http://www.lybrary.com/index.php?cPath=400 Copyright © 2013 Lybrary.comhttp://www.lybrary.com/intimacy-with-strangers-a-life-of-brief-encounters-p-292741.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/intimacy-with-strangers-a-life-of-brief-encounters-p-292741.htmlMon, 13 May 2013 16:37:47 EDT http://www.lybrary.com/harvest-in-the-snow-p-292359.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/harvest-in-the-snow-p-292359.htmlSun, 12 May 2013 21:44:39 EDT Forbes Watson, art commentator for the New York Evening Post and New York World quickly gained a reputation as an outspoken ally of progressive American artists and a caustic annihilator of those who got in their way. This charming, confrontational connoisseur, with a knack for offending officialdom, captivated readers and attracted loyal adherents. This same anti-authority streak cost him position after position and ultimately blurred his historical legacy.http://www.lybrary.com/forbes-watson-independent-revolutionary-p-288740.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/forbes-watson-independent-revolutionary-p-288740.htmlFri, 03 May 2013 02:32:46 EDT Award-winning journalist John Scully has been committed to mental institutions seven times. He has been locked up. He has attempted suicide. <i>Am I Sane Yet?</i> is essential reading for anyone interested in depression and mental illness. John Scully is getting better.http://www.lybrary.com/am-i-sane-yet-an-insiders-look-at-mental-illness-p-280925.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/am-i-sane-yet-an-insiders-look-at-mental-illness-p-280925.htmlThu, 18 Apr 2013 01:32:24 EDT From the front lines of the Gulf War to investigating Columbian drug lords to living with freedom fighters in the mountains of Afghanistan, war correspondent Brad Willis was accustomed to risk. But when mortal danger came, it was from an unexpected direction.<p>At the pinnacle of his career, a broken back and failed surgery left Willis permanently disabled and condemned to life in a body brace. Then came a diagnosis of terminal, stage IV throat cancer from exposure to depleted uranium on the battlefield.<p>At his 50th birthday party, friends gathered around Willis, who was crippled, mute, muddled on narcotic medications, depressed, and dying. It was only halfway through the celebration that Willis realized the party's true purpose—his friends were there to say a final goodbye.<p>Everyone knew Willis was on his way out … everyone except his 2-year-old son, who one day tearfully urged, “Get up, Daddy!" Willis desperately wanted to “get up," but with so much stacked against him, he felt helpless and lost.<p>His son's words ringing in his ears and tugging at his heart, Willis ultimately chose to abandon the Western medicine that had failed him and embrace the most ancient and esoteric practices of Yoga, becoming a warrior for self-healing and personal transformation. As a symbol of his journey, he took the spiritual name, Bhava Ram, which stands for “Living from the Heart." His cancer gone and his body fully restored, Bhava Ram demonstrates not only the power of non-Western medicine to heal the body, mind and the soul, but the capacity within us all to take charge of our lives and overcome even the greatest of obstacles.<p><I>Warrior Pose</I> is an unforgettable story about the power of love between father and son, a memoir from the front lines of the most momentous events of our times, a transformational journey of self-healing, and an inspiration to all who seek inner peace and wholeness.http://www.lybrary.com/warrior-pose-how-yoga-literally-saved-my-life-p-279066.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/warrior-pose-how-yoga-literally-saved-my-life-p-279066.htmlSun, 14 Apr 2013 00:32:36 EDT Stories about war and great battles have described heroism in combat while others described destruction, suffering, death and dismemberment of young men's bodies. Less has been written about the human condition - the need for companionship and trust, the odd-ball and sometimes funny things men do in combat. This is the humanity the author struggled to find and write about as an Army combat correspondent in Korea.http://www.lybrary.com/news-dispatches-from-the-korean-war-a-us-army-combat-correspondent-writes-for-stars-and-stripes-about-the-3rd-division-p-270748.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/news-dispatches-from-the-korean-war-a-us-army-combat-correspondent-writes-for-stars-and-stripes-about-the-3rd-division-p-270748.htmlMon, 18 Mar 2013 18:41:47 EDT <i>Includes an afterword by the author</i>.