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Looking for a Hero
Widely acclaimed as the Vietnam War's most highly decorated soldier, Joe Ronnie Hooper in many ways serves as a symbol for that conflict. His troubled, tempestuous life paralleled the upheavals in American society during the 1960s and 1970s, and his desperate quest to prove his manhood was uncomfortably akin to the macho image projected by three successive presidents in their "tough" policy in Southeast Asia. Looking for a Hero extracts the real Joe Hooper from the welter of lies and myths that swirl around his story; in doing so, the book uncovers not only the complicated truth about an American hero but also the story of how Hooper's war was lost in Vietnam, not at home. Extensive intervie...
Afterburn
A high-voltage international thriller about a millionaire businessman catapulted into a world of criminal intrigue, sexual obsession, extortion, and death. Charlie Ravich is a survivor whose brutal experience as a POW in Vietnam has more than prepared him for the cutthroat world of global commerce. Now a wealthy Upper East Side executive in his late fifties, Charlie has only one problem: his family is dying out. His wife teeters on the edge of Alzheimer's; their son has succumbed to leukemia; and their daughter, Julia, is unable to bear a child. Charlie is being trumped by time. Enter Christina, a beguiling Columbia University dropout-intelligent, selectively dishonest, filled with desire. H...
A Month of Sundays
In memory of Mary Lou "Douse" Thrasher given by Mr. and Mrs. James Reeves.
The Price of Valor
When he was seventeen years old, Audie Murphy falsified his birth records so he could enlist in the Army and help defeat the Nazis. When he was nineteen, he single-handedly turned back the German Army at the Battle of Colmar Pocket by climbing on top of a tank with a machine gun, a moment immortalized in the classic film To Hell and Back, starring Audie himself. In the first biography covering his entire life—including his severe PTSD and his tragic death at age 45—the unusual story of Audie Murphy, the most decorated hero of WWII, is brought to life for a new generation.
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Who’s the Toughest Dude That’s Ever Lived?
Discover what it means to be truly tough. Who’s the Toughest Dude That’s Ever Lived? is a book written by a man for men. It is the result of the author’s search for the toughest dude that has ever set foot on planet Earth and the shocking conclusion of that quest. The author recounts the incredible tales of nineteen remarkable and resilient men. Through their stories, readers can be inspired and challenged to examine their own lives and redefine their own notion of toughness. Toughness is a topic with which every adult male has grappled, whether in reality or imagination. Every man has a toughness story. It is not always voiced, but it is there. Toughness strikes at the core of who men are, who they are not, or fear they are not. Join the author's mission to find the ultimate toughest person to have ever existed and find out what the exploration yields!
Bitter Waters
Rising at 11,750 feet in the Sangre de Cristo range and snaking 926 miles through New Mexico and Texas to the Rio Grande, the Pecos River is one of the most storied waterways in the American West. It is also one of the most troubled. In 1942, the National Resources Planning Board observed that the Pecos River basin “probably presents a greater aggregation of problems associated with land and water use than any other irrigated basin in the Western U.S.” In the twenty-first century, the river’s problems have only multiplied. Bitter Waters, the first book-length study of the entire Pecos, traces the river’s environmental history from the arrival of the first Europeans in the sixteenth c...
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Yale's Confederates
Biographical dictionary detailing the pre- and post-war activities of over 500 Yale College students during the Civil War era.
