55 results for '"Kearns, Gerry'

"Gerry Sass is not who he appears to be. On the surface, he is the proud owner of a local country music station outside of Mystic, Iowa. Beneath it, he's a mob-connected hitman-for-hire who launders...

Reintroduces the traditional sea shanty for a new generation Passed down in the oral tradition and sung as working songs, sea shanties tell the compelling human stories of life on the water: hard...

The search for justice for a Lakota Sioux man wrongfully charged with murder, told here for the first time by his trial lawyer, Gerry Spence. This is the untold story of Collins Catch the Bear, a...

Is there a public good? A prevalent view in political science is that democracy is unavoidably chaotic, arbitrary, meaningless, and impossible. Such scepticism began with Condorcet in the eighteenth...

An entrancing collection of myths and legends of the sea The sea is beautiful and alluring, but it is also dangerous and deadly. Above all, it is unknowable and untamable. Storytelling offered our...

This anthology is a collection of excerpts from more than 100 documents detailing women's experiences from the end of the 18th century to the outbreak of World War I. It examines, in detail, all...

The first science fiction course in the American academy was held in the early 1950s. In the sixty years since, science fiction has become a recognized and established literary genre with a...

Surveying the impact of population growth where it is believed to matter most--the rural areas of developing countries--this volume explicates its effects on food production. It examines such factors...

Doris Kearns Goodwin's classic life of Lyndon Johnson, who presided over the Great Society, the Vietnam War, and other defining moments the tumultuous 1960s, is a monument in political biography...

An engrossing biography of President Lyndon Johnson from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Team of RivalsHailed by the New York Times as “the most penetrating, fascinating political biography I...