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Dr. Andrea Baker (aka andee or angee) talked to fans from online communities for You Get What You Need: Stories of Fans of the Rolling Stones, a book for anyone who likes rock music or has ever followed a band. Experiences of Rolling Stones fans of different ages, from different countries, and from different fan boards form the basis of this book. Andee interviewed over 100 fans from 2007 to the present. The only thing the fans have in common is their passion for the music and performances of The Rolling Stones.

Wilmer Fields was a superstar in the Negro Leagues, back when baseball was segregated. After Jackie Robinson broke the color line (as shown in this year's hit film, "42"), Fields received five different offers to join white teams. But he loved the Negro Leagues and never left. After his retirement, he fought to get the Negro League players covered by Major League Baseball's pension and health care benefits. This new edition of Fields' memoir, with an introduction by baseball historian John Holway, features a new interview with Fields' son, Billy, who had his own professional sports career in basketball. Fields tells the story of the "dream come true" that "allowed a black country boy" from Virginia to play the game he loved with teammates he admired and trusted. Fields tells his story, from college football to military service in WWII to hitting .427 in 1956 and being honored as one of the "Black legends of baseball" in 1990. He writes about players like the legendary Josh Gibson and Sam Hairston, who became a White Sox manager. He writes about the game itself, the qualities that make a team and the dedication that makes a world-class athlete, and about the loving support he received from his parents and his wife. "If someone asked me today if I regretted not accepting a major league contract, I would have to say no - though the money sure is tempting - because I was meant to have a career in the Negro Leagues. While it is the desire of most ball players to play in the major leagues because it says, "I am a success - I play against the best," it was never my desire. When I was young, I prayed that God would give me the ability to play black baseball, and for that gift I am most grateful. I also got to play against major leaguers in Latin American countries and Canada so I never doubted that I could play against them because I did, and quite well, in fact."

Great moments from neglected movies and neglected moments from classic movies -- movie critic Nell Minow (known as "The Movie Mom") describes 101 must-see movie moments that illuminate cinematic story-telling, from the DBTA (dead by third act) character there to give the hero a learning experience to the unexpected on-set "mistakes" that turned out better than the script.

Korea is "the forgotten war." But to those who fought in it, it was the "unforgettable war." If the names of all those killed were put on a wall, it would be larger than the Vietnam Wall. And Korea lasted only three years, Vietnam about ten. The agony of the winter of 1950-51 is an epic to compare with Valley Forge and the Bulge. Korea was also our last segregated war. This is the story of the black 24th Infantry Regiment, told in the words of the men themselves. Like all black troops since the Civil War, they were reviled by whites and their own commander for "bugging out" - running before the enemy. The charge can still be read in the Army's own official histories. Yet the 24th left more blood on the field than their white comrades - if they did bug out, they must have been running the wrong way. It's a good thing we weren't with Custer," one black GI muttered - "they'd have blamed the whole thing on us." The 24th won the first battle of the war, won its division's first Medal of Honor, and guarded the shortest and most vulnerable road to Pusan. If the port had fallen, the war would have been lost, leaving a red dagger pointed at Japan. It did not fall. That winter, after the Chinese attacked, the entire American army bugged out in perhaps the worst military disaster in American history. "That," said another black veteran, "was when I learned that whites could run as fast as blacks." This is the story of those unsung heroes, who helped turn the Communist tide for the first time. The men bring that forgotten war and their own unsung bravery to life in their own sometimes funny, often heart-breaking, and always exciting words.

Edward R. Murrow is the patron saint of American broadcast journalism. The Museum of Broadcast Communications states that "Edward R. Murrow is the most distinguished and renowned figure in the history of American broadcast journalism." Dozens of books about Murrow and his boys at CBS have captured the spirit of the television journalist who challenged Senator Joseph McCarthy. But there is another Edward R. Murrow, the forgotten Murrow, who is also the patron saint of public diplomacy. No book yet exists on that Murrow, the good propagandist, who sought to tell America's story to the world not as a sales pitch but as a truthful accounting of who we are and what we had to offer the world. Truth is the Best Propaganda: Murrow in the Kennedy Years, captures that spirit, in analysis of his speeches and rhetoric while serving as director of the United States Information Agency. This book will give voice to Murrow as public diplomat and thereby make his legacy in international political communication as compelling as his renowned reporting.diplomacy. No book yet exists on that Murrow, the good propagandist, who sought to tell America's story to the world not as a sales pitch but as a truthful accounting of who we are and what we had to offer the world. Truth is the Best Propaganda: Murrow in the Kennedy Years, captures that spirit, in analysis of his speeches and rhetoric while serving as director of the United States Information Agency. This book will give voice to Murrow as public diplomat and thereby make his legacy in international political communication as compelling as his renowned reporting.

