-Titulo Original : Titanic Thompson The Man Who Bet On Everything-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: “The ultimate hustler . . . a rollicking tale.” Sports Illustrated This raucous retelling of the life of a consummate gambler, grifter and quintessential American character (Kirkus Reviews) introduces Alvin Titanic Thompson (1892-1974), who traveled with golf clubs, a .45 revolver, and a suitcase full of cash. A terrific read for anyone who has ever laid a bet, Titanic Thompson recaptures the colorful times of a singular figure. 20 black-and-white illustrations Review “Highly enjoyable.” - Wall Street Journal“Titanic Thompson is as emblematically American as Babe Ruth or Mark Twain. . . . Cook gives us the real deal.” - Los Angeles Times“Remarkable.” - Audie Cornish, NPR“A crackerjack biography.” - Seattle Times“Heres a wonderful contradiction: a delightful, breezy account of the most outrageous grifter who ever worked the dark side streets of the American dream. If thered been any money in the pro game back then, he might have been the most talented golfer of a generation that included Nelson and Hogan. He became, instead, the premiere con man of the twentieth century who never held public office. If this was fiction, you wouldnt believe a word of it. You still might not believe it, but its all true, and its all here.” - Mark Frost, author of The Greatest Game Ever Played and The Match“Kevin Cook’s biography vividly illuminates the life of Titanic Thompson, perhaps the craftiest golfer and poker player and certainly the most dangerous hustler of his, or just about any, generation.” - James McManus, bestselling author of Positively Fifth Street and Cowboys Full“Titanic was a legend, one of the toughest, smartest gamblers of all time. Kevin Cook’s terrific book brings him back to life.” - Doyle Brunson, two-time winner of the World Series of Poker, member of the Poker Hall of Fame“Even money you’re going to read this book in a night, maybe two. Five to one you’re going to practice shuffling cards or throwing quarters against a wall or chipping golf balls into a shot glass when you’re finished. Ten to one you’re going to claim you can throw a peanut over a three-story building. Hundred to one you’re going to get married a bunch of times, kill a few people, make and lose a fortune and...oh, read the book and find out. You won’t be disappointed.” - Leigh Montville, author of The Mysterious Montague About the Author A former senior editor at Sports Illustrated, Kevin Cook is the author of Titanic Thompson, Tommys Honor, Kitty Genovese and The Dad Report. He lives in New York City...

-Titulo Original : Self-portrait In Black And White Unlearning Race-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Review [Williams] is so honest and fresh in his observations, so skillful at blending his own story with larger principles, that it is hard not to admire him. At a time of increasing division, his philosophizing evinces an underlying generosity. He reaches both ways across the aisle of racism, arguing above all for reciprocity, and in doing so begins to theorize the temperate peace of which all humanity is sorely in need. Andrew Solomon, New York Times Book Review (cover)An elegant and sharp-eyed writer....In a publishing environment where analyses of race tend to call out white fragilities and catalogue historical injustices, Self-Portrait in Black and White is a counterintuitive, courageous addition. Carlos Lozada, Washington PostA fluent, captivating, if often disquieting story....We witness Williams on a journey of both self-discovery and self-creation, and his memoir is most valuable as a way deeper into, as opposed to a way out of, race talk. Emily Bernard, HarpersThomas Chatterton Williams has the essential things a writer needs command of language, complexity and depth of thought, and, maybe above all, courage. In Self-Portrait in Black and White he sticks his neck way out in pursuit of unfashionable, necessary truths. This book brings a blast of fresh air that will change your thinking about race in America. George Packer, author of Our Man and The UnwindingA gorgeously written and deeply knowledgeable account of fatherhood, identity, and race. Tender and probing, respectful of intellectual disagreement and of the raw emotions these subjects can stir, it nevertheless proceeds fearlessly and rigorously toward his own original and challenging conclusions. This is a book that will surely provoke, inform, and move readers, regardless of where they stand on the political and philosophical divide. Phil Klay, author of RedeploymentAn elegantly rendered and trenchantly critical reflection on ‘race’ and identity one that is perfectly suited to our time. This is a subtle, unsettling, and brave book. Using his own journey through life as point of departure, Thomas Chatterton Williams launches a major assault on the conventional wisdom about racial categorization in America. Not only does he envision a New World; he dares to point the way toward how we all might yet arrive on those uncharted shores. Glenn Loury, professor of economics and faculty fellow, Watson Institute, Brown UniversityA brave and powerful book that I could not put down. At a time when white supremacy is resurgent in many countries, should we fight it by insisting on the equality of the races or the elimination of race as a social and biological category? It is a question that needs to be asked and a debate that needs to be had. Anne-Marie Slaughter, CEO, New AmericaHow does anyone confront a history that demands what they believe about themselves is different from what’s required to love their children? The answer, and path to it, is complicated. But here is a son embodying the lessons of a father. Some will walk away from this believing that black, like white, is a social construct that needs to be abandoned but all will walk way knowing that a father’s love cannot be quantified by anything as whimsical as skin complexion. Reginald Dwayne Betts, author of Felon and A Question of FreedomThis small book poses a very large question: how to become a self? Williams uses his own story to remind us that inner freedom depends on escaping the insidious categories of history and the suffocating cliches of the present. It is a stirring call to genuine liberation. Mark Lilla, author of The Once and Future LiberalIn fifty years, smart students will be writing senior theses seeking to understand why anyone in the early 21st century found anything in Self-Portrait in Black and White at all controversial. For now, curl up with this book to join a conversation on race about progress rather than piety, thought rather than therapy....

-Titulo Original : Home Game An Accidental Guide To Fatherhood-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: A book that explores the difference between the idea of fatherhood and a man’s actual experience of it. When he became a father, Michael Lewis found himself expected to feel things that he didn’t feel, and to do things that he couldn’t see the point of doing. At first this made him feel guilty, until he realized that all around him fathers were pretending to do one thing, to feel one way, when in fact they felt and did all sorts of things, then engaged in what amounted to an extended cover-up. Lewis decided to keep a written record of what actually happened immediately after the birth of each of his three children. This book is that record. But it is also something else: maybe the funniest, most unsparing account of ordinary daily household life ever recorded from the point of view of the man inside. The remarkable thing about this story isn’t that Lewis is so unusual. It’s that he is so typical. The only wonder is that his wife has allowed him to publish it. 3 photos From Publishers Weekly After the birth of his first child, bestselling writer Lewis (Moneyball) felt he was a stranger in a strange land, puzzled at the gap between what he thought he should be feeling and what he actually felt. While he expected to be overcome by joy, he often felt puzzled; expecting to feel worried over a childs illness or behavior, he often felt indifferent. Lewis attempts to capture the triumphs, failures, humor, frustration and exhilaration of being a new father during the first year of each of his three childrens lives. In one especially hilarious moment, Lewis is in a hotel pool in Bermuda distantly observing his children. When some older boys start teasing his oldest daughter, the youngest daughter, three years old at the time, lets fly a string of profanities at the top of her lungs. The boys retreat and then regroup for a second attack; when they return, she lets fly another string and tells them that she has peed in the pool, causing the boys to go away. All the while, Lewis watches from afar, too embarrassed to claim this youngster as his own but also proud that she has handled herself so smartly. Although Lewis is correct that his fatherhood moments might be more interesting to him than to anyone else, his reflections capture both the unease and the excitement that fatherhood brings. (June) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Review Unabashedly frank, hilarious and sweetly sentimental....a somewhat daring and in many ways groundbreaking book about what it’s like to be a father in modern America....intensely honest. Amy Scribner, BookPageIt’s an engaging journal that selectively details how Dad grew up as well....Brief, clever and frank a good gift for Father’s Day. Kirkus ReviewsHe captures serious issues with a warmth that shows hes a pretty good dad after all. Kyle Smith, People MagazineHis reflections capture both the unease and the excitement that fatherhood brings. Publishers WeeklyLewis is an insouciant raconteur who can spin out even standard dad stories (about, say, sending a kid to school dressed outlandishly) without making them sound stale. Ann Hulbert, SlateLewiss style is funny, frank, and engaging, and he gets a lot of comic mileage telling tales at his own expense....its refreshing to hear a dad describe so vividly the uglier aspects of the job. Christopher Noxon, The Los Angeles TimesLewis writes memorable, insightful, yet simple and brisk sentences as easily as the rest of us breathe. Marc Tracy, The New York Times Book ReviewHome Game, which was adapted from a series of Slate essays and is an accordingly zippy read, is hilarious but painfully candid, one man’s uneasy reckoning with the potentially devastating consequences of parenting. It’s unsparing, but Lewis is as honest with himself as he’s been with his subjects. Grade: A-. The Onion AV Club About the Author Micha...

