Author: Mary M. Overton
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.
Keywords: woman, man, world, memoirs, unabashed, fast, lane, cruising
Number of Pages: 166
Published: 2003-06-19
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0595279678
ISBN-13: 9780595279678

All girls don’t go to New York City to live and work. All women do not “ try everything.” All single women do not “make it in New York.” This book reveals the highlights and pitfalls of such a life. Opportunities opened because of relationships – but not through sex. Sex had other results. Some were good. Friends were many and enemies were numerous, vengeful and tough. Both were justified in their feelings. With awe and respect for knowledge or talent, patience was rarely shown for stupidity and slow wits. Achievement and valor seemed too natural to be worthy of noti

Author: Regina Barreca
Publisher: Wayne State University Pre
Keywords: humor, literature, life, letters, british, untamed, essays, women, unabashed
Number of Pages: 188
Published: 1994-04-01
List price: $35.95
ISBN-10: 0814321364
ISBN-13: 9780814321362

Author: Richard Kluger
Publisher: Knopf
Keywords: ashes, unabashed, triumph, philip, morris, health, war, america, hundred, year, cigarette, public
Number of Pages: 832
Published: 1997-07-29
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0375700366
ISBN-13: 9780375700361

No book before this one has rendered the story of cigarettes -- mankind’s most common self-destructive instrument and its most profitable consumer product -- with such sweep and enlivening detail.Here for the first time, in a story full of the complexities and contradictions of human nature, all the strands of the historical process -- financial, social, psychological, medical, political, and legal -- are woven together in a riveting narrative. The key characters are the top corporate executives, public health investigators, and antismoking activists who have clashed ever more stridently

Authors:Bob Edwards, Martin James, James Martin,
Publisher: Brindle & Glass Publishing
Keywords: unabashed, grafters, guzzlers, highball, freaks, irresponsible
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2001-08-31
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0973248157
ISBN-13: 9780973248159

Bob Edwards, the Great White North’s equivalent to H. L. Mencken, remains a singular figure in Canadian journalism. His newspapers, published in Wetaskiwin, Leduc, High River, Strathcona, Winnipeg, Port Arthur, and most famously Calgary, skewered politics, society, and business leaders with a fearlessness and outrageousness rarely seen then, now, or in between.As editor James Martin points out in his illuminating introduction, Bob Edwards seems more modern the farther back in history he recedes; he was the granddaddy of Gonzo Journalism à la Hunter S. Thompson, a freewheeling cultural cri