Author Abigail Thomas shares the story of how she started a new life after an accident left her husband brain damaged and institutionalized.
" --The New York Times Book Review Thirty years ago Piri Thomas made literary history with this lacerating, lyrical memoir of his coming of age on the streets of Spanish Harlem.
Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro explains when and why so many people began to question whether Shakespeare wrote his plays.
These selections from the many writings of Sowell over a period of a half century cover social, economic, cultural, legal, educational, and political issues.
... Thomas Sowell , Race and Culture : A World View ( New York : Basic Books , 1995 ) , 81–186 ; Shelby Steele , Content ... in author's possession ( hereafter cited as TP , AP ) ; Judis R. Andrews , Sr. , questionnaire to the author ...
"[The author] traces the full arc of Thoreau’s life, from his early days in the intellectual hothouse of Concord, when the American experiment still felt fresh and precarious, and 'America was a family affair, earned by one generation and ...
This book provides selections from the seminal works of Karl Marx, Max Weber, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman that reveal some of the reasons why class, race, and gender inequalities have proven very adaptive and can flourish ...
This is the gritty story of one man's lifelong education in the school of hard knocks, as his journey took him from Harlem to the Marines, the Ivy League, and a career as a controversial writer, teacher, and economist in government and ...
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NEW YORK TIMES READERS PICK: 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • “An instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus ...
... Thomas Sowell, The Housing Boom and Bust (Basic Books, 2009). 63. Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, The Financial ... in author's files. 14. 24. " History of Fannie Mae , " http://www.alliemae.org/historyoffanniemae.html ...