This comprehensive, original portrait of the life and work ofone of America's greatest poets--set in the social, cultural, andpolitical context of his time--considers the full range of writingsby and about Whitman, including his early poems and stories, hisconversations, letters, journals, newspaper writings, and daybooks. of photos.
Dennis Rodman shoots from the lip as he talks about everythingfrom the NBA and his game, his sexuality, dating, his wild flingwith superstar Madonna, and morality. Reprint."
In Unbowed, Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai recountsher extraordinary journey from her childhood in rural Kenya to theworld stage. When Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement in 1977,she began a vital poor people’s environmental movement, focused onthe empowerment of women, that soon spread across Africa.Persevering through run-ins with the Kenyan government and personallosses, and jailed and beaten on numerous occasions, Maathaicontinued to fight tirelessly to save Kenya’s forests and torestore democracy to her beloved country . Infused with herunique luminosity of spirit, Wangari Maathai’s remarkable story ofcourage, faith, and the power of persistence is destined to inspiregenerations to come.
Moody's famous autobiography is a classic work on growing uppoor and Black in the rural South. Her searing account of lifebefore the Civil Rights Movement is as moving as The Color Purpleand as important as And Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. "A history ofour time . . . (and) a reminder that we cannot now relax".--SenatorEdward Kennedy.
After twenty years as a foreign correspondent in tumultuouslocales, Judith Matloff is ready to return to her native New YorkCity and start a family with her husband, John. Intoxicated by WestHarlem’s cultural diversity and, more important, its affordability,Judith impulsively buys a stately fixer-upper brownstone in theneighborhood–only to discover that this dream house was once acrack den and that calling it a “fixer upper” is an understatement.Thus begins the couple’s odyssey to win over brazen drug dealers,delinquent construction workers, and eccentric neighbors in one ofthe biggest drug zones in the country. It’s a far cry from utopia,but it’s a start, and Judith and John do all they can to carve outa comfortable life–and, over time, come to appreciate theneighborhood’s rough charms. A wry, reflective, and hugelyentertaining memoir, Home Girl is for anyone who has longedto go home, however complicated the journey.
In this powerful, exquisitely crafted book, Kyoko Mori delvesinto her dual heritage with a rare honesty that is both gracefuland stirring. From her unhappy childhood in Japan, weighted by atroubled family and a constricting culture, to the AmericanMidwest, where she found herself free to speak as a strong-mindedindependent woman, though still an outsider, Mori explores thedifferent codes of silence, deference, and expression that governJapanese and American women's lives: the ties that bind us tofamily and the lies that keep us apart; the rituals of mourningthat give us the courage to accept death; the images of the bodythat make sex seem foreign to Japanese women and second nature toAmericans. In the sensitive hands of this compelling writer, onewoman's life becomes the mirror of two profoundly differentsocieties.
William Lee Miller’s ethical biography is a fresh, engagingtelling of the story of Lincoln’s rise to power. Through carefulscrutiny of Lincoln’s actions, speeches, and writings, and ofaccounts from those who knew him, Miller gives us insight into themoral development of a great politician — one who made the choiceto go into politics, and ultimately realized that vocation’sfullest moral possibilities. As Lincoln’s Virtues makes refreshingly clear, Lincoln wasnot born with his face on Mount Rushmore; he was an actual humanbeing making choices — moral choices — in a real world. In anaccount animated by wit and humor, Miller follows this unschooledfrontier politician’s rise, showing that the higher he went and thegreater his power, the worthier his conduct would become. He wouldbecome that rare bird, a great man who was also a good man.Uniquely revealing of its subject’s heart and mind, it represents amajor contribution to our understanding and of Lincoln, and to theperennial American discu
She has a job in Paris, a handsome Frenchman, a beautifulbilingual toddler, and an adorable apartment with breathtakingviews. So why does Catherine Sanderson feel that her life is comingapart? Stuck in a relationship quickly losing its heat, overwhelmedby the burdens of motherhood, and restless in a dead-end job,Catherine reads an article about starting an online diary, and on aslow day at work–voilà–Petite Anglaise is born. But what begins asa lighthearted diversion, a place to muse on the fish-out-of-waterchallenges of expat life, soon gives way to a raw forum whereCatherine shares intimate details about her relationship, herdiscontents, and her most impulsive desires. When one of herreaders–a charming Englishman–tries to get close to the girl behindthe blog, Catherine’s real and virtual personas collide, forcingher to choose between life as she knows it and the possibility ofmore.
