Best of
Biography

1979

The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor


Flannery O'Connor - 1979
    . . There she stands, a phoenix risen from her own words: calm, slow, funny, courteous, both modest and very sure of herself, intense, sharply penetrating, devout but never pietistic, downright, occasionally fierce, and honest in a way that restores honor to the word."—Sally Fitzgerald, from the Introduction

The Last Place on Earth: Scott and Amundsen's Race to the South Pole (Exploration)


Roland Huntford - 1979
    In the brilliant dual biography, the award-winning writer Roland Huntford re-examines every detail of the great race to the South Pole between Britain's Robert Scott and Norway's Roald Amundsen. Scott, who dies along with four of his men only eleven miles from his next cache of supplies, became Britain's beloved failure, while Amundsen, who not only beat Scott to the Pole but returned alive, was largely forgotten. This account of their race is a gripping, highly readable history that captures the driving ambitions of the era and the complex, often deeply flawed men who were charged with carrying them out. THE LAST PLACE ON EARTH is the first of Huntford's masterly trilogy of polar biographies. It is also the only work on the subject in the English language based on the original Norwegian sources, to which Huntford returned to revise and update this edition.

These Strange Ashes


Elisabeth Elliot - 1979
    In These Strange Ashes, Elliot captures the mysteries and stark realities surrounding the colorful and primitive world in which she ministered. More than just a recounting of her early days, this is a beautifully crafted and deeply personal reflection on the important questions of life and a remarkable testimony to an authentic Christian commitment.

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt


Edmund Morris - 1979
    The publication of The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt on September 14th, 2001 marks the 100th anniversary of Theodore Roosevelt becoming president.

Coming Out of the Ice: An Unexpected Life


Victor Herman - 1979
    He was eventually thrown into Soviet prisons and could not return to America until forty-five years later. During his life in and out of Russian prisons, he met and fell in love with a beautiful Russian gymnast who followed him into exile and lived with him and their child for a year in Siberia, in a caved chopped out under the ice. Theirs is the compelling story of a romance destined to thrive under even the most desperate conditions. It was 1938 when Victor Herman was inexplicably thrown into prison, after he had become a celebrity in the Soviet Union, having won acclaim as "the Lindbergh of Russia" for his flying and world-record-breaking parachute jumps. But what happened to him was a common nightmare during the Stalin years: those who survived imprisonment and torture were sent north to hard labor in the icy forests and mines, or into exile. Victor was one of the few who survived ~ From Back Cover

Liverpool Miss


Helen Forrester - 1979
    The Forrester family are slowly winning their fight for survival. But fourteen-year-old Helen’s personal battle is to persuade her parents to allow her to earn her own living, to lead her own life after the years of neglect and inadequate schooling while she cared for her six younger brothers and sisters. Her untiring struggles against illness caused by severe malnutrition and dirt (she has her first bath in four years) and, above all, the selfish demands of her parents, make this a story of amazing courage and perseverance.

On the Trail of the Serpent: The Life and Crimes of Charles Sobhraj


Richard Neville - 1979
    Born in Vietnam to a Vietnamese mother and Indian father, Sobhraj grew up with a fluid sense of identity, moving to France before being imprisoned and stripped of his multiple nationalities. Driven to floating from country to country, continent to continent, he became the consummate con artist, stealing passports, smuggling drugs and guns across Asia, busting out of prisons and robbing wealthy associates. But as his situation grew more perilous he turned to murder, preying on Western tourists dropping out across the 1970s hippie route, leaving a trail of dead bodies and gruesome crime scenes in his wake. First published in 1979, but updated here to include new material, On the Trail of the Serpent draws its readers into the story of Sobhraj’s life as told exclusively to journalists Richard Neville and Julie Clarke. Blurring the boundaries between true crime and novelisation, this remains the definitive book about Sobhraj – a riveting tale of sex, drugs, adventure and murder.

Living Sacrifice: Willing to Be Whittled as an Arrow


Helen Roseveare - 1979
    Helen Roseveare skilfully weaves stories of sacrifice together with Christian teaching on the subject to show you how sacrifice is the key to joy.

Dorie: The Girl Nobody Loved


Doris Van Stone - 1979
    God had stood beside me when no one else wanted me. He was not going to abandon me now. God would have to heal the emotional pain that throbbed through my body."As a child, Dorie was rejected by her mother, sent to live in an orphanage where she was regularly beaten by the orphanage director, was beaten time and again by cruel foster parents, and was daily told that she was ugly and unlovable. Dorie never knew love until a group of college students visited the orphanage and told her that God loved her. As she accepted that love, her life began to change.Dorie is a thrilling true account of what God's love can do in a life. Doris Van Stone takes readers through the hard years of her childhood into her fascinating years as a missionary with her husband to the Dani tribe in New Guinea. With the rise of illegitimate births, the increase in divorce statistics, and the frightening escalation of child abuse, this story stands as a reminder that God's love, forgiveness, and grace are greater than human hurt and sorrow.More than 170,000 in print.