-Titulo Original : The Outrun A Memoir-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Review A stunning, wild, and gracefully rendered account of life in the Scottish hinterlands. San Francisco ChronicleLyrical, transitioning from the rush of drinking into the raw sensations of island life. ElleUncompromising and lyrical … The Outrun is a bright addition to the exploding genre of writing about place and our place in the natural world. ObserverA lyrical, brave memoir.… It’s this aptitude Liptrot has for marrying her inner-space with wild outer-spaces that makes her such a compelling writer and one to watch. GuardianLuminous.… Fresh, clear-eyed and unflinching. Sunday Times[T]he sheer sensuality of Liptrot’s prose and her steely resolve immediately put her right up there with the best of the best. Liptrot is an Orcadian warrior with the breeze in her blood and poetry in her fingers, and The Outrun equals works by fellow islanders such as George Mackay Brown and Peter Maxwell Davies. It may even be a future classic. New StatesmanAmy Liptrot has lived her life on the edge of things, both literally and metaphorically. The Outrun, her beautiful first book, gives a wonderfully evocative account of both, blending searing memoir with sublime nature writing, and coming up with a unique piece of prose that amounts to a stirring personal philosophy of how to live. Her descriptive writing of the [Orkney] islands and their wildlife absolutely sizzles, a scintillating mix of clear-eyed insight and poetic heart. Independent on SundayWhether [Liptrot]… writes of walking along the wind-scoured coasts or taking polar-bear dips in the icy waters, her prose is spare, lean, and beautiful, much like the country about which she writes. BooklistThis magnificent memoir is a record of transformation in its truest sense… Orkney legends tell of seals changing into humans, but, here, Liptrot is the shape-shifter, peeling off her wetsuit like blubber after snorkeling in the ice-cold sea. Publishers WeeklyWorth reading for the descriptions of life on a ‘beautiful, barely touched stretch of land.’ Kirkus Reviews “It’s wild writing: sexy, unguarded, raw, and ardent … highly recommended.” The MillionsAfter a decade of heavy partying and hard drinking in London, Amy Liptrot returns home to Orkney, a remote island off the north of Scotland. The Outrun maps Amy’s inspiring recovery as she walks along windy coasts, swims in icy Atlantic waters, tracks Orkney’s wildlife, and reconnects with her parents, revisiting and rediscovering the place that shaped her.A Guardian Best Nonfiction Book of 2016Sunday Times Top Ten BestsellerNew Statesman Book of the Year About the Author Amy Liptrot received the Wainwright Prize for nature writing and the PEN Ackerley Prize for memoir for The Outrun. Formerly a writer for Orkney Today, editor of the Edinburgh Student, an artist’s model, and a trampolinist, she lives in Yorkshire...

-Titulo Original : The Only Street In Paris Life On The Rue Des Martyrs-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: A New York Times Bestseller Sciolino’s sharply observed account serves as a testament to…Paris the city of light, of literature, of life itself. The New YorkerElaine Sciolino, the former Paris Bureau Chief of the New York Times, invites us on a tour of her favorite Parisian street, offering an homage to street life and the pleasures of Parisian living. I can never be sad on the rue des Martyrs, Sciolino explains, as she celebrates the neighborhood’s rich history and vibrant lives. While many cities suffer from the leveling effects of globalization, the rue des Martyrs maintains its distinct allure. On this street, the patron saint of France was beheaded and the Jesuits took their first vows. It was here that Edgar Degas and Pierre-Auguste Renoir painted circus acrobats, Emile Zola situated a lesbian dinner club in his novel Nana, and François Truffaut filmed scenes from The 400 Blows. Sciolino reveals the charms and idiosyncrasies of this street and its longtime residents the Tunisian greengrocer, the husband-and-wife cheesemongers, the showman who’s been running a transvestite cabaret for more than half a century, the owner of a 100-year-old bookstore, the woman who repairs eighteenth-century mercury barometers bringing Paris alive in all of its unique majesty. The Only Street in Paris will make readers hungry for Paris, for cheese and wine, and for the kind of street life that is all too quickly disappearing. 25 photographs Review Anyone who loves Paris’s remaining quirky ‘villages’ will revel in Sciolino’s meticulously reported accounts…Sciolino doesn’t lack for inspiration; she has Paris at her feet. New York TimesThe narrative takes the form of a ramble through shops, courtyards, cabarets, and time…Sciolino’s sharply observed account serves as a testament to the persistence of old Paris the city of light, of literature, of life itself. The New YorkerSciolino is a keen and tireless observer of this ancient little market street…She has written her love letter with such ingenuous passion it’s hard not to cheer up. Washington PostA sublime stroll…The magic of the street is not only its scope it’s about half a mile but also its history. Wall Street JournalThe former Paris bureau chief of the New York Times shares her love for her adopted working-class neighborhood in this delicious and detailed look at the rue des Martyrs. Her knack for making friends and her reporter’s instincts keep this tour fascinating. BBCCountless authors have used a city as their muse…A blend of memoir and research, as Sciolino mixes her personal memories of expat life with the stories of artists and luminaries who walked rue des Martyrs before her. New RepublicSomething interesting for everyone: If you like food, architecture, history, art or simply human stories, you will not be disappointed. Christian Science MonitorSciolino is a storyteller at heart. She loves to listen to and share other people’s stories…This is a lovely and intimate look at a magical corner of Paris. Chicago Tribune About the Author Elaine Sciolino is a contributing writer and former Paris bureau chief for the New York Times. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Only Street in Paris. She has lived in Paris since 2002...

-Titulo Original : Between You & Me Confessions Of A Comma Queen-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Review Ms. Norris, who has a dirty laugh that evokes late nights and Scotch, is…like the worldly aunt who pulls you aside at Thanksgiving and whispers that it is all right to occasionally flout the rules. Sarah Lyall, New York Times[P]ure porn for word nerds. Allan Fallow, Washington PostMary Norris has an enthusiasm for the proper use of language that’s contagious. Her memoir is so engaging, in fact, that it’s easy to forget you’re learning things. PeopleA rollicking adventure into the origins of the apostrophe, the proliferation of profanity in American culture, and everything in between. San Francisco Chronicle[A] winningly tender, funny reckoning with labor and language. Megan OGrady, VogueFunny and endearing. Joanna Connors, Cleveland Plain DealerLaugh-out-loud funny and wise and compelling from beginning to end. Steve Weinberg, Houston ChronicleMary Norris is the verbal diagnostician I would turn to for a first, second, or third opinion on just about anything. John McPhee, The New YorkerSmart and funny and soulful and effortlessly illuminating. Ian FrazierMary Norris brings a tough-minded, clear-eyed, fine-tuned wisdom to all the perplexities and traps and terrors of the English sentence. Adam GopnikMary Norris is a grammar geek with a streak of mischief, and her book is obscenely fun. Marilyn JohnsonThis is as entertaining as grammar can be. Very very. Read it and savor it. Garrison KeillorDestined to become an instant classic…It’s hard to imagine the reader who would not enjoy spending time with Norris. Christian Science Monitor Hilarious…This book charmed my socks off. Patricia O’Conner, New York Times Book ReviewMary Norris has spent more than three decades working in The New Yorker’s renowned copy department, helping to maintain its celebrated high standards. In Between You & Me, she brings her vast experience with grammar and usage, her good cheer and irreverence, and her finely sharpened pencils to help the rest of us in a boisterous language book as full of life as it is of practical advice.Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, Amazon, Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, and Library Journal. About the Author Mary Norris is the author of Greek to Me and the New York Times bestseller Between You & Me, an account of her years in The New Yorker copy department. Originally from Cleveland, she lives in New York...

