Product Description: Born 100 years ago, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was a youthful, intelligent, engaged president who crafted an image that inspired and thrilled millions – and left a lasting, yet contradictory, legacy. There are many reasons for the continuing fascination to linger on into the present, and the Kennedy mystique continues to draw questions about the man and his unfulfilled – and uncompleted – presidency...read more

Product Description: Although they lived a generation apart, the personal and political lives of Hillary Clinton and Eva Peron bear a startling series of similarities and repetitive patterns. As you read through the extensive comparison of facts, experiences, and characteristics in this book, try to imagine how so much of this could be just random coincidence...read more

Product Description: Although the story of a magically empowered English nanny was originally told in a series of books by P. L. Travers, most of the world knows Mary Poppins as the central character in the film created by Walt Disney. A cinematic confection, "Mary Poppins" has enraptured generations of moviegoers since its premiere fifty years ago, standing with "The Wizard of Oz" as the two greatest children’s films adapted from books...read more

Product Description: Both a holiday and a holy day, Christmas is celebrated with traditions and practices that are both secular and religious. Sure, we exchange gifts, decorate trees, attend church, share meals with family and friends and, of course, wait for Santa Claus to arrive, but given its ubiquity as a religious, cultural and commercial phenomenon, one wonders, after all this time, if there could be anything more we don’t already know about this annual celebration...read more

Product Description: Considering the magnitude of the event of November 22, 1963, and the government’s attempt to blame a lone gunman, it is astonishing that a clear majority of Americans suspect there was a conspiracy behind the killing of John F. Kennedy...read more

Product Description: By 1937, Cary Grant had invented a man-of-the-world, the epitome of sophistication, class, and refinement. In his words, "I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be and I finally became that person. Or he became me. Or we met at some point...read more

Product Description: "The Essential Wizard of Oz" is brimming with amazing true stories, corrected myths, and particular particulars about the most-watched movie in film history – more than one billion people have seen MGM’s 1939 classic. The book is not meant to provide a comprehensive nor complete academic reference, but rather an accessible distillation, a delightful confection in its own right, about a film that is one of the most beloved pieces of motion picture art and one that has resonated across three-quarters of a century...read more

Product Description: At a time when American businesses could use some help in an increasingly competitive environment, the world of sports may offer an answer. Like sports, success in business takes self-discipline, drive, ambition, focus, building a team and having a game plan...read more

Product Description: Accessing the higher levels of human genius and motivation in today's new reality requires a new mind-set, a new skill-set, a new tool-set. One of America's most widely-published authors, Horace Martin Woodhouse, identifies 101 articles of faith that make leaders more effective in their personal and public lives...read more

Product Description: Next to the jar of jelly beans on his Oval Office desk, President Reagan kept a sign that read: It CAN be done! Those four words embodied his blend of Midwestern optimism and Western CAN DO spirit. He was a leader who taught us the art of the possible, an eternal optimist who believed America's best days were ahead...read more