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MOSS(Subject); Moss, Barbara Robinette Change Me Into Zeus's Daughter 2000 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1062849. ISBN #074320218X / 9780743202183. (filed under: Biography ) *
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MOSS(Subject); Moss, Barbara Robinette Change Me Into Zeus's Daughter 2000 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1062849. ISBN #074320218X / 9780743202183. (filed under: Biography ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary A haunting and triumphant story of a difficult and keenly felt life, Change Me into Zeus's Daughter is a remarkable literary memoir of resilience, redemption, and growing up in the South. Barbara Robinette Moss was the fourth in a family of eight children raised in the red-clay hills of Alabama. Their wild-eyed, alcoholic father was a charismatic and irrationally proud man who, when sober, captured his children's timid awe, but when more often drunk, roused them from bed for severe punishment or bizarre all-night poker games. Their mother was their angel: erudite and stalwart -- her only sin her inability to leave her husband for the sake of the children. Unlike the rest of her family, Barbara bore the scars of this abuse and neglect on the outside as well as the inside. As a result of childhood malnutrition and a complete lack of medical and dental care, the bones in her face grew abnormally "like a thin pine tree" , and she ended up with what she calls "a twisted, mummy face." Barbara's memoir brings us deep into not only the world of Southern poverty and alcoholic child abuse but also the consciousness of one who is physically frail and awkward, relating how one girl's debilitating sense of her own physical appearance is ultimately saved by her faith in the transformative powers of artistic beauty: painting and writing. From early on and with little encouragement from the world, Barbara embodied the fiery determination to change her fate and achieve a life defined by beauty. At age seven, she announced to the world that she would become an artist -- and so she did. Nightly, she prayed to become attractive, to be changed into "Zeus's daughter," the goddess of beauty, and when her prayers weren't answered, she did it herself, raising the money for years of braces followed by facial surgery. Growing up "so ugly," she felt the family's disgrace all the more acutely, but the result has been a keenly developed appreciation for beauty -- physical and artistic -- the evidence of which can be seen in her writing. Despite the deprivation, the lingering image from this memoir is not of self-pity but of the incredible bond between these eight siblings: the raucous, childish fun they had together, the making-do, and the total devotion to their desperate mother, who absorbed most of the father's blows for them and who plied them with art and poetry in place of balanced meals. Gracefully and intelligently woven in layers of flashback, the persistent strength of Barbara Moss's memoir is itself a testament to the nearly lifesaving appreciation for literature that was her mother's greatest gift to her children.
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MOYER(Subject); Moyer, Bill Moyers on America: A Journalist and His Times The New Press 2004 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1043130. ISBN #1565848926 / 9781565848924. (filed under: Biography ) *
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MOYER(Subject); Moyer, Bill Moyers on America: A Journalist and His Times The New Press 2004 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1043130. ISBN #1565848926 / 9781565848924. (filed under: Biography ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Over the years millions of Americans have invited Bill Moyers into their homes. His television programs covering topics ranging from American history, politics, and religion to the role of media and the world of ideas have made him one of America s most recognized and honored journalists. In these pages, Moyers presents, for the first time, a powerful statement of his own personal beliefs political and moral. Combining illuminating forays into American history with candid comments on today s politics, Moyers delivers perceptive and trenchant insights into the American experience. From his early years as a Texas journalist to his role as one of the organizers of the Peace Corps, top assistant to President Lyndon Johnson, publisher of Newsday , senior correspondent and analyst for CBS News , and producer of many of public television s groundbreaking series, Moyers has been actively engaged in some of the most volatile episodes of the past fifty years. Drawing from this practical experience, he demonstrates a unique understanding of how American politics works and an enduring faith in the nation s promises and possibilities. Whether reflecting on today s climate of megamedia concentration, rampant corporate scandals, or religious and political upheavals, Moyers on America recovers the hopes of the past to establish their relevance for the present.
