Book 1 Kennedy and Nixon: The Rivalry That Shaped Postwar America by Chris Matthews
John Kennedy and Richard Nixon shared a dream of being the great young leader of their age. But what drove history, as this work sets out to show, was the enmity between these two figures, whose 1960 presidential contest would set the nation's bitter course for years to come.

Book 2 Lifeline: how one night changed five lives by Mary Zimmeth Schomaker
A young mother on the verge of death, a baby-boomer contemplating suicide, a gentle father of nine with less than twenty-four hours to live, and an eccentric recluse in critical condition from an automobile accident fight a desperate battle for life on a dark January evening which fuses them together forever in this unforgettable story.

Book 3 Salt of the Earth by Jack Olsen
Salt of the Earth is the true story of how one woman fought and triumphed over life-shattering violence and how she healed her family-and herself.
Salt of the Earth is the true story of a courageous woman who survived a hellish twentieth-century nightmare. Mob violence, injustice, kidnapping, murder, and suicide were the black holes in the awful astronomy of Elaine Gere's life. Somehow she had to summon the courage to endure: to honor her beloved dead and to rebuild the shattered lives of the sons who depended on her strength. Jack Olsen has been lauded for his psychological insights into the most violent criminals in such previous masterworks as Doc, The Misbegotten Son, and Predator, but he has never overlooked their victims. By viewing the world through the eyes of Elaine Gere and her devastated family, he finds the core values that enabled them not only to survive and flourish, but, in the end, to triumph.

Book 4 Amazon Stanger: A Rainforest Chief Battles Big Oil by Mike Tidwell
Amazon Stranger, a searing book from investigative reporter Mike Tidwell, in which he recounts, with all the vividness of a fiction writer, the struggle of Ecuador's Cofan people to save the jungle from an uninvited guest -- Big Oil. A so-called primitive clan little changed over the centuries, the Cofan are led by American Randy Boman -- the Amazon stranger -- in their cagey, mediawise, and sometimes hostile campaign. Both the story of a people and of a man obsessed with the jungle, this eyewitness account is as riveting as it is educational. This description may be from another edition of this product.