Contains the history of a community called Gulick, nestled high in the Bristol Hills. The memories of Kenward Woodard date back to the 1920s and 1930s. This book tells how neighbors helped each other during the Great Depression and readers will learn about the long-ago hardships these wonderful country people endured.
Chronicles the life of how two young boys from a poor but hard-working Jewish family in Montreal, Canada, revolutionized the sport of bodybuilding and helped inspire the global physical fitness movement.
Traces the political career of Henry Kissinger and his influence in foreign policy with Communist China, detente, Cambodia, and Chile as well as in America's involvement in Vietnam.
Chronicles the life of American game show host Bob Barker, who spent fifty years on television, and discusses his personal life, family, military career, professional accomplishments, personal interests, and more.
Covers the breaking of the sound barrier by Chuck Yeager to the Mercury 7 astronauts, showing that no one had a clue how to run a space program or how to select people to be in it.
The author, an antireligious Jew, tells the story of his youth in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1939, discussing his feelings toward Germany and the Germans, the relatively benign early years of the Nazi regime, and his last months in the country before emigrating with his family.
Presents an analysis of paintings done by American artist Roy Lichtenstein in the early 1960s, focusing on scenes based on the romance and war comics of the period, for which Lichtenstein was harshly criticized.
"Presents an account of the involvement of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger in Pakistan's 1970s military dictatorship and argues that they encouraged China's military presence in India, illegally supplied weapons that were used in massacres and embraced military strategies that have negatively impacted geopolitics for decades"--Provided by OCLC.
A son writes of his father, an old Basque sheepherder who lived and worked in the American West for most of his life, and who, in fulfilling his dream of returning to the Pyrenees, came to a new realization of what America meant to him.