<p>Harry Crosby was the godson of J. P. Morgan and a friend of Ernest Hemingway. Living in Paris in the twenties and directing the Black Sun Press, which published James Joyce among others, Crosby was at the center of the wild life of the lost generation. Drugs, drink, sex, gambling, the deliberate derangement of the senses in the pursuit of transcendent revelation: these were Crosby's pastimes until 1929, when he shot his girlfriend, the recent bride of another man, and then himself.<p><i>Black Sun</i> is novelist and master biographer Geoffrey Wolff's subtle and striking picture of a man who killed himself to make his life a work of art.http://www.lybrary.com/black-sun-the-brief-transit-and-violent-eclipse-of-harry-crosby-p-257579.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/black-sun-the-brief-transit-and-violent-eclipse-of-harry-crosby-p-257579.htmlSat, 09 Feb 2013 23:42:23 EST An examination of the social and political climate that influenced Betty Friedan and culminated in her landmark book, The Feminine Mystique. This digital edition was derived from ACLS Humanities E-Book's (http://www.humanitiesebook.org) online version of the same title.http://www.lybrary.com/betty-friedan-and-the-making-of-the-feminine-mystique-the-american-left-the-cold-war-and-modern-feminism-p-256469.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/betty-friedan-and-the-making-of-the-feminine-mystique-the-american-left-the-cold-war-and-modern-feminism-p-256469.htmlWed, 06 Feb 2013 00:35:21 EST 1950s Britain - when life was great if you had the guts to live it. Murder, lurid courtroom dramas, gypsy horse fairs, eccentric admirals, child brides, and falling in love - it's all in a day's work for cub reporter John Bull. Meet a cast of characters - from the parish clerk who dresses like a French resistance fighter, complete with rifle over her shoulder, to the medium whose spirit guide (her soldier boyfriend killed in World War II) gets in touch by pinging her suspender belt. The Smile on the Face of the Pig is a cheeky exposé of life in the 1950s: crazy nights at the theatre with the old-time music-hall stars, skinny-dipping by starlight, drinking with the freebooting river-folk, and riding through the freezing night on a BSA motorbike chasing the Big Scoop that will carry him to Fleet Street, fame and fortunehttp://www.lybrary.com/the-smile-on-the-face-of-the-pig-confessions-of-the-last-cub-reporter-p-253594.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/the-smile-on-the-face-of-the-pig-confessions-of-the-last-cub-reporter-p-253594.htmlFri, 25 Jan 2013 12:34:34 EST Journalist and publisher Brandt Ayers's journey takes him from the segregated Old South to covering the central scenes of the civil rights struggle, and finally to editorship of his family's hometown newspaper, The Anniston Star. The journey was one of controversy, danger, a racist nightrider murder, taut moments when the community teetered on the edge of mob violence that ended well because of courageous civic leadership and wise hearts of black and white leaders. The narrative has outsized figures from U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy to George Wallace and includes probing insights into the Alabama governor as he evolved over time. High points of the story involve the birth of a New South movement, the election of a Southern President, and the strange undoing of his presidency. An Afterword, made imperative by the cultural and political exclamation point of a black President, bridges the years from the disappearance of the New South in the 1980s to Barack Obama's first termhttp://www.lybrary.com/in-love-with-defeat-the-making-of-a-southern-liberal-p-250252.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/in-love-with-defeat-the-making-of-a-southern-liberal-p-250252.htmlThu, 10 Jan 2013 03:32:07 EST <p>Within a few years of its first issue in 1951, <i>Jet</i>, a pocket-size magazine, became the "bible" for news of the civil rights movement. It was said, only half-jokingly, "If it wasn't in <i>Jet</i>, it didn't happen." Writing for the magazine and its glossy, big sister <i>Ebony</i>, for fifty-three years, longer than any other journalist, Washington bureau chief Simeon Booker was on the front lines of virtually every major event of the revolution that transformed America.