Unabridged: Classics, Adventure, Suspense
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| STEPHEN E. AMBROSE | NIXON: A TRIUMPH OF A POLITICIAN 1962-1972 (part 1) -
No one can dispute the fact that Richard M. Nixon's life story is immensely engaging and his place in the scheme of modern history is-and always will be-a landmark. Ambrose offers a balanced, unflinching portrait of one of our most complex and puzzling chief executives at the apogee of his career-rebounding from defeat to an innovative, high-risk presidency, already sowing the seeds of his ruin. | Y
(11T,16.5H) | $28 | No | T |
| STEPHEN E. AMBROSE | NIXON: A TRIUMPH OF A POLITICIAN 1962-1972 (part 2) -
As Kirkus Reviews remarks in its review of Nixon: "Most previous biographies of Nixon have either been admiring political studies or hatchet jobs by obvious enemies. Ambrose rights both their wrongs and gives us a wonderful preliminary to the final volume, which will chronicle Nixon's... fall. Masterful biography."
Hugh Sidey writes, "If there is a better historian than Stephen Ambrose at work on the events and personalities of our time, that person has not been discovered."
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| PETER COLLIER/DAVID HOROWITZ | THE ROCKEFELLERS: AN AMERICAN DYNASTY (part 1) -
This is the story of the most powerful family in America. It starts with John D., the remarkable man who created Standard Oil, and concludes with the most recent generation, large in number, various in quality.
It is a pageant. For the founder, business was war on a commercial level. He gave no quarter, and asked none. Yet he was surprisingly generous and transferred millions to good works. Most remarkably, he left his name...and to wear that name, or to be married into the clan, is still to carry a special badge of distinction.
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(9T,13.5H) | $28 | No | T |
| PETER COLLIER/DAVID HOROWITZ | THE ROCKEFELLERS: AN AMERICAN DYNASTY (part 2) -
"A tale of family tensions and neuroses, of money, influence, and power...vivid, absorbing...remarkable! (The New York Times) | Y
(9T,13.5H) | $28 | No | T |
| ROBERT CONQUEST | STALIN - Of all of the despots of our time, Joseph Stalin lasted the longest and wielded the greatest power, and his secrets have been the most jealously guarded-even after his death. Robert Conquest'sStalin is the first book by a Western author to draw on the vast amount of material that became available in the aftermath of glasnost, along with earlier official and unofficial sources, to produce a living portrait of this paranoid leader. Conquest gives us Stalin as a child and student, as revolutionary and Communist theoretician, as a political animal skilled in amassing power and absolutely ruthless in maintaining it, and as a man who terrorized his own family. He presents the historical landmarks of Stalin's rule, freshly assessed: the clash with Lenin; collectivization; the great Terror; the Nazi-Soviet Pact and the Nazi-Soviet War; the anti-Semitic campaign that preceded his death; and the legacy he left behind. | Y
(11T,16.5H) | $28 | No | T |
| KEN FOLLETT | ON WINGS OF EAGLES - They were all computer executives, employees of Ross Perot's Dallas-based EDS Corporation. Their secret mission: rescue two EDS colleagues locked up in an Iranian prison in 1978.
Ken Follett is on familiar ground in this document of real-life danger and rescue. The ingredients of his best sellers are present: penetration of enemy territory, last-second escape, and a race for the border. But this is real -- it actually happened!
"As exciting as any of Follett's thrillers. An impressive nonfiction debut." (Publishers Weekly)
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(11T,16.5H) | $36 | No | T |
| E.D. HIRSCH, JR. | CULTURAL LITERACY - In this forceful manifesto Professor E. D. Hirsch, Jr., argues that children in the United States are being deprived of the basic knowledge that would enable them to function in contemporary society. They lack cultural literacy: a grasp of background information that writers and speakers assume their audience already has. Thus even if a student has a basic competence in the English language, he or she has little chance of entering the American mainstream without knowing what a silicon chip is, or when the Civil War was fought.
