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  • So Much to Do

    A Full Life of Business, Politics, and Confronting Fiscal Crises

    Every city and every state needs a Richard Ravitch. In sixty years on the job, whether working in business or government, he was the man willing to tackle some of the most complex challenges facing New York. Trained as a lawyer, he worked briefly for the House of Representatives, then began his career in his family's construction business. He built high-profile projects like the Whitney Museum and ... Read more

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  • The Road to PROMESA

    Inside the Largest Public Debt Restructuring in US History

    The inside story of Puerto Rico's municipal debt restructuring and bankruptcy crisis—the largest in US history—and how Congress resolved itCold War tax incentives helped Puerto Rico to develop its economy. However, these incentives were phased out beginning in 1996, and the island slid into a recession a decade later. After years of stagnation, emigration of a large part of its population, and ... Read more

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  • Shrieks in Cups of Gold

    Outsiders, outcasts, isolation, mutilation, transformation, exhibitionism, toxic families, poverty, identities, bodies, desire, transcendence, despair are just some of what legendary writer Katherine Dunn so grotesquely and beautifully mined in her small but powerful body of work. Oft regarded as literature but undeniably horror, Shrieks in Cups of Gold has Matt Brandenburg, Sasha Ravitch, Sara ... Read more

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  • The Sweet Life

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  • Dirty Secrets of the World's Worst Employee

    by Jenn Sadai ...
    I knew at a very early age that I wanted to be a published author, but life takes you places that you never thought you’d go. My crooked career path involved many inappropriate, entertaining, and educational unplanned stops before I finally made my dreams a priority. Dirty Secrets of the World’s Worst Employee delves into the many mistakes I’ve made, the countless challenges I’ve faced along the ... Read more

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  • Street Warrior

    The True Story of the NYPD's Most Decorated Detective and the Era That Created Him

    As Seen On Discovery Channel's "Street Justice: The Bronx"2,000 arrests. 100 off-duty arrests. 6,000 assists. 15 shootings. 8 shot. 4 kills. These are not the performance statistics of an entire NYPD unit. They are the record that makes Detective 2nd Grade Ralph Friedman a legend.Friedman was arguably the toughest cop ever to wear the shield and was the most decorated detective in the NYPD's 170 ... Read more

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  • The 30-Second Commute

    This book is a comic narrative about the real life of a full–time writer. Stephanie Dickison had been successfully publishing features and articles for over a decade while working a full–time job but in December 2005 she left the secure world of a &dlquo;real job&drquo; to tackle completing a manuscript that was close to five years old and to take on freelance writing full time. Drawing on her ... Read more

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  • Wall Streeters

    The Creators and Corruptors of American Finance

    by Edward Morris ...
    "[A] retelling of the careers and the personalities . . . who formed today's world of high finance." — St. Louis Post-DispatchThe 2008 financial collapse, the expansion of corporate and private wealth, the influence of money in politics—many of Wall Street's contemporary trends can be traced back to the work of fourteen critical figures who wrote, and occasionally broke, the rules of American ... Read more

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  • Henry Ford : Greatest American Hero

    (A Short Biography for Children)

    Henry Ford : Greatest American Hero (A Short Biography for Children)One of America's foremost industrialists, Henry Ford revolutionized assembly-line modes of production for the automobile.Best Children's Biographies : Write a biography for kids by thinking about what a child would enjoy learning about a person, covering important achievements, creating an outline and getting help from a child ... Read more

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  • Wired-A Romance

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    The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test for our own age, the story of a dreamer who turned American media upside down—and suffered the consequencesLouis Rossetto had no money, no home, no job. Five years later he owned the hottest magazine in America and was poised to become an international tycoon, with America’s most powerful financiers by his side.Rossetto was the founder and editor of Wired, whose ... Read more

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  • The Outsider

    Albert M. Greenfield and the Fall of the Protestant Establishment

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