Robert Draper
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
321 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Robert Draper's critically-acclaimed debut novel explores the bonds of friendship and the limits of loyalty. As a 15-year-old boy, Hadrian committed murder to save his friend Sonny's life and is sentenced to 50 years in prison. As the years progress their mutual dependence on each other twists their friendship into a question of who owes what to whom.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xvi, 384 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The disturbing eyewitness account of how a new generation of Republicans-led by Marjorie Taylor Greene, Paul Gosar, Matt Gaetz, Lauren Boebert, and Madison Cawthorn-far from moving on from Trump, have taken the politics of hysteria to even greater extremes, bringing American democracy to the very edge of reason The violent insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6th, 2021 was a terrible day for American democracy, but at least, many people dared...
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st Free Press hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
xv, 463 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this press-wary administration, journalist Draper has accomplished a small miracle: He has knocked on all the right doors, and thus become the first author to tell a personality-driven history of the Bush years. With access to all the key figures of this administration and perhaps 200 other players, Draper delivers an intimate portrait of a tumultuous decade and a beleaguered administration, with a special emphasis on how the very personality of...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xiv, 480 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Even now, after more than fifteen years, it is hard to see the invasion of Iraq through the cool, considered gaze of history. For too many people, the damage is still too palpable, and still unfolding. Most of the major players in that decision are still with us, and few are not haunted by it, in one way or another. Perhaps that combination, the passage of the years and the still unresolved trauma, explains why so many protagonists opened up so fully...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1990
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 389 pages, [12] pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Inside account of the turbulent and colorful history of one of the most significant publications of our time. From its beginnings in 1967 as a magazine that captured the spirit of the new, anarchic youth culture, to its sponsorship of some of the most brilliant talents of that generation, to its current incarnation as a glossy forum for pop stars, Rolling Stone has always been the story of its manic, maniacal founder, Jann Wenner ... draws a ......
