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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A former paramedic's visceral, poignant, and mordantly funny account of a decade spent on Atlanta's mean streets saving lives and connecting with the drama and occasional beauty that lies inside catastrophe. In the aftermath of 9/11 Kevin Hazzard felt that something was missing from his life--his days were too safe, too routine. A failed salesman turned local reporter, he wanted to test himself, see how he might respond to pressure and danger. He...
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
423 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"MAD MEN MEETS THE WIRE IN THIS GRIPPING TRUE-CRIME MEMOIR BY A FORMER AGENT AT THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF NARCOTICS IN 1960s NEW YORK Before Nixon famously declared a "war on drugs, " there was the Federal Bureau of Narcotics. New York City in the mid-1960s: The war in Vietnam was on the nation's tongue--but so is something else. Clandestine and chaotic, but equally ruthless, the agents of the Bureau were feared by the Mafia, dealers, pimps, prostitutes--anyone...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxiv, 207 pages : portrait, facsimiles ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Caro gives us a glimpse into his own life and work. He describes what it was like to interview the mighty Robert Moses and begin discovering the extent of his political power; his encounters with longtime residents wrenchingly displaced by Moses's Cross-Bronx Expressway; the discouragement and exhilaration he felt confronting the vast holdings of the LBJ Library; and Lady Bird Johnson's acknowledgement of the...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 180
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
xvii, 979 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rogers' book was priceless because he was delivering enlightenment and pride, steeped in historical research, to a people too long starved on the lie that they were worth nothing. For African Americans of the Jim Crow era, Rogers' was their first black history teacher. But Rogers was not always shy about embellishing the facts and minimizing ambiguity; neither was he above shock journalism now and then. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. gives us a corrective...
Language
English
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Description
"In the last 25 years we have seen a series of major disruptions to business as usual. There was the Asian financial crisis in 1997, the dotcom bust in 2000, the SARs crisis in 2002, the tsunamis in 2004 and 2011, the global financial crisis in 2008, the Arab Spring of 2011, the Ebola outbreak in 2014 and covid-19 in 2020. All of these were unexpected events that have huge impact. Add in the threat of global warming, oil price volatility and a refugee...
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