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"Hate Is Not a Family Value": A Quote Book for Liberals in a Right-Wing World

1 review

St Martins Pr, 1997

A cogent look at the many shades of liberalism
This review of liberal thinking is a useful collection of clever, insightful and important things said by great liberals through history. While some of the material might have been excerpted at greater length, overall the content is satisfying, and the book is a great gift for that holdout FDR or JFK fan in the family. --Edward J. Karros

Ship of Ghosts: The Story of the USS Houston, FDR's Legendary Lost Cruiser, and the Epic Saga of Her Survivors

34 reviews
James D. Hornfischer

Bantam, 2006

historic book
very realistic book about what really happened. my uncle was on this ship and was captured by the japanese and spent the rest of the war in prison camps. he had told me quite a lot about what happened and the book backed up what he said.

Last Man Out: Surviving the Burma-Thailand Death Railway: A Memoir

2 reviews
H. Robert Charles

Zenith Press, 2006

Read this and be enriched and humbled.
I have had the pleasure of knowing the author for going on 8 years now. His memoir of his time as a prisoner of the Japanese, building the Death Railroad, the real Bridge on the River Kwai, is riveting, and sadly the suffering of POWs is little known. In the decades since returning from the War, the author has had a distinguished career requiring excellent writing and editing skills, and this ...

The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors

121 reviews
James D. Hornfischer

Random House Large Print, 2004

Truly common boys, truly uncommon heroes
What an amazing, moving and inspiring book. It reads almost as a work of fiction, it moves so fluidly and thoroughly from character to character, ship to ship, and side to side. But every bit of it is true. It is hard to imagine that the white haired, slow-moving gentlemen we see at the malls or at church are some of the same who lived through the flames, the shrapnel, the bullets, the fear, ...

Right Thinking: Conservative Common Sense Through the Ages

2 reviews

Pocket Books, 1996

Enjoyable Early Nora Roberts
Racing fans will especially enjoy this story of love at the track. Cynthia "Foxy" Fox, a noted photographer, accompanies her race car driver brother, Kirk, on the circuit to provide photos for a book. The sponsor of the car is studly Lance Matthews, whom Foxy has secretly loved for the past ten years. Foxy worries when her brother has a crash and is scared that Lance, a former driver himself, ...