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Transforming Leadership
by James MacGregor Burns“Harvesting vignettes from American and world history and reading them in light of new sociological and psychological research, [Burns’] latest book aims to put “transforming leadership” at the core of…
Stone Junction
by Jim Dodge…Finn. Stone Junction is a rollicking, frequently surprising adventure-cum-fairy tale. It also has a sweetness about it and an indigenous American optimism, as if somewhere out there, beyond the shopping…
Plexus
by Henry Miller…all our American writers, the most open to ideas and feelings, and yes, the most worshipful of all the aspects of life, as well as the most critical literary spokesman…
A Place to Stand
by Jimmy Santiago Baca…me of the rawness of George Orwell combined with the human exuberance of Neruda’s memoirs. . . . This book will have a permanent place in American letters.” —Jim Harrison…
Over Time
by Frank Deford“Equal doses of self-deprecating humor and anecdotal history of American sports journalism are the essence of Frank Deford’s entertaining new memoir.” —Chicago Tribune…
A New Path to the Waterfall
by Raymond Carver“Extremely attractive, accessible and moving . . . Like all strong writers Raymond Carver wrote as if he had the whole of European and American culture in his bones ….
Loves of Harriet Beecher Stowe
by Philip McFarland“Harriet Beecher Stowe is one of the great heroines of American history, and Philip McFarland brings her to life in all her glory, in a book at once so dramatic…
Little Savage
by Emily Fragos“This is not an adjunct poetry collection, but a magically essential one. . . . Fragos uses metaphors to cast spells.” –Benjamin Ivy, American Book Review…
A Little Pregnant
by Linda Carbone“Affecting . . . astonishingly revealing . . . For six million similarly afflicted American couples, the lessons to be learned from this candid account are as much about love…
Indian Journals
by Allen Ginsberg“Ginsberg is both tragic and dynamic, a lyrical genius, a con man extraordinaire and probably the single greatest influence on American poetical voice since Whitman.” –Bob Dylan…
