IRON JOHN
by Robert Bly · Addison-Wesley
On the role of the male mentor, the author seeks to discover the truths about masculinity that gets beyond the stereotypes of our popular culture.
WHEN YOU LOOK LIKE YOUR PASSPORT PHOTO, IT'S TIME TO GO HOME
by Erma Bombeck · HarperCollins
The national #1 bestseller from "the wizard of the ordinary moment . . . always fun to read" (The New York Times Book Review). Bombeck is at her hilarious best in this tour de force of laughs, as she offers advice to world weary travelers. "Classic Bombeck".--Kirkus Reviews.
CHUTZPAH
by Alan M. Dershowitz · Little, Brown
The well-known attorney discusses what it is like to be Jewish today, examining such issues as anti-Semitism, the Holocaust, assimilation, Zionism, civil rights, the role of Jews in the U.S.S.R., and changes in Eastern Europe.
ANNE SEXTON
by Diane Wood Middlebrook · Davison/Houghton Mifflin
Anne Sexton began writing poetry at the age of twenty-nine to keep from killing herself. She held on to language for dear life and somehow -- in spite of alcoholism and the mental illness that ultimately led her to suicide -- managed to create a body of work that won a Pulitzer Prize and that still sings to thousands of readers. This exemplary biography, which was nominated for the National Book Award, provoked controversy for its revelations of infidelity and incest and its use of tapes from Sexton's psychiatric sessions. It reconciles the many Anne Sextons: the 1950s housewife; the abused child who became an abusive mother; the seductress; the suicide who carried "kill-me pills" in her handbag the way other women carry lipstick; and the poet who transmuted confession into lasting art.
THE COMMANDERS
by Bob Woodward · Simon & Schuster
Bob Woodward, the best investigative reporter in the country, spent six years examining the CIA using hundreds of inside sources and secret documents to paint a picture of the world's largest espionage apparatus.
SILENT COUP
by Len Colodny and Robert Gettlin · St. Martin's
SILENT COUP documents the political and personal agendas that combined to destroy Richard Nixon.
THE MANSIONS OF LIMBO
by Dominick Dunne · Crown
Bestselling author Dominick Dunne, who chronicles the escapades, excesses, and eccentricities of high society for Vanity Fair, offers fifteen provocative portraits of some of the most luminous figures of the decade . . . profiles of the movie legend who remains the only divorced wife of a U.S. president; the pretty singing star who fell in love with a notorious mobster; the brilliant photographer who took Dunne's picture weeks before succumbing to AIDS . . . sketches that detail the lavish wedding-that-never-was between an heiress and a counterfeit prince; the incarceration of a high-flying financier; and the brutal slaying of a film mogul and his sife, allegedly by their own two sons. Filled with pathos and wit and the twenty-four-carat insight of a society insider, The Mansions of Limbo offers a peek into a rarified world there nothing is ever enough.
ILLIBERAL EDUCATION
by Dinesh D'Souza · Free Press
As it "illuminates the crisis of liberal education and offers proposals for reform which deserve full debate" (Morton Halperin, American Civil Liberties Union), "Illiberal Education" "documents how the politics of race and gender in our universities are rapidly eating away traditions of scholarship and reward for individual achievement" (Robert H. Bork). (Education/Teaching)
Historical bestseller data sourced from the New York Times Book Review, archived by Hawes Publications.