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Coram’s new book, his sixteenth, shows a time when newspapers were at high tide and pushed all other media aside; it shows a time when the writing life was a good life and could be an exciting life. Here we see Coram’s pile-driving determination, his love of writing, and his reverence for the written word. Most of all […]
GULLY DIRT
In this incandescent memoir, Robert Coram tells how a rough-edged boy escaped from a nowhere little town in rural southwest Georgia and became an accomplished writer. Recent Review from CounterPunch THE VICISSITUDES OF THE RURAL SOUTH by CHET RICHARDS Way off in the southwest corner of Georgia, where that state, Alabama, and Florida come together, there’s a […]
DOUBLE ACE
Scott flew in China during World War II, came home in January, 1943, and in three days wrote the iconic God Is My Co-Pilot. The book still sells today. The biography contains previously unpublished information about General Claire Lee Chennault, General Joseph Stilwell, Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Kai-shek and more of the out-sized personalities that rotated […]
BRUTE: THE LIFE OF VICTOR KRULAK
“A good job of telling Krulak’s story in clear, simple prose. A valuable work.” The Wall Street Journal. “Brisk, highly readable, strongly reported biography.” The Los Angeles Times “Plainspoken and absorbing. Captures its subject . . . in strokes that are sharp, simple and often funny.” The New York Times. “A well-written tale about a […]
AMERICAN PATRIOT: THE LIFE AND WARS OF COLONEL BUD DAY
During the course of his military career, Bud Day won every available combat medal, escaped death on no less than seven occasions, and spent 67 months as a POW in the infamous Hanoi Hilton, along with John McCain. Despite sustained torture, Day would not break. He became a hero to POWs everywhere–a man who fought […]
BOYD: THE FIGHTER PILOT WHO CHANGED THE ART OF WAR
John Boyd was the greatest fighter pilot in American history. He defeated every pilot who challenged him in less than 40 seconds. But what made Boyd a man for the ages was what happened after he left the cockpit. Boyd made a career of challenging the intractable Pentagon bureaucracy, making enemies and a few devoted […]
BASS MASTER SHAW GRIGSBY
I have fished for the bass in ponds, lakes, impoundments, rivers, and tidal waters. And I’ve learned much that will help both the beginning angler and the experienced angler. In this book I want to show you how to eliminate variables and to catch bass at any time of the day and under all conditions. […]
CARIBBEAN TIME BOMB
Robert Coram has been visiting Antigua since 1982, when, as a newspaper reporter, he broke the story that Robert Vesco had found sanctuary on the island. Because of the many times he has revisited the island since then, and because of his exhaustive research and wide-ranging contacts, the State Department once told him, “You are […]
NOBODY’S CHILD
A Woman’s Abusive Past and the Inspiring Dream That Led Her to Rescue the Street Children of Saigon “Christina Noble is a wonderful and remarkable woman, and she has written a wonderful and remarkable book. I know of no other book that I have read over the past dozen years that affected me as much […]