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Suskind, Ron A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League
New York, New York, U.S.A. Broadway Books 1998 0767901258 / 9780767901253 Hard Cover Near-Fine Near-Fine
Near-fine condition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Tight spine, clean pages. 372 pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. The inspiring true story of a ferociously determined young man who, armed only with his intellect and his willpower, fights his way out of despair. At Ballou Senior High, a crime-infested school in Washington, D.C., honor students have learned to keep their heads down. Like most inner-city kids, they know that any special attention in a place this dangerous can make you a target of violence. But Cedric Jennings, the lanky son of a jailed drug dealer, will not swallow his pride, though each day he struggles to decide who he wants to be. The summer after his junior year at a program for minorities at MIT, he gets a fleeting glimpse of life outside Ballou -- an image that burns in his mind afterward and fills him with a longing to live in such a world. In his senior year, walking a gauntlet of sneers and threats, he achieves a 4.02 grade-point average and then the impossible: acceptance into Brown University, an Ivy League school. At Brown, finding himself far behind most of the other freshmen in his academic training and his knowledge of broader culture, Cedric must manage a bewildering array of intellectual and social challenges. Cedric had hoped that in college he would finally find a place to fit in, but he discovers he has little in common with the white students, many of whom come from privileged backgrounds and enjoy partying. Even the middle-class blacks have trouble understanding Cedric, a straight-arrow church kid from the ghetto who seems like an obvious product of affirmative action. Cedric is left to rely on his intelligence and his determination to keep alive his hope in the unseen -- a future of acceptance and reward that he struggles, each day, to envision.
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Suskind, Ron The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neil
Simon & Schuster 2004 0743255453 / 9780743255455 Hard Cover Fine Fine
Near-new condition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $26.00. NO writing, marks or tears. Tight spine, bright pages. 348 pages. A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter's explosive account of the inner workings of the George W. Bush administration, the most secretive White House of modern times. This vivid, unfolding narrative includes the candid assessments of former U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, for two years the administration's top economic official, a principal of the National Security Council, and a tutor to the new President. He is the only member of Bush's innermost circle to leave and then to agree to speak frankly about what has really been happening inside the White House. O'Neill's account is supported by Suskind's interviews, by transcripts of meetings and by voluminous documents that cover domestic and foreign policy. As listeners are taken to the very epicenter of government, The Price of Loyalty offers a definitive view of Bush and his closest advisers as they manage crucial domestic policies and global strategies at a time of life-and-death crises. Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell, and Christine Todd Whitman are seen in an intimate, "unmanaged" way -- as is Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, O'Neill's close friend and ally. The central conflicts of this administration's governance are starkly visible through the lens of recent events and the revelation of unseen intentions that underlie actions. Suskind's unique access provides an astonishing account of a President so carefully managed in his public posture that he is unknown to most Americans. Now, he will be known.
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