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Price: $32.95
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Sale: $14.99
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Manufacturer: Thorndike Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Ishmael Beah
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Publisher: Thorndike Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 966.404
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Publication Date: 2007-08
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Reading Level: 399
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Description: My new friends have begun to suspect I haven’t told them the full story of my life.
“Why did you leave Sierra Leone?”
“Because there is a war.”
“You mean, you saw people running around with guns and shooting each other?”
“Yes, all the time.”
“Cool.”
I smile a little.
“You should tell us about it sometime.”
“Yes, sometime.”
This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them.
What is war like through the eyes of a child soldier? How does one become a killer? How does one stop? Child soldiers have been profiled by journalists, and novelists have struggled to imagine their lives. But until now, there has not been a first-person account from someone who came through this hell and survived.
In A Long Way Gone, Beah, now twenty-five years old, tells a riveting story: how at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he’d been picked up by the government army, and Beah, at heart a gentle boy, found that he was capable of truly terrible acts. This is a rare and mesmerizing account, told with real literary force and heartbreaking honesty.
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Price: $28.95
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Sale: $13.60
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Manufacturer: Random House Large Print
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: John Baldwin::Ron Powers
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Publisher: Random House Large Print
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.757
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Publication Date: 2007-05-15
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Reading Level: 528
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Description: As the Confederacy felt itself slipping beneath the Union juggernaut in late 1864, the South launched a desperate counteroffensive to shatter the U.S. economy and force a standoff. Its secret weapon? A state-of-the-art raiding ship whose mission was to prowl the world’s oceans and sink the U.S. merchant fleet. The raider’s name was Shenandoah, and her executive officer was Conway Whittle, a twenty-four-year-old warrior who might have stepped from the pages of Arthurian legend. Whittle would share command with a dark and brooding veteran of the seas, Capt. James Waddell, and together with a crew of strays, misfits, and strangers, they would spend nearly a year sailing two-thirds of the way around the globe, destroying dozens of Union ships and taking more than a thousand prisoners, all while continually dodging the enemy.
Then, in August of 1865, a British ship revealed the shocking truth to the men of Shenandoah: The war had been over for months, and they were now being hunted as pirates.
What ensued was an incredible 15,000-mile journey to the one place the crew hoped to find sanctuary, only to discover that their fate would depend on how they answered a single question. Wondrously evocative and filled with drama and poignancy, Last Flag Down is a riveting story of courage, nobility, and rare comradeship forged in the quest to achieve the impossible.
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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $7.49
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Manufacturer: Large Print Distribution
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Evan Thomas
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Publisher: Large Print Distribution
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Dewey Decimal Number: 940.5426
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Publication Date: 2007-11-06
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Reading Level: 705
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Description: Sea of Thunder is a taut, fast-paced, suspenseful narrative of the Pacific War that culminates in the battle of Leyte Gulf, the greatest naval battle ever fought. Told from both the American and Japanese sides, through the eyes of commanders and sailors of both navies, Thomas's history adds an important new dimension to our understanding of World War II. Drawing on oral histories, diaries, correspondence, postwar testimony from both American and Japanese participants, and interviews with survivors, Thomas provides an account not only of the great sea battle and Pacific naval war, but of the contrasting cultures pitted against each other.
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Price: $28.70
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Sale: $24.95
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Manufacturer: Lucent Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Clarice Swisher
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Publisher: Lucent Books
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 305.4094209034
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Publication Date: 2004-10-15
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Reading Level: 112
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Reading Level: Young Adult
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Description: While Victorian women took their roles as wives and mothers seriously, most of them also worked and contributed to the family income. They worked in poor conditions for low pay for most of the nineteenth century, but social reformers were working to try to change laws regarding women's employment.
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Manufacturer: Thorndike Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Joy Waldron Jasper::James P. Delgado::Jim Adams
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Publisher: Thorndike Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 940.5426
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Publication Date: 2002-04
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Reading Level: 415
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Description: "Remember the Arizona!" was the battle cry of American sailors stationed in the Pacific during World War II. The mighty warship, which was bombed at Pearl Harbor by the Japanese on December 7, 1941, became and remains to this day a symbol and rallying point for America's sudden entrance into war.
Here, using eyewitness accounts of the bombing and the sinking, the authors narrate the compelling history of the USS Arizona before, during, and after the attack, and describe the Arizona Memorial's legacy today. This engrossing book includes sixteen pages of photographs and extensive interviews with sailors who survived Imperial Japan's attack. The USS Arizona, published on December 7, 2001, the sixtieth anniversary of the surprise attack, is the only full-length book on the great ship and its beautiful resting place.
