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Fuller Torrey takes full stock of this phenomenon, exploring the causes and consequences as he weaves together narratives of individual tragedies in three states with sobering national data on our failure to treat the mentally ill. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
Book, Touchstone trade pbk. ed, Simon & Schuster, 2007
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After surveying eighteen leading high school American history texts, he has concluded that not one does a decent job of making history interesting or memorable. From the truth about Columbus’s historic voyages to an honest evaluation of our national leaders, Loewen revives our history, restoring the vitality and relevance it truly possesses. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
Benjamin Wittes offers the first nonpartisan critique of a crucial front in America?s war on terror?the legal battles fought by and among the Bush administration, the U.S. Congress, and the Supreme Court Six years after the September 11 attacks, America is losing a crucial front in the ongoing war on terror. Moving beyond the stale debate between those fixated on the executive branch as the key architect of counterterrorism policy and those who see the judiciary as the essential guarantor of liberty against governmental abuses, Wittes argues that the essential problem is that the Bush administration did not seek?and Congress did not write?new laws to authorize and regulate the tough presidential actions this war would require. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
Through vintage and contemporary photographs, brochures, postcards, and artifacts evocative of time and place, Havana Before Castro tells the story of the city that was the most popular exotic destination for Americans during the forty years between World War I and Castro’s revolution. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
Joe Gunther, a Vermont cop for most of his adult life and now the head of the VBI (Vermont Bureau of Investigation) gets the call that every law enforcement person hates and every friend and family member of a policeman fears — a cop has been shot and killed. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
The first in-depth look at post-World War II family travel, Rugh’s study recounts how postwar prosperity and mass consumption–abetted by paid vacation leave, car ownership, and the new interstate highway system–forged the ritual of the family road trip and how that ritual became entwined with what it meant to be an American. Until the 1970s recession ended three decades of prosperity and the traditional nuclear family began to splinter, these family vacations were securely woven into the fabric of American life. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
A revealing look at Iran by an American journalist with an insider?s access behind Persian walls The grandson of an eminent ayatollah and the son of an Iranian diplomat, now an American citizen, Hooman Majd is, in a way, both 100 percent Iranian and 100 percent American, combining an insider?s knowledge of how Iran works with a remarkable ability to explain its history and its quirks to Western readers. With unforgettable portraits of Iranians, from government figures to women cab drivers to reform-minded Ayatollahs, Majd brings to life a country that is deeply religious yet highly cosmopolitan, authoritarian yet with democratic and reformist traditions?an Iran that is a more nuanced nemesis to the United States than it is typically portrayed to be. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
Instead of bringing food to guests in a traditional restaurant setting, Jim Denevan brings diners to their food, creating what Alice Waters has called ?the restaurant I always imagined.? With inspiring recipes, beautiful photographs throughout of farms and food across the country, and information on finding local ingredients and helping Community Supported Agriculture and community gardens, Outstanding in the Field is a cookbook that celebrates the pleasures of raising, preparing, and enjoying good food. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
A vibrant and revelatory history of the liberal moment of the 1960s, one which argues that Washington was not simply a target of reform but was, in fact, the era?s most effective engine of change In most accounts of the 1960s, Washington is portrayed as a target of reform?a reluctant group of politicians coaxed into accepting the radical spirit the day demanded. With elegant and accessible prose, The Liberal Hour casts one of the most dramatic periods in American history in a new light, revealing that for all that has been written about the more attention-grabbing protest movements, the most powerful engine of change in that tumultuous decade was Washington itself. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
Advance Praise for A Thousand Hills “What a fascinating tale! –Archbishop Desmond Tutu Praise for Overthrow “Kinzer’s narrative abounds with unusual anecdotes, vivid description, and fine detail, demonstrating why he ranks among the best in popular foreign policy storytelling.” (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
In The Wordy Shipmates, Sarah Vowell travels once again through America?s past, this time to seventeenth-century New England. How come Henry Vane the Younger, who argued against beheading the English king, was himself beheaded for helping behead said king? The Wordy Shipmates is rich with historical fact, humorous insight, and social commentary by one of America?s celebrated voices. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
Some of them later would also find something darker in numbers and nature: irrationality, a revelation so unsettling and subversive that it may have contributed to the destruction of their brotherhood. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
In a beautifully crafted narrative, Ernest Freeberg shows that the campaign to send Debs from an Atlanta jailhouse to the White House was part of a wider national debate over the right to free speech in wartime. Led by a coalition of the country?s most important intellectuals, writers, and labor leaders, this protest not only liberated Debs, but also launched the American Civil Liberties Union and changed the course of free speech in wartime. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