Patton And His Third Army


Brenton G. Wallace - 1979
    Patton At the start of the war the Nazi armed forces was one of the most feared war machines in history. It had swept away all opposition and threatened all of Europe with its dominating force. But its supremacy was not to last. In fact the gains made by Nazi Germany over the course of 1940 to 1942 were rolled back in ten short months as Patton and the Third Army roared through France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Czechoslovakia and Austria. Through the course of this offensive Patton and his men faced some of the toughest fighting of World War Two, most notably when the Germans attempted to reverse the tide in the Battle of the Bulge. Colonel Brenton G. Wallace was there to witness all of this as he served, and went on to earn five battle stars, with the Third Army through the course of its movements into Germany. His book, Patton and his Third Army is a remarkable account of this fascinating leader and his troops that changed the course of World War Two and revolutionized warfare. Wallace uncovers the actions of the Third Army from its preparations in Britain, to its first engagements with the enemy, through to the major battles around the Falaise Pocket and countering the German offensives, breaking across the Moselle into Germany until they eventually subdued the Nazi forces. This book provides fascinating insight into the strategies used by Patton to defeat the Germans. It is full of direct quotes from Patton that demonstrate his determination to win, such as: “When you have an adversary staggering and hanging on the ropes, don’t let up on him. Keep smashing, keep him off balance and on the run until you have knocked him out completely. That is the way to get this dirty business over quickly and at the smallest cost.” Patton and his Third Army is essential reading for anyone interested in the European Theater of war and finding out more about this remarkable figure who Eisenhower said was “born to be a soldier”. Brenton G. Wallace was an American army officer and architect. Through the course of the war he was awarded the Legion of Merit and Bronze Star from the United States, the Croix de Guerre with Star of Vermeil from France and also made part of the Order of the British Empire. He served under Patton as an assistance chief of staff and retired from the army as a Major General in the United States Army Reserve. His work Patton and his Third Army was first published in 1946. He passed away in 1968.

Disturbing the Universe


Freeman Dyson - 1979
    Robert Oppenheimer, Freeman Dyson has composed an autobiography unlike any other. Dyson evocatively conveys the thrill of a deep engagement with the world-be it as scientist, citizen, student, or parent. Detailing a unique career not limited to his groundbreaking work in physics, Dyson discusses his interest in minimizing loss of life in war, in disarmament, and even in thought experiments on the expansion of our frontiers into the galaxies.

With Head and Heart: The Autobiography of Howard Thurman


Howard Thurman - 1979
    Index; photographs.

In Memory Yet Green: The Autobiography, 1920-1954


Isaac Asimov - 1979
    In this first volume of his autobiography he recounts in his candid and inimitable manner his life's work in science, science fiction, and practically everything else.Beginning in the beginning, Asimov tells of his family's emigration from Russia when he was only three. We see the young Isaac, barely more than a toddler, determined to decipher Brooklynese. Intrigued by signs in the "new" language, he taught himself to read and whizzed through school as a child prodigy, without modesty, getting A's in everything except deportment. In his early years at school he befriended a talkative little boy who held Isaac spellbound with his stories. this was Isaac's first introduction to fiction, and soon afterward he began to borrow science fiction magazines from the rack in his father's candy store, reading them in secret, and returning them still looking like new.Entering college at the age of fifteen, he emerged with a doctorate in chemistry from Columbia University. Then there were his stints at the Navy Yard in Philadelphia during World War II and in the Army (for once the military couldn't fail to recognize a genius!), his first marriage, and his years teaching biochemistry — to standing ovations from his classes — at Boston University Medical School. All this time he was rising to prominence as a storyteller, author of The Foundation Trilogy and "Nightfall," and laying the groundwork for his future as our most outstanding diverse science writer.In short, this is a book where the man who has been called a "national resource and a natural wonder" tells how he got to be that way. A treasure-trove for Asimov fans of all ages, all walks of life.

Adventures of a Bystander


Peter F. Drucker - 1979
    This personal and informal work portrays Drucker as a leader and thinker of infinite curiosity, imaginative, sympathetic, and enormously interested in people, ideas, and the forces behind them.

Fools Crow


Thomas E. Mails - 1979
    A disciplined, gentle man who upheld the old ways, he was aggrieved by the social ills he saw besetting his own people and forthright in denouncing them. When he died in 1989 at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, he was widely loved and respected. Fools Crow is based on interviews conducted in the 1970s. The holy man tells Thomas E. Mails about his eventful life, from early reservation days when the Sioux were learning to farm, to later times when alcoholism, the cash economy, and World War II were fast eroding the old customs. He describes his vision quests and his becoming a medicine man. His spiritual life—the Yuwipi and sweatlodge ceremonies, the Sun Dance, and instances of physical healing—is related in memorable detail. And because Fools Crow lived joyfully in this world, he also recounts his travels abroad and with Buffalo Bill's Wild West show, his happy marriages, his movie work, and his tribal leadership. He lived long enough to mediate between the U.S. government and Indian activists at Wounded Knee in 1973 and to plead before a congressional subcommittee for the return of the Black Hills to his people.

Brother Francis of Assisi


Ignacio Larrañaga - 1979
    Francis of Assisi. This story has been told many times before, but Fr. Larranaga tells it with a new spirit, seamlessly combining a modern spirit with the freshness and sense of wonder of the Fioretti. When Francis Bernardone was held as a prisoner of war at the age of 20, he never dreamed that he would become a knight in the service of Lady Poverty. By the time he died 25 years later, he had become the Poor Man of God, the living image of the Crucified Savior.

