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MURROW, EDWARD(Subject); Sperber, A. M. Murrow: His Life and Times Freundlich Books 1986 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1176525. ISBN #055334384X / 9780553343847. (filed under: Biography ) *
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MURROW, EDWARD(Subject); Sperber, A. M. Murrow: His Life and Times Freundlich Books 1986 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1176525. ISBN #055334384X / 9780553343847. (filed under: Biography ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Murrow is the biography of America's foremost broadcast journalist, Edward R. Murrow. At twenty-nine, he was the prototype of a species new to communications-an eyewitness to history with power to reach millions. His wartime radio reports from London rooftops brought the world into American homes for the first time. His legendary television documentary See It Now exposed us to the scandals and injustices within our own country. Friend of Presidents, conscience of the people, Murrow remained an enigma-idealistic, creative, self-destructive. In this portrait, based on twelve years of research, A. M. Sperber reveals the complexity and achievements of a man whose voice, intelligence, and honesty inspired a nation during its most profound and vulnerable times.
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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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NELSON(Subject); Nelson, Maggie Argonauts 2016 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1058327v1. ISBN #1555977359 / 9781555977351. (filed under: Biography ) *
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NELSON(Subject); Nelson, Maggie Argonauts 2016 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1058327v1. ISBN #1555977359 / 9781555977351. (filed under: Biography ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts is a genre-bending memoir, a work of "autotheory" offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of love and language. At its center is a romance: the story of the author's relationship with the artist Harry Dodge. This story, which includes Nelson's account of falling in love with Dodge, who is fluidly gendered, as well as her journey to and through a pregnancy, offers a firsthand account of the complexities and joys of queer family-making. Writing in the spirit of public intellectuals such as Susan Sontag and Roland Barthes, Nelson binds her personal experience to a rigorous exploration of what iconic theorists have said about sexuality, gender, and the vexed institutions of marriage and child-rearing. Nelson's insistence on radical individual freedom and the value of caretaking becomes the rallying cry of this thoughtful, unabashed, uncompromising book.
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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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NIGHTINGALE(Subject); Gill, Gillian Nightingales: The Extraordinary Upbringing and Curious Life of Miss Florence Nightingale Random House Trade Paperbacks 2005 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1181488. ISBN #0345451880 / 9780345451880. (filed under: Biography ) *
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NIGHTINGALE(Subject); Gill, Gillian Nightingales: The Extraordinary Upbringing and Curious Life of Miss Florence Nightingale Random House Trade Paperbacks 2005 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1181488. ISBN #0345451880 / 9780345451880. (filed under: Biography ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Florence Nightingale was for a time the most famous woman in Britain if not the world. We know her today primarily as a saintly character, perhaps as a heroic reformer of Britain s health-care system. The reality is more involved and far more fascinating. In an utterly beguiling narrative that reads like the best Victorian fiction, acclaimed author Gillian Gill tells the story of this richly complex woman and her extraordinary family. Born to an adoring wealthy, cultivated father and a mother whose conventional facade concealed a surprisingly unfettered intelligence, Florence was connected by kinship or friendship to the cream of Victorian England s intellectual aristocracy. Though moving in a world of ease and privilege, the Nightingales came from solidly middle-class stock with deep traditions of hard work, natural curiosity, and moral clarity. So it should have come as no surprise to William Edward and Fanny Nightingale when their younger daughter, Florence, showed an early passion for helping others combined with a precocious bent for power. Far more problematic was Florence s inexplicable refusal to marry the well-connected Richard Monckton Milnes. As Gill so brilliantly shows, this matrimonial refusal was at once an act of religious dedication and a cry for her freedom as a woman and as a leader. Florence s later insistence on traveling to the Crimea at the height of war to tend to wounded soldiers was all but incendiary especially for her older sister, Parthenope, whose frustration at being in the shade of her more charismatic sibling often led to illness. Florence succeeded beyond her wildest dreams. But at the height of her celebrity, at the age of thirty-seven, she retired to her bedroom and remained there for most of the rest of her life, allowing visitors only by appointment. Combining biography, politics, social history, and consummate storytelling, Nightingales is a dazzling portrait of an amazing woman, her difficult but loving family, and the high Victorian era they so perfectly epitomized. Beautifully written, witty, and irresistible, Nightingales is truly a tour de force. From the Hardcover edition.
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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'NEAL(Subject); O'Neal, Mary T. Those Damn Foreigners Minerva Printing & Publishing Company 1971 hardcover. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Slight tears to jacket. Book #or1181237. (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 ) *
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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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ONASSIS; Birmingham, Stephen Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis Grosset & Dunlap 1978 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1183859. ISBN #0448143062 / 9780448143064. (keywords: Biography) (filed under: Biography ) *
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ONASSIS; Fraser, Nicholas Aristotle Onassis Lippincott 1977 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Slight tears to jacket. Book #or1175635. ISBN #0397012187 / 9780397012183. (keywords: ONASSIS ARISTOTLE SOCRATES 1906 1975) (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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PAT NIXON(Subject); Eisenhower, Julie N. Pat Nixon : The Untold Story Simon & Schuster 1986 hardcover. Signed by Author. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1146264. ISBN #0671244248 / 9780671244248. (keywords: NIXON PAT 1912 1993 PRESIDENTS FIRST LADIES) (filed under: Biography ) *
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