Waging Peace and War: Dean Rusk in the Truman, Kennedy and Johnson Years
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Inside Game/Outside Game: Winning Strategies for Saving Urban America (Century Foundation Books (Brookings Hardcover))
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David Rusk argues that the US federal government's concentration on inner city initiatives - the "inside game" - needs to be matched by an "outside game" of regional strategies to overcome growing fiscal disparities, concentrated poverty and urban sprawl. Read more...
A new chapter: Patti Callahan Henry has a new book and a new home in Birmingham
In the meantime, Henry had a new book coming out. "Coming Up For Air", a woman in a marriage that rekindles an old flame, is on the shelves this week, and Alabama Booksmith is one of the first stops on a tour of Henry.
Had you asked Henry back in the 80 ยค, when she was a Phi Mu and Tigerette Auburn University is working on her nursing degree, had it ever be sitting at a table signing his eighth novel, she would probably say no.
She pursued a successful career pediatric nursing, received her Master, and were married in 1991.
1890 US AGRICULTURE REPORT Signed by JM Rusk
The big feature in this book is color plate illustrations of fruits and vegetables and also mushrooms. It's a good book for those interested in vinas per the Native Fruits and Mushrooms of the United States articles. The Mushroom Culture article is pretty good too, with 3 b&w plates. Also, Silkworms has a few pages of photographs of cocoons. The Microscope Investigation/Silver Test for Butter & Fats has several interesting color plates as well. Crops of the Year and Cotton Production have fold-out color maps of the United States...