A Doctor's War


Aidan MacCarthy - 1979
    En route back to Japan in 1944, his ship was torpedoed but he was rescued by a whaling boat and re interned in Japan. His life was literally saved by the dropping of the Nagasaki atom bomb. He was then eyewitness to the horror and devastation it caused. This is an almost incredible account written with humour and dignity. Pete McCarthy This book is an epic. Sir Dennis Spotswood, Marshal of the RAF His description is terrifying but fascinating. Air Marshal Sir William Coles"

Letters on an Elk Hunt by a Woman Homesteader


Elinore Pruitt Stewart - 1979
    Stewart is far less concerned with elk hunting than with people—old friends and new acquaintances—and with the land in which she found so much beauty. Her letters, as Jessamyn West said of the earlier volume, "are, in fact (though not that alone), a collection of short stories." She added that "what makes these letters so good are not these stories, but the character of the storyteller, of Elinore Stewart herself. Her letters endure and give pleasure because she does what the great letter-writers do: she reveals herself. . . . It is the woman in this vanished landscape, the homesteader with her enormous vitality, humor, and tenderness who holds our attention." Jessamyn West's wish to know more about the author herself is fulfilled in the foreword to Letters on an Elk Hunt—an appreciative biographical sketch, incorporating material from some of Mrs. Stewart's unpublished letters as well as the reminiscences of her children.Elizabeth Fuller Ferris, of the Wilderness Women Project, Missoula, Montana, is the writer and producer of Burntfork, a film for public television funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities based upon the life of Elinore Pruitt Stewart.

Chopin: A New Biography


Adam Zamoyski - 1979
    Two centuries have passed since Chopin's birth, yet his legacy is all around us today. The quiet revolution he wrought influenced the development of Western music profoundly, and he is still probably the most widely studied and revered composer. For many, he is the object of a cult. Yet most people know little of his life, of the man, his thoughts and his feelings; his public image is a sugary blur of sentimentality and melodrama. Adam Zamoyski cuts through the myths and legends to tell the story of Chopin's life, and to reveal all that can be discovered about him as a person. He pays particular attention to recent revelations about the composer's health, and places him within the intellectual and spiritual environment of his day.

Drawn from New England: Tasha Tudor, A Portrait in Words and Pictures


Bethany Tudor - 1979
    Bethany Tudor relates the story of her mother's life through a smooth-flowing narrative, old and contemporary photographs and samples of the artist's work.

Sigmund Freud


Ralph Steadman - 1979
    The result is a masterful interplay of text and illustration, visual and verbal puns, and unexpected insight.Sigmund Freud bursts defiantly and gleefully beyond the bounds of orthodox biography. It is a wildly humorous exercise in bending, stretching and speculating on the activities of the so-called Father of Psychoanalysis. Ralph Steadman wields his shrewd wit and fierce pen to highlight the ebbs and tides of Freud's life and career from early childhood to the moment of death.But there's a twist. Rich illustrations and witty text work hand in hand to transform each scene into a "joking situation," which the artist hilariously examines according to the techniques wielded by Freud himself in his 1905 book on humor and the unconscious mind. The result is a fantastic Freudian festival of visual and verbal puns, unexpected insights, and sheer intellectual enjoyment.Originally published in hardcover in 1979, released in paperback in 1997, and reprinted numerous times since then, we are presenting it again to remind buyers that Freud has not and will not leave the unconscious mind of the public (and he would likely have something to say about what books they buy).Sigmund Freud is superbly illustrated with more than 50 major drawings and 25 vignettes by a renowned master of the pen. It remains one of the most original illustrated books of our times and a Ralph Steadman classic.

to Be or not to Bop: Memoirs- Dizzy Gillespie


Dizzy Gillespie - 1979
    Gift notes to flyleaf and very light shelfwear to jacket, tight and unmarked.

Desolate Angel: Jack Kerouac, The Beat Generation, And America


Dennis McNally - 1979
    . . absolutely magnificent."--San Francisco ChronicleJack Kerouac--"King of the Beats," unwitting catalyst for the '60s counterculture, groundbreaking author--was a complex and compelling man: a star athlete with a literary bent; a spontaneous writer vilified by the New Critics but adored by a large, youthful readership; a devout Catholic but aspiring Buddhist; a lover of freedom plagued by crippling alcoholism. Desolate Angel follows Kerouac from his childhood in the mill town of Lowell, Massachusetts, to his early years at Columbia where he met Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Neal Cassady, beginning a four-way friendship that would become a sociointellectual legend. In rich detail and with sensitivity, Dennis McNally recounts Kerouac's frenetic cross-country journeys, his experiments with drugs and sexuality, his travels to Mexico and Tangier, the sudden fame that followed the publication of On the Road, the years of literary triumph, and the final near-decade of frustration and depression.Desolate Angel is a harrowing, compassionate portrait of a man and an artist set in an extraordinary social context. The metamorphosis of America from the Great Depression to the Kennedy administration is not merely the backdrop for Kerouac's life but is revealed to be an essential element of his art . . . for Kerouac was above all a witness to his exceptional times.

Wheels Within Wheels


Dervla Murphy - 1979
    She describes her determined childhood self - strong-willed and beguiled by books from the first - her intermittent formal education and the intense relationship of an only child with her parents, particularly her invalid mother, whom she nursed until her death. Bicycling fifty miles in a day at the age of eleven, alone, it seems only natural that her first major journey should have been to cycle to India.

The Storyteller's Nashville


Tom T. Hall - 1979
    The popular recording star and successful songwriter--known in Nashville as the Storyteller--recounts his rise to stardom, provides inside glimpses of the country-music business, and profiles his fellow Opryland stars.

The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg


Rosa Luxemburg - 1979
    Opposed to both authoritarianism and instrumental reformism, an advocate of radical democracy and individual responsibility, Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919) is perhaps the most eminent representative of the libertarian socialist tradition, and her work still sparks political and scholarly debate. This volume offers the most extensive collection of Rosa Luxemburg's letters available in English. This new edition adds a wealth of new material, including nearly fifty new letters which have never before been published in English. This remains an essential work for examining the tradition of libertarian socialism and its unfulfilled democratic promise.

