<div>In this fiercely authentic tale from the author of The Man Who Cried I Am, a gifted novelist confronts the powerfully entrenched, profit-motivated forces of corporate racism When his military service ends at the close of World War II&mdash;a period that will continue to haunt him throughout his life&mdash;Cato Douglass resolves to pursue a writing career and follows his dream to New York City. Soon, his first novel is published, and it appears his dream has been fulfilled, enabling him to travel the world, fall in love, marry, and start a family. But despite possessing a talent that shines brighter than that of many of his literary contemporaries, Cato discovers that he is trapped within a racist system. Only a handful of black writers receive the support of white editors and critics, and because Cato&rsquo;s work pushes the boundaries set by the publishing industry, he is doomed to a life of obscurity. The Chicago Sun-Times proclaimed !Click Song &ldquo;a major novel by one of America&rsquo;s finest living writers.&rdquo; Winner of the 1983 American Book Award, John A. Williams&rsquo;s enthralling chronicle of a writer&rsquo;s lifelong struggle to matter is a blistering tale of art, industry, family, and race. </div>

!Click Song

<div>A practical guide for effective test prep with strategies for improving your performance on any test&mdash;from the bestselling How to Study series. Testy on test day? Don&rsquo;t stress! &ldquo;Ace&rdquo; Any Test offers proven step-by-step strategies you can use in any testing situation, from classroom quizzes to standardized exams such as the SAT. Education advocate and author Ron Fry unlocks every student&rsquo;s successful side with preparation strategies such as reading for maximum retention, researching the teacher&rsquo;s testing history and preferences, and using those inevitable jitters to psych yourself up and sharpen your focus. </div>

"Ace" Any Test

<div>From the Margaret A. Edwards Award&ndash;winning author of Deliver Us from Evie comes a novel about a gay teenager who discovers a different kind of love during an unforgettable summer in the Hamptons I&rsquo;d always think of it as the summer that I loved a girl . . . Seventeen-year-old Lang Penner and his mother are spending the summer in the caretaker&rsquo;s cottage at Roundelay, the sprawling East Hampton estate of legendary rocker Ben Nevada. Lang passes the time walking on the beach and hoping for a glimpse of his idol. When they finally meet, Nevada is very different from the man Lang imagined. He finds himself confiding in the retired star about his homosexuality. When Nevada hears Lang&rsquo;s secret, he figures Lang is a safe bet to show the seventeen-year-old daughter of some friends from France a good time in the Hamptons. This was supposed to be the summer of Lang&rsquo;s coming out. He even has a boyfriend, Alex, a twenty-year-old actor living in Manhattan. The last thing he expects is to become infatuated with a girl. &ldquo;Hello,&rdquo; I Lied is a story about all kinds of love&mdash;from friendship to physical attraction to hero worship&mdash;as a teenager bravely confronts his sexuality. This ebook features an illustrated personal history of M. E. Kerr including rare images from the author&rsquo;s collection. </div>

"Hello," I Lied

<div>&ldquo;Packed with handy dandy lists, rules, charts . . . all designed to help writers avoid looking dumb&rdquo; (St. Petersburg Times). Did you just end your last memo to your boss &ldquo;CU L8R?&rdquo; Do mysterious voices tell you to use &ldquo;their&rdquo; and &ldquo;there&rdquo; interchangeably? Keep forgetting the difference between &ldquo;its&rdquo; and &ldquo;it&rsquo;s&rdquo;? Spelling may have suffered in the age of texting, but help is on the way! Discover: &bull; The top 50 most misspelled words and how to fix them &bull; 50+ &ldquo;hard&rdquo; words that&rsquo;ll immediately power up your spelling IQ &bull; Painless step-by-step exercises &bull; Memory joggers &bull; And more! Using amusing quizzes, humorous tests, and &ldquo;MadLibs&rdquo;-type exercises, this book will help you get into better spelling shape. It&rsquo;s never too soon&mdash;or too late! &ldquo;A quixotic stab at improving the nation&rsquo;s literacy. Hey, it can&rsquo;t hurt.&rdquo; &mdash;Asbury Park Sunday Press</div>

