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  • The Promise and the Dream

    The Untold Story of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy

    par David Margolick ...
    "A fascinating, elegiac account" of the bond between two of the Civil Rights Era's most important leaders—from the journalist and author of Strange Fruit ( Chicago Tribune).With vision and political savvy, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy set the United States on a path toward fulfilling its promise of liberty and justice for all. In The Promise and the Dream, Margolick examines their ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • When Caesar Was King

    How Sid Caesar Reinvented American Comedy

    par David Margolick ...
    **FINALIST FOR THE PEN/JACQUELINE BOGRAD WELD AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHY • FINALIST FOR THE MARFIELD PRIZE • FEATURED ON CBS SUNDAY MORNING • From longtime New York Times and Vanity Fair writer David Margolick comes the first definitive biography of Sid Caesar: founding father of television comedy and icon to generations of Americans.“Whip smart. . . . A nuanced appreciation of Caesar’s comedy and the ... En savoir plus

    $18.99 CAD

  • Elizabeth and Hazel

    Two Women of Little Rock

    par David Margolick ...
    "Through Eckford and Bryan's tangled lives, [Margolick] hopes to capture the complexity of race, forgiveness, and reconciliation in modern America." —Kevin Boyle, The Washington PostThe names Elizabeth Eckford and Hazel Bryan Massery may not be well known, but the image of them from September 1957 surely is: a black high school girl, dressed in white, walking stoically in front of Little Rock ... En savoir plus

    $23.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Dreadful

    The Short Life and Gay Times of John Horne Burns

    par David Margolick ...
    American author John Horne Burns (1916–1953) led a brief and controversial life, and as a writer, transformed many of his darkest experiences into literature. Burns was born in Massachusetts, graduated from Andover and Harvard, and went on to teach English at the Loomis School, a boarding school for boys in Windsor, Connecticut. During World War II, he was stationed in Africa and Italy, and worked ... En savoir plus

    $23.19 CAD

  • The Gallery

    "The first book of real magnitude to come out of the last war." —John Dos PassosJohn Horne Burns brought The Gallery back from World War II, and on publication in 1947 it became a critically-acclaimed bestseller. However, Burns's early death at the age of 36 led to the subsequent neglect of this searching book, which captures the shock the war dealt to the preconceptions and ideals of the ... En savoir plus

    $17.19 CAD

  • Beyond Glory

    Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling, and a World on the Brink

    par David Margolick ...
    Nothing in the annals of sports has aroused more passion than the heavyweight fights in New York in 1936 and 1938 between Joe Louis and Max Schmeling — bouts that symbolized the hopes, hatreds, and fears of a world moving toward total war. Acclaimed journalist David Margolick takes us into the careers of both men — a black American and a Nazi German hero — and depicts the extraordinary buildup to ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $14.99 CAD Maintenant $6.99 CAD

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    When Caesar Was King

    How Sid Caesar Reinvented American Comedy

    par David Margolick ...
    Lu par Rob Shapiro ...

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    13 heure 28 min

    **FINALIST FOR THE PEN/JACQUELINE BOGRAD WELD AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHY • FINALIST FOR THE MARFIELD PRIZE • FEATURED ON CBS SUNDAY MORNING • From longtime New York Times and Vanity Fair writer David Margolick comes the first definitive biography of Sid Caesar: founding father of television comedy and icon to generations of Americans.“Whip smart. . . . A nuanced appreciation of Caesar’s comedy and the ... En savoir plus

    $36.00 CAD

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    Elizabeth and Hazel

    Two Women of Little Rock

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    8 heure 3 min

    The names Elizabeth Eckford and Hazel Bryan Massery may not be well known, but the image of them from September 1957 surely is: a black high school girl, dressed in white, walking stoically in front of Little Rock Central High School, and a white girl standing directly behind her, face twisted in hate, screaming racial epithets. This famous photograph captures the full anguish of desegregation—in ... En savoir plus

    $24.99 CAD

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    The Promise and the Dream

    par David Margolick ...
    Lu par Lewis Arlt ...

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    11 heure 46 min

    No two public figures were more crucial in the drama of race relations in this era than Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy. Fifty years after they were both murdered, noted journalist David Margolick explores the untold story of the complex and ever-evolving relationship between these two American icons. Assassinated only sixty-two days apart in 1968, King and Kennedy changed the ... En savoir plus

    $34.99 CAD

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    The Russian Job

    The Forgotten Story of How America Saved the Soviet Union from Ruin

    par Douglas Smith ...
    Lu par Natasha Soudek ...

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    9 heure 33 min

    An award-winning historian reveals the harrowing, little-known story of an American effort to save the newly formed Soviet Union from disaster.After decades of the Cold War and renewed tensions, in the wake of Russian meddling in the 2016 election, cooperation between the United States and Russia seems impossible to imagine—and yet, as Douglas Smith reveals, it has a forgotten but astonishing ... En savoir plus

    $35.99 CAD

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    Profit and Punishment

    How America Criminalizes the Poor in the Name of Justice

    par Tony Messenger ...
    Lu par Karen Chilton ...

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    8 heure 18 min

    In Profit and Punishment, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist exposes the tragedy of modern-day debtors prisons, and how they destroy the lives of poor Americans swept up in a system designed to penalize the most impoverished.“Intimate, raw, and utterly scathing” — Heather Ann Thompson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Blood in the Water“Crucial evidence that the justice system is broken and has ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD

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    Seeking Shelter

    A Working Mother, Her Children, and a Story of Homelessness in America

    par Jeff Hobbs ...

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    9 heure 46 min

    Winner of the California Book AwardNamed a Best Book of the Year by The New YorkerIn the tradition of Evicted and Invisible Child, a “remarkably vivid...deeply empathetic” (Los Angeles Times) work of immersive journalism that follows a single mother of six in Los Angeles courageously struggling to keep her family together and her children in school amid America’s devastating housin... ... En savoir plus

    $34.99 CAD