The Value of Understanding: The Story of Margaret Mead


Spencer Johnson - 1979
    A biography, stressing the understanding and tolerance, of an anthropologist who did extensive studies of primitive cultures.

Self-Portrait


Gene Tierney - 1979
    Recreating the glamour of Hollywood in the 1940s, the actress tells of the roles she played, the rich and famous men who have pursued her, the failure of her first marriage, and her struggle against mental illness

Vanessa Bell


Frances Spalding - 1979
    A talented artist, she held sway with her acuity, integrityand a sense of humour. Yet she remained inscrutable, glimpsesof her life only appearing through her sister, Virginia Woolf. In this authorised biography, Frances Spalding draws upon amass of unpublished documents to reveal Vanessa Bell's considerableachievements, in both her art and her increasingly unorthodoxlife. A sympathetic account is given of her marriage toClive Bell, her affair with Roger Fry and the complex nature ofher lasting relationship with Duncan Grant. It is a fitting tributeto a woman of great paradox, wit and honesty.

The Value of Helping: The Story of Harriet Tubman


Ann Donegan Johnson - 1979
    Describes the helpful work of Harriet Tubman in aiding slaves to flee the South, in assisting the Union army during the Civil War, and in establishing homes for the old and needy after the war.

Death of a Rebel: A Biography of Phil Ochs


Marc Eliot - 1979
    Altho his recordings were never bestsellers & there were times when he was more greatly appreciated in the UK, Canada & the 3rd World than at home, the late Philip David Ochs was one of the few American folksingers, aside from Woody Guthrie & Bob Dylan, who wrote & performed his own songs. This singing journalist's earliest ballads--championing civil rights, pacifism & revolution, attacking unemployment & US foreign policy--dealt with the romance of politics. Later ones celebrated the politics of romance. Fascinated by night, death, drowning, James Dean & Elvis Presley, Ochs was only 36 when, after surviving an attack in Africa followed by a psychotic break, he hanged himself in 1976. Eliot's sympathetic, powerful biography 1st appeared in paperback in 1979. Newer editions contain an epilog that updates information on Ochs's family & friends, discusses the FBI's 13-year surveillance of him & offers a revised discography.

Solo: Nanga Parbat


Reinhold Messner - 1979
    Everest without supplementary oxygen, relates the physical and emotional strain of climbing the 26,000-foot peak of Nanga Parbat alone

We Knew Mary Baker Eddy (Expanded Edition, Volume 1)


Christian Science Publishing SocietyDaisette D.S. McKenzie - 1979
    The book's primary objective is to shed light on Eddy and her life, but readers will enjoy getting to know the authors as well- interesting and lively figures in their own right.

The Spiritual Journey of Joseph L. Greenstein: The Mighty Atom, World's Strongest Man


Ed Spielman - 1979
    Here is the true story of a man who realized that myth: Joseph Greenstein, "The Mighty Atom". He was a modern-day Samson who could stop bullets and hold back roaring airplanes, a man who rose from the Jewish ghettos of Poland to become the most remarkable strongman of the century.The Spiritual Journey of Joseph L. Greenstein, World's Strongest Man is a fully-documented and illustrated biography that also details the methods Greenstein used to train himself for the "impossible". As a vaudeville star, he bit through iron bars, crushed steel spikes in his hands, and held back airplanes tied to his hair. These feats were all the more amazing because he stood only five feet four inches and weighed in at just 145 pounds. But The Mighty Atom had developed his own technique for tapping into the "life-force; " a technique that encompassed Asian methods of concentration, Jewish mystical writings, and a then-unheard-of vegetarian natural diet. He unlearned the subconscious mechanism that forces us to stop when we think we have reached our physical limits. Each time he broke an iron chain, he revealed the enormous potential of the life-force. That potential exists inside every one of us and, as The Mighty Atom showed, it is within our grasp.

Happy Trails: Our Life Story


Roy Rogers - 1979
    Now in their eighties, living legends Roy and Dale tell their stories. Photographs.

Mrs. C. H. Spurgeon


Charles Ray - 1979
    C. H. Spurgeon, Charles Ray shares the blessings and struggles of this mighty woman of God, bearing witness to her close relationship with Christ and loving devotion to her husband, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, as she endured various adversities. Scripture references have been added for easy cross referencing.

With William Burroughs: A Report From the Bunker


William S. Burroughs - 1979
    Bockris has collected into a cogent whole the man's most brilliant moments of conversation, thinking, and interview repartee. This fascinating material, gleaned from the fertile time at Burroughs's New York headquarters, the Bunker (which was located on the Bowery, three blocks from CBGB), encompasses the years 1974 to 1980, and also includes a 1991 Burroughs interview from Interview magazine. The Beats' devotion to subjective experience has left readers with a profound amount of objective material to analyze and debate. Choice public and private utterances, hallucinatory and prescient diatribes such as these, remain rich sources of literary history. As Americans we find the Beats' approach to life romantic, even heroic. Tearing the walls down in the name of freedom and spirituality strikes a particularly pilgrimesque chord. With William Burroughs: A Report from the Bunker is a fascinating compendium of Burroughs-speak, so complete it can be considered a credo.

