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Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Historical, political & military
ROBERT MERRY'S BRILLIANT AND HIGHLY ACCLAIMED HISTORY OF A CRUCIAL
EPOCH IN U.S. HISTORY.
In a one-term presidency, James K. Polk completed the story of
America's Manifest Destiny--extending its territory across the
continent by threatening England with war and manufacturing a
controversial and unpopular two-year war with Mexico.
From legal expert and veteran author Bryan Garner comes a unique,
intimate, and compelling memoir of his friendship with the late
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. For almost thirty years,
Antonin Scalia was arguably the most influential and controversial
Justice on the United States Supreme Court. His dynamic and witty
writing devoted to the Constitution has influenced an entire
generation of judges. Based on his reputation for using scathing
language to criticize liberal court decisions, many people presumed
Scalia to be gruff and irascible. But to those who knew him as
"Nino," he was characterized by his warmth, charm, devotion, fierce
intelligence, and loyalty. Bryan Garner's friendship with Justice
Scalia was instigated by celebrated writer David Foster Wallace and
strengthened over their shared love of language. Despite their
differing viewpoints on everything from gun control to the use of
contractions, their literary and personal relationship flourished.
Justice Scalia even officiated at Garner's wedding. In this
humorous, touching, and surprisingly action-packed memoir, Garner
gives a firsthand insight into the mind, habits, and faith of one
of the most famous and misunderstood judges in the world.
When Lidia Maksymowicz was just a young girl, her partisan family went into hiding in the forest of Belorussia. It was there that they were arrested and taken to Auschwitz. Lidia was branded 70072, sent to the infamous ‘children’s block’ and subjected to the experiments of Dr Josef Mengele.
Having survived Auschwitz, Lidia was adopted and grew up in the industrial town of Oswiecim. She never gave up trying to find her family. In 1962, seventeen years after the liberation, she discovered that her parents were still alive and that her mother had never stopped searching for her. In Moscow, early-1960s, they were finally reunited.
Lidia has since made it her mission to share her story. In 2021, she made headlines around the world when Pope Francis kissed the tattoo that, once a symbol of separation, led her back to her mother.
The Little Girl Who Could Not Cry is a moving memoir of survival but, above all, the prevailing power of love and hope.
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