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  • After the Good War

    A Vietnam Memoir

    by Jerome Loving ...
    Series series Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University
    The fall of Saigon in 1975 marked the end of the Vietnam War—more than fifty years later, memories are already fading. Beginning in the mid-1950s with the Republic of South Vietnam in a civil war with North Vietnam over communism, the United States’ military commitment rose to half a million soldiers, airmen, and sailors. Among them was Jerome Loving, a twenty-four-year-old college graduate. Over ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Mark Twain

    The Adventures of Samuel L. Clemens

    by Jerome Loving ...
    Mark Twain, who was often photographed with a cigar, once remarked that he came into the world looking for a light. In this new biography, published on the centennial of the writer’s death, Jerome Loving focuses on Mark Twain, humorist and quipster, and sheds new light on the wit, pathos, and tragedy of the author of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. In brisk and compelling fashion, Loving follows ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

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    Jack and Norman

    A State-Raised Convict and the Legacy of Norman Mailer's the Executioner's Song

    by Jerome Loving ...
    Narrated by Brandon Pollock ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 54 min

    This is the story of an author and his apprentice. It is the story of literary influence and tragedy. It is also the story of incarceration in America.Norman Mailer was writing The Executioner's Song, his novel about condemned killer Gary Gilmore, when he struck up a correspondence with Jack Henry Abbott, Federal Prisoner 87098-132. Over time, Abbott convinced the famous author that he was a ... Read more

    $15.65 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Confederate Bushwhacker

    Mark Twain in the Shadow of the Civil War

    by Jerome Loving ...
    Confederate Bushwhacker is a microbiography set in the most important and pivotal year in the life of its subject. In 1885, Mark Twain was at the peak of his career as an author and a businessman, as his own publishing firm brought out not only the U.S. edition of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn but also the triumphantly successful Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant. Twenty years after the end of the ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Jack and Norman

    A State-Raised Convict and the Legacy of Norman Mailer's "The Executioner's Song"

    by Jerome Loving ...
    This is the story of an author and his apprentice. It is the story of literary influence and tragedy. It is also the story of incarceration in America.Norman Mailer was writing The Executioner's Song, his novel about condemned killer Gary Gilmore, when he struck up a correspondence with Jack Henry Abbott, Federal Prisoner 87098-132. Over time, Abbott convinced the famous author that he was a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Emerson, Whitman, and the American Muse

    by Jerome Loving ...
    Loving finds in the lives and works of the two writers a symbiosis of spirit that transcends the question of literary influence. Tracing the parallel careers of Emerson and Whitman, the author shows how each served his literary apprenticeship, moved beyond his vocation, prospered, and, finally, declined in his literary achievements. In both cases, Loving follows his subject from vision to wisdom ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

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  • Alexander Hamilton

    by Ron Chernow ...
    **The #1 New York Times bestseller, and the inspiration for the hit Broadway musical Hamilton!Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow presents a landmark biography of Alexander Hamilton, the Founding Father who galvanized, inspired, scandalized, and shaped the newborn nation."Grand-scale biography at its best—thorough, insightful, consistently fair, and superbly written . . . A genuinely great ... Read more

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  • The Run of His Life

    The People v. O. J. Simpson

    by Jeffrey Toobin ...
    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 ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Broken Arrow

    How the U.S. Navy Lost a Nuclear Bomb

    by Jim Winchester ...
    Series series Casemate Illustrated
    This " unnerving exposé" of a lost American nuclear bomb "is a valuable contribution to the history of the navy, the cold war, and nuclear weapons" ( Booklist ).On December 5th, 1965, the USS Ticonderoga was on its way from Vietnam to Japan, practicing nuclear combat procedures along the way. A young pilot from Ohio strapped into an A-4 Skyhawk bomber for a routine simulated mission. But after ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1

    The Complete and Authoritative Edition

    by Mark Twain ...
    Series Book 10 - Mark Twain Papers
    Mark Twain's final and uncensored masterpiece, presented in three volumes, is a landmark publication in American literature.**“Twain will begin to seem strange again, alluring and still astonishing . . . in ways that still resonate with us.”—New York Times“His crystalline humor and expansive range are a continuous source of delight and awe.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review**"I've struck it!" Mark ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • The Hunter Killers

    The Extraordinary Story of the First Wild Weasels, the Band of Maverick Aviators Who Flew the Most Dangerous Missions of the Vietnam War

    by Dan Hampton ...
    At the height of the Cold War, America’s most elite aviators bravely volunteered for a covert program aimed at eliminating an impossible new threat. Half never returned. All became legends. From New York Times bestselling author Dan Hampton comes one of the most extraordinary untold stories of Vietnam War aviation history.Vietnam, 1965: On July 24 a USAF F-4 Phantom jet was suddenly blown from the ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

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