Readers relive a year in sports--from locker rooms to hotel rooms to newsrooms and even hospital rooms--alternating chapters and pooling their extensive wit and wisdom.
The big names and big games are all in this story of the 1987 New York Baseball Season.
Twelve-year-old Molly and her ten-year-old brother, Michael, have never liked their seven-year-old stepsister, Heather.
These stories often take place in an exaggerated or heightened reality, a quality that is reminiscent of the work of Donald Barthelme, Lorrie Moore, and George Saunders, but in Unferth’s unforgettable collection she carves out territory ...
Presents a social history of the United States in 1940, along with a moment-by-moment account of Roosevelt's leadership and the private lives of the president and First Lady, whose remarkable partnership transformed America. (This book was ...
With Erma Bombeck in your corner, laughter is the best coach you can have.
The authors discuss the circumstances that brought them together and their decision to abstain from sex until marriage.
For a full accounting of the evolution of financial regulations since the Great Depression, see Martin H. Wolfson, “An Institutional Theory of Financial Crises,” in Martin H. Wolfson and Gerald A. Epstein, eds., The Political Economy of ...
Builds on the tradition of Kevin Phillips's The Emerging Republican Majority, forecasting a progressive era as indicated by a rise of a diverse post-industrial society and current opinions on such topics as health care and the environment.
In today’s polarized world, these stories of authentic leadership in times of apprehension and fracture take on a singular urgency. “Goodwin’s volume deserves much praise—it is insightful, readable, compelling: Her book arrives just ...
"The noted biographer of Lyndon B. Johnson has written the story of three generations of the Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys. The saga begins on a bitter cold winter's day in...