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The Matriarch
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "[The] rare biography of a public figure that's not only beautifully written, but also shockingly revelatory." -- The Atlantic A vivid biography of former First Lady Barbara Bush, one of the most influential and under-appreciated women in American political history. Barbara Pierce Bush was one of the country's most popular and powerful figures, yet her full story has never been told. THE MATRIARCH tells the riveting tale of a woman who helped define two American presidencies and an entire political era. Written by USA TODAY's Washington Bureau chief Susan Page, this biography is informed by more than one hundred interviews with Bush friends and family member...
Accounts and Papers
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The Exile
The extraordinary inside story of Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda in the years after 9/11. Following the attacks on the Twin Towers, Osama bin Laden, the most wanted man in the world, eluded intelligence services and Special Forces units for almost a decade. Using remarkable, first-person testimony from bin Laden's family and closest aides, The Exile chronicles this astonishing tale of evasion, collusion and isolation. In intimate detail, The Exile reveals not only the frantic attack on Afghanistan by the United States in their hunt for bin Laden but also how and why, when they found his family soon after, the Bush administration rejected the chance to seize them. It charts the formation of ISI...
Baker Families
"Under the English rule of primogeniture...second sons and others who could not afford to pay their passage, sold themselves into virtual slavery as indentured servants...agreeing to serve their master for at least four years and often six or seven, on the plantations in the West Indies, or on the mainland in Maryland or Virginia. Upon completion of servitude and grant of freedom, the servant typically received a grant of fifty acres of land, a suit of clothes, corn for a year, and the tools of his trade. Millions of us are descended from these hardy adventurers." And so begins William Hurley's twenty-eighth quest to document the lineage of another local name, the Baker families, primarily o...
Mainstreaming Men Into Gender and Development
Based on research commissioned by the World Bank, this books primary focus is on incorporating men in gender and development interventions at the grass roots level. It draws attention to some of the key problems that have arisen from male exclusion; as well as to the potential benefits of - and obstacles to - men's inclusion.
Episodes and Vignettes Volume One, Volume Two
Volume One, 501p. Birth in Hamilton, family, education, life in Europe, love in Vienna, marriage to Anglo-Burmese and work in New York City, struggles to publish, tragedy, library school. Volume Two, 507p. The New York Public Research Libraries, union organizing, presidency, writing, literati, publications, Viola’s insights and phenomenal scholarship, return to Canada.
