Anthony Summers peels back layers of fact and hearsay to reveal the truth about one of the most powerful Americans of the twentieth century No one exemplified paranoia and secrecy at the heart of American power better than J. Edgar Hoover, the original director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. For this consummate biography, renowned investigative journalist Anthony Summers interviewed more than eight hundred witnesses and pored through thousands of documents to get at the truth about the man who headed the FBI for fifty years, persecuted political enemies, blackmailed politicians, and lived his own surprising secret life. Ultimately, Summers paints a portrait of a fatally flawed individual who should never have held such power, and for so long. Views: 128
A fast, frightening, and thrillingly contemporary novel about marriage and money that early reviewers are calling "powerful" (Booklist, starred review), "propulsive" (Publishers Weekly), "totally addictive" (Bookish), and "a novel of unrelenting tension" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).Here is one of the most engrossing, unnerving, and exhilarating novels in recent memory. It comes to us from Joe McGinniss Jr., whose first book, The Delivery Man, was a national bestseller that critics hailed as "searing" (The New York Times Book Review), "compelling" (The Washington Post), and "reminiscent of Joan Didion" (Janet Fitch). Now, after spending the better part of a decade at work, McGinniss returns with another viscerally absorbing look at the seductive—and destructive—cutting edge of modern life, this time through the lens of marriage. Carousel Court is the story of Nick and Phoebe Maguire, a young... Views: 126
"There is almost no writer I admire as much as I do Alec Wilkinson. He's an extraordinary reporter and a writer of such grace that his stories seem illuminated from within. His work has enduring brilliance and humanity." —Susan Orlean, author of The Library Book A spirited, metaphysical exploration into math's deepest mysteries and conundrums at the crux of middle age.Decades after struggling to understand math as a boy, Alec Wilkinson decides to embark on a journey to learn it as a middle-aged man. What begins as a personal challenge—and it's challenging—soon transforms into something greater than a belabored effort to learn math. Despite his incompetence, Wilkinson encounters a universe of unexpected mysteries in his pursuit of mathematical knowledge and quickly becomes fascinated; soon, his exercise in personal growth (and torture) morphs into an intellectually expansive exploration.In A Divine Language, Wilkinson, a... Views: 126
Literary critic, cultural commentator, TV personality, journalist, poet, political analyst, satirist and Formula One fan: Clive James is a man (and master) of many talents, and the essays collected here are testament to that fact. Whether discussing Bing Crosby, Bruno Schulz or Shakespeare, he manages to prioritise style and substance simultaneously, his tone never less than pitch-perfect, his argument always considered. With each phrase carefully crafted and each piece offering cause for thought, the resulting volume – which takes the reader from London to Bali, theatre to library, from pre-election campaigning to sitting in front of the TV at home, watching The Sopranos and The West Wing – is remarkable not only for its range and insight, but also its intimacy and honesty. Views: 126
In 1986 Brian Keenan and John McCarthy were forced to take a journey without maps. For the next four years they were incarcerated in a Lebanese dungeon. From the blank outlook of a tiny cell, with only each other and a few volumes of an ancient American encyclopaedia to sustain them, they could only wander the wide open spaces of their imagination. To displace the ugly confines of their existence, they envisaged walking in the High Andes and across the wastes of Patagonia.Five years after their return Brian and John chose to travel together again to see how the reality of Chile matched their imagination and to revisit their past experiences. They journeyed by every means available through vast empty deserts, verdant plains and barren tundra. Between Extremes is the story of that journey which once more found them far from home, in an unfamiliar landscape, but which for the first time allowed them to live by their own rules. Views: 123
The Tale of Lal - A Fantasy is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Raymond Paton is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of Raymond Paton then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection. Views: 119
HOTEL KEROBOKAN is the shocking inside
story of the most brutal, corrupt & truly bizzare jail in the
world - situated right in the heart of the holiday mecca, Bali. The
jail's graying walls touch paradise. Step outside and it's sun-kissed
beaches, five star restaurants & luxury hotels. Step inside - and
it's hell on earth. This book, written by an Australian journalist with
unprecedented access to inside, paints a graphic picture of life in the
jail and is not for the faint-hearted. It flirts with dark comedy, but
is thick with tragic and shocking stories of tourists and international
drug traffickers checked in to Hotel K.
