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Going Rogue: An American Life HarperCollins One year ago Sarah Palin burst onto the national political stage like a comet Yet even now few Americans know who this remarkable woman really is / On September 3 2008 Alaska Governor and vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin delivered a speech at the Republican National Convention that electrified the nation and instantly made her one of the most recognizable women in the world / As chief executive of Americas largest state she had built a record as a reformer who cast aside politics-as-usual and pushed through changes other politicians only talked about Energy independence Ethics reform And the biggest private sector infrastructure project in U S history And while revitalizing public school funding and ensuring the state met its responsibilities to seniors and Alaska Native populations Palin also beat the political good ol boys club at their own game and brought Big Oil to heel / Like her GOP running mate John McCain Palin wasnt a packaged and over-produced candidate She was a Main Street American woman a working mom wife of a blue collar union man and mother of five children the eldest of whom was serving his country in a yearlong deployment in Iraq and the youngest an infant with special needs Palins hometown story touched a populist nerve rallying hundreds of thousands of ordinary Americans to the GOP ticket / But as the campaign unfolded Palin became a lightning rod for both praise and criticism Supporters called her refreshing and honest a kitchen-table public servant they felt would fight for their interests Opponents derided her as a wide-eyed Pollyanna unprepared for national leadership But none of them knew the real Sarah Palin / In this eagerly anticipated memoir Palin paints an intimate portrait of growing up in the wilds of Alaska meeting her lifelong love her decision to enter politics the importance of faith and family and the unique joys and trials of life as a high-profile working mother She also opens up for the first time about the 2008 presidential race providing a rare moms-eye view of high-stakes national politics from patriots dedicated to Country First to slick politicos bent on winning at any cost / Going Rogue traces one ordinary citizens extraordinary journey and imparts Palins vision of a way forward for America and her unfailing hope in the greatest nation on earth / The Sellout: How Three Decades of Wall Street Greed and Government Mismanagement Destroyed the Global Financial System HarperBusiness lockquote The definitive account of Wall Streets stunning collapse / / lockquote From critically acclaimed investigative journalist and CNBC personality Charles Gasparino comes a sweeping examination of the most recent volatile anxiety-ridden era in our nations socioeconomic history The Sellout traces the implosion of the financial services business back to its roots in the late 1970s when Wall Street embraced a new business model predicated on taking enormous risks It shows how a backwater business involving the trading of risky bonds packed with mortgages showered countless billions in profits on the financial industry but sowed the seeds of its ultimate demise Gasparino walks readers through Wall Streets three-decades love affair with risk revealing a trail of culpability from the government bureaucrats who crafted housing policies that encouraged homeownership to the Wall Street firms that underwrote and invested in risky debt to the mortgage sellers who handed out loans to people without the financial wherewithal to pay them back to the homeowners who became convinced they could afford mansions on blue-collar wages The ongoing tumult in financial markets and the global economy began when some of our most esteemed financial institutions our government and even average citizens abdicated their collective responsibilities eventually selling out investors and selling off the American Dream itself / In the spirit of classics such as Barbarians at the Gate and Liars Poker this page-turning narrative captures how avarice arrogance and sheer stupidity eroded Wall Streets dominance and profoundly weakened the financial security of millions of middle-class Americans Eye-opening and engrossing The Sellout provides the most thorough investigation to date of this latest gilded era / Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman Doubleday ISBN13 9780385522267 Condition NEW Notes Brand New from Publisher No Remainder Mark a title Condition Guide href / content/ Condition and Shipping Guide htm target blank Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices / a The bestselling author of Into the Wild Into Thin Air and Under the Banner of Heaven delivers a stunning eloquent account of a remarkable young man s haunting journey r r Like the men whose epic stories Jon Krakauer has told in his previous bestsellers Pat Tillman was an irrepressible individualist and iconoclast In May 2002 Tillman walked away from his 3 6 million NFL contract to enlist in the United States Army