This book describes the life and work of Al Gore, who has used advancing technology to educate the world about the dangers of global warming and who has won an Oscar for his work on the documentary "An Inconvenient Truth.".
Describes the life of a justice of the Supreme Court from his childhood in Georgia, through the years he spent as chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), to the mid-1990s.
The author recalls his childhood growing up in a small southern college town in the 1950s, discussing how his parents' devotion to keeping up appearances and a strict rule against talking about the family outside the home hid secrets of alcoholism and abuse that eventually drove him to attempt suicide.
William, Harry, Charles, and the Royal House of Windsor
Andersen, Christopher P
2007
Presents a comprehensive analysis of the state of the British monarchy and the royal family in the years following the death of Diana, and reveals a number of revelations concerning her death.
Clarence Thomas recalls his childhood, relationship with his parents and grandparents, education, and hardship that eventually led him to Yale Law School and to the U.S. Supreme Court.