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The origins of totalitarianism

1973
Examines the rise of antisemitism in Central and Western European Jewish history in the 19th century, European colonial imperialism from 1884 to World War I, and the institutions and operations of totalitarian movements and governments.

Mama's bank account

1971
A series of adventures about an immigrant Norwegian family living in San Francisco in the early 1900s.

The spire

1992
As an immense new spire is constructed for a cathedral, the builder and those who view it experience spiritual doubts and tests of faith.

Blindness

2006
Chaos ensues when a city is struck with an epidemic of blindness in which its victims see only white, and a doctor who is locked in an asylum for the affliction is taken care of by his wife, who has retained her sight.

All the king's men

2006
Willie Stark, a well-intentioned idealistic back-country lawyer, is unable to resist greed for power and lust for politics during his rise and fall as an American demagogue.

Vernon God Little

2004
A fifteen-year-old boy becomes the object of a media frenzy and his small Texas town's thirst for vengeance when his only friend shoots sixteen classmates and commits suicide.

The least of these my brethren

a doctor's story of hope and miracles on an inner-city AIDS ward
1998
The author tells about his experiences as a physician at St. Clare's Spellman Center for HIV Related Diseases in New York, relating patient stories of love, hope, and courage, and discussing the insights he has gained and the lessons he has learned as a result of his work.

The fight in the fields

Cesar Chavez and the farmworkers movement
1998
Tells the story of Cesar Chavez and his fight to win dignity and justice for migrant farmworkers through the United Farm Workers union, and includes essays, letters, and poems contributed by men and women who participated on both sides of the struggle.

Hitler

1974
Presents a biography of German leader Adolph Hitler, presenting him as a basically hollow individual who was elevated by the circumstances of history, and looking at how the collapse of order, anxieties of the age, and a climate of change allowed him to seize control of Germany.

Journey of the jihadist

inside Muslim militancy
2007
Explains why it is important for the Western world to understand who the jihadists are and what their mission is, and to realize that not all jihadists use violence and terrorism as a way spread their message.

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