This vivid portrait of an unkempt, self-preserving king provides insight into the obscure history of Brazil. The origins of the Portuguese influence in Brazil are not well known to most people, from the first Portuguese explorer’s... Read More

Reflections on holidays, folksy morality tales highlight this celebration of days and seasons. Albert F. Schmid, a Baptist minister and former navy and commercial aviator, has written an easily understood collection of short reflections... Read More

A supposed benefactor seeks to ruin the lives of two friends; a leader of the African American community sacrifices his daughter to a higher cause; a scholarship student becomes a shill for a veiled racist enterprise; and a lynching... Read More

In the news today are far too many failures of ethics and behavior that most of us take for granted in business, education, and government. Around the world, the information age reverberates with sickening examples of Ponzi schemes,... Read More

The night before her wedding, Judith Desjardins sits alone in her room, sick with dread. She is stilled by the consuming fear that she’s going to get it all wrong, all over again. She’s been married and divorced twice already and... Read More

Andrew Stark may only have intended, in "Drawing the Line", to discuss how Americans use concepts of public and private to frame public policy debates, but he has pulled the curtain back on a much more sinister process. This book offers... Read More

The Russian Revolution collides with Lt. J.G. Stephen Morrison’s quest to find his place in the world in this military history novel by Lee Mandel. Stephen, who started life as Lev Kambotchnik, son of a Russian rabbi, embodies the... Read More

The extensive field research of Felbab-Brown, a fellow at the Brookings Institution, involved copious interviews with farmers and government officials enmeshed in narcotic and counter-narcotic activity against such cartels as Peru’s... Read More