A major bestseller that has engendered a nationwide debate on our educational standards, Cultural Literacy is must listening for parents, teachers, and anyone else concerned with our future as a literate nation.
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(7T,10.5H) | $20 | No | T |
| RONALD KESSLER | THE FBI - It was vital evidence unearthed by award-winning journalist Ronald Kessler for The FBI-used by the Justice Department to launch its probe of abuses by FBI Director William S. Sessions that ultimately resulted in his dismissal by Clinton. But the story behind William Sessions' dismissal-the first time in Bureau history a director has been fired-is only one of the fascinating revelations in The FBI that will change the way America perceives the once sacrosanct Federal Bureau of Investigation.
No institution in American society generates as much curiosity, fear, and intrigue as the FBI. No institution can obtain so much information and penetrate so deeply into our private lives. And no institution plays a greater role in safeguarding our freedom-or potentially threatening it. Kessler gives us a firsthand look at the people who run the Bureau, the methods they use, the powers they wield, and the secrets they hold, including: (1) How the FBI solved some of the most highly-publicized cases in history including Watergate, the Pan Am 103 bombing, the Patty Hearst kidnapping, the John A. Walker, Jr., spy case, and the World Trade Center bombing; (2) How the FBI botched the espionage investigation of U.S. diplomat Felix Bloch, and what role the Bureau played in the Clarence Thomas - Anita Hill controversy, the David Koresh cult tragedy in Waco, and the case of Rodney King's beating by Los Angeles police offers; and (3) How the Bureau uses such techniques as DNA analysis, computer aging of faces, super-secret surveillance, and profiling of serial killers-as depicted in The Silence of the Lambs-to get its target.
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(15T,22.5H) | $40 | No | T |
| ALFRED LANSING | ENDURANCE - Described by the Chicago Tribune as "one of the most gripping, suspenseful, intense stories anyone will ever read,"Endurance is, without a doubt, a book which listeners will talk about whenever man's durability is discussed.
This fabulous account of Sir Ernest Shackleton's epic adventure recreates one of the most astonishing feats of exploration and human courage ever recorded. In August, 1914, the Endurance set sail for the South Atlantic. In October, 1915, still half a continent away from its intended base, the ship was trapped, then crushed in the ice. For five months Shackleton and his men, drifting on ice packs, were castaways in one of the most savage regions of the world.
Alfred Lansing's vivid narrative describes how the men survived-after a 1,000-mile voyage in an open boat across the stormiest ocean on the globe and an overland trek through forbidding glaciers and mountains. The book recounts a harrowing adventure, but ultimately it is the nobility of these men and their indefatigable will to fight back and survive that shines through.
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| DAVID MCCULLOUGH | MORNINGS ON HORSEBACK - MORNINGS ON HORSEBACK is the story of young Theodore Roosevelt, though handicapped by asthma and pathetically weak eyes, advocated the strenuous life. A remarkable metamorphosis, particularly given the patrician circumstances in which he was born and raised. After all, the Roosevelts had been established for generations and expected to smooth the way for family members.
TR's father enjoyed vigorous good health. His mother, a celebrated Southern beauty, matched her attractiveness with style and intelligence. She set the standard for TR's first love, Alice Lee, whose death in tragic circumstances tempered the steel in his character.
"A beautifully told story about life intensely lived, about family love and loyalty, about grief and courage." (The New York Times)
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| P.J. O'ROURKE | ALL THE TROUBLE IN THE WORLD - In All the Trouble in the World, best-selling political humorist P.J. O'Rourke tackles the "fashionable worries"-enormous global problems that are endlessly in the news and constantly on our minds but about which we mostly don't have a clue.
O'Rourke crisscrosses the globe asking not just "What's the answer?" but "What the hell's the question?" In his chapter on over-population (titled "Just Enough of Me, Way Too Much of You") he visits first Bangladesh, then Fremont, California. The two places have the same number of people per square mile. Is the problem really that Bangladesh is too crowded? If so, how come George Harrison never held a concert to benefit suburban Californians?
