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  • Letter to a Great Grandson

    A Message of Love, Advice, and Hopes for the Future

    by Hugh Downs ...
    ''When you are a great grandfather you will experience something so much more powerful and meaningful than being a father or a grandfather, that you will look at the march of generations with new eyes.''When his great-grandson Alexander was born in 2002, Hugh Downs suddenly gained a rare perspective on the world -- he had seen the evolution of American culture through five generations (his parents ... Read more

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  • Stories that Changed America

    Muckrakers of the 20th Century

    by Carl Jensen ...
    Exuberantly written, highly informative, Jensen's Stories That Changed America examines the work of twenty-one investigative writers, and how their efforts forever changed our country. Here are the pioneering muckrakers, like Upton Sinclair, author of the fact-based novel The Jungle, that inspired Theodore Roosevelt to sign the Pure Food and Drug Act into law; "Queen of the Muckrakers" Ida Mae ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • My America

    What My Country Means to Me, by 150 Americans from All Walks of Life

    Edited by Hugh Downs ...
    "Some of these essays are powerful and poetic. Some seem to reflect a stunned condition on the part of the contributor. But all of them share a newborn or reawakened feeling about the country we live in -- an underlying concern for it, whether that concern is rooted in anger and fear, or in a sensed and urgent need for action, or internal correction, or wagon-circling. Some are personal narratives ... Read more

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  • Yours Truly, Hugh Downs

    by Hugh Downs ...
    Hugh Downs, legendary broadcaster at 20/20 and The Tonight Show, describes how an endlessly creative childhood lead to his career as a radioman and broadcaster. Topics examined include: his father’s wayward attempt to automate their entire family home (down to the plumbing), a boyhood attempt to manufacture alcohol (until his Grandmother wrecked the still), being chased by a steam engine, klieg ... Read more

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  • Idiot America

    How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free

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    NATIONAL BESTSELLERThe three Great Premises of Idiot America:· Any theory is valid if it sells books, soaks up ratings, or otherwise moves units· Anything can be true if someone says it loudly enough· Fact is that which enough people believe. Truth is determined by how fervently they believe itWith his trademark wit and insight, veteran journalist Charles Pierce delivers a gut-wrenching, side ... Read more

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  • What Unites Us

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  • Keep It Pithy

    Useful Observations in a Tough World

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  • 10 Things You Might Not Know About Nearly Everything

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  • Fight of the Century

    Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases

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