Willie's Time: A Memoir


Charles Einstein - 1979
    In this captivating in-depth look at Willie Mays, one of America's greatest and best-loved ballplayers, Einstein tells us as much about ourselves as it does about the man Joe DiMaggio called "the closest thing you can come to perfection.""A superb blend of sports lore and American history." (The Christian Science Monitor)

Fragments of My Life


Catherine de Hueck Doherty - 1979
    She shares how she dodged bullets as a nurse during World War I, barely survived the Russian Revolution, encountered poverty as a refugee and returned from her rags to riches in North America. Then finally, how she gave everything away to serve the poor. She tells of her adventures as a magazine correspondent in pre-World War II Europe, as a leader in the U.S. Civil Rights movement, and as an internationally-renowned speaker and writer who dodged rotten eggs and tomatoes, calling for racial and economic justice, ecumenism, and an active role for lay people in the Church. Then she goes on to how she fell in love with and married Eddie Doherty, Irish-American newspaperman, and how they together founded Madonna House Lay Apostolate, and became leaders in the development of new forms of Christian community and service in the world. A journey into Catherine’s life, disclosing the mysteries of world events that shaped her life; the mysteries of her leadership; the mysteries of her marriage; and, most of all, the mysteries of God’s love. This audio presentation of Fragments of My Life is read by Helen Porthouse, a long-time member of the Madonna House Apostolate, and she brings with her a truly personal experience of Catherine's life and works. Her background in drama and deep love for audiobooks shines through in this touching and inspirational reading of Catherine's memoirs—Helen brings a sense of wonder and excitement to Catherine's life which will draw listeners onward from the first few paragraphs. Reviews “This autobiography has a special, divinely-touched richness. It reads like an adventure novel. If this we

Stories of Don Bosco


Peter Lappin - 1979
    They trace the life of St. John Bosco from his earliest years to his death and, through the events of his life, bring out in vivid fashion the development of his character and spirit.

The Value of Fantasy: The Story of Hans Christian Andersen


Spencer Johnson - 1979
    A brief biography of the 19th-century Danish author of many well-known fairy tales, which stresses the value of personal fantasies and imagination.

Clementine Churchill: The Biography of a Marriage


Mary Soames - 1979
    As a young woman, her character, intelligence, and good looks won the attention of the impetuous Winston Churchill. Their courtship was swift, but their marriage proved immensely strong, spanning many of the major events of the twentieth century. Written with affection and candor by the Churchills’ daughter Mary Soames, this revised and updated biography of a lionhearted couple’s life together is not only of historic interest but deeply moving.

Shooter


David Hume Kennerly - 1979
    The memoirs and about 50 photographs of famous photographer David Hume Kennerly.

From Heart to Heart


Russell M. Nelson - 1979
    It is a hard book to come by since it was mainly printed just for Russell Nelson's family.

Peter the Great


Henri Troyat - 1979
    

Trapped! The Story of Floyd Collins


Robert K. Murray - 1979
    The crowds that gathered outside Sand Cave turned the rescue site into a carnival. Collins's situation was front-page news throughout the country, hourly bulletins interrupted radio programs, and Congress recessed to hear the latest word. Trapped! is both a tense adventure and a brilliant historical recreation of the past. This new edition includes a new epilogue revealing information about the Floyed Collins story that has come to light since the book was first published.

John Wesley


John Wesley - 1979
    He began one of the most dynamic movements in the history of modern Protestantism, a movement which eventually produced the Methodist churches. This volume offers a representative selection of theological writings by Wesley and includes historically oriented introductions and footnotes which indicate Wesley's Anglican, patristic, and biblical sources.

KILL DEVIL HILL/ Discovering The Secret of The Wright Brothers


Harry Combs - 1979
    An account of the Wright Brothers' design and construction of their early engine-powered airplane and of their eventual success and fame

Annie Oakley: Young Markswoman


Ellen Wilson - 1979
    Using simple language that beginning readers can understand, this lively, inspiring, and believable biography looks at the childhood of Wild West personality Annie Oakley.

The Value of Dedication: The Story of Albert Schweitzer


Spencer Johnson - 1979
    Presents a biography of Albert Schweitzer who based his philosophy on what he called "reverence for life" and dedicated his life to serving humanity.

A Private Battle


Cornelius Ryan - 1979
    His own private battle. An intimate account co-written with his wife who completed it after his death in 1974.

What My Heart Wants to Tell


Verna Mae Slone - 1979
    So He sent us His very strongest men and women." So begins the heartwarming story of Verna Mae and her father, Isom B. "Kitteneye" Slone, an extraordinary personal family history set in the hills around Caney Creek in Knott County, Kentucky.

Robert Fludd: Hermetic Philosopher and Surveyor of Two Worlds


Joscelyn Godwin - 1979
    Born in Elizabethan England, he became a convinced occultist while traveling on the Continent. His voluminous writings were devoted to defending the philosophy of the alchemists and Rosicrucians and applying their doctrines to a vast description of man and the universe. All of Fludd's important plates are collected here for the first time, annotated and explained together with an introduction to his life and thought.

The Value of Friendship the Story of Jane Adams


Ann Donegan Johnson - 1979
    Jane wanted to help people from a very young age and eventually saw her dream come true in Chicago and other places.

In My Soul I Am Free, the incredible Paul Twitchell story


Brad Steiger - 1979
    

The Last Confucian: Liang Shu-ming and the Chinese Dilemma of Modernity


Guy S. Alitto - 1979
    

St. Francis of Assisi: A Biography


Omer Englebert - 1979
    Francis of Assisi: A Biography to be that rarity among books about saints: a popular work of inspiring spiritual reading that is also an acclaimed work of modern scholarship. With spiritual insight and careful historical judgment, Omer Englebert blends the many facets of St. Francis' personality into a portrait of a saint who can inspire men and women today. A Servant Book.

