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They are as diverse as America. Young and old. Of color and white.
Urban and rural. Immigrants and native born. They are students and
teachers. Athletes and artists. Lawyers, doctors, politicians,
farmers, architects, novelists, and more. Names familiar and
unfamiliar. Superheroes, figuratively...and in one case real! They
have founded major corporations and grassroots organizations or
struck out on their own. They are institutionalizes and agitators.
And in some cases both! But as diverse a lot as they may be, the
people who tell their stories on these pages share one thing in
common. Each is committed to fighting inequality and injustice.
Each, too, can pinpoint a moment when they were moved to action,
when it became impossible to sit on the sidelines and just watch:
when the teacher uttered racial slurs, when no one in the college
club looked like they did, when the city was on the brink of
disaster, when the authorities came for their undocumented mother,
when they discovered their ancestors had owned slaves, when the cop
stopped them in their own driveway, when there was no fresh food in
their community, when their right to vote was threatened. In The
Moment, New York Times bestselling author Steve Fiffer presents an
oral history from today's social justice activists-many of them
still under 30-that is pitch perfect for these dissonant times.
First person accounts that will inspire us to act, offer a
blueprint for making change, and perhaps, most importantly, give us
hope for the future.
Fred Karger is not your average Republican candidate for president
in 2012. For one thing, he's moderate. For another, he's Jewish.
And for another, he's gay. While he never hid his politics or
religion from the world, he did keep his homosexuality a secret for
years. He was 41 when he finally came out to his family. And in his
27 years at one of the most highly regarded political consulting
firms in the U.S., he never told his peers. Only after Karger
retired in 2004 did he reveal himself. The revelations coincided
with a new found social activism that blossomed in 2008 when Karger
became involved in the effort to save same sex marriage in
California (the battle over Proposition 8). In "outing" the Mormon
Church's secret funding of the campaign to eliminate same sex
marriage, Karger found himself the subject of international
headlines; vitriolic condemnation by the Church and its front, the
National Organization for Marriage; and even received a death
threat. He also received numerous messages from gay men and
women--many of them young--thanking him for his efforts. Having
worked on hundreds of political campaigns, including nine
presidential races, Karger was energized to run for president. As
he makes clear in this book, crashing the party is nothing new to
him. In his youthfully exuberant days, he crashed the stage at the
Academy Awards twice, Hubert Humphrey's campaign plane, and, yes,
even the White House. "When you are a closeted gay person, you
learn to be creative," he explains. In FRED WHO, Karger--with
uncommon candor and poignant humor--answers the question that
everyone from Sir David Frost to Rachel Maddow, from the New York
Times to Politico, has been asking for the last several months: Who
the hell is Fred Karger? He painstakingly relates what it is like
to live in the closet, afraid to tell family, friends, colleagues,
and the candidates for whom he works. He shares the lessons learned
working for the likes of Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush. And he
offers wonderful stories about life on the political trail and in
Hollywood (where he was an actor before turning to politics. Sound
familiar?) By the end of this memoir, the reader will indeed know
who Fred Karger is and have new insights into the many worlds that
he has inhabited. You may even want to support his candidacy.
In 1990, the skeleton of a battle-scarred Tyrannosaurus rex
matriarch was found, virtually complete, in what many call the most
spectacular dinosaur fossil discovery to date. Not just another
dinosaur book, Tyrannosaurus Sue is a fascinating introduction to
the centuries-old history of commercial fossil hunting, a legal
thriller and a provocative look at academic versus commercial
science and the chase for the money that fuels both. - Steve
Fiffer, an attorney who has followed the story for the past seven
years, has captured the whole range of characters and issues
embroiled in the fight for Sue. Fiffer communicates both the
excitement over Sue's discovery and the motivations, manoeuvrings,
and absurdities of the various forces attempting to control her
destiny.
In the spring of 2001, Robert Jordan was a Dallas attorney whom
George Bush wanted for the ambassadorship in Saudi Arabia. Not yet
confirmed on 9/11, Jordan's nomination sped through Congress for
approval and he found himself on the ground in the Kingdom by early
October. Jordan had no prior diplomatic experience-Saudi Arabia
mandates that the U.S. Ambassador be a political appointee with the
ear of the president-and was forced to learn to run an embassy,
deal with a foreign culture, and protect U.S. interests on the job
all in the wake of the most significant terrorist attack on the
United States in history. Furthermore, Jordan arrived in Saudi
Arabia shortly after it became clear that the country had spawned
not only the mastermind Osama bin Laden, but also 15 of the 19
hijackers. Desert Diplomat: Inside Saudi Arabia following 9/11
gives an inside account of the fascinating and historic
ambassadorship of Robert Jordan from 2001 through 2003. As the
newly-installed ambassador, he had to press the Saudis on terrorism
while maintaining a positive relationship to ensure their
cooperation with the war in Afghanistan and invasion of Iraq.
Throughout his appointment he had first-hand dealings with the
uppermost echelon of Washington power including President Bush,
Dick Cheney, Colin Powell, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleezza Rice,
George Tenet, and Tommy Franks while working with the Crown Prince
Abdullah and other top Saudi leaders. Desert Diplomat provides a
honest portrait of working with these prominent individuals,
details of the historic decisions of Jordan's tenure, and a candid
assessment the distressing amount of dysfunction in the way
American foreign policy, warfare, and intelligence-gathering was
conducted.
Have you ever had a million-dollar idea that someone else made a
million on? "So You've Got a Great Idea" can help you be that one
person who cashes in on an innovative product, service, business,
or novelty item. Like Marvin Rosenblum, who made the most of Spiro
Agnew's reputation(he also produced the movie "1984"), and ann
Moore, who created the Snugli, you too, can take your idea from the
drawing board to the bank.Steve Fiffer shows you how to tell
whether your idea is a winner or a clunker and, through
entertaining profiles of successful innovators, helps you decide
how to follow through on it: Should you sell the idea to an
established business or go into business for yourself? Do you want
to work on the idea full-time or part-time? At home or in an
office? You'll also discover the advantages and disadvantages of
professional services, whether to apply for a patent, how to use
government agencies and find financing.Here are stories of ordinary
people who have had extraordinary ideas that have changed their
lives. You will read about: Gordon and Carole Segal, who were
struck with the idea for Crate and Barrel over their kitchen
sinkKip Fuller, who created the Servitron Robot because he couldn't
afford a caterer at his Christmas partyJeffrey Ullman, who combined
his talent for making documentaries with a knack for sales and
opened one of the first video dating services in America.Lynn
Tatar, whose talent for chocolate novelties transformed her kitchen
into The Amazing Chocolate Factoryand moreHaving a great idea is
one thing; making a great idea make money is what this book is all
about.
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