"I" Before "E" Except After "C"

<div>&ldquo;A probing biography of the enfant terrible of 1960s and 1970s film-making . . . exhaustive and endlessly intriguing.&rdquo; &mdash;Booklist Written by the film critic and historian David Weddle, this fascinating account does critical justice to an important body of cinema as it spins the tale of David Samuel Peckinpah&rsquo;s dramatic, overcharged life and the turbulent times through which he moved. Sam Peckinpah was born into a clan of lumberjacks, cattle ranchers, and frontier lawyers. After a hitch with the Marines, he made his way to Hollywood, where he worked on a string of low-budget features. In 1955 he began writing scripts for Gunsmoke; in less than a year he was one of the hottest writers in television, with two classic series, The Rifleman and The Westerner, to his credit. From there he went on to direct a phenomenal series of features, including Ride the High Country, Straw Dogs, The Getaway, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, and The Wild Bunch. Peckinpah was both a hopeless romantic and a grim nihilist, a filmmaker who defined his era as much as he was shaped by it. Rising to prominence in the social and political upheaval of the late sixties and early seventies, Peckinpah and his generation of directors&mdash;Stanley Kubrick, Arthur Penn, Robert Altman&mdash;broke with convention and turned the traditional genres of Western, science fiction, war, and detective movies inside out. No other era in Hollywood has matched it for sheer energy, audacity, and originality; no one cut a wider path through that time than Sam Peckinpah. &ldquo;Groundbreaking.&rdquo; &mdash;Michael Sragow, The Atlantic</div>

"If They Move . . . Kill 'Em!"

<div>&ldquo;Brackett&rsquo;s diaries read like a funnier, better-paced version of Barton Fink.&rdquo; &mdash;Newsweek Screenwriter Charles Brackett is best remembered as the writing partner of director Billy Wilder, who once referred to the pair as &ldquo;the happiest couple in Hollywood,&rdquo; collaborating on such classics as The Lost Weekend and Sunset Boulevard. He was also a perceptive chronicler of the entertainment industry, and in this annotated collection of writings from dozens of Brackett&rsquo;s unpublished diaries, film historian Anthony Slide clarifies Brackett&#39;s critical contribution to Wilder&rsquo;s films and enriches our knowledge of Wilder&rsquo;s achievements in writing, direction, and style. Brackett&rsquo;s diaries re-create the initial meetings of the talent responsible for Ninotchka, Hold Back the Dawn, Ball of Fire, The Major and the Minor, Five Graves to Cairo, The Lost Weekend, and Sunset Boulevard, recounting the breakthroughs and the breakdowns that ultimately forced these collaborators to part ways. In addition to a portrait of Wilder, this is rare view of a producer who was a president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Screen Writers Guild, a New Yorker drama critic, and a member of the Algonquin Round Table. With insight into the dealings of Paramount, Universal, MGM, and RKO, and legendary figures such as Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, Edna Ferber, and Dorothy Parker, this book reveals the political and creative intrigue at the heart of Hollywood&rsquo;s most significant films. &ldquo;A fascinating look at Hollywood in its classic period, and a unique and indispensable must-have for any movie buff.&rdquo; &mdash;Chicago Tribune &ldquo;This feels as close as we can get to being in the presence of Wilder&rsquo;s genius, and he emerges as the cruelest as well as the wittiest of men.&rdquo; &mdash;The Guardian &ldquo;Not only rare insight into their often-stormy partnership but also an insider&rsquo;s view of Hollywood during that era.&rdquo; &mdash;Los Angeles Times &ldquo;Very entertaining.&rdquo; &mdash;Library Journal</div>

"It's the Pictures That Got Small"