In this captivating novella, Judy Pomeranz explores the infinite variety of worlds within worlds that make up Manhattan and reveals how love, in its many guises and permutations, is the single most powerful motivating force within entirely disparate souls. A desperate, adulterous love between a cabaret singer and a physician is just as compelling as a grandmother's devotion to the memory of her late grandson and a bartender's to the memory of his late wife. One brother's love for another wreaks just as much havoc as a wealthy, lonely man's feelings for a young fellow he is afraid to adore. Seen through multiple points of view in interlocking stories, Manhattan and its inhabitants come vividly to life. Love is elusive, but loneliness and loss are tempered by moments of grace. Faith is sometimes impossible to hold onto, but its absence clears the way for reflection and self-examination. Death slams some doors shut, but opens others a crack. Right and wrong become relative, or meaningless. Through the eyes of one small, quirky coterie of New Yorkers, the human condition unfolds before our eyes. This is the first in a trio of novellas by Pomeranz set in Manhattan's art world. An earlier version of this book, called On the Far Edge of Love: New York Stories, appeared as a serial in élan magazine.

Whether between parent and child, husband and wife, friends, siblings, or paramours, love is by far the most compelling and fulfilling, but also the most complex and challenging of the roads we negotiate in the long journey through life. The novellas and stories contained within Love on a Small Island are all built upon and revolve around these relationships. In them, Judy Pomeranz presents us with all manner of individuals involved in all manner of relationships doing the best they can to get through the day, and with luck perhaps even figure out how to find happiness and thrive. Tied together only by the common setting of Manhattan and the urban experience that implies, her disparate characters are variously confident, insecure, tough, fragile, bold, timid, tormented, serene, guarded, or open, and occasionally all the above. Like the rest of us, they put one foot in front of the other and hope to reach a place that feels good and right. Also like the rest of us, they rarely quite get there, and when they do it rarely lasts. And yet they persist. Because that's what people do, and that's what life is about. These are people we may or may not admire, and may or may not even like, but they are all people whom we relate to and ultimately find ourselves caring for and about. Advance praise for "Love on a Small Island: Judy Pomeranz's sublime New York stories rappel down the shiny pages of previous riffs on the art world, the Hamptons, and so much more. Part Amor Towles, part Hortense Calisher, these are sleekly crafted fictions possessing a droll eye, cheeky dialogue, and a whole lotta heart. The two retro novellas alone will make you a Pomeranz fan. Richard Peabody, editor, Gargoyle Magazine Judy has written reviews of museums and galleries for èlan Magazine for nearly twenty years. She also allowed the magazine to publish her two novellas, Lies Beneath the Surface and Elegy, in serial format. The consummate writer, her expertise, engaging style, and unique point of view shine through in these stories, as in everything she writes. David Reynolds, Publisher, élan Magazine