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MUNTHE(Subject); Munthe, Axel Story Of San Michele hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1056225. (filed under: Biography ) *
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MUNTHE(Subject); Munthe, Gustaf; Uexkull, Gudrun Story Of Axel Munthe hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Lacks Jacket. Book #or1107481. (filed under: Biography ) *
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MURPHY(Subject); Murphy, George "Say... Didn't You Used To Be George Murphy?" 1970 hardcover. First Edition. Signed by Author. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Lacks Jacket. Book #or1127214. ISBN #087794024X / 9780877940241. (filed under: Biography ) *
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MURPHY(Subject); Murphy, George "Say... Didn't You Used To Be George Murphy?" 1970 hardcover. First Edition. Signed by Author. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Lacks Jacket. Book #or1127214. ISBN #087794024X / 9780877940241. (filed under: Biography ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary from the jacket He not only used to be George Murphy, he still is - only now he's playing the most demanding and important role of his colorful career, as the senior U.S. Senator from California. "I guess I don't know anyone who's been mixed up in as many things as I have," he says. "Playing football for Yale, coal mining in Pennsylvania, tool making in Detroit, singing and dancing with entertainers like Judy Garland, so many things..." He fell in love with show business by accident, when he met Julie Henkel. She wanted to be a dancer, and George went along on her rounds. They've been going together ever since, as Mr. and Mrs. Murphy. In the late Twenties and early Thirties, he began hoofing in earnest, on the stage in such hits as Good News, Of Thee I Sing, and Roberta, and in dozens of movie musicals. It was during this period that he became a friend of New York Mayor Jimmy Walker, a coming attraction of political dramas ahead. After World War II, he turned to public relations, and rose to become head man in that department at M.G.M. and Desilu Productions. His co-workers comprised his first constituency; they elected him vice-president of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, and president of the Screen Actors Guild. In his first attempt at elected public office, he emerged as one of the most popular figures in California history, polling over 3,600,000 votes in defeating Pierre Salinger in the 1964 senatorial election. Since then this "former song and dance man," as he proudly calls himself, has emerged as one of the most important leaders in the Senate. George Murphy's candid life story abounds in anecdotes that name names and offer rich insight into the fascinating worlds of entertainment and politics."Say, Didn't You Used to be George Murphy?" is the autobiography of an authentic star performer- a delightful and revealing account of the American dream come true.
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MUSK, ELON;(Subject); Vance, Ashlee Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, And The Quest For a Fantastic Future Ecco 2015 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Previous owners name inking. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1161991. ISBN #0062301233 / 9780062301239. (filed under: Biography ) *
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NADER(Subject); Nader, Ralph The Seventeen Traditions Harper 2007 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1117798. ISBN #0061238279 / 9780061238277. (filed under: Biography ) *
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NADER(Subject); Nader, Ralph The Seventeen Traditions Harper 2007 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1117798. ISBN #0061238279 / 9780061238277. (filed under: Biography ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary My boyhood in a small town in Connecticut was shaped by my family, my friends, our neighbors, my chores and hobbies, the town's culture and environment, its schools, libraries, factories, and businesses, their workers, and by storms that came from nowhere to disrupt everything. . . . Yet childhood in any family is a mysterious experience. . . . What shapes the mind, the personality, the character? So begins this unexpected and extraordinary book by Ralph Nader. Known for his lifetime of selfless activism, Nader now looks back to the earliest days of his own life, to his serene and enriching childhood in bucolic Winsted, Connecticut. From listening to learning, from patriotism to argument, from work to simple enjoyment, Nader revisits seventeen key traditions he absorbed from his parents, his siblings, and the people in his community, and draws from them inspiring lessons for today's society. Warmly human, rich with sensory memories and lasting wisdom, it offers a kind of modern-day parable of how we grow from children into responsible adults a reminder of a time when nature and community were central to the way we all learned and lived.