<div>This classic New York Times bestseller is an illuminating portrait of JFK&mdash;from his thrilling rise to his tragic fall&mdash;by two of the men who knew him best. As a politician, John Fitzgerald Kennedy crafted a persona that fascinated and inspired millions&mdash;and left an outsize legacy in the wake of his murder on November 22, 1963. But only a select few were privy to the complicated man behind the Camelot image. Two such confidants were Kenneth P. O&rsquo;Donnell, Kennedy&rsquo;s top political aide, and David F. Powers, a special assistant in the White House. They were among the president&rsquo;s closest friends, part of an exclusive inner circle that came to be known as the &ldquo;Irish Mafia.&rdquo; In Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye, O&rsquo;Donnell and Powers share memories of Kennedy, his extraordinary political career, and his iconic family&mdash;memories that could come only from intimate access to the man himself. As they recount the full scope of Kennedy&rsquo;s journey&mdash;from his charismatic first campaign for Congress to his rapid rise to national standing, culminating on that haunting day in Dallas&mdash;O&rsquo;Donnell and Powers lay bare the inner workings of a leader who is cherished and mourned to this day, in a memoir that spent over five months on the New York Times bestseller list. </div>

"Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye"

<div>This award-winning Civil War history examines Robert E. Lee&rsquo;s retreat from Gettysburg and the vital importance of Civil War military intelligence. While countless books have examined the Battle of Gettysburg, the Confederate Army&rsquo;s retreat to the Potomac River remains largely untold. This comprehensive study tells the full story, including how Maj. Gen. George G. Meade organized and motivated his Army of the Potomac to pursue Gen. Robert E. Lee&rsquo;s retreating Army of Northern Virginia. The long and bloody battle exhausted both armies, and both faced difficult tasks ahead. Lee had to conduct an orderly withdrawal from the field. Meade had to assess whether his army had sufficient strength to pursue a still-dangerous enemy. Central to the respective commanders&rsquo; decisions was the intelligence they received about one another&rsquo;s movements, intentions, and capability. The eleven-day period after Gettysburg was a battle of wits to determine which commander better understood the information he received. Prepare for some surprising revelations. The authors utilized a host of primary sources to craft this study, including letters, memoirs, diaries, official reports, newspapers, and telegrams. The immediacy of this material shines through in a fast-paced narrative that sheds significant new light on one of the Civil War&rsquo;s most consequential episodes. Winner, Edwin C. Bearss Scholarly Research Award Winner, 2019, Hugh G. Earnhart Civil War Scholarship Award, Mahoning Valley Civil War Round Table</div>

"Lee is Trapped, and Must be Taken"

<div>A book of daily spiritual encouragement for elementary school children, written by a dedicated Christian educator. As a principal at a Christian elementary school, Joyce O’Bryant would start each morning by greeting her students over the intercom with a prayer and an inspiring thought for the day. Those thoughts and prayers became the basis for this book: a source of Christian encouragement and motivation aimed at pre-school to fifth grade students, speaking to the issues many students deal with on a daily basis throughout the school year. “Little” Thoughts for the Day can be used by elementary administrators and teachers to help students start their days with uplifting thoughts, or by parents who wish to share the thoughts with their children before they leave for school each day. Formatted according to the school year calendar, “Little” Thoughts for the Day includes thoughts relating to various holidays and school activities that make a “big” difference for their young ones.</div>

"Little" Thoughts for the Day

<div>&ldquo;Smith and Sokolsky have firmly established themselves within the highest echelon of 1865 Carolinas Campaign historians.&rdquo; &mdash;Civil War Books and Authors Gen. William T. Sherman&rsquo;s 1865 Carolinas Campaign receives scant attention from most Civil War historians. Career military officers Mark A. Smith and Wade Sokolosky rectify this oversight with &ldquo;No Such Army Since the Days of Julius Caesar,&rdquo; a careful and impartial examination of Sherman&rsquo;s army and its many accomplishments. The authors focus on the overlooked run-up to the seminal Battle of Bentonville. They begin on March 11, 1865, with the capture of Fayetteville and the demolition of the arsenal there, before chronicling the two-day Battle of Averasboro in more detail than any other study. At Averasboro, Lt. Gen. William J. Hardee&rsquo;s Confederates conducted a well planned and brilliantly executed defense-in-depth that held Sherman&rsquo;s juggernaut in check for two days. With his objective accomplished, Hardee disengaged and marched to concentrate his corps with Gen. Joseph E. Johnston for what would become Bentonville. This completely revised and updated edition of &ldquo;No Such Army Since the Days of Julius Caesar&rdquo; is based upon extensive archival and firsthand research. It includes new original maps, orders of battle, abundant illustrations, and a detailed driving and walking tour for dedicated battlefield enthusiasts. Readers with an interest in the Carolinas, Generals Sherman and Johnston, or the Civil War in general will enjoy this book. &ldquo;Smith and Sokolosky are military historians with a particular interest in what happened in the Carolina States. What they bring to the table regarding Sherman and Johnston is remarkable, a revelation.&rdquo; &mdash;Books Monthly</div>