It's a place that's been home to Gordon Ramsay’s drug addict
brother, Ronnie Ramsay, Bali King Cok Pemecutan, Australian beauty
school student Schapelle Corby, the Bali Nine, English ecstasy dealer
Steve Turner as well as unlucky tourists and surfers from across the
globe.
JOURNALIST Kathryn Bonella spent a year in Bali,
entering the jail every day for months to co-write Schapelle Corby's
bestselling 2006 autobiography NO MORE TOMORROWS. Now after hundreds of
interviews and two more years of investigation she's telling the
incredible story of the jail itself. Backed up by hundreds of interviews
with prisoners past and present, as well as jail guards, the truth
about HOTEL K explodes off every page. Views: 115
SUMMARY:
Fatal Vision is the electrifying true story of Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald, the handsome, Princeton-educated physician convicted of savagely slaying his young pregnant wife and two small children, murders he vehemently denies committing.Bestselling author Joe McGinnis chronicles every aspect of this horrifying and intricate crime, and probes the life and psyche of the magnetic, all-American Jeffrey MacDonald, a golden boy who seemed destined to have it all. The result is a penetration to the heart of darknes that enshrouded one of the most complex criminal cases ever to capture the attention of the American public. It is haunting, stunningly suspenseful-a work that no reader will be able to forget.With 8 pages of dramatic photos and a special epilogue by the author Views: 114
The BBC Radio 4 series, A Point of View, has been on the air since 2007. Over the years, it's had a variety of presenters – including the national treasure that is Clive James – talking for ten minutes about anything and everything that has captured their imagination, piqued their interest, raised their blood pressure or just downright incensed them that week. Of all the presenters, Clive James was a clear favourite, and now, for the first time, his original pieces – sixty in total – and all new postscripts are collected together in one volume. Read along with Clive as he reflects on everything from wheelie bins to plastic surgery, Elizabeth Hurley to the Olympics, 24 to Damien Hirst, Harry Potter to giving up smoking, car parks to Chinese elections, Britain's Got Talent to the expenses scandal – and plenty more besides. Views: 114
Danger and dissent stalk the streets and taverns of Elizabethan England. The Queen's chief spymaster, Francis Walsingham, and his team of agents must maintain the highest levels of vigilance to ward off Catholic plots and the ever-present threat of invasion. One operative in particular - a young Cambridge undergraduate of humble origins, controversial beliefs and literary genius who goes by the name of Kit Marlowe - is relentless in his pursuit of intelligence for the Crown. When he is killed outside an inn in Deptford, his mysterious death becomes the subject of rumours and suspicion that are never satisfactorily resolved. Years later, Thomas Phelippes, a former colleague of Marlowe's and a man once much valued by Walsingham, finds himself imprisoned in the Tower. When he is visited by an emissary of the new king, however, it becomes clear that his long fall from favour may be reversed if he will furnish his monarch with every detail he is able to recall about his... Views: 113
The E.F. Benson Megapack collects 36 of Benson's horror stories, including such classics as The Bus-Conductor, The Room in the Tower, and The Thing in the Hall.Included are:AT ABDUL ALI'S GRAVETHE MAN WHO WENT TOO FARTHE CATGAVON'S EVETHE DUST-CLOUDTHE SHOOTINGS AT ACHNALEISHTHE BUS-CONDUCTORTHE HOUSE WITH THE BRICK-KILNOUTSIDE THE DOORHOW FEAR DEPARTED FROM THE LONG GALLERYTHE CONFESSION OF CHARLES LINKWORTHTHE ROOM IN THE TOWERCATERPILLARSBETWEEN THE LIGHTSTHE TERROR BY NIGHTTHE OTHER BEDTHE CHINA BOWLTHE PASSENGERTHE APETHROUGHTHURSDAY EVENINGSTHE PSYCHICAL MALLARDSMRS AMWORTHTHE GARDENERTHE HORROR-HORN"AND THE DEAD SPAKE..."NEGOTIUM PERAMBULANSIN THE TUBEMR. TILLY'S SEANCETHE CASE OF FRANK HAMPDENMRS. ANDREWS'S CONTROLTHE DEATH WARRANTMACHAONAT THE FARMHOUSEINSCRUTABLE DECREESTHE THING IN THE HALLAnd don't forget to search your favorite... Views: 111
