Prince of the City, The: Giuliani, New York, and the Genius of American Life

Friday, July 25th, 2008 by Book Guy | No Comments »

“Siegel presents a positive but not uncritical opinion of the Giuliani record, which is
of interest in itself but especially if Giuliani runs for president.”Booklist

“The Prince of the City is a remarkable account of the Giuliani years by our best writer on urban
affairs. Anyone interested in how the dead hand of ideology came near to crippling our largest city must
read this book.”U.S. News &World Report

In the first post-9/11 account of the career of the man who established himself as “America’s Mayor” in
the dark days after America was attacked, Fred Siegel shows how Rudy Giuliani’s successes in New
York set a promising example for the rejuvenation of our major cities. Someone who has worked with
Giuliani as well as studied him, Siegel regards Giuliani as a shrewd tactician and artist of the possible
who could have stepped out of the pages of Machiavelli’s The Prince. A self-promoting,
self-absorbed man, the mayor made his enormous ego and tribal ethos serve the city’s well-being,
promoting ideals that transcended New York’s ethnic politics and business as usual. The Prince of
the City is at once a fascinating character study, a history of New York over the last forty years, and
a classic inquiry into the issue of how cities thrive or die.
Publisher: Blackstone Audio Inc
Author: Fred Siegel
Narrator: Brian Emerson
ISBN: 0-7861-5335-0
Normal Price: $39.95
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Civil War, The: Part 2

Saturday, July 19th, 2008 by Book Guy | No Comments »

On April 9, 1865, General Lee surrendered what remained of his Confederate Army.
But what had the North won? The United States of America was now one nation, but that nation
was crippled by the economic costs of war: wholesale destruction, inflation, and poverty. The
political costs were no less. Abraham Lincoln had been assassinated and Southern leaders were
in jail. Northern politicians now began to “reconstruct” the South, to build state governments that
would be loyal to the union. But the conquered South simmered with resentments that could not
be legislated out of existence.

The United States at War series is a collection of presentations that review the political, economic,
and social forces that have erupted in military conflict and examine how the conflict resolved, or
failed to resolve the forces that caused war.

Golden Gate University
Publisher: Blackstone Audio Inc
Author: Jeffrey Rogers Hummel
Narrator: George C. Scott
ISBN: 0-7861-7126-X
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My Life As a 10-Year-Old Boy!

Sunday, July 13th, 2008 by Book Guy | No Comments »

Since ten-year-old Bart Simpson popped on the screen in 1987, this and other gems like “Don’t have a cow, man!” have seized the collective consciousness and are now heard round the world. Now, here’s the real story behind the show, the creative process, the guest stars, Bart’s road to fame and much moreall from the voice of Bart, Nancy Cartwright.
Publisher: Blackstone Audio Inc
Author: Nancy Cartwright
Narrator: Nancy Cartwright
ISBN: 0-7861-3175-6
Normal Price: $35.95
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Every Mother Is a Daughter

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008 by Book Guy | No Comments »

Every Mother Is a Daughter
The Neverending Quest for Success, Inner Peace and a Really Clean Kitchen
"Readers will appreciate the honesty between the pairThe mother-daughter duo triumph
over hectic schedules and physical distance through their love of writing and travelThis is a treasure for
any generation."Publishers Weekly

Oh no, I’m turning into my mother! Every woman is familiar with the poignant, funny, baffling, or horrifying
echoes that resonate at that moment when she first hears her own mother’s voice coming out of her mouth.
But this moment of recognition is more than ironic: it’s at the root of how we see ourselves, and how we
plot and follow the arc that goes from childhood to motherhood.

Together, Perri Klass and her mother, Sheila Solomon Klass, cover more than seven decades of daughterhood
and motherhood. And although they grew up in dramatically different circumstances, they find that their lives
have been shaped in strangely similar ways. In Every Mother is a Daughter, Perri and Sheila tell their
mother-daughter story, looking honestly at their own lives and at each other, with different perspectives, unique
voices, and powerful insight, in the first co-written mother-daughter memoir.

Perri Klass is an award-winning author of several books and a practicing pediatrician. She is the medical director of the national program Reach Out and Read, dedicated to promoting literacy as part of pediatric primary care. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Sheila Solomon Klass is a professor of English at the City University of New York and the author of several books.
Publisher: Blackstone Audio Inc
Author: Perri Klass and Sheila Solomon Klass
Narrator: Anna Fields and Carrington MacDuffie
ISBN: 0-7861-5387-3
Normal Price: $34.95
Download Price: $23.95

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Life Of Robert E. Lee, The

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 by Book Guy | No Comments »

Life Of Robert E. Lee, The
In preparing the Life of Lee for Children, for use in the Public Schools,
I beg leave to place before teachers good reasons for employing it as a supplementary reader.

First, I urge the need of interesting our children in history at an early age. From observation
I find that the minds of children who study history early expand more rapidly than those who
are restricted to the limits of stories in readers. While teaching pupils to read, why not fix in their
minds the names and deeds of our great men, thereby laying the foundation of historical
knowledge and instilling true patriotism into their youthful souls?

Secondly, in looking over the lives of our American heroes we find not one which presents
such a picture of moral grandeur as that of Lee. Place this picture before the little ones and you
cannot fail to make them look upward to noble ideals.

Mary L. Williamson, 1898

Lloyd James hails from the Midwest. He received a B.A. in theater from a small liberal-arts college in New Mexico. He acts in the theater when his schedule permits and spends much of his free time working in his garden. He lives in Virginia with his wife and son.
Publisher: Blackstone Audio Inc
Author: Mary L. Williamson
Narrator: Lloyd James
ISBN: 0-7861-3594-8
Normal Price: $25.95
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