"No Such Army Since the Days of Julius Caesar"

<div>With a new introduction by Adi Ophir: An early and fierce critique of Zionism from a Jewish child of Palestine who argued against nationalism and injustice. Born in 1893, Moshe Menuhin was part of the inaugural class to attend the first Zionist high school in Palestine, the Herzliya gymnasium in Tel Aviv. He had grown up in a Hasidic home, but eventually rejected orthodoxy while remaining dedicated to Judaism. As a witness to the evolution of Israel, Menuhin grew disaffected with what he saw as a betrayal of the Jews&rsquo; spiritual principles. This memoir, written in 1965, is considered the first revisionist history of Zionism. A groundbreaking document, it discusses the treatment of the Palestinians, the effects of the Holocaust, the exploitation of the Mizrahi Jewish immigrants, and the use of propaganda to win over public opinion in America and among American Jews. In a postscript added after the Six-Day War, Menuhin also addresses the question of occupation. This new edition is updated with an introduction by Israeli philosopher Adi Ophir, putting Menuhin&rsquo;s work into a contemporary historical context. Passionate and sometimes inflammatory in its prose, and met with controversy and anger upon its original publication under the title The Decadence of Judaism in Our Time, Menuhin&rsquo;s polemic remains both a thought-provoking reassessment of Zionist history and a fascinating look at one observer&rsquo;s experience of this embattled corner of the world over the course of several tumultuous decades. </div>

"Not by Might, Nor by Power"

<div>The #1 New York Times bestseller that traces the rise of the Guggenheims, the Goldmans, and other families from immigrant poverty to social prominence. They immigrated to America from Germany in the nineteenth century with names like Loeb, Sachs, Seligman, Lehman, Guggenheim, and Goldman. From tenements on the Lower East Side to Park Avenue mansions, this handful of Jewish families turned small businesses into imposing enterprises and amassed spectacular fortunes. But despite possessing breathtaking wealth that rivaled the Astors and Rockefellers, they were barred by the gentile establishment from the lofty realm of &ldquo;the 400,&rdquo; a register of New York&rsquo;s most elite, because of their religion and humble backgrounds. In response, they created their own elite &ldquo;100,&rdquo; a privileged society as opulent and exclusive as the one that had refused them entry. &ldquo;Our Crowd&rdquo; is the fascinating story of this rarefied society. Based on letters, documents, diary entries, and intimate personal remembrances of family lore by members of these most illustrious clans, it is an engrossing portrait of upper-class Jewish life over two centuries; a riveting story of the bankers, brokers, financiers, philanthropists, and business tycoons who started with nothing and turned their family names into American institutions.</div>

"Our Crowd"

