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"A lively and engaging chronicle that adds yet another dimension to
the historical record."-The Boston Globe
When George Pullman began recruiting Southern blacks as porters in
his luxurious new sleeping cars, the former slaves suffering under
Jim Crow laws found his offer of a steady job and worldly
experience irresistable. They quickly signed up to serve as maid,
waiter, concierge, nanny, and occasionally doctor and undertaker to
cars full of white passengers, making the Pullman Company the
largest employer of African Americans in the country by the 1920s.
Drawing on extensive interviews with dozens of porters and their
descendants, Larry Tye reconstructs the complicated world of the
Pullman porter and the vital cultural, political, and economic
roles they played as forerunners of the modern black middle class.
"Rising from the Rails" provides a lively and enlightening look at
this important social phenomenon.
Kitty Dukakis has battled debilitating depression for more than
twenty years. Coupled with drug and alcohol addictions that both
hid and fueled her suffering, Kitty's despair was overwhelming. She
tried every medication and treatment available; none worked for
long. It wasn?t until she tried electroconvulsive therapy, or ECT,
that she could reclaim her life. Kitty's dramatic first-person
account of how ECT keeps her illness at bay is half the story of
Shock. The other half, by award winning medical reporter Larry Tye,
is an engrossing look at the science behind ECT and its dramatic
yet subterranean comeback. This book presents a full picture of
ECT, analyzing the treatment's risks along with its benefits. ECT,
it turns out, is neither a panacea nor a scourge but a serious
option for treating life threatening and disabling mental diseases,
like depression, bipolar disorder, and others.
Through Kitty Dukakis's moving narrative, and interviews with more
than one hundred other ECT patients, Shock: The Healing Power of
Electroconvulsive Therapy separates scare from promise, real
complications from lurid headlines. In the process Shock offers
practical guidance to prospective patients and their families,
boldly addressing the controversy surrounding ECT and awakening
millions to its capacity to heal.
"The Father of Spin" is the first full-length biography of the
legendary Edward L. Bernays, who, beginning in the 1920s, was one
of the first and most successful practioners of the art of public
relations. In this engrossing biography, Larry Tye uses Bernays's
life as a prism to understand the evolution of the craft of public
relations and how it came to play such a critical-and sometimes
insidious-role in American life.
Drawing on interviews with primary sources and voluminous private
papers, Tye presents a fascinating and revealing portrait of the
man who, more than any other, defined and personified public
relations, a profession that today helps shape our political
discourse and define our commercial choices.
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