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Author
Publisher
ReganBooks
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
x, 326 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
What do Henry Kissinger, Jack Welch, Condoleezza Rice, and Jon Bon Jovi have in common? They have all reached the top of their respective professions, and they all credit sports for teaching them the lessons that were fundamental to their success. In his years spent interviewing and profiling celebrities, politicians, and top businesspeople, popular sportscaster and Fox & Friends cohost Brian Kilmeade has discovered that nearly everyone shares a love...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
266 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A collection of StoryCorps interviews that demonstrates "how work can be about much more than just making a living, that chasing dreams and finding inspiration in unexpected places can transform a vocation into a calling. [The participants'] shared sense of passion, honor, and commitment brings deeper meaning and satisfaction to every aspect of their lives"--Dust jacket flap.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xviii, 371 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A memoir of one young man's coming of age on a cross-country trek, told through the stories of the people of all ages, races, and inclinations he meets along the highways of America"--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
xi, 496 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Though Bill Clinton has been out of office since 2001, public fascination with him continues unabated. Many books about Clinton have been published in recent years, but no single-volume biography covers the full scope of Clinton's life from the cradle to the present day; and books on Clinton have tended to be highly polarized, casting the former president in an overly positive or negative light. In this, the first complete oral history of Clinton's...
Publisher
The Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
202 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"StoryCorps founder Dave Isay draws from ten years of the revolutionary oral history project's rich archives, collecting conversations that celebrate the power of the human bond and capture the moment at which individuals become family. Between blood relations, friends, coworkers, and neighbors, in the most trying circumstances and in the unlikeliest of places, enduring connections are formed and lives are forever changed"--Dust jacket flap.
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Perseus Distribution
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
xii, 594 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
From Moyer's third PBS series, this text represents an unparalleled entree into the debates, the intellectual and cultural currents, and above all the fascinating people that have so powerfully shaped modern times.
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
vii, 324 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the sobering aftermath of America's invasion of Iraq, documentarian Jarecki launches a penetrating inquiry into how forces within the American political, economic, and military systems have come to undermine the carefully crafted structure of our republic--upsetting its balance of powers, vastly strengthening the hand of the president in taking the nation to war, and imperiling the workings of American democracy. Surveying a scorched landscape...