What would you do if, just weeks after your spouse's suddendeath, you found out he was keeping secrets? Big secrets. Secretsthat could cost you millions of dollars—and brand you as acriminal. Innocent Spouse is an eye-opening memoir that asksa provocative and disturbing question: Is it possible to reallyknow and trust someone, even your spouse? Carol Ross Joynt was a successful television producer inWashington, D.C. Her husband, Howard, owned Nathans, alegendary restaurant in Georgetown. From an outsider’s perspective,Carol and Howard lived a fairy-tale life—spending weekends at theirChesapeake Bay estate, rubbing shoulders with New York’s andWashington’s elite, and raising their beloved son, Spencer. Buteverything changed with Howard’s sudden death when Spencer was onlyfive years old. Like any widow, Carol was devastated because she lost the love ofher life and her son’s father. But soon Carol had much more to copewith than her grief and new life as a single parent. As she wasfor
Fidel Castro is perhaps the most charismatic and controversialhead of state in modern times. A dictatorial pariah to some, he hasbecome a hero and inspiration for many of the world's poor,defiantly charting an independent and revolutionary path for Cubaover nearly half a century. Numerous attempts have been made to get Castro to tell his ownstory. But only now, in the twilight of his years, has he beenprepared to set out the details of his remarkable biography for theworld to read. This book is nothing less than his living testament.As he told reporters, his desire to finish checking its text wasthe one thing that kept him going through his recent illness. Hepresented a copy of the book in its Spanish edition to his compadrePresident Hugo Chávez of Venezuela. In these pages, Castro narrates a compelling chronicle thatspans the harshness of his elementary school teachers; the earlyfailures of the revolution; his intense comradeship with CheGuevara and their astonishing, against-all-odds victory over thedic
Originally a New Deal liberal and aggressive anticommunist,Senator Eugene McCarthy famously lost faith with the Democraticparty over Vietnam. His stunning challenge to Lyndon Johnson in the1968 New Hampshire primary inspired young liberals and was one ofthe greatest electoral upsets in American history. But the 1968election ultimately brought Richard Nixon and the Republican Partyto power, irrevocably shifting the country’s political landscape tothe right for decades to come. Dominic Sandbrook traces one of the most remarkable andsignificant lives in postwar politics, a career marked by bothcourage and arrogance. Sandbrook draws on extensive new research –including interviews with McCarthy himself – to show convincinglyhow Eugene McCarthy’s political experience embodies the largerdecline of American liberalism after World War II. These weretumultuous times in American politics, and Sandbrook vividlycaptures the drama and historical significance through his intimateportrait of a singularly