-Titulo Original : The Hemingses Of Monticello An American Family-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize: “[A] commanding and important book.” Jill Lepore, The New Yorker In the mid-1700s the English captain of a trading ship that made runs between England and the Virginia colony fathered a child by an enslaved woman living near Williamsburg. The woman, whose name is unknown and who is believed to have been born in Africa, was owned by the Eppeses, a prominent Virginia family. The captain, whose surname was Hemings, and the woman had a daughter. They named her Elizabeth. So begins this epic work named a best book of the year by the Washington Post, Time, the Los Angeles Times, , the San Francisco Chronicle, and a notable book by the New York Times Annette Gordon-Reed’s “riveting history” of the Hemings family, whose story comes to vivid life in this brilliantly researched and deeply moving work. Gordon-Reed, author of the highly acclaimed historiography Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy, unearths startling new information about the Hemingses, Jefferson, and his white family. Although the book presents the most detailed and richly drawn portrait ever written of Sarah Hemings, better known by her nickname Sally, who bore seven children by Jefferson over the course of their thirty-eight-year liaison, The Hemingses of Monticello tells more than the story of her life with Jefferson and their children. The Hemingses as a whole take their rightful place in the narrative of the family’s extraordinary engagement with one of history’s most important figures. Not only do we meet Elizabeth Hemings the family matriarch and mother to twelve children, six by John Wayles, a poor English immigrant who rose to great wealth in the Virginia colony but we follow the Hemings family as they become the property of Jefferson through his marriage to Martha Wayles. The Hemings-Wayles children, siblings to Martha, played pivotal roles in the life at Jefferson’s estate. We follow the Hemingses to Paris, where James Hemings trained as a chef in one of the most prestigious kitchens in France and where Sally arrived as a fourteen-year-old chaperone for Jefferson’s daughter Polly; to Philadelphia, where James Hemings acted as the major domo to the newly appointed secretary of state; to Charlottesville, where Mary Hemings lived with her partner, a prosperous white merchant who left her and their children a home and property; to Richmond, where Robert Hemings engineered a plan for his freedom; and finally to Monticello, that iconic home on the mountain, from where most of Jefferson’s slaves, many of them Hemings family members, were sold at auction six months after his death in 1826. As The Hemingses of Monticello makes vividly clear, Monticello can no longer be known only as the home of a remarkable American leader, the author of the Declaration of Independence; nor can the story of the Hemingses, whose close blood ties to our third president have been expunged from history until very recently, be left out of the telling of America’s story. With its empathetic and insightful consideration of human beings acting in almost unimaginably difficult and complicated family circumstances, The Hemingses of Monticello is history as great literature. It is a remarkable achievement. 37 Review Book DescriptionThis epic work tells the story of the Hemingses, whose close blood ties to our third president had been systematically expunged from American history until very recently. Now, historian and legal scholar Annette Gordon-Reed traces the Hemings family from its origins in Virginia in the 1700s to the familys dispersal after Jeffersons death in 1826. It brings to life not only Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson but also their children and Hemingss siblings, who shared a father with Jeffersons wife, Martha. The Hemingses of Monticello sets the familys compelling saga against the backdrop of Revolutionary America, Paris on the eve of ...

-Titulo Original : When Broken Glass Floats Growing Up Under The Khmer Rouge-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Chanrithy Him felt compelled to tell of surviving life under the Khmer Rouge in a way worthy of the suffering which I endured as a child.In a mesmerizing story, Chanrithy Him vividly recounts her trek through the hell of the killing fields. She gives us a childs-eye view of a Cambodia where rudimentary labor camps for both adults and children are the norm and modern technology no longer exists. Death becomes a companion in the camps, along with illness. Yet through the terror, the members of Chanrithys family remain loyal to one another, and she and her siblings who survive will find redeemed lives in America.A Finalist for the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize. 15 black and whtie illustrations Review “A gut-wrenching story, told with honesty, restraint, and dignity.” - Ha Jin, author of Waiting“Intelligent and morally aware…[Him] tells us what it was like to struggle to survive while others played out utopian dreams.” - New York Times“An inspiring story that draws hope from horror.” - Seattle Times“There are few books that give a refugee’s point of view as clearly and passionately as Him’s.” - Time Out“Astonishing and heartbreaking…Written in spare, visual prose that makes the world it describes tangible.” - Katherine A. Powers, Boston Globe“A touching and illuminating human account and should not be missed by anyone around the world.” - Le Ly Hayslip, author of When Heaven and Earth Changed Places About the Author Chanrithy Him, born in 1965, lives in Eugene, Oregon, where she works for the Khmer Adolescent Project, studying post-traumatic stress disorder among Cambodians...

-Titulo Original : The True American Murder And Mercy In Texas-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Review The suspense in this book runs deeper than whether Stroman will live or die. Mr. Giridharadas is most interested in examining the viability of the American dream…an enterprising and clear-eyed reporter. Stephen Harrington, Wall Street JournalChilling…[D]ares to ask whether Americans can still claim the American dream. Oprah Moving and indelible…manifestly inspirational…[A] finely textured portrait of lower-class despair. Laura Miller, SalonA riveting tale, dense with detail, from Giridharadas’ unflinching descriptions of the struggling neighborhoods on the eastern edge of Dallas, to Stroman’s troubled and brutal childhood, to the ebullient optimism of these new Americans determined to create better lives. Michael E. Young, Dallas Morning NewsMasterful reporting…Thoroughly compelling. Kate Tuttle, Boston GlobeThose interested in both the best and worst of what it means to be American should read The True American…[T]he book is too well-written and the characters are too fascinating to miss. Amy Kamp, Austin ChronicleA truly fine book. David BrooksAn enthralling real-life tale of murder and forgiveness…enthralling. Walter Isaacson, author of Steve JobsExhilarating and deeply affecting, Giridharadas’s book is not only a captivating narrative; it reminds us of the immigrant’s journey at the heart of the American story and how, in the wake of violent tragedy, one new to our country can help us to see through to the best in ourselves, even when the law requires far less. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard UniversitySimply impossible to put down. Just when we thought that we had read everything we could possibly absorb about 9/11, The True American finds a new and compelling perspective, one that explores two sharply opposed dimensions of the American experience in a style that neither celebrates nor condemns. We readers become the jury, weighing what it means to be a true American today. Anne-Marie Slaughter, president and CEO of the New America FoundationAn unforgettable story about two men caught in the jaws of history. In this compassionate, tenacious, and deeply intelligent book, Giridharadas casts brilliant new illumination on what we mean by ‘American.’ Teju Cole, author of Open City Winner of the NYPL Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism Named a Best Book of the Year by the New York Times, the Boston Globe, NPR, and Publishers Weekly“Haunting. ... [A]mong the most riveting nonfiction I have read in a long time. ... The True American gives you new eyes on your nation, makes you wonder about both the recent South Asian immigrant behind the counter at the food mart and the tattooed white man behind you in line” (Eboo Patel, Washington Post).The True American tells the story of Raisuddin Bhuiyan, a Bangladesh Air Force officer who dreams of immigrating to America and working in technology. But days after 9/11, an avowed “American terrorist” named Mark Stroman, seeking revenge, walks into the Dallas minimart where Bhuiyan has found temporary work and shoots him, maiming and nearly killing him. Two more victims, at other gas stations, die instantly.The True American traces the making of these two men, Stroman and Bhuiyan, and of their fateful encounter. It follows them as they rebuild shattered lives one striving on death row to become a better man, the other to heal and pull himself up from the lowest rung on the ladder of an unfamiliar country. Ten years after the shooting, an Islamic pilgrimage seeds in Bhuiyan a strange idea: if he is ever to be whole, he must reenter Stroman’s life. He longs to confront Stroman and speak to him face to face about the attack that changed their lives. Bhuiyan publicly forgives Stroman, in the name of his religion and its notion of mercy. Then he wages a legal and public-relations campaign, against the state of Texas and Governor Rick Perry, to have his...

