Pull up a ringside seat to the exultant pageant of New York's night life, commerce and scoiety, from the Cotton Club to Wall Street to Broadway. Charles Wohlsetter was a young acolyte to George Gershwin, Bernard Baruch, Abe Burrows, J. Paul Getty and George S. Kaufman. He was admitted as a junior member of the Algonquin Round Table with Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, Franklin P. Adams and Alexander Woollcott. His Algonquin cohorts would have ...

Jon Katz, a respected author and family man, arrived at age 50 feeling sedentary and uneasy. His wife was busy pursuing her own demanding career, his daughter was preparing to leave home for college, and his writing career had taken a dubious turn. A modern-day Walden, Running to the Mountain chronicles Katz's wonderfully witty and insightful search for renewed purpose and meaning in his familiar world. Armed with his two faithful Labradors, and ...

In a haunting, barely fictionalized memoir, the author of "A Man's Place" gives her most searing, revealing work to date. One Sunday, just after lunch, a young girl's father explodes in anger, and tries to kill her mother. The outburst is all over almost as soon as it happens, but the girl's image of her father in those few seconds cuts through her, a chilling, incomprehensible picture that won't go away. ...

A vivid and gripping account of old times and customs and of the author's fight with alcohol addiction before finding lasting peace in Christ. Throughout Speedy's long career as a newspaper columnist, broadcaster and author, he has displayed an uncanny ability to connect with his legions of fans in Ireland and overseas. People love his stories because they are the stories of Irish folk with their unique culture, their interesting history and ...

This engaging book--the ideal prelude for anyone preparing to read one of C.S. Lewis's many volumes for the first time--offers an excellent introduction to this novelist, professor, and Christian apologist's life and works. ...

Sir Henry Morton Stanley, the nineteenth-century journalist and explorer now legendary for the comment "Doctor Livingstone, I presume?" was already on the road to high adventure in his "May of life". In 1859 at age eighteen, he arrived at the port of New Orleans, having left behind a harsh upbringing in Wales; he then traveled the Mississippi Valley as the protege of Henry Hope Stanley, a cotton broker and his adopted namesake, and later served ...

The story of Sir William Lyons is indelibly linked with that of his remarkable Jaguar cars. This inspiring book describes Lyons' early influences, his tentative steps into the motor trade and how, while in his 30s, he established a substantial motor manufacturing business and launched the Jaguar marque. Lyons was known for his talent for automotive styling, as well as his shrewd approach to business. He also saw the importance of motorsport and ...

In this "disarmingly amiable reminiscence" ("The Atlantic Monthly") that "may be the best argument for the left since Marx" ("The New Yorker"), poet and writer Lisa Michaels blends memoir with social commentary to tell a remarkable tale of growing up as a child of political activists during the early seventies. ...

As a gifted Berkeley engineering graduate in the late teens, Hill succeeded in reengineering the famous "Liberty Engine" of World War I to fit into the legendary bomber DH-4, or "Flying Coffin". In the late 1920s his passion for aviation brought him to a new marketplace as twelve-year president of Air Associates - the remarkable catalog vendor of everything from plane parts and repairs to the whole aircraft. During World War II, he founded his ...

Frank Grady's remarkable account of his years as a Japanese POW offers a riveting portrayal of the heroic efforts required to outlast a hellish war. ...