<div>The definitive text on the mystery of R.F.K.&rsquo;s assassination by a reporter who &ldquo;got inside this story . . . with his impressive grasp of all the loose ends&rdquo; (Kirkus Reviews). On the night of June 4, 1968, Sirhan Sirhan shot and killed Sen. Robert F. Kennedy in a steamy pantry of the Los Angeles Ambassador Hotel. Kennedy and his entourage had been celebrating his victory in the California primary for the Democratic nomination for president. Everybody knew that Sirhan was the assassin. But was there a wider conspiracy? Did the FBI truly solve the crime? After working his way deep inside the investigation&mdash;and spending more than two hundred hours in direct conversation with Sirhan&mdash;Robert Blair Kaiser wrote the quintessential book on Robert Kennedy&rsquo;s murder. Then, forty years later, Kaiser returned to the evidence, revising his original text as he probed even further into this mystifying tragedy. Widely recognized as an important contribution to the literature of political assassinations and as a primary document on the tragedy of Kennedy&rsquo;s death, &ldquo;R.F.K. Must Die!&rdquo; is more than ever a stunning look into the mind of a killer and the substance of an assassination.</div>

"R.F.K. Must Die!"

<div>Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards: A science fiction classic about an antiestablishment rebel set on overthrowing the totalitarian society of the future. One of science fiction&rsquo;s most antiestablishment authors rails against the accepted order while questioning blind obedience to the state in this unique pairing of short story and essay. &ldquo;&lsquo;Repent, Harlequin!&rsquo; Said the Ticktockman&rdquo; is set in a dystopian future society in which time is regulated by a heavy bureaucratic hand known as the Ticktockman. The rebellious Everett C. Marm flouts convention, masquerading as the anarchic Harlequin, disrupting the precise schedule with bullhorns and jellybeans in a world where being late is nothing short of a crime. But when his love, Pretty Alice, betrays Everett out of a desire to return to the punctuality to which she is programmed, he is forced to face the Ticktockman and his gauntlet of consequences. The bonus essay included in this volume, &ldquo;Stealing Tomorrow,&rdquo; is a hard-to-find Harlan Ellison masterwork, an exploration of the rebellious nature of the writer&rsquo;s soul. Waxing poetic on humankind&rsquo;s intellectual capabilities versus its emotional shortcomings, the author depicts an inner self that guides his words against the established bureaucracies, assuring us that the intent of his soul is to &ldquo;come lumbering into town on a pink-and-yellow elephant, fast as Pegasus, and throw down on the established order.&rdquo; Winner of the Prometheus Hall of Fame Award, &ldquo;&lsquo;Repent, Harlequin!&rsquo; Said the Ticktockman&rdquo; has become one of the most reprinted short stories in the English language. Fans of George Orwell&rsquo;s Nineteen Eighty-Four and Aldous Huxley&rsquo;s Brave New World will delight in this antiestablishment vision of a Big Brother society and the rebel determined to take it down. The perfect complement, &ldquo;Stealing Tomorrow&rdquo; is a hidden gem that reinforces Ellison&rsquo;s belief in humankind&rsquo;s inner nobility and the necessity to buck totalitarian forces that hamper our steady evolution. </div>

"Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman

<div>The true crime story of an immigrant&rsquo;s success, an abusive wife, and a grisly murder from the award&ndash;winning criminologist author of When Nashville Bled. Ejaz Ahmad was handsome, charismatic, and a self-made businessman. He arrived in the United States from Pakistan determined to fulfill his mother&rsquo;s dying wish: to come to America, complete his education, and make his mark in the world. Settling in Memphis, Tennessee, Ejaz became owner of several businesses, father to a handsome boy, and a devout Muslim. The only thing missing in his life was a wife, someone special to protect, honor, and love. Leah Ward was a pretty girl, but a prison parolee with a history of drug charges, petty crime, and a questionable past. She led a flotsam life, drifting from town to city to state. When she was introduced to Ejaz Ahmad, she believed she had found the ultimate answer: a place to live, someone to take care of her, and money to spend. But what began idyllic soon became abusive and then dangerous for Ejaz. His friends and family warned him. And in May of 2003 Ejaz paid the ultimate price when family members found his mutilated body in a shed. She Is Evil is a story of trust, abuse, religion, and murder. Of a kind man who tried to help a troubled woman and became the victim of abuse and, eventually, a heinous murder.</div>

"She Is Evil!"

