The Last of the Black Emperors Jonetta Rose Barras The Hollow Comeback of Marion Barry in a New Age of Black Leaders The 1990 FBI videotape of Washington, D.C. mayor Marion Barry smoking crack transfixed television viewers nationwide. Shouting now-notorious …
Generation of Wealth Julius Westheimer Time-Tested Rules for Worry-Free Investing Clear, reassuring, generation-spanning wisdom to investors from one of America’s best known brokers. Julius Westheimer boils down his lifetime of experience into his first book and shares with us his …
You Might as Well Laugh Surviving the Joys of Parenthood Sandi Kahn Shelton When it comes to surviving the joys of parenthood, take Sandi Kahn Shelton’s advice: You Might As Well Laugh. In this hilarious collection of essays and columns, …
Violent Screen Stephen Hunter A Critic’s 13 Years on the Front Lines of Movie Mayhem Baltimore Sun film critic Stephen Hunter is an unrivaled master of his craft. This extraordinary collection includes the best of Hunter’s movie reviews, taking aim at …
The Miss Dennis School of Writing Alice Steinbach In this collection of her essays and columns, Pulitzer Prize-winning Baltimore Sun journalist Steinbach seeks to “rescue from insignificance some of the small events that make up a life.” These pieces thus …
Last Call at the 7-Eleven Kevin Cowherd Fine Dining at 2 A.M., the Search for Spandex People, and Other Reasons to Go on Living The country might be going to hell in a hand-basket, but don’t close the garage doors …