</p>Rather than tracking the freedom struggle from the usually cited ignition points, <i>Shocking the Conscience</i> begins with a massive voting rights rally in the Mississippi Delta town of Mound Bayou in 1955. It's the first rally since the Supreme Court's <i>Brown</i> decision struck fear in the hearts of segregationists across the former Confederacy. It was also Booker's first assignment in the Deep South, and before the next run of the weekly magazine, the killings would begin.</p>Booker vowed that lynchings would no longer be ignored beyond the black press. <i>Jet</i> was reaching into households across America, and he was determined to cover the next murder like none before. He had only a few weeks to wait. A small item on the AP wire reported that a Chicago boy vacationing in Mississippi was missing. Booker was on it, and stayed on it, through one of the most infamous murder trials in U.S. history. His coverage of Emmett Till's death lit a fire that would galvanize the movement, while a succession of U.S. presidents wished it would go away.</p>This is the story of the century that changed everything about journalism, politics, and more in America, as only Simeon Booker, the dean of the black press, could tell it.</p>http://www.lybrary.com/shocking-the-conscience-a-reporters-account-of-the-civil-rights-movement-p-246224.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/shocking-the-conscience-a-reporters-account-of-the-civil-rights-movement-p-246224.htmlSat, 22 Dec 2012 19:35:03 EST <p>Blistering and timely interrogation of the politics and motives of an infamous ex-leftist.</p><p>Irascible and forthright, Christopher Hitchens stood out as a man determined to do just that. In his younger years, a career-minded socialist, he emerged from the smoke of 9/11 a neoconservative "Marxist," an advocate of America's invasion of Iraq filled with passionate intensity. Throughout his life, he played the role of universal gadfly, whose commitment to the truth transcended the party line as well as received wisdom. But how much of this was imposture? In this highly critical study, Richard Seymour casts a cold eye over the career of the "Hitch" to uncover an intellectual trajectory determined by expediency and a fetish for power.</p><p>As an orator and writer, Hitchens offered something unique and highly marketable. But for all his professed individualism, he remains a recognizable historical type—the apostate leftist. <i>Unhitched</i> presents a rewarding and entertaining case study, one that is also a cautionary tale for our times.</p>http://www.lybrary.com/unhitched-the-trial-of-christopher-hitchens-p-240672.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/unhitched-the-trial-of-christopher-hitchens-p-240672.htmlWed, 05 Dec 2012 21:31:20 EST <p>From a gullible cub reporter with the <i>Daily Herald</i> in Biloxi and Gulfport, to the pugnacious Pulitzer Prize winner at the <i>Atlanta Constitution</i>, to the peerless beat reporter for the <i>Los Angeles Times</i> covering civil rights in the South, Jack Nelson (1929-2009) was dedicated to exposing injustice and corruption wherever he found it. Whether it was the gruesome conditions at a twelve-thousand-bed mental hospital in Georgia or the cruelties of Jim Crow inequity, Nelson proved himself to be one of those rare reporters whose work affected and improved thousands of lives.</p>His memories about difficult circumstances, contentious people, and calamitous events provide a unique window into some of the most momentous periods in southern and U.S. history. Wherever he landed, Nelson found the corruption others missed or disregarded. He found it in lawless Biloxi; he found it in buttoned-up corporate Atlanta; he found it in the college town of Athens, Georgia. Nelson turned his investigations of illegal gambling, liquor sales, prostitution, shakedowns, and corrupt cops into such a trademark that honest mayors and military commanders called on him to expose miscreants in their midst.</p>Once he realized that segregation was another form of corruption, he became a premier reporter of the civil rights movement and its cast of characters, including Martin Luther King Jr., Stokely Carmichael, Alabama's Sheriff Jim Clarke, George Wallace, and others. He was, through his steely commitment to journalism, a chronicler of great events, a witness to news, a shaper and reshaper of viewpoints, and indeed one of the most important journalists of the twentieth century.