Ron Fournier
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Ron Fournier is a business executive and former journalist. Until 2018, he was the publisher and editor of Crain’s Detroit Business. Previously he worked at Atlantic Magazine and the National Journal and as Washington bureau chief at the Associated Press until leaving in June 2010.
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The definitive biography of the fiercely vigilant and politically astute First Lady who shaped one of the most consequential presidencies of the 20th century: Nancy Reagan.The made-in-Hollywood marriage of Ronald and Nancy Reagan is more than a love story—it’s the partnership that made him president. Of the pair, Nancy was the one with the sharper ...
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2021-09-25T21:00:10.000Z*The Instant New York Time s Bestseller* "A book historians will relish."--Peggy Noonan, Wall Street JournalMust read. I've read every book about the Trump presidency. This is the best.--Bill PressAn account like no other, from the White House reporter who has known President Donald Trump for more than 25 years.We have never seen a president like t...
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2021-03-17T11:26:23.000ZThe Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and shows how our lives today are still defined by a hierarchy of human divisions.“As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to ...
Ron Fournier
2020-12-28T01:10:09.000Z
The Hidden Life of Trees
What They Feel, How They Communicate―Discoveries from A Secret World (The Mysteries of Nature (1))
In The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben shares his deep love of woods and forests and explains the amazing processes of life, death, and regeneration he has observed in the woodland and the amazing scientific processes behind the wonders of which we are blissfully unaware. Much like human families, tree parents live together with their childre...
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2020-09-07T12:46:56.000ZAn electrifying story of the sensational murder trial that divided a city and ignited the civil rights struggleIn 1925, Detroit was a smoky swirl of jazz and speakeasies, assembly lines and fistfights. The advent of automobiles had brought workers from around the globe to compete for manufacturing jobs, and tensions often flared with the KKK in asc...
Ron Fournier
2020-08-25T16:18:29.000Z
Too Much and Never Enough
How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man
In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald’s only niece, shines a bright light on the dark history of their family in order to explain how her uncle became the man who now threatens the world’s health, economic security, and social fabri...
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2020-07-19T11:23:45.000Z“A fascinating political, racial, economic, and cultural tapestry” (Detroit Free Press), Once in a Great City is a tour de force from David Maraniss about the quintessential American city at the top of its game: Detroit in 1963.Detroit in 1963 is on top of the world. The city’s leaders are among the most visionary in America: Grandson of the first ...
Ron Fournier
2020-07-12T20:34:11.000Z
Donald Trump and His Assault on Truth
The President's Falsehoods, Misleading Claims and Flat-Out Lies
In perilous times, facts, expertise, and truth are indispensable. President Trump’s flagrant disregard for the truth and his self-aggrandizing exaggerations, specious misstatements, and bald-faced lies have been rigorously documented and debunked since the first day of his presidency by The Washington Post’s Fact Checker staff.Donald Trump and His ...
Ron Fournier
2020-05-23T17:16:35.000Z
Grace from the Rubble
Two Fathers' Road to Reconciliation after the Oklahoma City Bombing
Jeanne Bishop's powerful new book tells the heart-stirring story of how the father of a young woman killed in the Oklahoma City bombing and the father of her killer, Timothy McVeigh, forged an unlikely friendship and found forgiveness. Grace from the Rubble is the remarkable journey of two men who, though destined to be enemies, forged an unexpecte...
Ron Fournier
2020-04-19T22:08:30.000Z
Everybody Lies
Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are
Foreword by Steven PinkerBlending the informed analysis of The Signal and the Noise with the instructive iconoclasm of Think Like a Freak, a fascinating, illuminating, and witty look at what the vast amounts of information now instantly available to us reveals about ourselves and our worldprovided we ask the right questions.By the end of an average...
Ron Fournier
2020-01-04T16:22:07.000Z