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NESTOR(Subject); Nestor, Theo Pauline How To Sleep Alone in a King-Size Bed: A Memoir Of Starting Over 2009 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1050595. ISBN #0307346773 / 9780307346773. (filed under: Biography ) *
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NESTOR(Subject); Nestor, Theo Pauline How To Sleep Alone in a King-Size Bed: A Memoir Of Starting Over 2009 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1050595. ISBN #0307346773 / 9780307346773. (filed under: Biography ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary I feel like I ve joined an enormous club, something like the Veterans of Foreign Wars. We are weary with battle fatigue and sometimes even gripped by nostalgia for the good old, bad old days, but our numbers are large, writes Theo Pauline Nestor in this wry, fiercely honest chronicle of life after divorce. Less than an hour after confronting her husband over his massive gambling losses, Theo banishes him from their home forever. With two young daughters to support and her life as a stay-at-home mother at an abrupt end, Nestor finds herself slipping from middle-class grace as she attends a court-ordered custody class, stumbles through job interviews, and much to her surprise falls in love once again. As Theo rebuilds her life and recovers her sense of self, she s forced to confront her own family s legacy of divorce. I m from a long line of stock market speculators, artists of unmarketable talents, and alcoholics, writes Nestor. The higher, harder road is not our road. We move, we divorce, we drink, or we disappear. Nestor s journey takes her deep into her family s past, to a tiny village in Mexico, where she discovers the truth about how her sister ended up living in a convent there after their parents divorced in the early sixties. What she learns ultimately brings her closer to understanding her own divorce and its impact on her two daughters. I knew from experience that for children divorce means half the world is constantly eclipsed. When you re with one parent, the other must always slip out of view, Nestor writes. Funny, openhearted, and brave, How to Sleep Alone in a King-Size Bed will speak to anyone who has passed through the halls of divorce court or risked tenderness after loss. It marks the debut of an enchanting, deeply truthful voice.
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NGUYEN(Subject); Nguyen, Kien Unwanted: A Memoir 2001 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1091896. ISBN #0316286648 / 9780316286640. (filed under: Biography ) *
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NGUYEN(Subject); Nguyen, Kien Unwanted: A Memoir 2001 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1091896. ISBN #0316286648 / 9780316286640. (filed under: Biography ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary When Saigon fell to the Viet Cong in April, 1975, Kien Nguyen was there. He watched the last US Army helicopter leave without him, without his brother, his mother or his grandparents. More risk than most in the decimated country, with his odd blond hair and light eyes, he was the most "unwanted" - an American. This is a memoir by an Amerasian who stayed behind in Vietnam and is now living in America. Told with stark and poetic honesty, it is a story of survival, a story of hope, and a moving, personal record of this tumultuous time in history.
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NOOR(Subject); Noor, Queen Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life Miramax 2003 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1048995. ISBN #1401359485 / 9781401359485. (filed under: Biography ) *
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NOOR(Subject); Noor, Queen Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life Miramax 2003 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1048995. ISBN #1401359485 / 9781401359485. (filed under: Biography ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Born in 1951 to a distinguished Arab-American family, Lisa Najeeb Halaby became the fourth wife of King Hussein at age 27. With her husband being not only Jordan's monarch but the spiritual leader of all Muslims, Lisa was unsure what her role would be. This moving memoir provides a timely look at one woman's story against a backdrop of 30 turbulent years: the displacement of over 1 million Palestinians by the creation of Israel, King Hussein's frustrated efforts for peace, and the effect of Saddam Hussein and the Gulf War on Jordan and the royal family. Queen Noor offers intimate new glimpses of King Hussein, Saddam Hussein, Queen Elizabeth, Arafat, and many other world leaders.