-Titulo Original : Philip Roth The Biography-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: New York Times Bestseller The renowned biographer’s definitive portrait of a literary titan.Appointed by Philip Roth and granted independence and complete access, Blake Bailey spent years poring over Roth’s personal archive, interviewing his friends, lovers, and colleagues, and engaging Roth himself in breathtakingly candid conversations. The result is an indelible portrait of an American master and of the postwar literary scene.Bailey shows how Roth emerged from a lower-middle-class Jewish milieu to achieve the heights of literary fame, how his career was nearly derailed by his catastrophic first marriage, and how he championed the work of dissident novelists behind the Iron Curtain.Bailey examines Roth’s rivalrous friendships with Saul Bellow, John Updike, and William Styron, and reveals the truths of his florid love life, culminating in his almost-twenty-year relationship with actress Claire Bloom, who pilloried Roth in her 1996 memoir, Leaving a Doll’s House.Tracing Roth’s path from realism to farce to metafiction to the tragic masterpieces of the American Trilogy, Bailey explores Roth’s engagement with nearly every aspect of postwar American culture. 100 photographs Review Blake Bailey’s comprehensive life of Philip Roth to tell it outright is a narrative masterwork … As in a novel, what is seen at first to be casual chance is revealed at last to be a steady and powerfully demanding drive. … under Bailey’s strong light what remains on the page is one writer’s life as it was lived, and almost as it was felt. Cynthia Ozick, New York Times Book Review (cover)Bailey is industrious, rigorous, and uncowed. … Although Roth would not have enjoyed some of the tumult that will now attend its publication, he might have admired his biographer’s ... refusal to fall under his subject’s sway. The man who emerges is a literary genius, constantly getting it wrong, loving others, then hurting them, wrestling with himself and with language, devoted to an almost unfathomable degree to the art of fiction. David Remnick, The New Yorker[Roth] got to be remembered [in Baileys biography] as a man: hilarious, mercurial, genuinely kind but fickle and meanspirited too. A man, rather than an inert legacy. Mark Oppenheimer, New York Times MagazineSuperlative … Baileys account is definitive and genuinely gripping to boot. … He leads us lucidly through a dense palimpsest of overlapping drafts, fictional identities, literary feuds and women. Claire Lowdon, Times of LondonMeticulous, masterfully organized and heroically fair-minded … [T]here are sparkling scenes portraying Truman Capote’s Black and White Ball, lunching with the Kennedys on Martha’s Vineyard, even a flirtation with Jackie Onassis, the only woman Roth was too awed by to pursue. Sam Sacks, Wall Street JournalBeautifully written … compulsively readable … It is hard to imagine a book that will come up with a more definitive series of answers than this one. Tim Adams, ObserverA wonderful book that seems certain to become the definitive biography of Roth’s fascinating, sometimes troubling, life Roth was a brilliant writer, and Bailey does him justice in this beautifully written and highly readable volume. Michael Schaub, Boston GlobeMonumental and engrossing … Bailey brings new information and a fresh perspective … Is Bailey’s compassionate and comprehensive book the biography? No other biographer will have known Roth so well, had such unlimited access to his archives, had a chance to ask him rude questions, even to watch him as he lay dying. Elaine Showalter, Times Literary Supplement (cover)Bailey is a very good writer and a very good literary biographer. A double- or triple-natured subject is not beyond him. … What a story. … Bailey certainly lets the repellent in, and along with it comes the man in his wholeness. James Parker, The AtlanticUnassailable as to fact … clear-eyed … quickly moving … Philip Roth seems as bri...

-Titulo Original : Hitler 1936-1945 Nemesis-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: The climax and conclusion of one of the best-selling biographies of our time.The New Yorker declared the first volume of Ian Kershaws two-volume masterpiece as close to definitive as anything we are likely to see, and that promise is fulfilled in this stunning second volume. As Nemesis opens, Adolf Hitler has achieved absolute power within Germany and triumphed in his first challenge to the European powers. Idolized by large segments of the population and firmly supported by the Nazi regime, Hitler is poised to subjugate Europe. Nine years later, his vaunted war machine destroyed, Allied forces sweeping across Germany, Hitler will end his life with a pistol shot to his head. [M]ore probing, more judicious, more authoritative in its rich detail...more commanding in its mastery of the horrific narrative. Milton J. Rosenberg, Chicago Tribune 48 pages of black and white illustrations Review [M]ore probing, more judicious, more authoritative in its rich detail...more commanding in its mastery of the horrific narrative. -- Milton J. Rosenberg, Chicago Tribune About the Author Ian Kershaw is a professor of modern history at the University of Sheffield and the author of numerous works of history, including Hitler: A Biography, Fateful Choices and Hitler, the Germans, and the Final Solution. He lives in Manchester, England...

-Titulo Original : We Came, We Saw, We Left A Family Gap Year-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Charlie Wheelan and his family do what others dream of: They take a year off to travel the world. This is their story.What would happen if you quit your life for a year? In a pre-COVID-19 world, the Wheelan family decided to find out; leaving behind work, school, and even the family dogs to travel the world on a modest budget. Equal parts how-to and how-not-to and with an eye toward a world emerging from a pandemic We Came, We Saw, We Left is the insightful and often hilarious account of one family’s gap-year experiment.Wheelan paints a picture of adventure and connectivity, juggling themes of local politics, global economics, and family dynamics while exploring answers to questions like: How do you sneak out of a Peruvian town that has been barricaded by the local army? And where can you get treatment for a flesh-eating bacteria your daughter picked up two continents ago? From Colombia to Cambodia, We Came, We Saw, We Left chronicles nine months across six continents with three teenagers. What could go wrong? 19 black-and-white maps and 17 photographs Review A swift and refreshing escape during these isolated, isolating times…[I]ts often the utter normalcy of the Wheelan family that makes this travelogue so endearing. Carson Vaughan, NPRWheelan is a lucid and likable storyteller, and his antic family dialogues are spot-on…[A]n upbeat story. Amity Gaige, New York Times Book ReviewEngaging, insightful, and downright pleasant. Nathan Deuel, Los Angeles TimeA sprightly account of an unusual family vacation. Curt Schleier, Star TribuneEngaging stories of a family bonding over the unusual challenges and opportunities presented by budget-minded globetrotting. John Young, Pittsburgh Post-GazetteMakes a strong case for extended travel as a means of establishing a tighter bond as a family. Michael Patrick Brady, WBUR NewsThe family’s offbeat experiment in global immersion is a triumph of cultural connection, a celebration of humanity’s similarities and differences, presented with a winning blend of humor and humility. For those suffering from pandemic cabin fever, Wheelan’s exuberant travelogue will provide a welcome vicarious getaway. Carol Haggas, BooklistThis rip-roaring adventure will especially appeal to those whose passports are collecting dust thanks to the pandemic. Publishers WeeklyA vivid chronicle of a familys intrepid sojourn...Wheelan offers an entertaining, upbeat account of the trip, often astonishingly beautiful and sometimes harrowing. A charming celebration of discovery. Kirkus ReviewsA complete and utter delight of a book, from start to finish. Charlie Wheelan and his remarkable family deliver not only a page-turning travelogue, but also a blueprint for restoring a long-lost sense of adventure into our lives. Dan Coyle, author of The Culture Code and The Talent Code About the Author Charles Wheelan is the author of the best-selling Naked Statistics and Naked Economics and is a former correspondent for the Economist. He teaches public policy and economics at Dartmouth College and lives in Hanover, New Hampshire, with his family...

