William Brian Novak

Big Book of Jewish Humor

The Big Book of New American Humor: The Best Humor of the Past

Big Book of Jewish Humor

Goodbye to the Low Profile: The Art of Creative Confrontation

A Change of Heart: A Memoir

High Culture: Marijuana in the Lives of Americans

Man of the House: The Life and Political Memoirs of Speaker Tip O'Neill with Novak

My Turn: The Memoirs of Nancy Reagan

The People's Welfare: Law and Regulation in Nineteenth-Century America (Studies in Legal History)

Much of today's political rhetoric decries the welfare state and our maze of government regulations. Critics hark back to a time before the state intervened so directly in citizens' lives. In The People's Welfare, William Novak refutes this vision of a stateless past by documenting America's long hi...

Iacocca: An Autobiography

He’s an American legend, a straight-shooting businessman who brought Chrysler back from the brink and in the process became a media celebrity, newsmaker, and a man many had urged to run for president.The son of Italian immigrants, Lee Iacocca rose spectacularly through the ranks of Ford Motor Compan...

The Match: Complete Strangers, a Miracle Face Transplant, Two Lives Transformed

Joseph Helfgot, the son of Holocaust survivors, worked his way from a Lower East Side tenement to create a successful Hollywood research company. But his heart was failing. After months of waiting for a heart transplant, he died during the operation. Hours after his death, his wife Susan was asked a...

A Change of Heart: A Memoir

After a heart and lung transplant operation, dancer Claire Sylvia discovered that new organs were not the only thing she inherited. Never having liked such foods as beer and chicken nuggets, she suddenly started craving them. After an extraordinary dream, she seeks out the family of her donor -- a t...

Boundaries of the State in US History

The question of how the American state defines its power has become central to a range of historical topics, from the founding of the Republic and the role of the educational system to the functions of agencies and America’s place in the world. Yet conventional histories of the state have not reckon...

The Big Book of Jewish Humor

Two rival businessmen meet in the Warsaw train station. "Where are you going?" says the first man."To Minsk," says the second."To Minsk, eh? What a nerve you have! I know you're telling me you're going to Minsk because you want me to think that you're really going to Pinsk. But it so happens that I ...

Man of the House: The Life and Political Memoirs of Speaker Tip O'Neill

Think of Tip O'Neill and you think American politics. Here is a man who has seen it all--from Roosevelt to Reagan--and knows how to serve it up with the right amounts of Irish wit and wisdom (and minces no words in the process).

An Incredible Dream: Ralph Roberts and the Story of Comcast

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