Illustrates beautifully the way discordant threads of life weave together to make us the person we are. Watching genetic chords from all over the world collide and create the man that became our 44th president was fascinating. 'The Story' is an appropriate name because so many people's stories ...
Roberto Clemente was a legendary ballplayer - a .317 career batting average, 3000 hits, four N.L. batting titles, twelve gold gloves, 1966 National League MVP, 1971 World Series MVP, and the first Latino elected to the Hall of Fame. Impressive as these statistics and facts may be, they cannot cap...
I picked up this book because I thought it was a big picture strategy examination of U.S. political-military performance in Vietnam. It is, however, 2 books--one on the battle of Ong Thanh, and one on the simultaneous protests against Dow Chemical recruiting on campus at the University of Wiscon...
Maraniss documents, in rich detail, the genesis and life of a complex, gifted, and flawed individual. There is balance in his presentation. He portrays Clinton as extraordinarily gifted, with IQ and EQ, making him the perfect politician; Clinton demonstrates an amazing ability to connect with eve...
“You said you were sending some young men down to help us, but I didn’t know they’d be this young!” Carr huffed. “One of them looks ten and the other twelve!” The one who looked ten was the bushy-haired law student from Yale, Bill Clinton. Passing for twelve was a mustachioed political writer fro...
At a midday Cabinet meeting, while the Dow protest inside the Commerce Building in Madison was devolving into chaos, the president and his department secretaries gathered in the White House Cabinet Room, where they received a detailed briefing from Attorney General Ramsey Clark on the massive pea...