The 2008 US Open produced one of the most unexpected and dramatic showdowns not only in Golf, but in sports history. Tiger Woods, the champ vs. Rocco Mediate, the aging and likable challenger. It had all the drama of a movie. However, it was the real thing. Perhaps the most dramatic sports event of the still young 21st century. John Feinstein, in his new book Are You Kidding Me?: The Story of Rocco Mediate's Extraordinary Battle with Tiger Woods at the US Open,
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tells of her parents who married in 1968, as they merged two complicated strains of American heritage: Boston blue blood traceable to the Mayflower and Southern African American with a cross strain of Mexican–Native American. Her parents seemed poised to defy history. They were two brilliant young American writers. Married in 1968, a year that seemed to separate the past from the present; together, these two would snub the histories that divided them and embrace the radical future of the time. When their marriage disintegrated eight years later, it was, as one friend put it, “the ugliest divorce in Boston’s history”—a violent, traumatic war that felt all the more heartrending given the hopeful symbolism of their union. Their breakup personified the complexity of racial issues that have been with us right up until today.
is also a very emotional and personal story; one that mirrors societies transformation from the psychedelic 60's to the reality of the '70's. Greenfield writes a kind of "rock 'n' roll, Tender is the Night" amid the backdrop of glamorous lifestyles and very famous icons of the time.
offers really insightful solutions to the problems of so many millennial boys.
says that “no one kept his hands of the levers of the economy for so long and pushed so hard.”
is a national best seller that even the President has read. Alter is a Senior Editor of Newsweek and a contributor to MSNBC.
, takes on the food/industrial complex, that is clearly culpable in some of our bad food choices.
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John Frederick Walker tells the astonishing story of the human lust for ivory and its cataclysmic implications for elephants. Each age and each culture, from ancient Egypt to nineteenth-century America and modern Japan, found its own artistic, religious, and even industrial uses for the remarkable material that comes from the teeth of elephants and a handful of other mammals. Sensuous figurines, scientific instruments, pistol grips, and piano keys were all the result—as was human enslavement and the wholesale slaughter of elephants.
is the first book to present empirical evidence about the effects of same-sex marriage on society. 