He was deeply troubled by 9/ 11 and he felt a strong moral obligation to join the fight against al-Qaeda and the Taliban Two years later he died on a desolate hillside in southeastern Afghanistan r r Though obvious to most of the two dozen soldiers on the scene that a ranger in Tillman s own platoon had fired the fatal shots the Army aggressively maneuvered to keep this information from Tillman s wife other family members and the American public for five weeks following his death During this time President Bush repeatedly invoked Tillman s name to promote his administration s foreign policy Long after Tillman s nationally televised memorial service the Army grudgingly notified his closest relatives that he had probably been killed by friendly fire while it continued to dissemble about the details of his death and who was responsible r r In Where Men Win Glory Jon Krakauer draws on Tillman s journals and letters interviews with his wife and friends conversations with the soldiers who served alongside him and extensive research on the ground in Afghanistan to render an intricate mosaic of this driven complex and uncommonly compelling figure as well as the definitive account of the events and actions that led to his death Before he enlisted in the army Tillman was familiar to sports aficionados as an undersized overachieving Arizona Cardinals safety whose virtuosity in the defensive backfield was spellbinding With his shoulder-length hair outspoken views and boundless intellectual curiosity Tillman was considered a maverick America was fascinated when he traded the bright lights and riches of the NFL for boot camp and a buzz cut Sent first to Iraq a war he would openly declare was illegal as hell and eventually to Afghanistan Tillman was driven by complicated emotionally charged sometimes contradictory notions of duty honor justice patriotism and masculine pride Book Description / r / The bestselling author of em Into the Wild / em em Into Thin Air / em and em Under the Banner of Heaven / em delivers a stunning eloquent account of a remarkable young man s haunting journey r / em r / / em Like the men whose epic stories Jon Krakauer has told in his previous bestsellers Pat Tillman was an irrepressible individualist and iconoclast In May 2002 Tillman walked away from his 3 6 million NFL contract to enlist in the United States Army He was deeply troubled by 9/ 11 and he felt a strong moral obligation to join the fight against al-Qaeda and the Taliban Two years later he died on a desolate hillside in southeastern Afghanistan r / r / Though obvious to most of the two dozen soldiers on the scene that a ranger in Tillman s own platoon had fired the fatal shots the Army aggressively maneuvered to keep this information from Tillman s wife other family members and the American public for five weeks following his death During this time President Bush repeatedly invoked Tillman s name to promote his administration s foreign policy Long after Tillman s nationally televised memorial service the Army grudgingly notified his closest relatives that he had probably been killed by friendly fire while it continued to dissemble about the details of his death and who was responsible r / r / In em Where Men Win Glory / em Jon Krakauer draws on Tillman s journals and letters interviews with his wife and friends conversations with the soldiers who served alongside him and extensive research on the ground in Afghanistan to render an intricate mosaic of this driven complex and uncommonly compelling figure as well as the definitive account em / em of the events and actions that led to his death Before he enlisted in the army Tillman was familiar to sports aficionados as an undersized overachieving Arizona Cardinals safety whose virtuosity in the defensive backfield was spellbinding With his shoulder-length hair outspoken views and boundless intellectual curiosity Tillman was considered a maverick America was fascinated when he traded the bright lights and riches of the NFL for boot camp and a buzz cut Sent first to Iraq a war he would openly declare was illegal as hell and eventually to Afghanistan Tillman was driven by complicated emotionally charged sometimes contradictory notions of duty honor justice The Audacity to Win: The Inside Story and Lessons of Barack Obama's Historic Victory Viking Adult ISBN13 9780670021338 Condition NEW Notes Brand New from Publisher No Remainder Mark a title Condition Guide href / content/ Condition and Shipping Guide htm target blank Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices / a The architect of the Obama campaign reveals how it all happened- and how it will revolutionize our politics / R R David Plouffe not only led the effort that put Barack Obama in the White House but he also changed the face of politics forever and reenergized the idea of democracy itself The Audacity to Win is his story of that groundbreaking achievement taking readers inside the remarkable campaign that led to the election of the first African American president R R For two years Plouffe worked side by side with Obama