</p>http://www.lybrary.com/scoop-the-evolution-of-a-southern-reporter-p-234714.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/scoop-the-evolution-of-a-southern-reporter-p-234714.htmlMon, 12 Nov 2012 22:32:55 EST To his neighbors on Imperial Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio, Anthony Sowell was a quiet and helpful former Marine who played chess and hosted summer barbeques in his front yard. But there was a dark side to Sowell-and a horrific secret inside his house. In mid-2007, Crystal Dozier, 38, made plans to visit Sowell. She was never seen again. Over the next two years, ten more Cleveland women disappeared. Their families filed missing persons reports. Police say their search efforts were hampered by the women's transient lifestyles. But the families say police considered their loved ones "disposable" and didn't take their disappearances seriously.
<p>On October 29, 2009, a SWAT team entered Sowell's house to arrest him on a sexual assault charge. Nearly overcome by the stench of decaying flesh, police encountered a nightmarish scene: a skull was found in the basement and the remains of eleven women were scattered throughout the house and buried in the backyard. Sowell, a sexual sadist, had lured his victims to his personal House of Horrors with promises of drugs and alcohol. He then raped, tortured, and strangled them... and lived among their rotting corpses. Five other women were attacked by Sowell but lived to tell their stories.
<p>After a dramatic trial in the summer of 2011, Sowell, 52, was convicted of 11 murders and sentenced to death. He is currently awaiting execution at the Chillicothe, Ohio, Correctional Institution. Cleveland journalist Robert Sberna brings readers into the mind of the killer through interviews with Sowell's surviving victims and exclusive death row interviews with Sowell himself.http://www.lybrary.com/house-of-horrors-the-shocking-true-story-of-anthony-sowell-the-cleveland-strangler-p-233517.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/house-of-horrors-the-shocking-true-story-of-anthony-sowell-the-cleveland-strangler-p-233517.htmlSat, 10 Nov 2012 04:31:31 EST Ripperology sometimes obsessive interest in studying the crimes of Jack the Ripper?is a subject of timeless interest that has suffered from confusion, exaggeration, and hyperbole for over a century. Jack the Ripper was probably the first serial killer to appear in a large metropolis at a time when the general populace was literate and the press was a force for social change. The press was also partly responsible for creating many myths surrounding the Ripper. Robin Odell's Ripperology is the first study to present a sequential history of literary investigations of Jack the Ripper's crimes and to address the seven principal phases of Ripper speculations: the initial wave of journalism that followed the 1888 murders; the revelations of highers-up in Scotland Yard who pretended to know more than they actually did; the period between 1925 and 1949 when sensational and factually shaky book-length solutions were proposed, including the theories that Jack avenged his son's syphilis or was a female midwife in disguise; the dawn of more responsible study, between 1950 and 1975, in which the author himself played an important role; better documented studies spurred by the opening of Scotland Yard files in 1976; the explosion of new Ripper hypotheses in the 1990s; and current theories, including Patricia Cornwell's DNA-based accusation of artist Walter Sickert. Ripperology does not attempt to give a detailed, encyclopedic account of the murders. Rather, its aim is to tell the story of the extraordinary literary efforts directed at solving the mystery. While there are no formal conclusions, and this book does not seek to saturate the reader with minutiae, exaggerated claims are debunked and misconceived ideas are dispelled. Author Odell, having studied these unsolved serial killings for four decades, guides the reader in his easy narrative rich with documentation. Ripperology will be welcomed by true crime aficionados.http://www.lybrary.com/ripperology-a-study-of-the-worlds-first-serial-killer-and-a-literary-phenomenon-p-232528.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/ripperology-a-study-of-the-worlds-first-serial-killer-and-a-literary-phenomenon-p-232528.htmlThu, 08 Nov 2012 01:31:48 EST <p>In 1924, George McLean, an Ole Miss sophomore and the spoiled son of a judge, attended a YMCA student mission conference whose free-thinking organizers aimed to change the world. They changed George McLean's.