-Titulo Original : Mercury Rising John Glenn, John Kennedy, And The New Battleground Of The Cold War-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: A riveting history of the epic orbital flight that put America back into the space race.If the United States couldn’t catch up to the Soviets in space, how could it compete with them on Earth? That was the question facing John F. Kennedy at the height of the Cold War a perilous time when the Soviet Union built the wall in Berlin, tested nuclear bombs more destructive than any in history, and beat the United States to every major milestone in space. The race to the heavens seemed a race for survival and America was losing.On February 20, 1962, when John Glenn blasted into orbit aboard Friendship 7, his mission was not only to circle the planet; it was to calm the fears of the free world and renew America’s sense of self-belief. Mercury Rising re-creates the tension and excitement of a flight that shifted the momentum of the space race and put the United States on the path to the moon. Drawing on new archival sources, personal interviews, and previously unpublished notes by Glenn himself, Mercury Rising reveals how the astronaut’s heroics lifted the nation’s hopes in what Kennedy called the hour of maximum danger. 16 pages of illustrations Review [Mercury Rising] brings Glenn’s story alive again with both nostalgia and a riveting, fast-paced narrative ... Shesol does an excellent job of embedding Glenns story into the wider Cold War context. Douglas Brinkley, Washington PostThe perfect book for anyone who wants to read about real life adventures and learn what makes heroes tick ... It will help you understand how some families stay together in the face of existential challenges, how American politics and industrial technology converge, and how the United States won the Cold War competition with the USSR. Walter Clemens, New York Journal of BooksWhat a fresh and refreshing look at a familiar subject, now seen through an important geo-political lens rather than a scientific, technological, and nationalistic one. The new context is exciting, the usual characters made more vivid and dimensional. Bravo. Ken BurnsI loved this book. From the opening lines, I was riveted I couldn’t put it down. Even though we know the ending, Jeff Shesol somehow creates a cliffhanger immersive history that lifts us out of the moment we’re in and transports us to a time of genuine heroes. As this book reveals, John Glenn stoic and selfless, but also restless and ambitious embodies what we hold most dear about being American. Matt DamonIf there’s such a thing as a white-knuckle read, this is it. But Mercury Rising is a twofer. Jeff Shesol interweaves heart-racing renderings of the dread and adrenaline of the earliest space flights with keen analysis of the geopolitical rivalry that drove the arc and pace of the space race. John Glenn emerges as both homespun hero and Cold War cat’s-paw, as well as a flesh-and-blood human being and one hell of a pilot. David M. Kennedy, professor of history emeritus, Stanford University, winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for HistoryThis is a story for the ages the best account, ever, of the flight of Friendship 7. Shesol presents the Mercury Seven and their storied competition in a fresh and even provoking new light. Brilliantly researched and written, Mercury Rising is the book to read on the Cold War collaboration between John Kennedy and John Glenn. Kris Stoever, author, with her father, Scott Carpenter, of For Spacious Skies: The Uncommon Journey of an AstronautI had the privilege of knowing John Glenn well I helped select him and train him as an astronaut and Jeff Shesol has rendered the most compelling portrait I’ve seen of Glenn since the real thing. This gripping book captures the fast pace and high stakes of the space program and shows how Glenn helped win the struggle to surpass the Russians. Robert Voas, astronaut training officer, Project MercuryThis book amazed me. It brought back such memories that I felt like I was reliving the events. Je...

-Titulo Original : And The Sea Will Tell-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Grips you by the throat from beginning to end. Cleveland Plain Dealer ALONE WITH HER NEW HUSBAND on a tiny Pacific atoll, a young woman, combing the beach, finds an odd aluminum container washed up out of the lagoon, and beside it on the sand something glitters: a gold tooth in a scorched human skull. The investigation that follows uncovers an extraordinarily complex and puzzling true-crime story. Only Vincent Bugliosi, who recounted his successful prosecution of mass murderer Charles Manson in the bestseller Helter Skelter, was able to draw together the hundreds of conflicting details of the mystery and reconstruct what really happened when four people found hell in a tropical paradise. And the Sea Will Tell reconstructs the events and subsequent trial of a riveting true murder mystery, and probes into the dark heart of a serpentine scenario of death. Review Succeeds on all accounts . . . refuses to relinquish its grip on our imaginations. Los Angeles Times Book Review About the Author Vincent Bugliosi, prosecutor of Charles Manson and author of Helter Skelter, Outrage, and other #1 best-selling books, lives in Los Angeles, California. Bruce Henderson is the author of other national bestsellers. He lives in northern California...

-Titulo Original : The Stranger Beside Me The Twentieth Anniversary Edition-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Review Not long ago, true crime writer Ann Rule recalls lying on an operating table. The anesthesiologist leaned over before putting her to sleep. Ann, the anesthesiologist said softly, tell me, what was Ted Bundy really like? Despite meeting Floridas electric chair in 1989, the subject of Rules bestselling book continues to haunt her. Rule and Bundy were friends. They met in 1971 at a Seattle crisis clinic, where they shared the late shift answering a suicide hotline. Their subsequent conversations, meetings, and letters spanned the rest of Bundys life as he evolved into one of the centurys most notorious serial killers. Its been 20 years since Rule first penned this chilling account. But the story--and her 2000 update--will still have readers reaching for their Xanax. No gratuitous gore here; just the basic, bone-chilling evidence. In fact, like a protective mother shielding us from horrors too awful to mention, Rule seems to avoid delving too deeply into crime scene descriptions. She devotes one paragraph in her new afterword to her discovery that Bundy engaged in necrophilia and returned to the scenes of his crimes to line dead lips and eyes with garish makeup and to put blush on pale cheeks. She tells readers that John Hinckley, who shot Ronald Reagan, and David Berkowitz, the Son of Sam Killer, traded prison correspondences with Bundy. And she hints that Bundys insatiable killer instincts may have started when he was a 14-year-old paperboy. (Ann Marie Burr, an 8-year-old girl on his route, mysteriously disappeared in the middle of the night and has never been found.) The skimpy update is over too soon, leaving readers wanting more and offering further proof of the publics never-ending fascination with serial killers. --Jodi Mailander Farrell A new edition of the iconic, best-selling account of America’s most fascinating serial killer, “perhaps the most unnerving true-crime book ever published” (Victoria Beale, The New Yorker).In 1971, while working the late-shift at a Seattle crisis clinic, true-crime writer Ann Rule struck up a friendship with a sensitive, charismatic young coworker: Ted Bundy. Three years later, eight young women disappeared in seven months, and Rule began tracking a brutal mass murderer. But she had no idea that the “Ted” the police were seeking was the same Ted who had become her close friend and confidant. As she put the evidence together, a terrifying picture emerged of the man she thought she knew his magnetic power, his bleak compulsion, his double life, and, most of all, his string of helpless victims. Bundy eventually confessed to killing at least thirty-six women across the country.Forty years after its initial publication, The Stranger Beside Me remains a gripping, intimate, and unforgettable true-crime classic, “as dramatic and chilling as a bedroom window shattering at midnight” (New York Times). Review As dramatic and chilling as a bedroom window shattering at midnight. -- The New York Times About the Author Ann Rule (1931 2015) wrote thirty-five New York Times best-selling books of true crime, including Small Sacrifices and Too Late to Say Goodbye. A former Seattle police officer, she was a powerful advocate for victims of violent crime...

