A story of old age featuring Yolanda Moscowitz, a retired teacher in her 70s. She lives in a hospital in Tel Aviv after a crippling fall. Without family she fears loneliness and seeks to enter into a relationship with a fellow patient.
A story of old age featuring Yolanda Moscowitz, a retired teacher in her 70s. She lives in a hospital in Tel Aviv after a crippling fall. Without family she fears loneliness and seeks to enter into a relationship with a fellow patient.
Preface -- Bostonian republicans -- Bachelor -- Wartime -- From old colony to psychological warfare -- With Ike to victory -- Transition -- The gay spy -- Reforming and running the NSC -- Ike's peculiar ban on gays -- The passion of Oppenheimer -- The Iran coup -- Mystery man --…
The Cold War, The Lavender Scare and the Untold Story of Eisenhower's First National Security Advisor. This page-turning narrative takes readers from top-secret Cabinet Room meetings to exclusive social clubs, and into the pages of a powerful man's intimate diary. Ike's Mystery …
"President Eisenhower's National Security Advisor Robert "Bobby" Cutler shaped US Cold War strategy in far more consequential ways than previously understood. A lifelong Republican, Cutler also served three Democratic presidents. The life of any party, he was a tight-lipped loya…
An account of Sir Douglas Mawson's explorations of and discoveries in Antarctica and of his remarkable survival, in 1912, of a solitary trudge through snow, wind, and bitter cold without food or drink.
Mawson's Will is the dramatic story of what Sir Edmund Hillary calls "the most outstanding solo journey ever recorded in Antarctic history." For weeks in Antarctica, Douglas Mawson faced some of the most daunting conditions ever known to man: blistering wind, snow, and cold; los…
Probes the psychology, motives, and actions of Lee Harvey Oswald, his marriage to Marina, and her view of her life with Oswald and the events surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
The inside story of Lee Harvey Oswald's path to killing John. F. Kennedy. Reissued to mark the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination, Marina and Lee is an indispensable account of one of America's most traumatic events, and a classic work of narrative history. In her met…
Probes the psychology, motives, and actions of Lee Harvey Oswald, his marriage to Marina, and her view of her life with Oswald and the events surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
