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In this memoir, the iconic media star discusses her professional and personal life, including losing her husband at a young age, her historic turn as anchor of the CBS Evening News, and experiences dealing with gender inequality. For more than 40 years Couric has been an iconic presence in the media world. In her brutally honest memoir, she reveals how she has balanced her personality, intellectual curiosity and desire to be taken seriously while...

England's Poet Laureate recalls his early boyhood in the England of eighty years ago. Two poems--a prologue and an epilogue--enclose a boy's-eye-view of an old English country fair, the River Avon, the great canal from Hereford to Gloucester, a visiting circus, and other objects.

This piece is an autobiography of Rev. Peter W. Gravis. Gravis was a preacher of the Methodist Episcopal Church during the 1850's. After fighting sin and Indians on the Texas frontier he joined the Confederate Army in mid 1862. He served in Walker's Texas division, seeing plenty of action in Arkansas and Louisiana. The publication date of the book is 1966 by Cross Timber Press in Brownwood, Texas.