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"The Seniors of Berkeley High are the white, black, Latino, Asian, and multiracial children of judges and carpenters, software consultants and garbage collectors, housewives and housekeepers. Some are Harvard bound; others are illiterate. They are the Class of 2000 at the nation's most diverse high school - and they are the future of our nation." "Looking into the lives of these young people, in this American town, at this time in history, we see...
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" "What was it like, having Bertrand Russell for a father?" Katharine Tait has been asked that question all her life; this book is her answer. Here, a complex and difficult man emerges. Bertrand Russell was a militant atheist, yet possessed a deeply religious nature. He was a gentle man, yet raised his children by rigid behaviors and principles. And though many women loved him, he never felt lovable, and could not remain faithful to any. Russell's...
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This is the story of the successes of the space program - the first orbital flight, the first spacewalk, the first moon landing - and the stories of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs as written by two member of the original U.S. astronaut team (known as Mercury 7), including Alan Shepard, America's first man in space. This chronology begins with the origins of the U.S. space program in the late 1950s and ends with the 1975 Apollo Soyuz Test...
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Jack Smith is simultaneously hailed as the godfather of performance art, a groundbreaking photographer and the 'William Blake of film'. His utopian ideals, artistic processes and bejeweled artworks became essential influences to contemporary art superstars like Andy Warhol, Federico Fellini and Matthew Barney. In her feature-length film debut, director Mary Jordan combines Smith's rare and unseen films and photographs with rare audio recordings, acting...
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This informative narrative is full of fascinating people: Chinese people, mostly writers, who encounter American writers in various bizarre circumstances in both China and the U.S. There is a toasting scene at a Chinese banquet; a portrait of a bitter, flirtatious diplomat at a dance hall; a formal meeting with Chinese writers; a conversation with an American businessman in a hotel lobby; an evening with long-suffering Chinese intellectuals in their...
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This is a personal memoir of a young white woman, newly graduated from college, who worked for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and set out to reverse, redress, and reshape the mind of America on the matter of race. The author describes the involvement of major figures such as Andrew Young, Julian Bond, Martin Luther King, Jr., and John F. Kennedy; the cold-blooded murder of the author's three fellow workers in Mississippi; the...
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"In this history, soldiers and civilians, both American and Vietnamese, tell what it was like in the spring of 1975 as Hanoi carried out its final, successful offensive against the Republic of Vietnam. Generals, ambassadors, pilots, Marines, politicians, doctors, seamen, flight attendants, journalists, children, and even Vietcong soldiers describe the growing demoralization, panic, and chaos as the collapse gained momentum. American survivors recall...
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