"One of the few great trial books of our time . . . Any reader looking for a quick course in how a criminal trial can go wrong would do well to read [it]." —Timothy Sullivan, author of Unequal VerdictsIn 1969, the Chicago Seven were charged with intent to "incite, organize, promote, and encourage" antiwar riots during the chaotic 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. The defendants included major figures of the antiwar and racial justice movements...

Stevie Linden loved the river and fishing more than anything. But as he looked more closely he discovered a mystery and wonder in there, and it drew him beyond the natural watery river and deeper into the river within the river.The river within the river is sometimes called the River of Life; it doesn't flow out to the ocean like most rivers, but into the hearts of people who are broken and ready to be held by the most astonishing and extravagant love... if they will just let go.

The Hidden Battle is the true story of John Schultz, a man who has spent more than five decades living with the aftermath of one of the largest brain tumors ever recorded at the University of Michigan Hospital.The story begins in Benton Harbor, Michigan, where John grew up in a home shaped by loss and instability, his father killed in a roofing accident before John's third birthday, his mother and grandmother both battling serious mental illness. Sports became his refuge, and an ol...

While other writers contemplated the events of the 1968 Chicago riots from the safety of their hotel rooms, John Schultz was in the city streets, being threatened by police, choking on tear gas, and listening to all the rage, fear, and confusion around him. The result, No One Was Killed, is his account of the contradictions and chaos of convention week, the adrenalin, the sense of drama and history, and how the mainstream press was getting it all wrong."A more valuable fac...

The Hidden Battle is the true story of John Schultz, a man who has spent more than five decades living with the aftermath of one of the largest brain tumors ever recorded at the University of Michigan Hospital. The story begins in Benton Harbor, Michigan, where John grew up in a home shaped by loss and instability, his father killed in a roofing accident before John's third birthday, his mother and grandmother both battling serious mental illness. Sports became his refuge, and an older bro...

This book explains how to organize and manage modifications during the solution realization phase of problem solving so improvements become the new way of life. The nine steps detailed in the books chapters, although applied to solution implementation, can be used on their own to manage many types of system modification. These transition activities are framed in a three stage model first proposed by Kurt Lewin the father of change theory. It packages a strategy for sustaining improvements ...

My intention in writing this book has been to show that there is a lie that has been written on the hearts of humanity ever since Adam took leave of the presence of God. This lie obscures the very thing we want most – the Life of the Spirit.The way to this life is a narrow, less crowded road - and few find it. Yet it awaits us all.I have deliberately written in a way that is more conversational than instructional. My intention in this conversation is not to tell you how to th...

In this groundbreaking biography of Edward Kennedy, historian and journalist Burton Hersh combines a lifetime of research and reporting with a lively mixture of never–before–told anecdotes (including the definitive version of the incident at Chappaquiddick, the details of which Kennedy himself filled in for Hersh shortly after it occurred) to create a broad yet unfailingly intimate portrait of the politician who would be universally acknowledged as one of the twentieth century's gr...

The demon is a mob, and the mob is demonic. The Democratic Party activates mobs, depends on mobs, coddles mobs, publicizes and celebrates mobs—it is the mob. Sweeping in its scope and relentless in its argument, Demonic explains the peculiarities of liberals as standard groupthink behavior. To understand mobs is to understand liberals.In her most provocative book to date, Ann Coulter argues that liberals exhibit all the psychological characteristics of a m...

Losers is a wickedly funny, unflinching look at how America really goes about choosing a President."A fresh, hilarious must read... [Losers] is a winner."- TimeMichael Lewis is a master at dissecting the absurd: after skewering Wall Street in his national bestseller Liar's Poker, he packed his mighty pen and set out on the 1996 campaign trail. As he follows the men who aspire to the Oval Office, Lewis discovers an...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The inspiration for American Crime Story: The People v. O. J. Simpson on FX, starring Cuba Gooding, Jr., John Travolta, David Schwimmer, and Connie BrittonThe definitive account of the O. J. Simpson trial, The Run of His Life is a prodigious feat of reporting that could have been written only by the foremost legal journalist of our time. First published less than a year after the infamous verdict, Jeffrey Toobi...

A New York Times–bestselling historian's in-depth portrait of life in America, from the Depression era to the early 1970s: "Magnificent" ( The New York Times).Award-winning historian and biographer William Manchester, author of The Last Lion, an epic three-volume biography of Winston Churchill, brings us an evocative exploration of the American way of life from 1932 to 1972. Covering almost every facet of American culture during a very di...