<div>&ldquo;[A] stirring narrative of the common soldier&rsquo;s experiences on the southern end of the battlefield on the second day of fighting at Gettysburg.&rdquo; &mdash;Civil War News &ldquo;Stand to It and Give Them Hell&rdquo; chronicles the Gettysburg fighting from Cemetery Ridge to Little Round Top on July 2, 1863, through the letters, memoirs, diaries, and postwar recollections of the men from both armies who struggled to control that &ldquo;hallowed ground.&rdquo; John Michael Priest, dubbed the &ldquo;Ernie Pyle&rdquo; of the Civil War soldier by legendary historian Edwin C. Bearss, wrote this book to help readers understand and experience, as closely as possible through the written word, the stress and terror of that fateful day in Pennsylvania. Nearly sixty detailed maps, mostly on the regimental level, illustrate the tremendous troop congestion in the Wheatfield, the Peach Orchard, and Devil&rsquo;s Den. They accurately establish, by regiment or company, the extent of the Federal skirmish line from Ziegler&rsquo;s Grove to the Slyder farm and portray the final Confederate push against the Codori farm and the center of Cemetery Ridge, which three Confederate divisions&mdash;in what is popularly known as Pickett&rsquo;s Charge&mdash;would unsuccessfully attack on the final day of fighting. &ldquo;&lsquo;Stand to It and Give Them Hell&rsquo; puts a human face on the second day of the nation&rsquo;s epic Civil War battle . . . Mike Priest has taken a familiar story and somehow made it fresh and new. It is simply first-rate.&rdquo; &mdash;Lance J. Herdegen, award-winning author of Union Soldiers in the American Civil War &ldquo;Remarkable . . . Priest&rsquo;s distinctive style is rife with anecdotes, many drawn from obscure diaries and letters, artfully stitched together in an original manner.&rdquo; &mdash;David G. Martin, author of The Shiloh Campaign</div>

"Stand to It and Give Them Hell"

<div>&ldquo;A thoroughly researched account of a legendary Confederate infantry regiment that will be of deep interest to the legion of Civil War buffs.&rdquo; &mdash;Richard M. McMurry, author of Two Great Rebel Armies The Fifth Texas Infantry&mdash;&ldquo;The Bloody Fifth&rdquo;&mdash;was one of only three Texas regiments to fight with Robert E. Lee&rsquo;s Army of Northern Virginia. Much like the army in which it served, the Fifth Texas established a stellar combat record. The regiment took part in thirty-eight engagements, including nearly every significant battle in the Eastern Theater, as well as the Chickamauga, Chattanooga, and Knoxville campaigns in the Western Theater. Based upon years of archival research&mdash;complete with photos and original maps&mdash;John F. Schmutz&rsquo;s &ldquo;The Bloody Fifth&rdquo; is the first full-length study to document this fabled regimental command. &ldquo;The Bloody Fifth&rdquo; presents the regiment&rsquo;s rich history from the secession of the Lone Star State and the organization of ten independent east and central Texas companies, through four years of arduous marching and fighting. The Fifth Texas&rsquo;s battlefield exploits are legendary, from its inaugural fighting on the Virginia peninsula in early 1862 through Appomattox. But it was at Second Manassas where the regiment earned its enduring nickname by attacking and crushing the Fifth New York Zouaves. Schmutz&rsquo;s book, which also details the personal lives of these Texas soldiers as they struggled to survive the war some 2,000 miles from home, is a significant contribution to the growing literature of the Civil War. &ldquo;The most comprehensive, thoroughly researched account of the [Fifth] Texas Infantry . . . belongs in the library of every serious student of the Civil War.&rdquo; &mdash;John Michael Priest, author of &ldquo;Stand to It and Give Them Hell&rdquo;</div>