charting the course of the campaign His is the ultimate insiders tale revealing both the strategies that delivered Obama to office and how the candidate and campaign handled moments of great challenge and opportunity Moving from the deliberations about whether to run at all through the epic primary battle with Hillary Clinton and the general election against John McCain Plouffe showcases the high-wire gamesmanship that fascinated pundits and the drama and intrigue that captivated a nation R R The Audacity to Win chronicles the arrival of a new moment in American life at the convergence of digital technology and grassroots organization and the exciting possibilities revealed by a campaign that in many ways functioned as a 1 billion start-up with laser-like focus and discipline In this extraordinary book David Plouffe unfolds one of the most important political stories of our time one whose lessons are not limited to politics but reach to the greatest heights of what we dream about for our country and ourselves Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time Penguin Books ISBN13 9780143038252 Condition NEW Notes Brand New from Publisher No Remainder Mark a title Condition Guide href / content/ Condition and Shipping Guide htm target blank Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices / a The astonishing uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to use education to combat terrorism in the Taliban s backyard / Anyone who despairs of the individual s power to change lives has to read the story of Greg Mortenson a homeless mountaineer who following a 1993 climb of Pakistan s treacherous K2 was inspired by a chance encounter with impoverished mountain villagers and promised to build them a school Over the next decade he built fifty-five schools especially for girls that offer a balanced education in one of the most isolated and dangerous regions on earth As it chronicles Mortenson s quest which has brought him into conflict with both enraged Islamists and uncomprehending Americans Three Cups of Tea combines adventure with a celebration of the humanitarian spirit The National Parks: America's Best Idea Knopf The companion volume to the twelve-hour PBS series from the acclaimed filmmaker behind The Civil War Baseball and The War r / r America s national parks spring from an idea as radical as the Declaration of Independence that the nation s most magnificent and sacred places should be preserved not for royalty or the rich but for everyone In this evocative and lavishly illustrated narrative Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan delve into the history of the park idea from the first sighting by white men in 1851 of the valley that would become Yosemite and the creation of the world s first national park at Yellowstone in 1872 through the most recent / additions to a system that now encompasses nearly four hundred sites and 84 million acres r r The authors recount the adventures mythmaking and intense political battles behind the evolution of the park system and the enduring / ideals that fostered its growth They capture the importance and splendors of the individual parks from Haleakala in Hawaii to Acadia in Maine from Denali in Alaska to the Everglades in Florida from Glacier in Montana to Big Bend in Texas And they introduce us to a diverse cast of compelling characters both unsung heroes and famous figures such as John Muir Theodore Roosevelt and Ansel Adams who have been transformed by these special places and committed themselves to saving them from destruction so that the rest of us could be transformed as well r r The National Parks is a glorious celebration of an essential expression of American democracy span class h1 Amazon Exclusive Joseph J Ellis Reviews em The National Parks / em / / span r / r / Educated at the College of William and Mary and Yale University Joseph J Ellis is a Ford Foundation Professor of History at Mount Holyoke College His em Founding Brothers / em won the Pulitzer Prize in 2001 and em American Sphinx / em earned the 1997 National Book Award His latest work em American Creation / em was published in 2007 Read Elliss exclusive Amazon guest review of em The National Parks Americas Best Idea / em / r / mg align right border 0 src http / / g-ecx images-amazon com/ images/ G/ 01/ randoEMS/ Ellis-credit-JIM-GIPE jpg / / If Ken Burns s upcoming documentary film on America s National Parks is as good as the book laying open before me he has another huge winner Of course the book entitled em The National Parks America s Best Idea / em is intended as a companion to the film but as I see it--literally--the book permits the eye and mind to linger over the truly breathtaking pictures in a more meditative way that film does not allow The result is almost elegiac producing the same kind of goose bumps that Burns created in his early work on the Brooklyn Bridge and the Civil War / Burns has been chronicling the American experience for over thirty years and I think it s fair to say that no one has influenced more living Americans to think about our history