Apologia pro Marcel Lefebvre: Volume One


Michael Treharne Davies - 1979
    Portrays the dramatic conflict relating to the grievances between Archbishop Lefebvre and the Vatican under Pope Paul VI. Depicts the role of one who had the foresight to recognize that he could not defend orthodoxy and at the same time accept reforms "themselves oriented towards the cult of man." Completely documented.

Groucho


Hector Arce - 1979
    Based on countless conversations with Groucho and his close cooperation, access to his private papers, and hundreds of interviews with friends and associates, here is the first biography to explore rather than exploit the fast-quipping, ferociously witty phenomenon that was Groucho Marx.More than a collection of wild antics and heady Hollywood hijinks, this in-depth portrait evokes the man whose wit masked a profound romanticism, whose barbs served to blunt his own doubts about his place in Hollywood society and his success with some of the most sought-after women of all time.Hector Arce probes Marx’s three marriages, his problem-riddled relationships with his three children and the other women in his life including Olivia de Havilland, Maureen O’Sullivan, Virginia Shulberg, and others. We are also giving a detailed account of his relationships with his gifted brothers, parents, and countless friends—all of whom appear in three-dimensional form in his work. Friendships, quarrels, triumphs and defeats—all are recorded here with care and frankness.Lively, loving, blisteringly candid, Groucho goes beyond the brilliant wag to reveal the bedeviled man beneath.

Front and Center: 1942/1955


John Houseman - 1979
    

Born to Run: The Bruce Springsteen Story


Dave Marsh - 1979
    Profiles the life and career of one of the leaders of contemporary rock and roll music, noting the character of his stage performances and the inspirations for his songs.

The Man Who Kept The Secrets: Richard Helms And The CIA


Thomas Powers - 1979
    For 30 years--from the very inception of the Central Intelligence Agency & before--he occupied pivotal positions in that shadowy world: OSS operator, spymaster, planner, plotter, &, finally, for over 6 years, Agency director. No other was so closely & personally involved, over so long a period, with so many CIA activities, successful & otherwise. His story is the story of the CIA. In portraying Helms' extraordinary career, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Thomas Powers has in fact written the 1st comprehensive inside history of the CIA itself. It's a history, moreover, that is entirely uncensored. While the information on which it's based has been drawn from intensive interviews with dozens of former key Agency officials, including Helms himself, as well as from exhaustive research thru hundreds of published & unpublished sources, the author isn't subject to the kind of legal restraints that have burdened others writing about the CIA. The result is a picture of the Agency more objective, more complete & more revealing than any hitherto available. Because it's written with an eye for character & anecdote, it's as readable as it's important.

Ishi the Last Yahi: A Documentary History


Robert F. Heizer - 1979
    For the reader who wishes to know something of the sources from which the story flows, there are reproduced here the principal out-of-print and most inaccessible primary materials on Ishi and the Yahi Indians. Of first importance are monographs on Ishi, his people, his languages, his medical history, whose authors are Professors Thomas T. Waterman, Alfred L. Kroeber, Edward Sapir, and Saxton T. Pope, M.D. Most of these monographs are here reprinted in full. Next in interest and importance are the books of reminiscences concerning the Yahi Indians written by white settlers in or adjacent to Yahi country in the years following closely upon the gold rush. These are usually in small editions, long out of print. Two, those written by Carson and R. A. Anderson, are reprinted in full; the others, only those parts having to do with Ishi and the Yahi. There are letters bearing on our subject, newspaper accounts, and pictures, of which we include significant examples. There are as well books and articles having to do only in part with Ishi and his people. We reprint only those parts.  Beyond these essential primary materials, the editors made hard choices to keep the number of pages realistic. Readers with areas of special interest will regret some of our exclusions among the secondary but often fascinating accounts: of archaeological findings in the Yahi homeland; of linguistic quirks and grammatical technicalities--a large literature, difficult for the uninitiate; of medical history when it adds nothing to our understanding of the man Ishi. Our order of presentation is chronological, beginning with the background materials, then going to Ishi's first entry into the outside world, then to his years at the museum, and, finally, to his death. We have not included the occasional newspaper stories of still-living Yahi Indians supposed to have been seen or heard in the Yahi hills and caves after Ishi's departure, since none were ever substantiated. When in 1914 Ishi returned to his old home for a few weeks with Waterman, Kroeber, Pope, and Pope's son, Saxton, Jr., he found the land, the caves, and the village sites as he had left them.

Jimmie Rodgers: The Life and Times of America's Blue Yodeler


Nolan Porterfield - 1979
    His life story has been particularly susceptible to romanticizing, marked as it was by humble origins, sudden success and fame, and an early death from tuberculosis.Nolan Porterfield's biography banishes the rumors and myths that have long shrouded the Blue Yodeler's life story. Unlike previous writings about Rodgers, Porterfield's book derives from extensive and detailed research into original sources: private letters, personal interviews, court records, and newspaper accounts. Jimmie Rodgers significantly expands and alters our knowledge of the entertainer's life and career, explaining the nature of his role in American culture of the Depression era and providing insightful background on the milieu in which he worked. Porterfield writes a preface for this edition.

Stravinsky: The Composer and His Works


Eric Walter White - 1979
    To the list of works, the author added some early pieces that have recently come to light, as well as the late compositions, including the "Requiem Canticles" and "The Owl and the Pussycat." Four more of Stravinsky's own writings appear in the Appendices, and there are several important additions to the bibliography.

Genesis Angels: The Saga of Lew Welch and the Beat Generation


Aram Saroyan - 1979
    

I Live On Fruit


Essie Honiball - 1979
    

Listening to the Giants: A Guide to Good Reading and Great Preaching


Warren W. Wiersbe - 1979
    

Tormented Master


Arthur Green - 1979
    It unlocks the great themes of spiritual searching that make him a ^gure of universal religious importance.