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NYLEN(Subject); Nylen, Robert Guts: Combat, Hell-raising, Cancer, Business Start-ups, And Undying Love: One American Guy's Reckless, Lucky Life Random House 2009 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1003394. ISBN #1400067766 / 9781400067763. (filed under: Biography ) *
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NYLEN(Subject); Nylen, Robert Guts: Combat, Hell-raising, Cancer, Business Start-ups, And Undying Love: One American Guy's Reckless, Lucky Life Random House 2009 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1003394. ISBN #1400067766 / 9781400067763. (filed under: Biography ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary This is a memoir: a package of boasts, false modesty, flawed memories, dropped names, outright errors, and embarrassing disclosures that I think are pretty neat but may appall you, if you re squeamish or have an orderly turn of mind. Robert Nylen The thing is, Robert Nylen should have died several times in 1968. He was a goner in 2006, and 2007 as well, and yet he survived through a combination of dumb luck and sheer perseverance. Of course, as you read these words, he s already bit the dust. But let s not dwell on that. A self-confessed reckless jerk, Nylen spent the last four years of his life grappling with Big Diseases cancer, diabetes , an astonishing twelve broken bones, and ten surgeries. His lifetime total is twenty-four fractures, most of which resulted from a flagrant refusal to act his age or anyone s age, for that matter. And yet Guts is not a mere chronicle of injuries but a sharp and wry meditation on American Manhood. Growing up in suburbia in the 50s and 60s, with a father who had worked on the atom bomb, Nylen was an immature kid who was always eager for attention. In college he became a slovenly, hard-partying fraternity brother who barely graduated. Then came the realization that he was going to have to go to Vietnam. A dramatic tour of duty came to an abrupt end with multiple wounds, leading him to grow up fast. It was then that he started the real risky business: business itself. Some ventures succeeded and some failed. He exercised feverishly and often displayed a complete lack of common sense. And then he got sick, inevitably, with colon cancer. Hilarious, moving, and riveting, this is the life of a tough guy as seen through the scope of a national obsession with toughness. Whether he was facing Viet Cong as a platoon leader in Vietnam or doing battle with venture capitalists at home, Nylen never backed down from a good fight and he had the many scars to prove it. In Guts , Robert Nylen writes with humor and precision about the travails and glory of manhood.
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O'NEILL, TIP(Subject); Farrell, John A. Tip O' Neill And The Democratic Century: A Biography Little, Brown and Company 2001 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or815659. ISBN #0316260495 / 9780316260497. (filed under: Biography ) *
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O'NEILL, TIP(Subject); Farrell, John A. Tip O' Neill And The Democratic Century: A Biography Little, Brown and Company 2001 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or815659. ISBN #0316260495 / 9780316260497. (filed under: Biography ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary To read this biography of Thomas Philip "Tip" O'Neill is to take a walk through the greatest moments of post-World War II American politics; its most colourful characters, its grandest triumphs, its most bitter ideological wars crises. Tip saw everything from the Melting Pot to Vietnam to Reaganomics, and was no mere bystander to the turmoil of his times. For 50 years, the late Speaker of the House epitomized the Democratic Party and its historic role in 20th-century politics in a career which tracked his party's triumphs and failures. In this book, John Farrell paints a portrait of this unique politician - and of an entire era.
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ONASSIS(Subject); Birmingham, Stephen Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis Grosset and Dunlap 1978 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Tears and damage to jacket. Some Chipping. Book #or876531. ISBN #0448143062 / 9780448143064. (filed under: Biography ) *
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OSWALD(Subject); Stafford, Jean Mother in History hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1032623. (filed under: Biography ) *
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PAASSEN(Subject); Paassen, Pierre Van Days Of Our Years hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Tears and damage to jacket. Some Chipping. Book #or1121715. (filed under: Biography ) *
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PAINE(Subject); Hawke, David Freeman Paine 1974 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1063634. ISBN #0060117842 / 9780060117849. (filed under: Biography ) *
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PAINE(Subject); Hawke, David Freeman Paine 1974 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1063634. ISBN #0060117842 / 9780060117849. (filed under: Biography ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Thomas Paine, a singularly injudicious man, requires an exceptionally judicious biographer, and in Mr. Hawke he has at last got one. . . . An absorbing narrative that moves briskly through two revolutions and three countries. The New Yorker John Adams said that without the pen of Paine the sword of Washington would have been wielded in vain. Yet of all the great figures of the American Revolution, Thomas Paine has been least understood. Now David Freeman Hawke has written a rich biography of the brilliant propagandist who wrote Common Sense , The Age of Reason , and The Rights of Man . Thomas Paine lived a life of great diversity, from poor beginnings through the dramatic roles he played in the American and French revolutions, his friendship with Benjamin Franklin, his imprisonment in France during the Terror, his trial and banishment from England, and the pathos of his declining years. Temperamental and jealous of his reputation, Paine was nevertheless a gentle and unworldly man. In this portrait he comes to life as one of the great revolutionary idealists.