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Manufacturer: G. K. Hall & Company
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Robert Lacey::Danny Danzinger::Danny Danziger
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Publisher: G. K. Hall & Company
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Dewey Decimal Number: 942.01
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Publication Date: 1999-12
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Reading Level: 263
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Description: "August was the month when flies started to become a problem, buzzing round the dung heaps in the corner of every farmyard and hovering over the open cesspits of human refuse that were located outside every house." Although daily dangers were many, housing uncomfortable, and the dominant smells unpleasant indeed, life in England at the turn of the previous millennium was not at all bad, write journalists Lacey and Danziger. "If you were to meet an Englishman in the year 1000," they continue, "the first thing that would strike you would be how tall he was--very much the size of anyone alive today." The Anglo-Saxons were not only tall, but also generally well fed and healthy, more so than many Britons only a few generations ago. Writing in a breezy, often humorous style, Lacey and Danziger draw on the medieval Julius Work Calendar, a document detailing everyday life around A.D. 1000, to reconstruct the spirit and reality of the era. Light though their touch is, they've done their homework, and they take the reader on a well-documented and enjoyable month-by-month tour through a single year, touching on such matters as religious belief, superstition, medicine, cuisine, agriculture, and politics, as well as contemporary ideas of the self and society. Readers should find the authors' discussions of famine and plague a refreshing break from present-day millennial worries, and a very stimulating introduction to medieval English history. --Gregory McNamee
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Price: $30.95
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Sale: $128.06
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Manufacturer: Thorndike Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Peter L. Bergen
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Publisher: Thorndike Press
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Edition: Largeprint
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Dewey Decimal Number: 958.1046092
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Publication Date: 2002-03
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Reading Level: 490
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Description: On September 11, 2001, the world in which we live was changed forever. The twin towers of the World Trade Center came crashing down, one side of the Pentagon burst into flame, and more than six thousand men, women, and children lost their lives in the most deadly terrorist attack on American soil. As shocking as it was, it had been long in the making: The assault was the most sophisticated and horrifying in a series of operations masterminded by Osama bin Laden and his Jihad group -- an organization that CNN's terrorism analyst Peter Bergen calls Holy War, Inc. One of only a handful of Western journalists to have interviewed the world's most wanted man face to face, Peter Bergen has produced the definitive book on the Jihadist network that operates globally and in secrecy. In the course of four years of investigative reporting, he has interviewed scores of insiders -- from bin Laden associates and family members to Taliban leaders to CIA officials -- and traveled to Afghanistan, Yemen, Egypt, Pakistan, and the United Kingdom to learn the truth about bin Laden's al Queda organization and his mission. Immense in scope and unnerving in its findings, Holy War, Inc. reveals: How bin Laden lives, travels, and communicates with his "cells." How his role in the crushing defeat of the Soviet Union in Afghanistan made him a hero to Muslims all over the world -- and equipped him to endure a long and bloody siege. How the CIA ended up funding -- to the tune of three billion dollars -- radical, anti-American Afghan groups allied to bin Laden. How the attacks that foreshadowed the destruction of the World Trade Center -- among them the bombings of the American embassies in Africa and the warship USS Cole in Yemen -- were planned and executed. The dimensions of bin Laden's personal fortune, and why freezing his assets is both futile and nearly impossible. The ideology of bin Laden's number two, the man who has influenced him most profoundly in his holy war -- the Egyptian Ayman al Zawahiri. What we can expect from Islamist extremists in the future. Above all, Peter Bergen helps us to see bin Laden's organization in a radically new light: as a veritable corporation that has exploited twenty-first-century communications and weapons technologies in the service of a medieval reading of the Koran and holy war. Holy War, Inc. is essential reading for anyone trying to understand tomorrow's terrorist threats and the militant Islamist movements that could determine the fate of governments -- and human lives -- the world over. Both author and publisher will donate a portion of the proceeds from this book to United Way's September 11th Fund for the relief of victims of the World Trade Center attacks.
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Price: $30.95
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Sale: $30.95
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Manufacturer: Thorndike Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Lars Anderson
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Publisher: Thorndike Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 796.332630973
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Publication Date: 2008-01-22
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Reading Level: 663
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Description: In this stunning work of narrative nonfiction, Lars Anderson recounts one of college football’s greatest contests: Carlisle vs. Army, the fateful 1912 gridiron clash that had far-reaching implications both real and symbolic.
The story centers on three men: Glenn “Pop” Warner, who came to the Carlisle Indian School in 1903 and saw beyond its assimilationist agenda, molding the Carlisle Indians into a football juggernaut and smashing prejudices along the way; Jim Thorpe, who arrived at Carlisle as a troubled teenager–only to become one of America’s finest athletes, dazzling his opponents and gaining fans across the nation; and a hardnosed Kansan back named Dwight Eisenhower, who knew that by stopping Carlisle’s amazing winning streak, he could lead the Cadets of Army to glory. But beyond recounting the tale of this momentous match, Lars Anderson reveals its broader social and historical context, offering unique perspectives on sports and culture at the dawn of the twentieth century.
Filled with colorful period detail, Carlisle vs. Army gives a thrilling, authoritative account of the events of an epic afternoon whose reverberations would be felt for generations.
