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"I read 50 some pages and returned it. The book is based on an actual plot by a counterfeiter named Kennedy with henchmen named Hughes and Boyd to steal and hold for ransom Lincolns body. The author was so bereft of idea that the books villains are..."
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"This is a decent western that takes place in an area of New Mexico that I am familiar with and love, the area of the Lincoln/Colfax County Wars , The major villain is associated with the Santa Fe Gang which was also real. The Big Empty was and sti..."
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In "Lean In", Sheryl Sandberg -- Facebook COO and one of "Fortune" magazine's most powerful women in business -- looks at what women can do to help themselves, and make the small changes in their life that can effect change on...
Penguin PutnamA riveting, revealing and newsmaking account of the CIA's interrogation of Saddam Hussein, written by the CIA agent who conducted the questioning."Mr. Nixon, the first C.I.A. officer to interrogate Hussein after his capture in...
"At once incendiary and icy, mischievous, and provocative, celebratory and elegiac, a deeply felt meditation on race, sex, and American culture through the prism of the author's rarefied upbringing and education among a black elite concerned...