Come Hell Or High Water / Come Wind Or Weather


Clare Francis - 1979
    

Mother, Or The Divine Materialism


Satprem - 1979
    

Maeve's Diary: From Maeve Binchy's Column in the 'Irish Times'


Maeve Binchy - 1979
    

Below The Bridge: Memories Of The South Side Of St. John's


Helen Porter - 1979
    Johns, Newfoundland, during the 1930s and 1940s. Porter brings to life the lost community of her childhood, and introduces us to the vibrant characters who lived there - longshoremen, housewives, sailors, coopers, midwives, and even a few prostitutes.

The Value of Giving: The Story of Beethoven


Ann Donegan Johnson - 1979
    A brief biography of Ludwig van Beethoven, emphasizing the importance of giving in his life.

War Story


Jim Morris - 1979
    Col. Robert K. Brown, Editor and Publisher, Soldier of Fortune“Morris captures the historical accuracy of Special Operations in the language learned from firsthand experience.”–Lt. Col. Chuck Allen, Commander, Project Delta“War Story is the lore of Special Forces in Vietnam told in the tradition of Woody Guthrie.”–Al Santoli, author of Everything We Had“Jim Morris is a highly decorated Green Beret combat veteran, with a unique talent for making his readers feel a part of his gripping, action-packed personal experiences. Morris commands your attention as a reader with the same authority and ability with which he commanded troops in combat.”–J.C. Pollock, author of Mission M.I.A.Jim Morris was an educated young man who had always wanted to be a soldier. In 1963, he found the perfect war..."The war was like a great puzzle, great to think about, great to plan, great to do. It was so incredibly peaceful out there in the jungle."As an advisor to a Montagnard strike force, Morris and his guerrillas outfought and outmaneuvered the Viet Cong in his sector. To a Green Beret like Jim Morris, the “Yards” were brothers—so fiercely insular, they would serve no outsider and made the Berets who fought with them honorary members of the tribe…so valiant, they would follow the right man into a firestorm…But while he loved the ambushes, the firefights and the Montagnards, he could see a tragedy unfolding in Vietnam."As I jumped I heard a crack and felt a thud in my right shoulder. I squeezed the trigger on my M-16. The bolt went ka-schlugg and that was that, baby. Jammed again."In the most widely admired Special Forces memoir to come out of the Vietnam War, Jim Morris tells his story: of the early days and the Tet Offensive in '68, of the slaughters and the beauty, of the violence, the courage, the loyalty and the loss..."The war was my life and I identified with it totally. To end it was to end me, and that I would not do..."About the AuthorJim Morris served three tours with Special Forces (The Green Berets) in Vietnam. The second and third were cut short by serious wounds. He retired from his wounds as a major. He has maintained his interest in the mountain peoples of Vietnam with whom he fought, and has been, for many years, a civil rights activist on their behalf. His Vietnam memoir War Story won the first Bernal Diaz Award for military nonfiction. Morris is author of the story from which the film Operation Dumbo Drop was made, and has produced numerous documentary television episodes about the Vietnam War. He is author of three books of nonfiction and four novels.

Wodehouse


Joseph Connolly - 1979
    Born in England, Wodehouse moved to France in 1934. He was captured and interned by the Germans until 1941, after which he made five radio broadcasts to America, which caused British critics mistakenly to suggest that he was a traitor to his native country. Nearly 30 years after his death he is lauded for his distinct and legendary comic style, which influenced many writers after him, including the author of this biography.

Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography


Jean Rhys - 1979
    From the early days on Dominica to the bleak time in England, living in bedsits on gin and little else, to Paris with her first husband, this is a lasting memorial to a unique artist.

Aaron Burr: The Years from Princeton to Vice President, 1756-1805


Milton Lomask - 1979
    An account of Burr's formative years seeks to answer the contemporary charges against him of moral obtuseness, political opportunism, and excessive ambition, presenting him as politically inept, fatally unsuspicious, and intellectually superior and proud.

J.M. Barrie and the Lost Boys: The Real Story Behind Peter Pan


Andrew Birkin - 1979
    M. Barrie, the man who created Peter Pan and his Lost Boys “For an insightful exploration of Barrie and the boys who inspired him, nothing rivals [this book].”—Norman Allen, Smithsonian Magazine J. M. Barrie, Victorian novelist, playwright, and author of Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up, led a life almost as magical and interesting as as his famous creation. Childless in his marriage, Barrie grew close to the five young boys of the Llewelyn Davies family, ultimately becoming their guardian and devoted surrogate father when they were orphaned. Andrew Birkin draws extensively on a vast range of material by and about Barrie, including notebooks, memoirs, and hours of recorded interviews with the family and their circle, to describe Barrie’s life and the wonderful world he created for the boys. Originally published in 1979, this enchanting and richly illustrated account is reissued with a new preface to mark the release of Neverland, the film of Barrie’s life, and the upcoming centenary of Peter Pan. “A psychological thriller . . . one of the year’s most complex and absorbing biographies.”—Gerald Clarke, Time “A terrible and fascinating story.”—Eve Auchincloss, Washington Post

What Little I Remember


Otto Robert Frisch - 1979
    His work on the first atom bomb, which he saw explode in the desert 'like the light of a thousand suns', brought him into contact with figures such as Robert Oppenheimer, Edward Teller, Richard Feynman and the father of electronic computers, John von Neumann. He also encountered the physicists who had made the great discoveries of recent generations: Einstein, Rutherford and Niels Bohr. This characterful book of reminiscences sheds an engagingly personal light on the people and events behind some of the greatest scientific discoveries of this century, illustrated with a series of fascinating photographs and witty sketches by the author himself.