The author travels to the Earth Summit in Rio and lets the hot air out of global warming theorists. He tours the old Communist bloc to ponder why, if government regulation is the answer to pollution, the most government-regulated countries are the most polluted.
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(5T,7.5H) | $20 | No | T |
| P.J. O'ROURKE | PARLIAMENT OF WHORES - P.J. O'Rourke is America's hottest, hippest satirist, humorist, and political sage. Heir apparent to H.L. Mencken and Hunter S. Thompson, O'Rourke moved to Washington, D.C., in 1988 to diagnose the workings of our government.
P.J. proffers the theory that we are suffering under a dictatorship of boredom. In other words, every public issue and policy, every regulation, piece of legislation, executive act, and joint resolution is made complicated, obfuscatory, and tedious. O'Rourke asks, "What is this oozing behemoth, this fibrous tumor, this monster of power and expense hatched from the simple human desire for civic order? How did an allegedly free people spawn a vast, rampant cuttlefish of dominion with its tentacles in every orifice of the body politic?
In Parliament OF WHORES, P.J. offers a guided tour of the U.S. government and a serious analysis of public policy that not only won't put you to sleep, but will make you laugh until your sides ache, and may even make you go out and vote. | Y
(6T,9H) | $20 | No | T |
| P.J. O'ROURKE | REPUBLICAN PARTY REPTILE - What is the Republican Party Reptile? It is neoconservatism with its pants down around its ankles, the Rehnquist Supreme Court on drugs, a disco Hobbes living without shame or federally-mandated safety regulations. The Republican Party Reptile supports a strong defense policy but sees no reason to conduct it whilst sober. The RPR believes in minimum governmental interference in private affairs-unless the government brings over extra girls and some ice. In short, the RPR is the new label that our political spectrum has been crying out for-the conservative with a sense of humor.
Here, in the twenty-one pieces collected in this book, P.J. O'Rourke, reactionary and humorist, articulates this strange new philosophy and shows us the progenitor of the species-namely himself-in action. O'Rourke visits the Lebanese civil war and the Marcos election campaign, sees Russia through the bottom of a vodka bottle, examines sundry aspects of Western civilization such as the great bicycle menace and the history of the last fifteen minutes, and even explains how to drive a pickup truck into the woods at sixty miles-an-hour. |
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| NEIL POSTMAN | AMUSING OURSELVES TO DEATH - In this eloquent and persuasive book, Neil Postman examines the deep and broad effects of television culture on the manner in which we conduct our public affairs, on how "entertainment values" have corrupted the very way we think. As politics, news, religion, education, and commerce are given expression less and less in the form of printed or spoken words, they are rapidly being reshaped and staged to suit the requirements of television. And because television is a visual medium, whose images are most pleasurably apprehended when they are fast-moving and dynamic, discourse on television takes the form of entertainment. Television has little tolerance for argument, hypothesis, or explanation: it demands performing art.
Mr. Postman argues that public discourse, the advancing of arguments in logical order for the public good-once the hallmark of American culture-is being converted from exposition and explanation to entertainment. | Y
(4T,6H) | $10 | No | T |
| DAN QUAYLE | THE AMERICAN FAMILY - In this profoundly important, inspirational book, Dan Quayle, America's 44th Vice president, introduces us to five American families who speak bluntly-and often poignantly-about the values that give them strength.
Quayle and his collaborator, psychologist Diane Medved, journeyed thousands of miles to meet with and interview a diverse mix of families. Liberal and conservative; christian and non-Christian; black, white, and mixed race-these families till the rich virginia soil, walk the streets of East L.A., grapple with single motherhood, confront racial hatred, and learn to live with disabilities.
As we visit with the families, we hear not just from deeply committed parents but from grateful children whose optimistic outlook and grounding in time-honored principles suggest there is much still right with America. We hear, too, from seniors who, by passing on a sense of heritage and tradition, exert a remarkable influence on the younger generation.
Whether you're a parent eager to safeguard your children, a spouse seeking ways to invigorate your marriage, or a citizen searching for practical, innovative ways to usher America into a more vibrant future, The American Family is vital reading.
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