The current lively debate over health care reform has been punctuated by charges from right-wingers that implementing President Obama’s plan would be to install socialism in our country.
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The current lively debate over health care reform has been punctuated by charges from rightwingers that implementing President Obama’s plan would be to install socialism in our country.
Confronted from childhood with the insight that education “would forever unfit him to be a slave,” Frederick Douglass lived his life defined by the search to escape slavery, as both personal burden and as cultural and political pathology in American life.
Today, about 57 years after T. Harry Williams published his landmark study of Civil War command and strategy, “Lincoln and His Generals” (1952), the U.S. Navy gets similar recognition for what it accomplished during the Civil War.
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. Even after 64 hours of interviews and months of editing, North Carolina coach Roy Williams says he still found himself tearing up the first two times he proof-read his autobiography, "Hard Work: A Life on and Off the Court" that was released on Tuesday.
Here are the best sellers for the week ending Saturday, Oct. 31, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide.
"American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot" by Craig Ferguson. HarperCollins. 268 pages.
MILWAUKEE Kohl's online customers would like to get free shipping on all their purchases. And the right people at Kohl's know it.
800-CEO-READ, a leading direct supplier of book-based resources, compiles a monthly list of best-selling business books based on purchases by its corporate customers nationwide. Here are the best-sellers for October 2009, plus descriptions of the Top 10.
Can you recall which presidents are depicted on Mount Rushmore? The phrase "We Just Like Rushmore" can give you a clue: it's Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Roosevelt. "Thirty Days Has September," by Chris Stevens, is filled with mnemonic tricks - phrases, rhymes, and silly songs - that help make it easier to memorize everything from the order of the planets (with or without Pluto!) to punctuation rules, multiplication tables, and more. Ages 8 and up, Scholastic, $10 - RUTH SPIRO
If they gave National Book Awards for public service, as they do with the Pulitzer Prize, "The Runner's Rule Book" (Rodale, $17.99, 166 pages) by Runner's World online editor Mark Remy would be a shoo-in simply by virtue of Rule 2.18:
"At Home In Stone Creek" by Linda Lael Miller; Silhouette (2009), 211 pages, $4.99 (paperback)
"Except for the stink and the heat and the mosquitoes, it was beautiful at night. Like being out in the country," says Barb Johnson of living on her balcony post-Hurricane Katrina and working on her collection of short stories, "More of This World or Maybe Another" (HarperCollins, October), often by the light of a headlamp.
"The Lacuna" by Barbara Kingsolver; HarperCollins (507 pages, $26.99)
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