“The Godfather Doctrine” lays out an argument for a strategy for American foreign policy by analyzing the situation following the attempted assassination of Vito Corleone in “The Godfather.”
Living-Books
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.
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.
Here are the best sellers for the week ending Saturday, November 14, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide.
"What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures" by Malcolm Gladwell. Little, Brown & Co. 410 pages. (Also on 10 CDs read by the author. Hachette Audio.)
A remarkable coffee-table book provides flashes of fancy with each page, not slow-burning reading material. These new books are ripe for the flipping.
"The Untamed Bride" by Stephanie Laurens; Avon Books (2009), 356 pages, $7.99 (paperback)
"Hollywood Moon" by Joseph Wambaugh; Little, Brown (352 pages, $26.99)
As a "famous minor television personality," John Hodgman is almost a household name.
"Generosity: An Enhancement" by Richard Powers; Farrar Straus (296 pages, $25)
"Stitches: A Memoir" by David Small; Norton (329 pages, $24.95)
"A New Literary History of America," Harvard University Press (1,095 pages, $49.95)
In Print
