A Slave No
More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom,
Including Their Own Narratives of
Emancipation
by David W.
Blight
Slave narratives, some of the most
powerful records of our past, are
extremely rare, with only fifty-five
post&endash;Civil War narratives
surviving. A mere handful are first-person
accounts by slaves who ran away and freed
themselves. Now two newly uncovered
narratives, and the biographies of the men
who wrote them, join that exclusive group
with the publication of A Slave No
More, a major new addition to the
canon of American history. Handed down
through family and friends, these
narratives tell gripping stories of
escape: Through a combination of
intelligence, daring, and sheer luck, the
men reached the protection of the
occupying Union troops. David W. Blight
magnifies the drama and significance by
prefacing the narratives with each man's
life history. Using a wealth of
genealogical information, Blight has
reconstructed their childhoods as sons of
white slaveholders, their service as cooks
and camp hands during the Civil War, and
their climb to black working-class
stability in the north, where they
reunited their families.
Teach Like
Your Hair's on Fire: The Methods and
Madness Inside Room 56
by Rafe
Esquith
From the man whom The New York
Times calls "a genius and a saint"
comes a revelatory program for educating
today's youth. In Teach Like Your
Hair's on Fire!, Rafe Esquith reveals
the techniques that have made him one of
the most acclaimed educators of our time.
The two mottoes in Esquith's classroom are
"Be Nice, Work Hard," and "There Are No
Shortcuts." His students voluntarily come
to school at 6:30 in the morning and work
until 5:00 in the afternoon. They learn to
handle money responsibly, tackle algebra,
and travel the country to study history.
They pair Hamlet with rock and roll, and
read the American classics. Teach Like
Your Hair's on Fire! is a brilliant and
inspiring road map for parents, teachers,
and anyone who cares about the future
success of our nation's children.
In The Greatest Generation, his
landmark bestseller, Tom Brokaw eloquently
evoked for America what it meant to come
of age during the Great Depression and the
Second World War. Now, in Boom!,
one of America's premier journalists gives
us an epic portrait of another defining
era in America as he brings to life the
tumultuous Sixties, a fault line in
American history. The voices and stories
of both famous people and ordinary
citizens come together as Brokaw takes us
on a memorable journey through a
remarkable time, exploring how individual
lives and the national mindset were
affected by a controversial era and
showing how the aftershocks of the Sixties
continue to resound in our lives today. In
the reflections of a generation, Brokaw
also discovers lessons that might guide us
in the years ahead.
Microtrends:
The Small Forces Behind Tomorrow's Big
Changes
by Mark Penn
with E. Kinney Zalesne
In 1982, readers discovered Megatrends.
In 2000, The Tipping Point entered the
lexicon. Now, in Microtrends, one
of the most respected and sought-after
analysts in the world articulates a new
way of understanding how we live. Mark
Penn, the man who identified Soccer Moms
as a crucial constituency in President
Clinton's 1996 reelection campaign, is
known for his ability to detect relatively
small patterns of behavior in our
culture-microtrends that are wielding
great influence on business, politics, and
our personal lives. Only one percent of
the public, or three million people, is
enough to launch a business or social
movement. Relying on some of the best data
available, Penn identifies more than 70
microtrends in religion, leisure,
politics, and family life that are
changing the way we live.
God's
Harvard: A Christian College on a Mission
to Save America
by Hanna
Rosin
Since 2000, America's most ambitious
young evangelicals have been making their
way to Patrick Henry College, a small
Christian school just outside the nation's
capital. Most of them are homeschoolers
whose idealism and discipline put the
average American teenager to shame. And
God's Harvard grooms these students to be
the elite of tomorrow, dispatching them to
the front lines of politics,
entertainment, and science, to wage the
battle to take back a godless nation.
Hanna Rosin spent a year and a half
embedded at the college, following the
students from the campus to the White
House, Congress, conservative think tanks,
Hollywood, and other centers of influence.
Her account captures this nerve center of
the evangelical movement at a moment of
maximum influence and also of crisis, as
it struggles to avoid the temptations of
modern life and still remake the world in
its own image.
The Last
Chance Millionaire: It's Not Too Late
to Become Wealthy
by Douglas R.
Andrew
According to Doug Andrew, the
bestselling author of Missed Fortune 101,
too many Americans are being led down the
wrong financial path. Even worse, many
Baby Boomers find themselves panicking
--fearful that they've already fallen too
far behind to ever catch up. In this
indispensable and eye-opening guide,
Andrew provides fresh new pathways to
reaching financial security -- pathways
that all Americans need to consider
now.
Centering on his Three Miracles of
Wealth Accumulation: the Miracle of
Compound Interest, the Miracle of
Tax-Favored Accumulation, and the Miracle
of Positive, Safe Leverage, Andrew
explodes many of the commonly-held myths
about 401ks, pensions, paying down one's
mortgage, and other forms of retirement
planning. Along the way, Andrew offers
unique strategies that will not only
increase your wealth, but also help
readers enjoy their best years while
securing their future.
