BUSINESS NOT AS USUAL,How to Win Managing a Company through Hard and Easy Times by Hugh Aaron - Concrete and powerful essays on how to run a business, based on experience, not theory. This book is being used in business school classrooms; some chapters have been copied entirely into other texts. Eight of its 68 sub-chapters were published in the Manager's Journal column of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. Some comments from readers and reviewers: "knocking my socks off, a jewel," "A delightful book, I like its direct and refreshing style, as well as the validity of his examples and the honesty of his reactions." "an engaging business memoir," "candid and wise," "refreshingly unacademic, so effective as a tutorial manual for running businesses today." Read more about this book 
GO WEST OLD MAN,A Father's Journey across America with His Son by Max Barnet - An excruciatingly honest journal. Fathers, sons and mothers are responding emotionally to this true account. Once they begin, they're hooked. Reader and reviewer comments: "captivating and uplifting," "Its insights and the lessons it teaches should appeal to anyone with a longing for the reflections and refuge of the road." "Outlines the struggles and joys of the relationship between child and parent and speaks to everyone of us." "The real journey is across uncharted feelings between Harry and Danny." "Continues in the great American literary tradition of philosophical travelogues." "A satisfying, readable trip, written from the heart." Read more about this book 
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WAR,A Young Man's Discovery of the World by Hugh Aaron - Almost 1,000 WWII letters written home by a young Seabee, taking the reader from the first day at boot camp to the day he returns from the Southwest Pacific. Together they are a character study of a young man coming of age. Written on the scene, they are also a window on the times. Readers and reviewers describe this book as "palpably real," "a remarkable history," "a commitment," "a portrait of a complex and amazing young man." Includes sixteen pages of photographs and fifty-nine pages of notes on events and personalities of the era. Read more about this book 
Gringo,THE MAKING OF A REBEL by Emil Willimetz - A well written memoir of an unconventional life, this book offers both general readers and scholars a journey behind the lines of the Great Depression, combat in Normandy and northern Germany, and early civil rights and labor organizing in the South. Readers and reviewers say: "You will be fully immersed in his richly detailed stories", "I know I will read Gringo again, rediscovering paragraph by paragraph the story of this modest, delightfully stubborn, uncannily familiar - rebel." "Willimetz autobiography is rather a rough diamond." "a sensitive and candid autobiography," "Willimetz's personality shines on every page." Read more about this book 
FILMS IN REVIEW,(From 1959 & 1960) My Meteoric Rise and Fall as a Film Critic by Hugh Aaron - Daring and irreverent reviews written when the author was young. Published for nearly thirteen months in a local weekly newspaper, they ceased being published due to an astounding event explained in the Afterward. This collection of twenty-seven reviews exists for the sole purpose of giving the reader delight. They contain a refreshing intimacy. One has the feeling that the reader is ever present in the reviewer's mind. A partial list of reviews: The 400 Blows, Room at the Top, South Pacific, The Mouse that Roared, The Nun's Story, On the Beach, Grand Illusion. Read more about this book |