Praise for Carslisle vs. Army:
“Richly detailed and gracefully written . . . In an often overlooked football era, Anderson found a true Game of the Century.”
–Sports Illustrated
“[A] remarkable story . . . Carlisle vs. Army is about football the way that The Natural is about baseball.”
–Jeremy Schaap, author of Cinderella Man
“A great sports story, told with propulsive narrative drive . . . Anderson allows himself to get inside the heads of his characters, but as in the best sports-centered nonfiction (Hillenbrand’s Seabiscuit and Frost’s Greatest Game Ever Played, for example), the technique is based on solid research.”
–Booklist (starred review)
“A masterly tale of the gridiron.”
–Neal Bascomb, author of Red Mutiny
“A magnificent story that’s as rich in American history as it is in sporting lore. Carlisle vs. Army is a dramatic and moving book, told with an unrelenting grace.”
–Adrian Wojnarowski, author of The Miracle of St. Anthony
“Gripping, inspiring coverage of three powerful forces’ unforgettable convergence: the sports version of The Perfect Storm.”
–Kirkus Reviews
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Price: $27.99
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Sale: $13.85
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Manufacturer: Twelve
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: John McCain::Mark Salter
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Publisher: Twelve
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Dewey Decimal Number: 920
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Publication Date: 2007-08-14
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Reading Level: 752
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Description: In Hard Call, acclaimed authors John McCain and Mark Salter describe theanatomy of great decisions in history by telling the remarkable stories ofmen and women who have exemplified composure, wisdom, and intellect in theface of life's toughest decisions.The authors identify six qualities typically represented in thebest decisions:Awareness.Timing.Foresight. Confidence.Humility. Inspiration.These qualities are personified by the exceptionalindividuals in this book, each of whom made a hard call:Branch Rickey's awareness of the opposition he would face inintegrating the Brooklyn Dodgers, and his sagacity in choosing the rightman, Jackie Robinson, to break baseball's color barrier.Winston Churchill's foresight in preparing England's Navy forwar.Anwar Sadat's and Menachem Begin's timing in choosing to risktheir lives and political careers by seeking peace in the aftermath ofwar.Gertrude Ederle's confidence in deciding to swim the EnglishChannel - and her fortitude in continuing the quest against the wishes ofher coach, despite the fact that no woman had ever succeeded.Reinhold Niebuhr's humility in deciding to abandon his pacifistviews and endorse the use of violence against persecution in Nazi Germanyand the Soviet Union.Abraham Lincoln's historic act of inspiration: His decision toissue the Emancipation Proclamation, the role of faith in his life, and hiswillingness to suffer for a cause greater than himself. Woven into these stories are John McCain's own views on theprocess and art of decision-making and examples of the hard calls we facein our lives. "When I assess a decision," McCain writes, "I want to knowall I can about the character of the decision maker before I examine theproperties of the decision, its outcome or how it was arrived at." Hard Call is a testament to the people whose choices serve as a beacon forus all.
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Price: $28.95
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Sale: $2.98
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Manufacturer: Thorndike Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Gene Kranz
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Publisher: Thorndike Press
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Edition: Largeprint
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Dewey Decimal Number: 629.4530973
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Publication Date: 2001-08
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Reading Level: 662
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Description: In 1957, the Russians launched Sputnik and the ensuing space race. Three years later, Gene Kranz left his aircraft testing job to join NASA and champion the American cause. What he found was an embryonic department run by whiz kids (such as himself), sharp engineers and technicians who had to create the Mercury mission rules and procedure from the ground up. As he says, "Since there were no books written on the actual methodology of space flight, we had to write them as we went along." Kranz was part of the mission control team that, in January 1961, launched a chimpanzee into space and successfully retrieved him, and made Alan Shepard the first American in space in May 1961. Just two months later they launched Gus Grissom for a space orbit, John Glenn orbited Earth three times in February 1962, and in May of 1963 Gordon Cooper completed the final Project Mercury launch with 22 Earth orbits. And through them all, and the many Apollo missions that followed, Gene Kranz was one of the integral inside men--one of those who bore the responsibility for the Apollo 1 tragedy, and the leader of the "tiger team" that saved the Apollo 13 astronauts. Moviegoers know Gene Kranz through Ed Harris's Oscar-nominated portrayal of him in Apollo 13, but Kranz provides a more detailed insider's perspective in his book Failure Is Not an Option. You see NASA through his eyes, from its primitive days when he first joined up, through the 1993 shuttle mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope, his last mission control project. His memoir, however, is not high literature. Kranz has many accomplishments and honors to his credit, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, but this is his first book, and he's not a polished author. There are, perhaps, more behind-the-scenes details and more paragraphs devoted to what Cape Canaveral looked like than the general public demands. If, however, you have a long-standing fascination with aeronautics, if you watched Apollo 13 and wanted more, Failure Is Not an Option will fill the bill. --Stephanie Gold
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