary in which he recorded, by hand, his innermost thoughts and observations on the extraordinary, the historic, and the routine day-to-day occurrences of his presidency. Brought together in one volume and edited by historian…
Book DescriptionBook Sleeve Content The ‘accidental’ president whose innate decency and steady hand restored the presidency after its greatest crisis. When Gerald R. Ford Entered the White House in August 1974, he inherited a presidency tarnished by the Watergate scandal, the economy was in a recession, the Vietnam War was drawing to a close, and…
Book DescriptionBook Sleeve Content Is now the time for an American parish priest to be declared a Catholic saint? Born and raised in a Connecticut factory town, the son of Irish immigrants, Father Michael McGivney’s (1852-1890) legacy of hope is still celebrated around the world. At a time when discrimination against American Catholics, homelessness, and…
Book DescriptionBook Sleeve Content Awards: Robert F. Kennedy Humanitarian prize In the span of five violent hours on August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina destroyed major Gulf Coast cities and flattened 150 miles of coastline. But it was only the first stage of a shocking triple tragedy. On the heels of one of the three strongest…
Book DescriptionBook Sleeve Content Jack Kerouac is best known through the image he put forth in autobiographical novels. Yet only his private journals, in which he catalogued his innermost feelings, that reveal to us the real Kerouac —his true, honest deep philosophical self. In Windblown World, distinguished historian Douglas Brinkley has gathered together a selection…
Book DescriptionBook Sleeve Content Fifty years after she made history by refusing to give up her seat on a bus, Rosa Parks at last gets the major biography she deserves. The eminent historian Douglas Brinkley follows this thoughtful and devout woman from her childhood in Jim Crow Alabama through her early involvement in the NAACP…
Book DescriptionBook Sleeve Content The story of one of the most heroic efforts in American military history – a 77-day struggle in early 1968 for the remote Khe Sanh combat base, during which 6,000 perilously isolated Marines withstood the onslaught of a superior enemy force. Drawing on a vast archive of recorded interviews and written…
Book DescriptionBook Sleeve Content The 100-foot promontory known as Pointe du Hoc — where six big German guns were ensconced — was the number one target of the heavy U.S. and British warships poised in the English Channel on D-Day morning. Facing arguably the toughest task to befall U.S. forces during the war, the brave…
Book Description Assuming its rightful place of honor on the National Mall between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument, the World War II Memorial is an eloquent and moving tribute to “The Greatest Generation.” Sixteen million Americans served in the armed forces — more than 400,000 gave their lives — and millions supported the…
Book DescriptionBook Sleeve Content Experience the history of D-Day through the words and recorded voices of those who were there — the servicemen who risked their lives for the protection of freedom and democracy. With two sixty-minute audio CDs of veteran testimonies, personal and historical photographs, and a text by two leading historians. Voices of…
Book DescriptionBook Sleeve Content Covering more than four decades, this is the first full-scale, definitive account of Kerry’s Journey from war to peace. Brinkley has drawn on extensive interviews with virtually everyone who knew Kerry in Vietnam. Kerry also relegated to Brinkley his letters home from Vietnam, voluminous “war notes” journals and personal reminiscences written…
