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| Moses and the Doctor: Two Men, One Championship, and the Birth of Modern... by Luke EpplinIn the early 1970s, playground courts across the United States were jammed with hoops buffs experimenting with showy moves and aerial shots that were changing the look and feel of a sport once stubbornly earthbound. Out of this scene emerged a pair of incomparable yet dissimilar streetball sensations, both of whom would make their name in the American Basketball Association, an upstart professional league characterized as much by flamboyance as invention. |
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Streetwise: Getting to and Through Goldman Sachs
by Lloyd Blankfein
When Lloyd Blankfein was attacked as a Wall Street fat cat, he had to smile, thinking of his precarious childhood in the notorious public housing projects of East New York, Brooklyn, and attending a high school so chaotic he didn't feel safe leaving class to go to the bathroom in his time there. Harvard University was a total moonshot, and his outsider status never wore off, there or at Harvard Law. When he struck people as street-y, it wasn't Wall Street they were thinking of. But if the chip never quite left Blankfein's shoulder, neither did a wry, resilient spirit and a lucid, democratic intelligence that saw through airs and found talent and ideas in unlikely places.
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| Everybody's Fly: A Life of Art, Music, and Changing the Culture by Fab 5 Freddy with Mark RozzoA memoir by Fab 5 Freddy chronicling his life and involvement in the development of hip-hop, visual art, and popular culture in New York City from the 1970s through the 1990s. The work documents his role in graffiti art, music, film, and media, as well as his connections with prominent artists and cultural figures. It also provides insight into the intersections of underground and mainstream culture during this period. |
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| La Lucci by Susan Lucci with Laura MortonEmmy Award-winning actress and legendary television icon Susan Lucci -- affectionately known as "La Lucci" since her early days on All My Children -- is set to captivate audiences once again with her second memoir, entitled La Lucci. This deeply personal and compelling new book explores Susan's journey through love, joy, reinvention, and resilience in the face of profound loss -- both personal and professional. |
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| Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery by Gavin NewsomCalifornia governor and potential 2028 presidential candidate Gavin Newsom’s book briskly lays out his rise in the Democratic party, reveals some of the struggles early in his life that propelled him into politics, and talks about some key achievements of his tenure... |
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| Judy Blume: A Life by Mark OppenheimerHistorian and journalist Mark Oppenheimer’s “fitting tribute” to author Judy Blume provides a detailed, chronological view of an ambitious, talented woman seeking something beyond the strictures of her early marriage and motherhood. Though her work was sometimes controversial, Oppenheimer pinpoints the secret of Blume’s success: she was able to produce children’s stories with a keen sense of realism in which young readers could actually see themselves. |
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| Bonfire of the Murdochs: How the Epic Fight to Control the Last Great Media Dynasty Broke... by Gabriel ShermanIn media tycoon Rupert Murdoch’s winner-takes-all worldview, his four children -- Lachlan, Liz, James, and Prudence -- become little more than negotiators across the conference table vying for control of his mega-corporation. Biographer Gabriel Sherman documents the family drama, cynicism, and ruthlessness of all concerned in Bonfire of the Murdochs. |
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