as a people and a nation His dominant themes have been space and race his persistent question deceptively simple who are we I think em The National Parks / em is his masterpiece on the space theme And the message that kept whispering to me in these pages was that whoever we are has been decisively shaped by the sheer physicality of the continent we inhabit / It never occurred to me before but Americans invented the idea institutionalized in our National Parks Namely as Burns puts it in the introduction for the first time in human history land--great sections of our natural landscape--was set aside not for kings or noblemen or the very rich but for everyone for all time As Wallace Stegner once observed and the book s subtitle echoes this may have been America s best idea Burns links the idea to Jefferson s magic words in the Declaration of Independence i e We hold these truths our When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present Little, Brown and Company ISBN13 9780316059541 Condition NEW Notes Brand New from Publisher No Remainder Mark a title Condition Guide href / content/ Condition and Shipping Guide htm target blank Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices / a Gail Collins em New York Times / em columnist and bestselling author recounts the astounding revolution in womens lives over the past 50 years with her usual sly wit and unfussy style em People / em r r When Everything Changed begins in 1960 when most American women had to get their husbands permission to apply for a credit card It ends in 2008 with Hillary Clintons historic presidential campaign This was a time of cataclysmic change when after four hundred years expectations about the lives of American women were smashed in just a generation r r A comprehensive mix of oral history and Gail Collinss keen research--covering politics fashion popular culture economics sex families and work-- When Everything Changed is the definitive book on five crucial decades of progress The enormous strides made since 1960 include the advent of the birth control pill the end of Help Wanted--Male and Help Wanted--Female ads and the lifting of quotas for women in admission to medical and law schools Gail Collins describes what has happened in every realm of womens lives partly through the testimonies of both those who made history and those who simply made their way r r Picking up where her highly lauded book Americas Women left off When Everything Changed is a dynamic story told with the down-to-earth amusing and agenda-free tone for which this beloved New York Times columnist is known Older readers men and women alike will be startled as they are reminded of what their lives once were-- Father Knows Best and My Little Margie on TV daily weigh-ins for stewardesses few female professors no women in the Boston marathon in combat zones or in the police department Younger readers will see their history in a rich new way It has been an era packed with drama and dreams--some dashed and others realized beyond anyones imagining D-Day: The Battle for Normandy Viking Adult ISBN13 9780670021192 Condition NEW Notes Brand New from Publisher No Remainder Mark a title Condition Guide href / content/ Condition and Shipping Guide htm target blank Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices / a The definitive account of the Normandy invasion by the bestselling author of Stalingrad and The Fall of Berlin 1945 / R R From critically acclaimed world historian Antony Beevor this is the first major account in more than twenty years to cover the whole invasion from June 6 1944 right up to the liberation of Paris on August 25 It is the first book to describe not only the experiences of the American British Canadian and German soldiers but also the terrible suffering of the French caught up in the fighting More French civilians were killed by Allied bombing and shelling than British civilians were by the Luftwaffe R R The Allied fleet attempted by far the largest amphibious assault ever and what followed was a battle as savage as anything seen on the Eastern Front Casualties mounted on both sides as did the tensions between the principal commanders Even the joys of liberation had their darker side The war in northern France marked not just a generation but the whole of the postwar world profoundly influencing relations between America and Europe Beevor draws upon his research in more than thirty archives in six countries going back to original accounts interviews conducted by combat historians just after the action and many diaries and letters donated to museums and archives in recent years R R D-Day will surely be hailed as the consummate account of the Normandy invasion and the ferocious offensive that led to the liberation of Paris Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle Twelve ISBN13 9780446541466 Condition NEW Notes Brand New from Publisher No Remainder Mark a title Condition Guide href / content/ Condition and Shipping Guide htm target blank Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices / a START-UP NATION addresses