Miracle in Darien


Bob Slosser - 1979
    Paul's. What suddenly happened in the tiny suburb of Darien, Connecticut, to make St. Paul's the fastest growing Episcopal church in the country? When Terry Fullam agreed to accept a pastorship there, he went on one condition - that Christ be the true head of the church. Bob Slosser tells the fascinating story of how renewal and revival gripped an entire congregation, bringing about the "Miracle in Darien.

Sometimes Mountains Move


C. Everett Koop - 1979
    Everett Koop and his wife, Betty, coped with the unexpected death of their son. In this revised classic, the Koops explain how God brought them to an acceptance of their tragic loss. Their faith in Providence and unyielding belief that all things are under the p; protection of a divine plan exemplify deep Christian commitment and understanding. They encourage others to trust God's plan instead of wandering in a maze of 'whys' and 'what ifs' when family tragedy strikes.

Noël Coward and His Friends


Cole Lesley - 1979
    

Blues Who's Who


Sheldon Harris - 1979
    Covering all eras and styles, it features detailed biographies of 571 blues artists, 450 photographs and many pages of facts. Features of the book include various indices (of radio, TV, film, and theatre appearances; song titles; artist and place names), an extensive list of record company names and addresses, and various bibliographies (of out-of-print books and periodicals, and magazines currently available). The account of each artist includes a biographical history as well as a critical evaluation and list of principal influences.

My Years With Xerox: the Billions Nobody Wanted


John H. Dessauer - 1979
    

Buffalo Bill, His Family, Friends, Fame, Failures, and Fortunes


Nellie Snyder Yost - 1979
    

The Value of Love: The Story of Johnny Appleseed


Ann Donegan Johnson - 1979
    A biography of John Chapman whose distribution of appleseeds and trees across the Midwest made him a legend and left us a legacy we can still enjoy today.

They Stand Together: The Letters Of C. S. Lewis To Arthur Greeves (1914 1963)


C.S. Lewis - 1979
    

Emily Carr


Maria Tippett - 1979
    She was also reputed to be alone except for breeding dogs and a monkey, camping in isolated Indian islands to save the images of the last deteriorating totem poles. Lavishly illustrated with the photos of the person and her works.

Hollywood's Children: An Inside Account of the Child Star Era


Diana Serra Cary - 1979
    

Nancy Cunard: A Biography


Anne Chisholm - 1979
    She had an insatiable lust for life and lovers; her private affairs became public scandals. She knew TS Eliot, James Joyce, and Louis Aragon; she sat for Cecil Beaton, and Max Beerbohm sketched her; she was an Aldous Huxley heroine in Antic Hay. A poet and a writer, she was the avant-garde publisher who "discovered" Samuel Beckett. She was a passionate advocate of racial equality and a journalist in the Spanish Civil War. By the time of her tragic death in 1965 Nancy Cunard had become the dazzling symbol of her age.

The Log of the Skipper's Wife


James Balano - 1979
    This is the candid and witty journal of her travels, and of her irrepressible spirit.

C. S. Lewis at the Breakfast Table and Other Reminiscences


James T. Como - 1979
    Index.

Catch You Later: The Autobiography of Johnny Bench


Johnny Bench - 1979
    

Halfway Through the Door: An Actor's Journey Toward the Self


Alan Arkin - 1979
    Disenchanted with his personal and professional success, Arkin embarked on a journey to self-discovery that included analysis and marijuana until he studied yoga and meditation and underwent profound changes

Billy Graham: A Parable of American Righteousness


Marshall Frady - 1979
    With unparalleled access to Billy Graham and his family and associates, Frady presents an intimate and multifaceted portrait of the man, from his childhood upbringing in the midlands of North Carolina to his ascent to national recognition. Frady's narrative encompasses the popular religious leader, his spiritual mission, and his political involvements and bears witness to the preeminent position Graham has held in American life for decades. “Billy Graham is our nation’s least studied national institution…Frady has finally given him the kind of attention he deserves” (The New York Times).

Balraj Sahni: An Autobiography


Balraj Sahni - 1979
    Written during his acting career, sometime in the late 60s.

A Higher Honor


Robert Boardman - 1979
    

The Letters of Anthony Trollope


Anthony Trollope - 1979
    In a manner that is straightforward and less consciously literary than that of most writers, these letters, though touching only obliquely on his inner life, reveal in their sum Trollope himself: honest, frank, blunt, crusty, gallant, playful, quick to take offence and quick to be reconciled, kind, generous, intelligent, self-deprecating but with a strong belief in his own ability and worth. Trollope wrote some seventy books, and much of his correspondence is with publishers; indeed, a list of his publishers reads like a roll call of the great and not-so-great Victorian publishing houses. Trollope's letters to them reveal much about his own work and about Victorian publishing practices. Other activities also generated illuminating correspondence. The letters clarify, supplement, and correct the crafted view of his life as given in his Autobiography and underscore the relevance of his private life to his published work.

Frank Lloyd Wright


Robert C. Twombly - 1979
    Views Wright's buildings as biographical as well as social statements, analyzing his work by type, category, and individual structure. Examines Wright's struggle to develop a new artistic statement, his dramatic personal life, and his political and economic ideas, including those on cities, energy conservation, cooperative home building, and environmental preservation. Includes over 150 illustrations (photographs, floor plans, and drawings--many never before published), extensive footnotes, and the most exhaustive bibliography of Wright's published work available.