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PALEY(Subject); Smith, Sally Bedell In All His Glory: The Life Of William S. Paley And The Birth Of Modern Broadcasting 1990 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1005155. ISBN #067174917X / 9780671749170. (filed under: Biography ) *
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PALEY(Subject); Smith, Sally Bedell In All His Glory: The Life Of William S. Paley And The Birth Of Modern Broadcasting 1990 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1005155. ISBN #067174917X / 9780671749170. (filed under: Biography ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary "He is to American broadcasting as Carnegie was to steel, Ford to automobiles, Luce to publishing and Ruth to baseball," wrote The New York Times of William S. Paley---the man who built CBS, the "Tiffany Network." Sally Bedell Smith's IN ALL HIS GLORY takes a hard look at Paley and the perfect world he created for himself, revealing the extraordinary complexity of the man who let nothing get in the way of his vast ambitions. Tracing his life from Chicago, where Paley was born to a family of cigar makers, to the glamorous haunts of Manhattan, Smith shows us the shrewd, demanding egoist, the hedonist pursuing every form of pleasure, the corporate strongman famous for his energy and ruthlessness. Drawing on highly placed CBS sources and hundreds of interviews, and with a supporting cast of such glittering figures as Truman Capote, Slim Keith, Jock Whitney, Ted Turner, David Sarnoff, Brooke Astor and a parade of Paley's humiliated heirs, IN ALL HIS GLORY is a richly textured story of business, power and social ambition.
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PANETTA(Subject); Panetta, Leon; Newton, Jim Worthy Fights: A Memoir of Leadership in War and Peace Penguin Press HC, The 2014 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Slight lean to spine. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1152126. ISBN #1594205965 / 9781594205965. (filed under: Biography ) *
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PANETTA(Subject); Panetta, Leon; Newton, Jim Worthy Fights: A Memoir of Leadership in War and Peace Penguin Press HC, The 2014 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Slight lean to spine. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1152126. ISBN #1594205965 / 9781594205965. (filed under: Biography ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The inspiring and revelatory autobiography of the defense secretary and CIA director who led the intelligence war that killed Bin Laden, among many important roles in a legendary career It could be said that Leon Panetta has had two of the most consequential careers of any American public servant in the past fifty years. His first career, beginning as an army intelligence officer and including a distinguished run as one of Congress s most powerful and respected members, lasted thirty-five years and culminated in his transformational role as Clinton s budget czar and White House chief of staff. He then retired to establish the Panetta Institute with his wife of fifty years, Sylvia; to serve on the Iraq Study Group; and to protect his beloved California coastline. But in 2009, he accepted what many said was a thankless task: returning to public office as the director of the CIA, taking it from a state of turmoil after the Bush-era torture debates and moving it back to the vital center of America s war against Al Qaeda, including the campaign that led to the killing of Osama bin Laden. And then, in the wake of bin Laden s death, Panetta became the U.S. secretary of defense, inheriting two troubled wars in a time of austerity and painful choices. Like his career, Worthy Fights is a reflection of Panetta s values. It is imbued with the frank, grounded, and often quite funny spirit of a man who never lost touch with where he came from: his family s walnut farm in beautiful Carmel Valley, California. It is also a testament to a lost kind of political leadership, which favors progress and duty to country over partisanship. Panetta is a Democrat who pushed for balanced budgets while also expanding care for the elderly and sick; a devout Catholic who opposes the death penalty but had to weigh every drone strike from 2009 through 2011. Throughout his career, Panetta s polestar has been his belief that a public servant s real choice is between leadership or crisis. Troubles always come about through no fault of one s own, but most can be prevented with courage and foresight. As always, Panetta calls them as he sees them in Worthy Fights . Suffused with its author s decency and stubborn common sense, the book is an epic American success story, a great political memoir, and a revelatory view onto many of the great figures and events of our time.
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