Displaying articles for: January 2012

The Super Bowl

Game day reading.

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Commanders

American Generals in an era of change

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Year of the Dragon

Readings that explore China in an era of change.

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The Civil Rights Movement

Remembering and celebrating voices raised in protest.

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The Olympians

Reading from Athena to Zeus.

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December 7: "He believed that once these graves were properly marked, then the Unknowns' former [shipmates] might visit them to lay flowers and pay their respects."

 

"It was during those long and lonely years that my hunger for the freedom of my own people became a hunger for the freedom of all people, white and black. I knew as well as…

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Books, CDs, DVDs to know about now
The Men Who United the States

Simon Winchester (The Professor and the Madman) chronicles singular individuals ("Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics and Mavericks") whose stubborn genius lashed a nascent nation together into a powerful and glorious whole.

Empress of Fashion: A Life of Diana Vreeland

Do today's fashion figures fail to loom as mythically as those of yore?   Amanda Mackenzie Stuart celebrates the life and career of an iconic giants of yesteryear with empathy and panache.

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Doug Dorst (The Surf Guru) brings to life a unique mystery from the imagination of co-author (and director of the upcoming Star Wars sequels) J. J. Abrams: a novel designed to look like a library book filled with news reports, postcards, and two lovers' mash notes.
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