-Titulo Original : Mary Todd Lincoln A Biography-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: A striking success…the account of the White House years is absorbing, the account of Mary Lincolns life as a widow utterly compelling. New York TimesThis definitive biography of Mary Todd Lincoln beautifully conveys her tumultuous life and times. A privileged daughter of the proud clan that founded Lexington, Kentucky, Mary fell into a stormy romance with the raw Illinois attorney Abraham Lincoln. For twenty-five years the Lincolns forged opposing temperaments into a tolerant, loving marriage. Even as the nation suffered secession and civil war, Mary experienced the tragedies of losing three of her four children and then her husband. An insanity trial orchestrated by her surviving son led to her confinement in an asylum. Mary Todd Lincoln is still often portrayed in one dimension, as the stereotype of the best-hated faults of all women. Here her life is restored for us whole. 9 pages of illustrations Review Beautifully crafted, entertaining as only the best biographies can be, and rich with superb insights and wonderful anecdotes about nineteenth-century family and domestic life, [this] is a complex and moving character study of a woman tragically out of step with her time and place. Chicago TribuneThis exciting and important book is a major contribution to Lincolniana. Absorbing and convincing, this is one of the few books that deserve to be called definitive. David Herbert Donald, author of LincolnA richly documented and sympathetic study. Publishers WeeklyIn the thriving cottage industry of Lincoln studies Baker’s readable and sympathetic biography is easily the definitive account of the troubled former First Lady. Baker’s principal contribution is in recognizing Mary Todd Lincoln on her own terms. Library Journal About the Author Jean Harvey Baker is the author of many books on nineteenth-century American history. She is a professor of history at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland...

-Titulo Original : Iwoz Computer Geek To Cult Icon How I Invented The Personal Computer, Co-founded Apple, And Had Fun Doing It-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Review Budding computer-science majors, Apple aficionados and electronics buffs will find plenty to ingest here, as Wozniak recounts the inspirations and thought processes for his designs. J.D. Biersdorfer, New York Times Book ReviewSincerity and enthusiasm are the hallmarks of this irrepressible memoir, and Wozniaks optimism offers an example to us all. Chris Hartman, Christian Science MonitorThis memoir truly reflects its author, both in its subject matter and its happy-go-lucky tone…A welcome, fresh perspective for an industry that seems so far removed from its original ideas. Peter Burrows, BusinessWeekiWoz is the story about a man filled with curiosity and drive. Its about growing up in Silicon Valley at a watershed time for electronics and computing. And its about never forgetting what makes a person happy in life and never forgetting ones dreams. Russ Juskalian, USA TodayAt last, Mr. Wozniak gets the stage all to himself [in a] chatty memoir full of surprises.... He reveals a technology pioneer more charming and whose life is more poignant than we expected. George Anders, Wall Street JournalThe mastermind behind Apple tells his story for the first time, from the invention of the first personal computer to the rise of Apple as an industry giant. Book Passage A New York Times Bestseller: iWoz traces the life and times of a brilliant, gifted...individual whose contributions to the scientific, business and cultural realms are extensive. BookpageBefore slim laptops that fit into briefcases, computers looked like strange, alien vending machines. But in the most staggering burst of technical invention by a single person in high-tech history (BusinessWeek) Steve Wozniak invented the first true personal computer. Wozniak teamed up with Steve Jobs, and Apple Computer was born, igniting the computer revolution and transforming the world. In iWoz the mischievous genius with the low profile treats readers to a rollicking, no-holds-barred account of his life for once, in the voice of the wizard himself. About the Author Steve Wozniak has been inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame and has received numerous awards, including the National Medal of Technology and the Heinz Award. He lives in California...

-Titulo Original : In Search Of Memory The Emergence Of A New Science Of Mind-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: “A stunning book.” Oliver Sacks Memory binds our mental life together. We are who we are in large part because of what we learn and remember. But how does the brain create memories? Nobel Prize winner Eric R. Kandel intertwines the intellectual history of the powerful new science of the mind a combination of cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and molecular biology with his own personal quest to understand memory. A deft mixture of memoir and history, modern biology and behavior, In Search of Memory brings readers from Kandels childhood in Nazi-occupied Vienna to the forefront of one of the great scientific endeavors of the twentieth century: the search for the biological basis of memory. Review “A scrupulously detailed yet magnificently panoramic autobiography.” - Sherwin B. Nuland, New York Times Book Review“Arresting indeed, unforgettable.” - Howard Gardner, Washington Post“An enchanting book.” - Nancy C. Anderson, Science“Few can interlace their autobiography with the evolution of a scientific paradigm. Even fewer can weave such a story seamlessly. Eric Kandel is one of these.” - Yadin Dudai, Nature“Beyond autobiography, the book is also an accessible introduction to contemporary neuroscience, the study of how the brain produces thought and action. Included are brilliant vignettes on the history of neuroscience.” - Times Literary Supplement“[A] scintillating mix of memoir, history of science, and fundamental biology without peer. It shows compellingly what first-rate science is and how it is created.” - E.O. Wilson, author of The Diversity of Life“Written with talent and grace, this extraordinary book by one of the greatest scientists of the mind alive will be read with delight by general readers as well as by students and scholars.” - Elie Wiesel, author of Night About the Author Eric R. Kandel is Kavli Professor and University Professor at Columbia University and senior investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2000. He lives in New York City...

-Titulo Original : The Black Banners (declassified) How Torture Derailed The War On Terror After 9/11-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Review Unfortunately, we only have one Ali Soufan. Had American intelligence listened to him, 9/11 might never have happened. No one did more to unravel the story of al-Qaeda than Ali Soufan. Thankfully, he’s left another legacy in this book. Anyone who wants to know what really happened should read it. It’s an inspiring but wrenching story told from the heart of a great American. Lawrence Wright, author of The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11Paints a devastating picture of rivalry and dysfunction inside the government’s counterterrorism agencies…The account offered by the agent, Ali H. Soufan is the most detailed to date by an insider. Scott Shane, New York TimesOne of the most valuable and detailed accounts of its subject to appear in the past decade. EconomistSoufan knows exactly what he is talking about, and does us all a service by having it set down in The Black Banners. Glenn L. Carle, Foreign PolicySuperb. An education. And the best book on al-Qaeda out there, bar none. Robert Baer The definitive account of an FBI special agent’s al-Qaeda story, unredacted for the first time.Widely heralded on publication as a must-read (Military Review) and important window on America’s battle with al-Qaeda (Washington Post), Ali Soufan’s revelatory account of the war on terror as seen from its front lines changed the way we understand al-Qaeda and how the United States prosecuted the war and led to hard questions being asked of our leaders.When The Black Banners was published in 2011, significant portions of the text were redacted. After subsequent review by the Central Intelligence Agency, those redactions have been lifted. Their removal corrects the record on how vital intelligence was obtained from al-Qaeda suspects and brings forth important new details on the controversial use of enhanced interrogation techniques (torture) to extract information from terror suspects. For many years, proponents of the use of these techniques have argued that they produced actionable intelligence in the war on terror. This edition of The Black Banners explodes this myth; it shows Soufan at work using guile and intelligent questioning not force or violence to extract some of the most important confessions in the war, and it vividly recounts the failures of the government’s torture program. Drawing on Soufan’s experiences as a lead operative for the FBI and declassified government records, The Black Banners (Declassified) documents the intelligence failures that lead to the tragic attacks on New York and Washington, DC, and subsequently how torture derailed the fight against al-Qaeda. With this edition, eighteen years on from the first sanctioned enhanced interrogation technique, the public can finally read the complete story of what happened in their name after the events of 9/11.The Black Banners (Declassified) includes a new foreword from Ali Soufan that addresses the significance of the CIA’s decision to lift the redactions. About the Author Ali Soufan, a former FBI special agent and the lead investigator on some of the world’s?most complex international terrorism cases, gained an?international reputation as a top counterterrorism operative. He is the chairman and CEO of The Soufan Group, founder of The Soufan Center, and has been featured in books, films, television series, newspaper articles, and documentaries across the globe...