</p><p>But not instantly. As vividly recounted in the first biography of this significant figure in Southern history, <i>Tupelo Man: The Life and Times of a Most Peculiar Newspaper Publisher</i>, McLean drifted through schools and jobs, always questioning authority, always searching for a way to put his restless vision into practical use. In the Depression's depths, he was fired from a teaching job at what is now Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee, over his socialist ideas and labor organizing work.</p><br><p>By 1934 he decided he had enough of working for others and that he would go into business for himself. In dirt-poor Northeast Mississippi, the <i>Tupelo Journal</i> was for sale, and McLean used his wife's money to buy what he called "a bankrupt newspaper from a bankrupt bank." As he struggled to keep the paper going, his Christian socialism evolved into a Christian capitalism that transformed the region. He didn't want a bigger slice of the pie for himself, he said; he wanted a bigger pie for all.</p><br><p>But McLean (1904-1983) was far from a saint. He prayed about his temper, with little result. He was distant and aloof toward his two children--adopted through a notorious Memphis baby selling operation. His wife, whom he deeply loved in his prickly way, left him once and threatened to leave again. "I don't know why I was born with this chip on my shoulder," he told her. <i>Tupelo Man</i> looks at this far-from-ordinary publisher in an intimate way that offers a fascinating story and insight into our own lives and times.</p>http://www.lybrary.com/tupelo-man-the-life-and-times-of-george-mclean-a-most-peculiar-newspaper-publisher-p-227865.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/tupelo-man-the-life-and-times-of-george-mclean-a-most-peculiar-newspaper-publisher-p-227865.htmlWed, 24 Oct 2012 16:35:01 EDT <span><span><span>During his career at </span><span style="font-style:italic;">The New York Times</span><span>, Harrison Salisbury served as the bureau chief in post-World War II Moscow, reported from Hanoi during the Vietnam War and witnessed the Tiananmen Square massacre firsthand. Davis and Trani's engaging biography of the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist makes use of Salisbury's personal archive of interviews, articles, and correspondence to shed light on the personal triumphs and shortcomings of this preeminent reporter and illuminates the twentieth-century world in which he lived.</span></span><br /></span>http://www.lybrary.com/the-reporter-who-knew-too-much-harrison-salisbury-and-the-new-york-times-p-224063.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/the-reporter-who-knew-too-much-harrison-salisbury-and-the-new-york-times-p-224063.htmlFri, 12 Oct 2012 03:31:27 EDT A small-time hoodlum who became the most hunted man in America. Stanley Barton Hoss was a burglar, thief, and local thug from the Pittsburgh area. In eight short months in 1969, however, he became a rapist, prison escapee, murderer, and kidnapper; the subject of an intense nationwide manhunt; and one of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted. In Born to Lose, author James G. Hollock traces Hoss from his earliest misdemeanors at the age of fourteen to a daring rooftop escape from the Allegheny Workhouse in Blawnox, Pennsylvania, where he was being held on a rape charge, to his killing of police officer Joseph Zanella in Oakmont, Pennsylvania, to the kidnapping near Cumberland, Maryland, and his ultimate murder of Linda Peugeot and her two-year-old daughter Lori in the autumn of 1969. Their bodies have never been found. Although indicted for the Peugeot kidnappings, these charges were later dropped because it was determined his constitutional right to a speedy trial was denied. Hoss was, however, convicted of the murder of Officer Zanella and initially sentenced to death, and that sentence was subsequently commuted to life in prison. But his killings didn't end there. In December 1973, while incarcerated at Western Penitentiary, Hoss conspired with two fellow white inmates in the savage murder of the popular and well-respected corrections officer Lieutenant Walter Peterson, one of the first African Americans hired by the Pennsylvania prison system. As a result of this final homicide, Hoss was transferred to an isolation facility in Philadelphia where in 1978 he hanged himself. By consulting previously sealed state and federal archives and interviewing sixty individuals who witnessed or had significant knowledge of Hoss's series of felonies, James G. Hollock vividly re-creates the crimes, police dispatches, and court proceedings in this gripping narrative. He poignantly characterizes the players involved, especially those who suffered either directly or indirectly at the hands of Stanley B. Hoss.http://www.lybrary.com/born-to-lose-stanley-b-hoss-and-the-crime-spree-that-gripped-a-nation-p-214681.