the trillion dollar question How is it that Israel-- a country of 7 1 million only 60 years old surrounded by enemies in a constant state of war since its founding with no natural resources-- produces more start-up companies than large peaceful and stable nations like Japan China India Korea Canada and the UK r r With the savvy of foreign policy insiders Senor and Singer examine the lessons of the countrys adversity-driven culture which flattens hierarchy and elevates informality-- all backed up by government policies focused on innovation In a world where economies as diverse as st1 country-region w st on Ireland / st1 country-region st1 country-region w st on Singapore / st1 country-region and st1 city w st on Dubai / st1 city have tried to re-create the st1 place w st on st1 country-region w st on Israel / st1 country-region / st1 place effect there are entrepreneurial lessons well worth noting As st1 country-region w st on st1 place w st on America / st1 place / st1 country-region reboots its own economy and can-do spirit theres never been a better time to look at this remarkable and resilient nation for some impressive surprising clues The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN13 9780618968411 Condition NEW Notes Brand New from Publisher No Remainder Mark a title Condition Guide href / content/ Condition and Shipping Guide htm target blank Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices / a On the afternoon of August 20 1910 a battering ram of wind moved through the drought-stricken national forests of Washington Idaho and Montana whipping the hundreds of small blazes burning across the forest floor into a roaring inferno that jumped from treetop to ridge as it raged destroying towns and timber in the blink of an eye Forest rangers had assembled nearly ten thousand men college boys day workers immigrants from mining camps to fight the fire But no living person had seen anything like those flames and neither the rangers nor anyone else knew how to subdue them r r Egan narrates the struggles of the overmatched rangers against the implacable fire with unstoppable dramatic force Equally dramatic is the larger story he tells of outsized president Teddy Roosevelt and his chief forester Gifford Pinchot Pioneering the notion of conservation Roosevelt and Pinchot did nothing less than create the idea of public land as our national treasure owned by and preserved for every citizen The robber barons fought Roosevelt and Pinchot s rangers but the Big Burn saved the forests even as it destroyed them the heroism shown by the rangers turned public opinion permanently in their favor and became the creation myth that drove the Forest Service with consequences still felt in the way our national lands are protected or not today Amazon Best of the Month October 2009 / When Theodore Roosevelt vacated the Oval Office he left a vast legacy of public lands under the stewardship of the newly created Forest Service Immediately political enemies of the nascent conservation movement chipped away at the foundations of the untested agency lobbying for a return of the land to private interests and development Then in 1910 several small wildfires in the Pacific Northwest merge into one massive swift and unstoppable blaze and the Forest Service is pressed into a futile effort to douse the flames Over 100 firefighters died heroically galvanizing public opinion in favor of the forests--with unexpected ramifications exposed in todays proliferation of destructive fires Just as he recounted the Dust Bowl experience in em The Worst Hard Time / em a National Book Award winner em The Big Burn / em vividly recreates disaster through the eyes of the men and women who experienced it though this time without the benefit of first-hand accounts Its another incredible--and incredibly compelling--feat of historical journalism -- em Jon Foro / em r / r / hr class bucketDivider size 1 / r / span class h1 Amazon Exclusive Essay The Ghosts of 1910 by Timothy Egan Author of em The Big Burn / em / / span mg align right border 0 hspace 5 src http / / g-ecx images-amazon com/ images/ G/ 01/ books/ hmh-ems/ TimEgan150 jpg vspace 5 / / Nearly a hundred years ago a big piece of Rocky Mountain high country fell to a fire that has never been matched--in size ferocity or how it changed the country I was drawn to this fire in part because of its mythic status among my fellow Westerners But I was reluctant to try and tell this story because everyone who had lived through it had gone to their grave With em The Worst Hard Time / em I could look into the eyes of people who survived the Dust Bowl and hear their stories--firsthand They were happy to pass them on I was the baton r / r / With em The Big Burn / em the stories would have to come from ghosts That fire burned 3 million acres and five towns to the ground in the hot sweep of a single weekend It also killed nearly a hundred people So my task was to listen to the dead--those Italian and Irish immigrant firefighters in their letters home those first forest rangers in memories collected in volumes