This book tells the stories of the Jewish women who came of age in Brownsville, Brooklyn, in the 1940s and 1950s. Through in-depth interviews with more than forty women, Carole Bell Ford explores the choices these women made and the boundaries within which they made them, offering fresh insights into the culture and values of Jewish women in the postwar period. Not content to remain in the past, The Girls is also a story of women who live in the ...

By persuasively connecting the Nixon years to the larger dilemmas of our time, Mr. Schell has elevated a shabby political story to the level of tragedy. ...

"Inventing Modern America" profiles 35 inventors who exemplify the rich technological creativity of the United States over the past century. The inventors profiled include such well-known figures as George Washington Carver, Henry Ford, and Steve Wozniak. 188 illustrations. ...

Offering a feminist perspective on a wide range of topics, Randall is alternately passionate, angry, and humorous. <P>Looking at the choices we face in this war on terror, she writes, "In this picture we are asked to align ourselves, to take sides. But what if we believe there are other choices? Feminists have long been good at envisioning alternative choices. It is way past time for us to do so again."<P>About her father who ...

Evans tells the extraordinary story of two of the world's most powerful men, and the femme fatale who came between them. His stunning revelations about the Kennedy-Onassis-Kennedy love triangle is sure to make headlines worldwide. ...

The dawn of 1964 was greeted by a disillusioned nation still in mourning over the recent death of President John F. Kennedy. It was a year marked by both hope and sadness. Presidential successor Lyndon B. Johnson's vision of a Great Society buoyed the nation but the murder of three civil rights workers and the start of the Vietnam War kept the country in a state of unrest. ...

From the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy to the growing civil rights movement to the rise of the Berlin Wall and escalating Cold War-tensions, 1961 offered no shortage of compelling events that set into motion many of the issues that would come to characterize the turbulence of the 1960s. In addition to the above-mentioned events, the authors in this anthology also describe the increasing U.S. military involvement in Vietnam, the ...

Authors in this anthology examine the events that occurred in 1969. Topics include the first trip to the moon and Woodstock. ...

&lt;div&gt;Richard D. Heffner is the producer and host of public television&amp;#8217;s prize-winning The Open Mind&amp;#8212;the nation&amp;#8217;s longest-running public television interview program&amp;#8212;which he began in 1956. Now he draws on nearly fifty years of his broadcast conversations to form As They Saw It. Heffner has woven decades of provocative and thoughtful discussions with major figures from Malcolm ...

For the past century, the Commonwealth Club is the forum where national and world leaders have gone to give voice to the great issues of their time. Here, in one volume, readers can go beyond the sound bite world we live in today to examine the words of Teddy Roosevelt, Nikita Kruschev, Woodrow Wilson, Martin Luther King, Jr., and many other luminous thinkers or our era. ...