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/born-to-lose-stanley-b-hoss-and-the-crime-spree-that-gripped-a-nation-p-214681.htmlSat, 15 Sep 2012 11:31:51 EDT <p>Debunking the bluster of <i>New York Times</i> columnist and capitalist apologist Thomas Friedman, as part of Verso's new "Counterblasts" series.</p>Factual errors, ham-fisted analysis, and contradictory assertions-compounded by a penchant for mixed metaphors and name-dropping-distinguish the work of Pulitzer Prize-winning <i>New York Times</i> columnist and author Thomas Friedman. <i>The Imperial Messenger</i> reveals the true value of this media darling, a risible writer whose success tells us much about the failures of contemporary journalism. Belén Fernández dissects the Friedman corpus with wit and journalistic savvy to expose newsroom practices that favor macho rhetoric over serious inquiry, a pacified readership over an empowered one, and reductionist analysis over integrity.<br /><br />The Imperial Messenger is polemic at its best, relentless in its attack on this apologist for American empire and passionate in its commitment to justice.<br /><br /><strong>About the series</strong>: <i>Counterblasts</i> is a new Verso series that aims to revive the tradition of polemical writing inaugurated by Puritan and leveller pamphleteers in the seventeenth century, when in the words of one of them, Gerard Winstanley, the old world was "running up like parchment in the fire." From 1640 to 1663, a leading bookseller and publisher, George Thomason, recorded that his collection alone contained over twenty thousand pamphlets. such polemics reappeared both before and during the French, Russian, Chinese and Cuban revolutions of the last century. In a period of conformity where politicians, media barons and their ideological hirelings rarely challenge the basis of existing society, it's time to revive the tradition. Verso's <i>Counterblasts</i> will challenge the apologists of Empire and Capitahttp://www.lybrary.com/the-imperial-messenger-thomas-friedman-at-work-p-212128.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/the-imperial-messenger-thomas-friedman-at-work-p-212128.htmlMon, 10 Sep 2012 03:11:02 EDT <p>Definitive biography of one of the most significant journalists of the twentieth century.</p><p>Reporting from such varied locations as postcolonial Africa, revolutionary Iran, the military dictatorships of Latin America and Soviet Russia, the Polish journalist and writer Ryszard Kapu?ci?ski was one of the most influential eyewitness journalists of the twentieth century. During the Cold War, he was a dauntless investigator as well as a towering literary talent, and books such as<i> The Emperor</i> and <i>Travels with Herodotus</i> founded the new genre of 'literary reportage'. It was an achievement that brought him global renown, not to mention the uninvited attentions of the CIA.</p><p>In this definitive biography, Artur Domos?awski shines a new light on the personal relationships of this intensely charismatic, deeply private man, examining the intractable issue at the heart of Kapu?ci?ski's life and work: the relationship and tension between journalism and literature.</p><p>In researching this book, Domos?awski, himself an award-winning foreign correspondent, enjoyed unprecedented access to Kapu?ci?ski's private papers. The result traces his mentor's footsteps through Africa and Latin America, delves into files and archives that Kapu?ci?ski himself examined, and records conversations with the people that he talked to in the course of his own investigations. Ryszard Kapu?ci?ski is a meticulous, riveting portrait of a complex man of intense curiosity living at the heart of dangerous times.</p>http://www.lybrary.com/ryszard-kapuscinski-a-life-p-211802.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/ryszard-kapuscinski-a-life-p-211802.htmlSun, 09 Sep 2012 10:35:34 EDT