In 1969, Mark Edmundson was a typical high school senior inworking-class Medford, Massachusetts. He loved football, disdainedschoolwork, and seemed headed for a factory job in hishometown—until a maverick philosophy teacher turned his lifearound. When Frank Lears, a small, nervous man wearing a moth-eaten suit,arrived at Medford fresh from Harvard University, his studentspegged him as an easy target. Lears was unfazed by their spitballsand classroom antics. He shook things up, trading tired textbooksfor Kesey and Camus, and provoking his class with questions aboutauthority, conformity, civil rights, and the Vietnam War. Herearranged seats and joined in a ferocious snowball fight withEdmundson and his football crew. Lears’s impassioned attempts toget these kids to think for themselves provided Mark Edmundson withexactly the push he needed to break away from the lockstep life ofMedford High. Written with verve and candor, Teacher isEdmundson’s heartfelt tribute to the man who changed the course ofhis
Former WikiLeaks Insider and Spokesman Daniel Domscheit-BergAuthors an Exposé of the “World’s Most Dangerous Website” In an eye-opening account, Daniel Domscheit-Berg, the formerspokesman of WikiLeaks, reveals never-disclosed details about theinner workings of the increasingly controversial organization thathas struck fear into governments and business organizationsworldwide and prompted the Pentagon to convene a 120-man taskforce. In addition to Germany and the U.S., Inside WikiLeaks willbe published simultaneously in 12 other countries. Under the pseudonym Daniel Schmitt, Domscheit-Berg was theeffective No. 2 at WikiLeaks and the organization’s most publicface, after Julian Assange. In this book, he reveals the evolution,finances, and inner tensions of the whistleblower organization,beginning with his first meeting with Assange in December 2007. Healso describes what led to his September 2010 withdrawal fromWikiLeaks, including his disenchantment with the organization’slack of
The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine.The tragedy is that my story could have been his. Two kids named Wes Moore were born blocks apart within a year ofeach other. Both grew up fatherless in similar Baltimoreneighborhoods and had difficult childhoods; both hung out on streetcorners with their crews; both ran into trouble with the police.How, then, did one grow up to be a Rhodes Scholar, decoratedveteran, White House Fellow, and business leader, while the otherended up a convicted murderer serving a life sentence? Wes Moore,the author of this fascinating book, sets out to answer thisprofound question. In alternating narratives that take readers fromheart-wrenching losses to moments of surprising redemption, TheOther Wes Moore tells the story of a generation of boys tryingto find their way in a hostile world.
