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Excerpt: Sal Polisi tells his sons about hijacking a fur truck, in this true story of a family running from the mob.

"A vivid portrait of a New York mobster."
-- Kirkus Reviews

Laser: The Inventor, the Nobel Laureate, and the Thirty-Year Patent War

Excerpt: Gordon Gould begins the final court battle in his long struggle to win credit for his role in one of today's most incredible inventions -- the laser.

"A ripping yarn."
-- Wired

John Glenn: A Memoir

Excerpt: John Glenn lifts off into orbit. From Chapter 18 of the autobiograpy of the astronaut and former U.S. Senator.

"Ablaze with drama."
-- Book-of-the-Month Club News

A Necessary End

Excerpt: My father, in the last year of his life, decides he'd like to learn to fly.

"Short, cool, and skeletally bright."
-- Washington Post

Bass Wars: A Story of Fishing Fame and Fortune

Excerpt: A Japanese fisherman and a hell-bent Mississippian set out across Lake Mead in one of bass fishing's biggest tournaments, in this rollicking account of the pro sport's early days.

"Truly fine writing."
-- Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Healing Lessons

Excerpt: Dr. Winawer explains the roots of his faith, and his need to join faith with medicine as he confronts his wife's illness.

In Hitler's Shadow

Excerpt: The rabbis at the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles learn of an Israeli's amazing journey inside Germany's neo-Nazi movement.

Ordinary Miracles

Excerpt: Father Lincoln Stelk conveys the joy of a baptism in the opening passage from this account of two years in the life of a small church and its congregation.

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WPA to the Rescue!

April 9, 2012

Tags: WPA, outhouse, rescue, New Deal

This story arrived by email over the weekend. It's another example of the WPA's extraordinary work in rescuing America, and Americans, during the Great Depression of the 1930s. I'm posting it with the writer's permission.

Dear Nick,

I'm glad you have written about the WPA.

I wanted to tell you my story because if it wasn't for the WPA, I would not be alive today. Read More

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HOW TO TALK ABOUT JOBS

September 5, 2011

Tags: jobs, FDR, Harry Hopkins, WPA, Works Progress Administration

In the late summer of 1935, two and a half years into his first term, President Franklin Roosevelt was finally launching a serious program to put Americans back to work. The Works Progress Administration was an admission that the piecemeal and temporary programs that preceded it had failed to spark the economy back to life. Read More

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