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The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America
Price: $7.99 USD. Words: 112,480. Language: English. Published: April 17, 2013 and represented by The Robbins Office. Categories: Nonfiction » Biography » Presidents & heads of state
The bestselling definitive account of Robert Kennedy's exhilarating and tragic 1968 campaign for President.
Diary of a Dictator -- Ferdinand & Imelda: The Last Days of Camelot
Price: $7.99 USD. Words: 84,510. Language: English. Published: March 7, 2013 and represented by The Robbins Office. Categories: Nonfiction » History » Biography
The Marcoses were once “the Kennedys of Asia,” likened to America’s beautiful and charismatic Jackie and JFK. But Camelot in the Philippines vanished amid deadly political intrigues, sex scandals, lies, spies and bribes. Today, the long-secret Marcos diary opens a rare insider’s view of the dictator couple’s lust for power and their plot to kill democracy–history that reads like a soap opera.
Coyotes: A Journey Across Borders with America's Mexican Migrants
Price: $7.99 USD. Words: 96,640. Language: English. Published: December 20, 2012 and represented by The Robbins Office. Categories: Nonfiction » Politics & Current Affairs » Social policy
To understand the lives of Mexicans who slip into the United States, Ted Conover accompanied them across deserts, hid in orange orchards, floated across the Rio Grande, and cut deals with traffickers in human sweat. This classic account, a harrowing vision of life among the American underclass, is an enduring contribution to our national debate on immigration.
Whiteout: Lost In Aspen
Price: $7.99 USD. Words: 107,760. Language: English. Published: December 14, 2012 and represented by The Robbins Office. Categories: Nonfiction » Travel » Specialties & interests » General
Irreverent, poignant, and revealing, WHITEOUT is a meditation on wealth and the vain, glorious quest for paradise in Aspen, Colorado. Even as Ted Conover describes how he crashed Don Johnson’s Christmas party, or what it was like to sit in on the taping of John Denver’s holiday video, he is turning the lens of his craft upon himself and documenting his own seduction by the Aspen mystique.
Rolling Nowhere
Price: $7.99 USD. Words: 99,690. Language: English. Published: September 12, 2012 and represented by The Robbins Office. Categories: Nonfiction » Social Science » Sociology
Ted Conover's first book takes the reader along on his dream trip—a hardscrabble netherworld built for freight, not people—in search of an America "where numbers live like men."
The Crisis
Price: $7.99 USD. Words: 175,760. Language: English. Published: May 21, 2012 and represented by The Robbins Office. Categories: Nonfiction » History » Contemporary political
THE CRISIS utilizes groundbreaking discussions with American leaders, as well as previously classified documents and interviews. Harris's gripping narrative races from Washington to Tehran to Paris to Panama, tracking a dying shah, a flailing Carter, an ascending Khomeini, the disastrous Desert One rescue attempt, and the lives of the Americans held in blindfolds amid a revolution like none other.
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