-Titulo Original : Paid For My Journey Through Prostitution-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Review This is surely the best, most personal, profound, eye-opening book ever written about prostitution irrefutable proof of why it should NEVER be legalized. Jane FondaPeople who are working to end sexual exploitation will take heart from her example of transformation and an insistence on basic human dignity. President Jimmy CarterRachel Moran takes us where no readers have ever gone: into the deep hell of being prostituted… Anyone who believes sex work is chosen or a job like any other should read Paid For for its exposure of misinformation and myths alone. But the book is more: Moran writes so well that her story will scorch your heart…. Robin MorganNo amount of theory from those who have never been prostituted can replace the truth and power of experience. Rachel Morans Paid For should be required reading in courses on human rights, in police training and law schools, and in sex education courses that separate welcome sex from body invasion. Gloria SteinemPaid For fuses the memoirists lived poignancy with the philosophers conceptual sophistication. The result is riveting, compelling, incontestable. Impossible to put down. Catharine A. MacKinnon, law professor, University of Michigan and Harvard UniversityAs a survivor, I can say Paid For got to the heart of what sex-trafficked and prostituted women face on a daily basis. Rachel speaks for those survivors who can’t speak for themselves, and for those who have been lost to the life. Vednita Carter, Founder and Executive Director, Breaking FreePaid For is the political sword we desperately need to slay once and for all the myths and fairytales surrounding the sex trade. Sojourner Truth once said that truth is powerful and it prevails. Rachel Morans earth-shaking book embodies just that. Taina Bien-Aime, Executive Director, Coalition Against Trafficking in WomenRachel Moran demolishes the “Pretty Woman” myth with the stark reality of the lived experience of her young years in prostitution. This memoir makes a strong case for the Nordic model law that criminalizes the buyers whose money drives the trade that treats women as objects for sale. Terry ONeill, President, National Organization for Women An astonishingly brave memoir of prostitution and its lingering influence on a woman’s psyche and life.“The best work by anyone on prostitution ever, Rachel Moran’s Paid For fuses the memoirist’s lived poignancy with the philosopher’s conceptual sophistication. The result is riveting, compelling, incontestable. Impossible to put down. This book provides all anyone needs to know about the reality of prostitution in moving, insightful prose that engages and disposes of every argument ever raised in its favor.” Catharine A. MacKinnon, law professor, University of Michigan and Harvard UniversityBorn into a troubled family, Rachel Moran left home at the age of fourteen. Being homeless, she was driven into prostitution to survive. With intelligence and empathy, she describes the exploitation she and others endured on the streets and in the brothels. Moran also speaks to the psychological damage inherent to prostitution and the inevitable estrangement from one’s body. At twenty-two, Moran escaped the sex trade. She has since become a writer and an abolitionist activist. About the Author Rachel Moran is the founder of the organization SPACE International (Survivors of Prostitution-Abuse Calling for Enlightenment). She has a bachelor’s degree in journalism and a master’s degree in creative writing and speaks globally on prostitution and sex-trafficking. She lives in Dublin, Ireland...

-Titulo Original : Daughters Of The Samurai A Journey From East To West And Back-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: A Seattle Times Best Book of the Year A Buzzfeed Best Nonfiction Book of the Year Nimura paints history in cinematic strokes and brings a forgotten story to vivid, unforgettable life. Arthur Golden, author of Memoirs of a GeishaIn 1871, five young girls were sent by the Japanese government to the United States. Their mission: learn Western ways and return to help nurture a new generation of enlightened men to lead Japan.Raised in traditional samurai households during the turmoil of civil war, three of these unusual ambassadors Sutematsu Yamakawa, Shige Nagai, and Ume Tsuda grew up as typical American schoolgirls. Upon their arrival in San Francisco they became celebrities, their travels and traditional clothing exclaimed over by newspapers across the nation. As they learned English and Western customs, their American friends grew to love them for their high spirits and intellectual brilliance.The passionate relationships they formed reveal an intimate world of cross-cultural fascination and connection. Ten years later, they returned to Japan a land grown foreign to them determined to revolutionize women’s education.Based on in-depth archival research in Japan and in the United States, including decades of letters from between the three women and their American host families, Daughters of the Samurai is beautifully, cinematically written, a fascinating lens through which to view an extraordinary historical moment. Map; 8 pages of illustrations Review Beautifully written…In Nimura’s deftly interwoven account, the three girls emerge as contrasting types, like Chekhov’s Three Sisters. Christopher Benfey, New York Times Book ReviewYou’d be hard-pressed to find a novelist who is as deft at portraying relationships and inner thoughts…[Nimura] skillfully bridges Japanese and American cultures, using the seemingly small story of three young people to tell a much larger tale of another time. Becky Krystal, Washington PostJanice P. Nimura achieves the elusive dream of the historian, producing a work that will engage and satisfy academic and non-specialist audiences alike. The author offers both sets of readers a magnificently and meticulously detailed account of three women whose lives epitomize key features of the changing landscape of late 19th and early 20th century Japan. Miriam Kingsberg, Los Angeles Review of BooksThis remarkable and beautifully written story often as riveting as a page-turning novel is both scholarly and accessible to non-specialists. Wingate Packard, Seattle TimesAs immersive as any work of fiction, heartwrenching in its depiction of these cultural orphans turned pioneers. Julia Pierpont, Oprah Reads like a novel about the meeting of East and West and how it transformed the lives of three extraordinary young women. Elizabeth Bennett, Dallas Morning NewsYou won’t welcome intrusions while reading this unprecedented, true story . . . memorably illuminating. Terry Hong, Christian Science MonitorThis is feminism for Japanese women in its infancy, and Janice P. Nimura enhances the reality of the entire experience with this superb historical nonfiction account. Historical Novel SocietyAt a reform-minded moment, Japan dispatched five young girls to be educated in America. Patiently, vividly, Janice P. Nimura reconstructs their Alice in Wonderland adventure. A beautifully crafted narrative, subtle, polished, and poised. Stacy Schiff, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of CleopatraA riveting story of three remarkable girls, caught in the maelstrom of one of the strangest culture clashes in modern history, Daughters of the Samurai is history writing at its finest and required reading for anyone interested in Japan. Ruth Ozeki, author of A Tale for the Time BeingNimura brings the girls and their late nineteenth-century exploits to life in a narrative that feels like an international variation on Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, so very appealing...

