"The book is the improbable, inspiring autobiography of financial guru Eddie C. Brown, one of the nation's top stock pickers and money managers. It details how Brown skillfully kept Brown Capital Management afloat through the dot-com bust, 9/11 and the Great Recession. Born to a…
"A biography of singer Peggy Lee."
Machine generated contents note: -- Prologue: 'Alienated is the only way to be' -- <strong>PART ONE</strong> -- Chapter One: 'A matriarchal clan' -- Chapter Two: 'States of grace are always evil' -- Chapter Three: 'Flight from a closed room' -- Chapter Four: 'Just a wife' -- Cha…
"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author of Backlash, comes In the Darkroom, an astonishing confrontation with the enigma of her father and the larger riddle of identity consuming our age. 'In the summer of 2004 I set out to investigate someone I scarce…
"From the author of Arshile Gorky, a major biography of the great American sculptor that redefines his legacy."
Traveling Heavy is a deeply moving, unconventional memoir by the master storyteller and cultural anthropologist Ruth Behar. Through evocative stories, she portrays her life as an immigrant child and later, as an adult woman who loves to travel but is terrified of boarding a plan…
Familiar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands
by Hall, Stuart
fromStuart Hall : selected writings
"Sometimes I feel myself to have been the last colonial." This, in his own words, is the extraordinary story of the life and career of Stuart Hall-how his experiences shaped his intellectual, political, and theoretical work and how he became one of his age's brightest intellectu…