"The Bloody Fifth" Vol. 1

<div>Second in the sweeping history of the Fifth Texas Infantry that fought with Robert E. Lee&rsquo;s Army of Northern Virginia in the Civil War. In the first volume, Secession to the Suffolk Campaign, John F. Schmutz followed the regiment from its inception through the successful foraging campaign in southeastern Virginia in April 1863. Gettysburg to Appomattox continues the regiment&rsquo;s rich history from its march north into Pennsylvania and the battle of Gettysburg, its transfer west to Georgia and participation in the bloody battle of Chickamauga, operations in East Tennessee, and the regiments return to Virginia for the overland battles (Wilderness to Cold Harbor), Petersburg campaign, and the march to Appomattox Court House. The narrative ends by following many of the regiment&rsquo;s soldiers on their long journey home. Schmutz&rsquo;s definitive study is based upon years of archival and battlefield research that uncovered hundreds of primary sources, many never before used. The result is a lively account of not only the regiments marches and battles but a personal look into the lives of these Texans as they struggled to survive a vicious war more than 1,000 miles from home. &ldquo;The Bloody Fifth&rdquo;: The 5th Texas Infantry Regiment, Hood&rsquo;s Texas Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia, with photos, original maps, explanatory footnotes, and important and useful appendices, is a significant contribution to the history of Texas and the American Civil War. &ldquo;A scholarly work enhanced with maps and exhaustive notes, yet thoroughly accessible to readers of all backgrounds.&rdquo; &mdash;Midwest Book Review</div>

"The Bloody Fifth" Vol. 2

<div>An award-winning Civil War historian&rsquo;s profile of the brilliant Union cavalry officer and the strategies he employed to prevent catastrophe at Gettysburg. The Battle of Gettysburg turned the tide of the Civil War. But the outcome of the decisive confrontation between North and South might have been dramatically different if not for the actions of Brig. Gen. John Buford, commander of the Union army&rsquo;s First Cavalry Division. An award-winning chronicler of America&rsquo;s War between the States and author of more than a dozen acclaimed works of historical scholarship, Eric J. Wittenberg now focuses on the iconic commanding officer known to his troops as &ldquo;Honest John&rdquo; and &ldquo;Old Steadfast.&rdquo; Wittenberg describes in fascinating detail the brilliant maneuvers Buford undertook to keep Gen. Robert E. Lee&rsquo;s Confederate army at bay and later rescue what remained of the devastated First and Eleventh Corps.&rdquo;The Devil&rsquo;s to Pay&rdquo; celebrates the stunning military achievements of an unparalleled tactical genius at the onset of the Gettysburg Campaign and paints an unforgettable portrait of a quiet, unassuming cavalryman who recognized a possible disaster in the making and took bold action to avert it. Based on a wealth of information from primary sources, &ldquo;The Devil&rsquo;s to Pay&rdquo; includes pages of illustrations, maps, and photographs, as well as a walking and driving tour of the battlefield sites where America&rsquo;s history was made at a staggeringly high cost in blood. A comprehensive tactical study that is both scholarly and eminently accessible, it is an essential addition to the library of any Civil War enthusiast.</div>

"The Devil's to Pay"

<div>Winner of the Pulitzer Prize: &ldquo;The richest and most powerful single document of the American experience in World War II&rdquo; (The Boston Globe). &ldquo;The Good War&rdquo; is a testament not only to the experience of war but to the extraordinary skill of Studs Terkel as an interviewer and oral historian. From a pipe fitter&rsquo;s apprentice at Pearl Harbor to a crew member of the flight that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki, his subjects are open and unrelenting in their analyses of themselves and their experiences, producing what People magazine has called &ldquo;a splendid epic history&rdquo; of WWII. With this volume Terkel expanded his scope to the global and the historical, and the result is a masterpiece of oral history. &ldquo;Tremendously compelling, somehow dramatic and intimate at the same time, as if one has stumbled on private accounts in letters locked in attic trunks . . . In terms of plain human interest, Mr. Terkel may well have put together the most vivid collection of World War II sketches ever gathered between covers.&rdquo; &mdash;The New York Times Book Review &ldquo;I promise you will remember your war years, if you were alive then, with extraordinary vividness as you go through Studs Terkel&rsquo;s book. Or, if you are too young to remember, this is the best place to get a sense of what people were feeling.&rdquo; &mdash;Chicago Tribune &ldquo;A powerful book, repeatedly moving and profoundly disturbing.&rdquo; &mdash;People</div>

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