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Max Lerner
""Max Lerner: Pilgrim in the Promise Land" is a fair, honest, and vivid portrait of one of the notable American public intellectuals of the century. Sanford Lakoff's perceptive biography illuminates both Lerner's complex life and his turbulent times".--Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. 17 halftones.
Wrestling With the Angel: A Memoir of My Triumph Over Illness
Journalist Max Lerner writes a stunningly honest account of the feelings and thoughts that marked his battle with two successive cancers and a heart attack. Journal entries from this extraordinary ordeal show how mind and body interweave in the healing process. "A worthy companion to Anatomy of an Illness." —Kirkus Reviews
Thomas Jefferson
Over the course of more than six decades as an author, journalist, and professor, Max Lerner studied and assessed many presidents, yet Thomas Jefferson received his most sustained attention. To Lerner, Jefferson came closest in the American context to Plato’s "philosopher-king," the ideal thinker and leader. Because of his keen sense of Jefferson’s virtues and his unique place in United States history, Lerner began work on a book about Jefferson in 1957, rewriting it several times throughout his life, always with the intention of introducing general readers to "a thinker and public figure of enduring pertinence." In this volume, Lerner uses the facts of Jefferson’s life and work as the...
Nine Scorpions in a Bottle
One of America's great legal scholars and most respected journalists shares half a century of observating and writing about the Supreme Court. This life's work covers the Court from its beginnings to its recent moments of crisis. Lerner has written about the judicial process for over 50 years.
Ideas Are Weapons
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Wounded Titans
During his long career as a teacher, writer, and commentator, Max Lerner taught generations of Americans how government and its institutions influence our lives. This collection of his unforgettable portraits of the men who have wielded the greatest power our democracy, including Lincoln, Roosevelt, Truman, Nixon, and Reagan, shows the triumphs and tragedies, the forces that swept them to power and sometimes crippled their ability to fulfill their vision.
Mallory vs. Max
Spunky, eight-year-old Mallory McDonald is very unhappy when her parents decide to get her older brother Max a dog. Why would her parents agree to such a thing? Dogs are smelly and bark and chew on things. Plus, they already have a perfectly good cat, Cheeseburger. When they finally get the puppy, it’s worse than Mallory imagined. Everyone loves Champ and he and Max are getting all of the attention. Poor Mallory—now everyone’s mad at her. What should she do?
