At age six, Carl Albert knew he wanted to serve in the United States Congress. In 1947 he realized his dream when he was elected to serve in the House of Representatives along side John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon. In Little Giant, Albert relates the story of his life in Oklahoma and his road to Congress, where after eight years of sevice he joinded its leadership and shaped the legislation known as Kennedy's New Frontier and Johnson's Great Society.
Award winning crime historian, author, & essayist Albert Borowitz has penned his autobiography. The twist is that he wrote it 73 years ago! Unearthed from his personal archive and published for the first time, this book chronicles the first 13 years of his life, from 1930 to 1944, and affords the reader a preview of a precocious writer that was yet to come and a fascinating look at the formative years of a young Jewish boy growing up in Chicago.
As a cultural critic, biographer, essayist, and novelist, Albert Murray has had a wide-ranging influence on American art in the decades since World War II. This book brings together 20 interviews conducted over the last 20 years, wherein Murray discusses those who influenced him--Thomas Mann, Ernest Hemingway, Louis Armstrong--and how they helped him develop the blues hero as an American archetype.
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