by Francis Ford Coppola

50th Anniversary of The Godfather premiere

Against the ruin of the world, there is only one defense—the creative act.

—Kenneth Rexroth
MIDWAY IN THE JOURNEY OF OUR LIFE I CAME TO MYSELF IN A DARK WOOD.
-DANTE ALIGHIERI 

Dante Alighieri had done all the right things, according to the story of his culture. He had written beautiful poems that won him fame and respect. He married and had children, and he was a man of the church, faithful to his god. Later, he took up political leadership in his city and tried to govern justly, even when it meant sending his troublemaking best friend into exile. And what had this gotten him? He lost everything: his wealth, his power, and his family. If he hadn’t fled into exile, Dante would have lost his life.

 

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There is a great deal to learn in studying the successes and failures of Presidents KENNEDY, NIXON, BIDEN, and TRUMP, four presidents whose administrations coincided with dramatic societal changes and challenges.

Douglas E. Schoen keenly analyzes the four presidencies through the lenses of political polarization, election campaigns, their early lives, their changing administrations, the role of fast-changing media, the impact of shifting racial relations, the drama of increasingly divisive immigration issues, and America's evolving defense and foreign policy.

Schoen uses these comparative analyses to create a masterful plan to UNITE AMERICA and SAVE OUR DEMOCRACY.

Martha Stewart meets Tim Burton… beautiful, morbid, bizarre, and raunchy… a wonderfully fantastical take on the classic dump-and-stir cooking show.

— HELEN ROSNER, THE NEW YORKER

"Never grapples with anything less than life’s biggest questions. . . Lamb clearly aims to be a modern-day Dostoevsky with a pop sensibility."

— NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

“No ordinary sixties coming-of-age story . . . evocative . . . brilliantly crafted . . . transports us from the prison camps of China, to the slums of Hong Kong, to the beckoning frontiers of President Kennedy’s United States. We suffer with Li . . . and witness him becoming a bright light of the antiwar movement while cautioning American radicals against the lure of Maoism.”

— LAURA KALMAN, Distinguished Research Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara, author of THE LONG REACH OF THE SIXTIES, Oxford University Press 

FACING THE MUSIC

DAVID LOUD

BROADWAY MUSICAL DIRECTOR & ARRANGER





“‘Music always has consequences,’ a wise teacher once told a young David Loud; so does a story well-told and a life fully-lived. I lost count of how many times I laughed, cried, and laugh-cried reading this wonderful, wry, intimate, and inspiring book. David wields a pen like he wields a baton, with perfect timing, exquisite phrasing, and enormous heart.”

—DAVID HYDE PIERCE, actor, Frasier, Spamalot, Curtains 

 

A riveting, inspirational true story of Annette Herfkens, an incredibly resilient woman, who broke professional barriers as a Dutch banker, was the sole survivor of Vietnam Airlines Flight 474, found love after the loss of her fiance, and continues to raise her autistic son, never wavering in her optimism.