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Author | : Lucette Lagnado |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 2011-09-06 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0061803677 |
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The author of the award-winning The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit—hailed by the New York Times book review as a “crushing, brilliant book”—returns with this, the extraordinary follow-up memoir In The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit, Lucette Lagnado offered a heartbreaking portrait of her father, Leon, a successful Cairo boulevardier who was forced to take flight with his family during the rise of the Nasser dictatorship, and of her family’s struggle to rebuild a new life in a new land. In this much-anticipated new memoir, Lagnado tells the story of her mother, Edith, coming of age in a magical old Cairo of dusty alleyways and grand villas inhabited by pashas and their wives. Then Lagnado revisits her own early years in America—first, as a schoolgirl in Brooklyn’s immigrant enclaves, where she dreams of becoming the fearless Mrs. Emma Peel of The Avengers, and later, as an “avenging” reporter for some of America’s most prestigious newspapers. A stranger growing up in a strange land, when she turns sixteen Lagnado’s adolescence is further complicated by cancer. Its devastating consequences would rob her of her “arrogant years”—the years defined by an overwhelming sense of possibility, invincibility, and confidence. Lagnado looks to the women sequestered behind the wooden screen at her childhood synagogue, to the young coeds at Vassar and Columbia in the 1970s, to her own mother and the women of their past in Cairo, and reflects on their stories as she struggles to make sense of her own choices.
Author | : Anzia Yezierska |
Publisher | : S.B. Gundy |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Boardinghouses |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Lucette Lagnado |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 2009-10-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0061827509 |
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“Poignant . . . deeply personal . . . an indelible history of the largely forgotten Jews of Egypt . . . ” —Miami Herald In vivid and graceful prose, Lucette Lagnado re-creates the majesty and cosmopolitan glamour of Cairo in the years before Gamal Abdel Nasser’s rise to power. With Nasser’s nationalization of Egyptian industry, her father, Leon, a boulevardier who conducted business in his white sharkskin suit, loses everything, and departs with the family for any land that will take them. The poverty and hardships they encounter in their flight from Cairo to Paris to New York are strikingly juxtaposed against the beauty and comforts of the lives they left behind. An inversion of the American dream set against the stunning portraits of three world cities, Lucette Lagnado’s memoir offers a grand and sweeping story of faith, tradition, tragedy, and triumph.
Author | : William J. Lederer |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 1999-01-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780393318678 |
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The ineffectual Ambassador is just one of the handicaps facing the Americans as Southeast Asia becomes increasingly involved with Communism.
Author | : Stephen Jenks |
Publisher | : Seapoint Books and Media |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012-10-16 |
Genre | : Interpersonal communication |
ISBN | : 9780983062240 |
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Leadership roles have been populated by people who tend to take an "I'm better than you" stance toward the lesser mortals around them. Unfortunately, arrogance is a luxury that organizations can no longer afford (if they ever could). We explore leadership arrogance and examine the costs on the leaders themselves, those around them, and their organizations. Learn to understand and deal with arrogant behavior so that it doesn't sabotage personal competence, relationships, and organizational survival.
Author | : Goldie Golding |
Publisher | : Mesorah Publications |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780899065007 |
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Ari was so arrogant then he learned a lesson.
Author | : Michael K. Farr |
Publisher | : Globe Pequot |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS |
ISBN | : 9780762764358 |
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What is the arrogance cycle? We've just lived through it. As market bubbles build, our confidence level rises (dis)proportionately. Everyone wants in on the action. We want to believe Wall Street, and once we do, the inevitable happens. The only problem was that it was all artificial. In The Arrogance Cycle, Farr examines the forces at work on individuals and markets and explains in clear, concise layman terms how we got to where we are.
Author | : David W. Ehrenfeld |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0195028902 |
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Attacks nothing less than the currently prevailing world philosophy--humanism, which the author feels is exceedingly dangerous in its hidden assumptions.
Author | : Joanna Scott |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2004-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780312423889 |
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"Austrian artist Egon Schiele comes to life in a narrative that defies convention, history, and identity. A self-professed genius and student of August Klimt, Scott's Schiele repeatedly challenges the boundaries of early twentieth-century Europe. Thrown in jail on charges of immorality, Schiele's Mephistophelean reputation only grows in stature until at the age of twenty-eight, the artist dies in the Great Flu Pandemic. Told from a crosscurrent of voices, viewpoints and times."--page 4 of cover.
Author | : Kevin Phillips |
Publisher | : Back Bay Books |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1995-09-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780316706025 |
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Everyone knows that Washington is completely out of touch with the rest of the country. Now Kevin Phillips, whose bestselling books have prophesied the major watersheds of American party politics, tells us why. Washington - mired in bureaucracy, captured by the money power of Wall Street, and dominated by 90,000 lobbyists, 60,000 lawyers, and the largest concentration of special interests the world has ever seen - has become the albatross that Thomas Jefferson and our other Founding Fathers feared: a swollen capital city feeding off the country it should be governing. Throughout most of our history, the genius of American politics was that ballot revolutions every generation swept out failed establishments and created new ones. Now that can no longer happen. Feared and even hated by a majority of the citizenry, "Permanent Washington" has dug in. Using history as a chilling warning, Kevin Phillips parallels the present atrophy to that of formerly mighty and arrogant capitals like Rome, Madrid, andAmsterdam.,Unchecked, Washington will - like other great powers before it - lead the country to its inevitable decline and fall. To work again, Washington must be purged and revitalized. In his unique blueprint for a political upheaval, Kevin Phillips puts Washington on notice by sounding a cry for immediate action, offering us a wide variety of remedies - some quasi-revolutionary, others more moderate, but all sure to be controversial.