The Red Sox of the early 1960s were an irreverent-and often irrelevant-team that routinely played in front of thousands of empty seats at Fenway Park. While the club featured a sprinkling of stars in its lineup year after year, it also found ways to lose that made it an annual laughingstock in the American League. And its championship drought of nearly half a century only added to the inglorious legend. But to author Peter Hartshorn as a boy, there was nothing ridiculous about his beloved Red Sox, and going to games at Fenway with his father was pure joy, even sitting in the midst of all the unfilled seats and knowing the high probability of the team finding yet another way to lose. For every time he watched in awe a Yaz double off The Wall, or a Tony C shot sailing over the net, or a lightning-bolt fastball from The Monster, Dick Radatz, he experienced the thrill of Red Sox baseball at Fenway Park and, like so many boys before him, dreamed of being on that field himself one day. It was all made possible by his father, Lewis Hartshorn, a lifelong baseball fan whose first love had been the Boston Braves of the National League, but who instilled a deep appreciation of the sport in Peter, nurturing it with endless fly balls in the backyard and regular trips to Fenway Park to see the boy's diamond heroes, flawed though many of them were. Then came the Impossible Dream season of 1967 and the birth of Red Sox Nation, a magical transformation that no one saw coming. It seemed almost too good to be true, and it was, sadly, for Peter and his father. As years passed, a debilitating mental illness that had plagued Peter's father for decades divided father and son and pushed baseball aside before long-forgotten memories of the sport brought an unexpected reconciliation in his father's final days. We All Have Fathers: A Red Sox Memoir, is a moving reminder of the power of baseball to be an unconquerable tie that binds fathers and sons. Praise for We All Have Fathers: A Red Sox Memoir "A thoroughly enjoyable, poignant, intimate story of the making of the Red Sox-and a Red Sox fan. For those who like baseball, and love family." - Kevin Baker, co-author with Reggie Jackson, Becoming Mr. October "Take a ride in the Wayback Machine with Peter Hartshorn, back to when a family of four didn't have to get a second mortgage to buy seats along the first base line at Fenway Park, back to when the athletes weren't multi-millionaires, back to when baseball seemed to be a more simple game. Enjoy the scenery. Very nice." - Leigh Montville, author of Ted Williams: The Biography of an American Hero "Baseball in New England draws much of its popularity from a solid core of supporters whose loyalty to the Red Sox can be traced back through generations. After the 2004 Red Sox World Series victory, many visited local cemeteries to decorate in Red Sox regalia the final resting places of loved ones who missed the momentous breaking of the 86-year-old "Curse." In his book, Peter Hartshorn warmly recalls how baseball created a strong father and son bond in his family. In the author's case, however, it took a somewhat atypical path as his dad grew up not as a follower of the Crimson Hose, but of the old Boston Braves. Hartshorn's reminiscences preserve invaluable memories of those days when Boston also was once the 'Home of the Braves.'" - Bob Brady, president of the Boston Braves Historical Association Praise for I Have Seen the Future: A Life of Lincoln Steffens "Absorbing . . . [Hartshorn] has produced a biography that is prodigiously researched, fantastically interesting and extremely well-written. Steffens would have been pleased by how well Hartshorn has turned him inside out." - New York Times "Well-researched and well-written" - Wall Street Journal "A fascinating history...an extraordinary book about a complex man." - American Journalism Review

Democratic capitalism-the source of America's vast wealth, the foundation of our entire economic system-is threatened as never before, not from without but from within. Shareholders today no longer own, except in the narrowest legal sense, the corporations they have invested in. Emboldened by the Supreme Court and enabled by a compliant Congress and compromised regulators, America's CEOs have staged a corporate coup d'état. They, not the titular owners of the businesses, decide where and how company resources will be deployed, what laws will be evaded in the pursuit of short-term gain, what offshore havens profits will be stashed in to avoid taxation, and critically, how lavishly the CEOs themselves will be compensated. Far too much of American business is being run for the personal enrichment and glorification of its manager-kings. This book shows how that happened and unveils, for the first time, a new study showing that corporations "un-owned" by their shareholders-corporate "drones"-are far worse corporate citizens and have significantly lower average shareholder returns than firms in which owners still exercise authority over management. Manager-kings, it turns out, are bad both for society and for business itself.

Fidel Castro described Ambassador John Ferch as "very intelligent but dangerous." "Ferch, tell the American people that I'm serious!" he insisted. The ambassador was given messages to take back to Washington: "Ferch, the Comandante (Fidel) wants you to tell the President that we are revolutionaries not narcotraficantes!" "Mr. Ambassador, you've got to stop him (the Honduran president)!" "Scatter my ashes upon the River Plate as a pox forever upon Argentina!" And so run the misconceptions of American diplomatic power depicted in this hilarious, and sometimes serious, recounting of 30 years in the Foreign Service. From Argentina through Latin America and across to the Caribbean, Ambassador Ferch pursued our foreign policy with Latin American society at all levels. Attempted bribery by Dominican politicians, admissions of inconsistencies by Mexican diplomats, evidence of misconstrued machismo, dealing with suspicious indigenous peoples both enlivened his days and warmed his heart. "Fencing with Fidel" is not a typical diplomatic memoir. While he discusses and explains foreign policy, Ferch is more interested in showing the very human aspects of life in the Foreign Service. He demonstrates that it is not a craft that you could learn or practice in his home town of Toledo, Ohio. Both would-be entrants to the craft and those interested in how the Latin and the Yankee actually interact on the ground will find "Fencing with Fidel" enlightening and enjoyable. Ferch uses his career to explore the culture of Latin America and to explain the unusual pressures under which our diplomats work. Most episodes are treated lightly and with humor because he found the Foreign Service rewarding and enjoyable. Some are handled more seriously befitting the policy difficulties he faced. The book also stresses the important and difficult role played by spouses in a Foreign Service career.