-Titulo Original : Outrage The Five Reasons Why O. J. Simpson Got Away With Murder-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Review No one who reads this book will ever again believe that the most publicized acquittal in the history of the American jurisprudence was solely the result of juror prejudice or the machinations of unscrupulous defense attorneys. The D.A. and the prosecutors have been called before the bar of justice. Los Angeles TimesBrutally candid, irreverent and authoritative. San Francisco ChronicleOverwhelmingly convincing…one can be sure, this is the best book that will ever be written on the O. J. Simpson murder trial. American Bar Association, Section of Litigation, Appellate Practice Journal Provocative and entertaining…A powerful and damning diatribe on Simpson’s acquittal. PeopleHere is the account of the O. J. Simpson case that no one dared to write, that no one else could write. In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Vincent Bugliosi, the famed prosecutor of Charles Manson and author of Helter Skelter, goes to the heart of the trial that divided the country and made a mockery of justice. He lays out the mountains of evidence; rebuts the defense; offers a thrilling summation; condemns the monumental blunders of the judge, the Dream Team, and the media; and exposes, for the first time anywhere, the shocking incompetence of the prosecution. From the Back Cover Here is the account of O.J. Simpsons murder case as only the prosecutor of Charles Manson could tell it. About the Author Vincent Bugliosi (1934 2015), was the prosecutor of Charles Manson and author of Helter Skelter, Outrage, and other #1 bestselling books...

-Titulo Original : The Black Banners The Inside Story Of 9/11 And The War Against Al-qaeda-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: A book that will change the way we think about al-Qaeda, intelligence, and the events that forever changed America.On September 11, 2001, FBI Special Agent Ali H. Soufan was handed a secret file. Had he received it months earlier when it was requested the attacks on New York and Washington could have been prevented. During his time on the front lines, Soufan helped thwart plots around the world and elicited some of the most important confessions from terrorists in the war against al-Qaeda without laying so much as a hand on them. Most of these stories have never been reported before, and never by anyone with such intimate firsthand knowledge.This narrative account of Americas successes and failures against al-Qaeda is essential to an understanding of the terrorist group. We are taken into hideouts and interrogation rooms. We have a ringside seat at bin Ladens personal celebration of the 9/11 bombings. Such riveting details show us not only how terrorists think and operate but also how they can be beaten and brought to justice. 16 pages of black-and-white illustrations Review one of the most valuable and detailed accounts of its subject to appear in the past decade. -- The Economistan absorbing account of Americas fightback after 9/11, full of revealing or amusing details ... cheering as well as fascinating, because it reveals the dedication of those who defend us, as well as the weird frailties of those who try to kill us. -- The Sunday Times“Most Americans first heard of FBI agent Ali H. Soufan in the spring of 2009. That’s when he testified from behind a black curtain in the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing room …The testimony was explosive … Now Soufan has fired another salvo … detailed descriptions of what unfolded behind the closed doors of the world’s interrogation rooms …Soufan’s story provides a new and important window on America’s battle with al-Qaeda.” --Washington Post“To those inside the U.S. government Soufan has long been something of a legend. He conducted the most effective and fruitful interrogations of Al Qaeda suspects during the war on terrorism, and save for some inexplicable failures by the CIA, he and his team might well have prevented 9/11. Soufan has since left the FBI and written a gripping account of his experiences, brimming with details about Al Qaeda and its historical development.” -- Harpers MagazineIt is packed with facts that rarely, if ever, have appeared in the media; and it is written in an anecdotal style reminiscent of a Tom Clancy espionage thriller that is easy and enjoyable to read. - Middle East Policy Council From the Back Cover Superb. An education. And the best book on al Qaeda out there, bar none. - Robert Baer, former CIA official and author of See No Evil, Sleeping with the Devil, and The Devil We Know.Unfortunately, we only have one Ali Soufan. Had American intelligence listened to him, 9/11 might never have happened. No one did more to unravel the story of al-Qaeda than Ali Soufan. Thankfully, hes left another legacy in this book. Anyone who wants to know what really happened should read it. Its an inspiring but wrenching story told from the heart of a great American. - Lawrence Wright, author of The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 About the Author Ali H. Soufan, a former FBI special agent, served on the front lines against al-Qaeda and gained an international reputation as a top counterterrorism operative and interrogator. He has been profiled in The New Yorker and featured in books, newspaper articles, and documentaries around the globe. He has received numerous awards and commendations for his counter-terrorism work. These include the Director of the FBIs Award for Excellence in Investigation, the Respect for Law Enforcement Award for relentless pursuit of truth and bringing terrorist subjects before the bar of justice, and a commendation from the U.S. Department of Defense that labe...

-Titulo Original : Alaric The Goth An Outsiders History Of The Fall Of Rome-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Denied citizenship by the Roman Empire, a soldier named Alaric changed history by unleashing a surprise attack on the capital city of an unjust empire.Stigmatized and relegated to the margins of Roman society, the Goths were violent “barbarians” who destroyed “civilization,” at least in the conventional story of Rome’s collapse. But a slight shift of perspective brings their history, and ours, shockingly alive.Alaric grew up near the river border that separated Gothic territory from Roman. He survived a border policy that separated migrant children from their parents, and he was denied benefits he likely expected from military service. Romans were deeply conflicted over who should enjoy the privileges of citizenship. They wanted to buttress their global power, but were insecure about Roman identity; they depended on foreign goods, but scoffed at and denied foreigners their own voices and humanity. In stark contrast to the rising bigotry, intolerance, and zealotry among Romans during Alaric’s lifetime, the Goths, as practicing Christians, valued religious pluralism and tolerance. The marginalized Goths, marked by history as frightening harbingers of destruction and of the Dark Ages, preserved virtues of the ancient world that we take for granted.The three nights of riots Alaric and the Goths brought to the capital struck fear into the hearts of the powerful, but the riots were not without cause. Combining vivid storytelling and historical analysis, Douglas Boin reveals the Goths’ complex and fascinating legacy in shaping our world. 12 illustrations Review This is less a biography than the anatomy of an empire. Mr. Boin opens up the Rome of the fourth and fifth centuries and examines it with scientific precision and a wonderful turn of phrase, guiding readers with erudition and verve into battles in which men’s eyes are stabbed by arrows ‘the way a silver toothpick stabbed an olive.’ EconomistThe most engaging parts of Alaric the Goth, and by far the greater portion of its contents, diverge from Alaric’s story to give a sweeping view of Roman life near the fall of the empire. It’s here, especially in matters of Christian-pagan tension, that Mr. Boin excels. James Romm, Wall Street JournalA brilliantly readable account of the fall of the western Roman Empire, which for the first time spotlights not the Romans, but the Gothic invader Alaric. This is a story for our own age too. Douglas Boin asks us to take seriously the question of what would have happened if the tottering city of Rome had prioritized inclusive citizenship over paranoia and conflict; if it had built bridges rather than walls. This is urgent, gravid history, which will be read by anyone interested in empire, cultural conflict and the making of the modern narrative of the West. Tim Whitmarsh, author of Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient WorldAn entertaining, highly readable account of a figure who has previously been regarded as a pitiless heel straight from central casting. Boin, in a fresh approach, looks at the events leading up to the sack of Rome from the Goths’ perspective. Clayton Turner, New CriterionBoin paints a richly detailed portrait of the world in which Alaric maneuvered, defined by the thrashings of an empire in turmoil….A cogent, readable text that vividly conveys the fears and confusion that surrounded the issue of immigrants’ rights in a period of declining Roman power. Wendy Smith, The Boston GlobeThis is a story of desperation and broken promises, pitting refugees from the north seeking homes, respect, and citizenship in an unwieldy empire already juddering with anti-immigrant fears, social upheavals, and political treachery. With deep research and insight, Boin traces the trajectory of cultural conflict from dashed hopes to devastation. Adrienne Mayor, author of Gods and RobotsWritten in an enchanting and effortless style that transports you back in time, Douglas Boin’s Alaric ...