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Tom Daschle, the Majority Leader of the historic 107th Senate, presents a candid insider s account of the workings of the U.S. government during two of the most tumultuous years in the nation s history. The 107th Congress faced a time like no other in the life of the nation. This was the era of the first ... more »

In England aufgewachsen, kannte Saira Shah, Tochter eines afghanischen Gelehrten, das Land ihrer Väter lange Zeit nur vom Hörensagen. Denn das einzige, was ihr Vater damals für seine kleine Tochter mit in die Fremde rettete, waren tausendundeine faszinierende Geschichten und Legenden aus der Heimat. ... more »

I'd come from a long ways off and had started a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manifest itself. I felt like it was looking right at me and nobody else. So writes Bob Dylan in Chronicles: Volume One, his remarkable book exploring critical junctures in his life and career. Through Dylan's ... more »

My Detachment is a war story like none you have ever read before, an unromanticized portrait of a young man coming of age in the controversial war that defined a generation. In an astonishingly honest, comic, and moving account of his tour of duty in Vietnam, master storyteller Tracy Kidder writes for ... more »

Terry Bradshaw has probably held more jobs than any other football Hall of Famer: pipeline worker, youth minister, professional singer, actor, talk show host... and winning quarterback in four Super Bowls! This honest, unexpected, and downright hysterical memoir proves there's life before and after football ... more »

Captured by the Russians at the end of World War II, Alex Domokos spent six years as a slave laborer in the Soviet Union rebuilding the ravages of war. Upon his release, distrusted by the puppet communist regime in Budapest, he was condemned to internal exile within his native Hungary. The revolution ... more »

Es ist mir nie ernsthaft in den Sinn gekommen, daß mein Leben einmal die Leere zwischen zwei Buchdeckeln ausfüllen könnte. Ich bin Schauspieler, und meine Stärke ist das »Tönende Wort«. Damit habe ich schon manches gerettet, was andere geschrieben haben ... Auge in Auge mit dem Publikum, machte ich immer ... more »

With two Masters Championships, nineteen career PGA victories, three NCAA Championships, and millions in earnings, Ben Crenshaw is without question one of the most successful golfers of the century. But Crenshaw's claim to fame goes beyond his individual performances. As captain of the 1999 Ryder Cup ... more »

In December 1998, after fifty-six years of marriage, Phyllis Greene went from being part of the lifelong unit of Phyllis and Bob to being just plain Phyllis. To deal with her feelings, she began keeping a journal. Unable to find books with a personal perspective on widowhood, she realized her own reflections ... more »

Previous biographies of John F. Kennedy have been based almost entirely on newspaper files and personal recollections. Geoffrey Perret's Jack is both the first comprehensive one-volume biography of JFK and the first account of his life based on the extensive and important documentary record that has ... more »

From childhood, acclaimed novelist A. Manette Ansay trained to become a concert pianist. But when she was nineteen, a mysterious muscle disorder forced her to give up the piano, and by twenty-one, she couldn't grip a pen or walk across a room. She entered a world of limbo, one in which no one could explain ... more »