When women become mothers, every decision becomes more complex and every question opens new paths: Do I remain employed? Do I stay at home? In Deborah A. Kahn's The Roads Taken: Complex Lives of Employed and At-Home Mothers, a non-judgmental, warm and informative book, readers will learn about the stresses and challenges mothers encounter caring for children/family, self, and often, career. And identify with their perceptions and experiences shared. The Roads Taken comes from a base of systematic data collection and analysis of responses and comments of full-, part-time employed, and at-home mothers in 2008. The research grew from a doctoral dissertation completed in 1995 with 200 employed and at-home mothers. Fourteen years later, Kahn succeeded in getting 123 of the original participants to answer questions about changes in their work status and why or why not they had occurred; challenges they experienced; stresses related to their work status; and sources of support, wanting to learn how they guide their lives once children become part of their families. Their once-toddlers were now teenagers or college students; the mothers were now at least in their 50s and some of their marriages had dissolved into divorce or ended in widowhood. They had experienced growing a family, launching their children. These mothers had been through it all while constantly trying to meet the demands and needs of all family members; provide support and opportunities; and grow as independent adults whether in a career or not. The findings suggest that when debating employment or home, mothers examine finances, education, health, values, passion-what is important to them. Once clear about those factors, which are always imbued with personal values, they are ready to make a choice. Decisions that are consistent with their priorities and values-what the mothers feel is best for them and their family, result in more confidence, less personal conflict, and more energy to address daily demands. Life is not easy; it is hard for all mothers. Society is not supportive of either work status group. Circumstances and priorities often change over time. The Roads Taken is a balanced conversation. What makes this conversation-the "remain employed" or "stay home" debate-especially compelling is that, in part, women learn best from other women. They solve problems by asking other women how they navigate challenges and what they consider in deciding on a course of action. The centerpiece of Kahn's systematic study of employed and at-home mothers comprises the insights from the women who were walking that path. That gives added credibility to probing, nonjudgmental questions and suggestions afforded in the book. This is the thoughts, views, feelings, and values of women who have made and/or changed their decisions over time about whether to stay at home or remain in the workplace. The takeaway here is that such matters are rarely resolved easily. While each woman makes her own decision it can now be an informed one based on the information shared by others who walked the path ahead of her. Ann Crittenden, author of If You've Raised Kids, You Can Manage Anything: Leadership Begins At Home (2004), writes: "Deborah Kahn has given us a level-headed, fair-minded, and ultimately reassuring look at the tough choices many mothers face between full-time employment and full-time parenting. A truly impressive book! The research and analysis add a great deal to our understanding of the difficult tug between work and family that so many American mothers feel. You will see yourself in this book. Read it, and you will better understand how complex mothers' lives are, and how deeply personal is each woman's decision about work and family. American society still judges mothers for whatever they do, but Kahn's message is empowering. Stop beating yourself up and stop worrying about what others think-you are the expert on what's best for you. A wise book."

Betsy Atkins, former CEO and experienced corporate director has candid and very practical advice for those who serve on the boards of big, complex enterprises. This 2017 third edition collection of her writing on boards includes essays on the mess at United Airlines that led to a viral video of a passenger being dragged off the plane, cyber-security, and the now-legendary "My 16 Days on the HealthSouth Board," with the details of her brief, turbulent stint as a director of a company facing (but not facing up to) massive criminal fraud charges. Atkins discusses problems from an executive trying to bribe a world leader to a marketing VP's porn site, traditional concerns of strategy, CEO compensation and succession, shareholder lawsuits, and up-to-the-minute issues of ESG, cyber-security, and social media.