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Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography
"An uncharacteristic warning from one of the most respected,
non-partisan journalists in the world" -Jake Tapper, CNN "It was
riveting. I couldn't get enough of it." -Gayle King, CBS Mornings
The Trump Tapes explodes with the exclusive, inside story of
Trump's performance as president-in his own words as he is
questioned, even interrogated by Woodward, on the president's key
responsibilities from managing foreign relations to crisis
management of the coronavirus pandemic. This is the job Trump seeks
again. How did he do the first time? This is the authentic answer,
laying bare his repeated failures, obsessions, and grievances. The
Woodward interviews take a reader to a reporter's laboratory
meticulously examining the Trump presidency like never
before-spellbinding and devastating. *Including all 27 letters
between President Trump and North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un
George Orwell is a difficult author to summarize. He was a would-be
revolutionary who went to Eton, a political writer who abhorred
dogma, a socialist who thrived on his image as a loner, and a
member of the Imperial Indian Police who chronicled the iniquities
of imperialism. Both the books in this volume were published in the
1930s, a "a low, dishonest decade," as his coeval W.H. Auden
described it. Orwell's subjects in Down and Out in Paris and London
and The Road to Wigan Pier are the political and social upheavals
of his time. He focusses on the sense of profound injustice,
incipient violence, and malign betrayal that were ubiquitous in
Europe in the 1930s. Orwell's honesty, courage, and sense of
decency are inextricably bound up with the quasi-colloquial style
that imbues his work with its extraordinary power. His descriptions
of working in the slums of Paris, living the life of a tramp in
England, and digging for coal with miners in the North make for a
thoughtful, riveting account of the lives of the working poor and
of one man's search for the truth. Our edition includes the
following essays: Marrakech; How the Poor Die; Antisemitism in
Britain; Notes on Nationalism
From the celebrated author of Square Haunting comes a biography as unconventional and surprising as the life it tells.
'Think of the Bible and Homer, think of Shakespeare and think of me,' wrote Gertrude Stein in 1936. Admirers called her a genius, sceptics a charlatan: she remains one of the most confounding - and contested - writers of the twentieth century.
In this literary detective story, Francesca Wade delves into the creation of the Stein myth. We see her posing for Picasso's portrait; at the centre of Bohemian Parisian life hosting the likes of Matisse and Hemingway; racing through the French countryside with her enigmatic companion Alice B. Toklas; dazzling American crowds on her sell-out tour for her sensational Autobiography - a veritable celebrity.
Yet Stein hoped to be remembered not for her personality but for her work. From her deathbed, she charged her partner with securing her place in literary history. How would her legend shift once it was Toklas's turn to tell the stories - especially when uncomfortable aspects of their past emerged from the archive? Using astonishing never-before-seen material, Wade uncovers the origins of Stein's radical writing, and reveals new depths to the storied relationship which made it possible.
This is Gertrude Stein as she was when nobody was watching: captivating, complex and human.
At the age of 17, David McCumber was stricken with "road fever" that irresistible call to the itinerant life of a professional gambler. Twenty-two years later, he got the chance to follow that dream-not as a player but as the "stakehorse" (financial backer) for Tony Annigoni, a non-smoking, macrobiotic-eating "Renaissance Pool Hustler," student of Eastern religion, and master of the pure green-felt poetry of the dead stroke." With $27,000 in David's pocket they took off together on an astonishing four-month odyssey across America-traveling from seedy, hole-in-the-wall billiard parlors to high-class snooker rooms to high-tension pro tourneys, from Seattle to Miami and back again-exploring a shady twilight subculture and uniquely American mythos, in search of serious money, local glory...and the perfect hustle.
Killing Crazy Horse is the latest installment of the
multimillion-selling Killing series is a gripping journey through
the American West and the historic clashes between Native Americans
and settlers. The bloody Battle of Tippecanoe was only the
beginning. It's 1811 and President James Madison has ordered the
destruction of Shawnee warrior chief Tecumseh's alliance of tribes
in the Great Lakes region. But while General William Henry Harrison
would win this fight, the armed conflict between Native Americans
and the newly formed United States would rage on for decades.
Bestselling authors Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard venture through
the fraught history of our country's founding on already occupied
lands, from General Andrew Jackson's brutal battles with the Creek
Nation to President James Monroe's epic "sea to shining sea"
policy, to President Martin Van Buren's cruel enforcement of a
"treaty" that forced the Cherokee Nation out of their homelands
along what would be called the Trail of Tears. O'Reilly and Dugard
take readers behind the legends to reveal never-before-told
historical moments in the fascinating creation story of America.
This fast-paced, wild ride through the American frontier will shock
readers and impart unexpected lessons that reverberate to this day.
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From Erin French, owner and chef of
the critically acclaimed The Lost Kitchen, comes a life-affirming
memoir about survival, renewal and the pleasure of bringing joy to
people through food. Erin French grew up barefoot on a farm, fell
in love with food as a teenager working the line at her dad's diner
and found her calling as a professional chef at her tiny restaurant
The Lost Kitchen, tucked into a 19th-century mill-now a
world-renowned dining destination. In Finding Freedom in the Lost
Kitchen, Erin tells her story of multiple rock-bottoms, from
medical student to pregnant teen, of survival as a jobless single
mother, of pills that promised release but delivered addiction, of
a man who seemed to offer salvation but ripped away her very sense
of self. And of her son who became her guiding light as she slowly
rebuilt her personal and culinary life around the solace she found
in food-as a source of comfort, a sense of place, as a way of
creating community and making something of herself, despite
seemingly impossible odds. Set against the backdrop of rural Maine
and its lushly intense, bountiful seasons, Erin French's
rollercoaster memoir reveals struggles that have taken every ounce
of her strength to overcome, and the passion and courage behind the
fairytale success of The Lost Kitchen.
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