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BY HIS OWN RULES
The Ambitions, Successes, and Ultimate Failures of Donald Rumsfeld
Bradley Graham


“The first real, genuine, and mature biography of Rumsfeld—told with balance, empathy, and a toughness that Rumsfeld should appreciate. If anyone doubts that personality impacts and infects policy, read this excellent book. It is both fair-minded and blistering.” —Bob Woodward

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K BLOWS TOP
A Cold War Comic Interlude Starring Nikita Khrushchev, America's Most Unlikely Tourist
Peter Carlson

“Carlson seems to have sought and discovered every piece of arcana associated with the Soviet leader's American sojourn. A deft and amusing writer, Carlson does a marvelous job of recounting it.”—Washington Post

 


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    ENOUGH
Why the World's Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty
Roger Thurow and Scott Kilman

“How, in a world of plenty, can people be left to starve? We think, ‘It’s just the way of the world.’ But if it is the way of the world, we must overthrow the way of the world. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.”—Bono

 

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    FOOD, INC.
How Industrial Food Is Making Us Sicker, Fatter, and Poorer—And What You Can Do About It
A Participant Media Guide

In theaters now

A whole new kind of movie tie-in—the first in a series—goes behind the scenes and deeper into the issues and ideas raised by a provocative documentary on the contemporary way of eating
 

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    WHAT ELSE BUT HOME
Seven Boys and an American Journey Between the Projects and the Penthouse
Michael Rosen

“For Michael Rosen to have lived this story would've been sufficient. For him to be able to write about it with such beauty and grit, such delicacy and bluntness, seems like a gift of destiny.” —Diane McWhorter, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Carry Me Home

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    I'M DYING UP HERE
Heartbreak and High Times in Standup Comedy's Golden Era
William Knoedelseder

A little-known story of the brief, shining moment when comedy's stars-to-be were starving artists and friends in 1970s L.A.—and of the strike that tore them apart.

 

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