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Toby Marotta

**From LibraryThing:** A groundbreaking book about a groundbreaking college class. Students all over America, including from Harvard, were graduating into the "Summer of Love" when everything began to change. I'm proud to have worked as Toby Marotta's assistant on this book, editing his extensive taped interviews and conversations with his Harvard classmates into literate text. The book was done in the late 70s, so ten years after graduation. The course of cultural transformation -- especially for gay men -- is apparent in that decade. This book is a wonderful statement about the maturation of gay consciousness in the period after Stonewall. And, of course, it was iconoclastic when it first came out: Who knew there were homosexuals at Harvard? This book helped wake up American culture (and Harvard culture) to the reality of gay consciousness and challenged stereotypes. And the guys Toby interviewed were really appealing men. It's neat to see into their lives.

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Frederick Whittaker

With no marked advantages of education or wealth to command his situation, Custer yet passed through a career so brilliant that his deeds are household words, his "Last Stand" against Sioux and Cheyenne warriors at Little Big Horn an enduring legend in American history. Truth and sincerity, honor and bravery, tenderness and sympathy, unassuming piety and temperance were the mainspring of Major General Custer, the man. Note: DSI, the publisher of this e-book, is granting readers the right to print excerpts of this book as well as the right to lend/give this e-book to other Glassbook Plus Reader users. Printing: Users can print up to 100 e-book pages every seven days. Students and researchers will find this feature especially useful. To print, click on the menu button in the Glassbook Reader and select the print option. Lending/Giving: We currently have two ways to lend or give a book: you can beam it to a computer if both have infrared ports, or you can send it to a computer on your network. To lend a book to someone else, go to the Library, click a book. Click the Menu button and then click Lend/Give to display the Lend/Give dialog box. Choose a loan period or click Give. To send the book over an infrared connection, click Beam. To send the book to a computer on the network, enter the computer name in the Send To box and click Send. You can either lend the book or give it away. Like a paper book, there is only ever one working copy. Once the lending period expires, you get your rights back and you can re-read the book or lend it again. Of course, if you give it away, it's gone for good (unless the recipient gives it back).

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Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

A book about Harrison's spiritual journey from the Jehovah's Witness organization to Catholicism. Great critical source for people writing papers about Jehovah's Witnesses, or simply looking to understand what Jehovah's Witnesses teach and why it's wrong.

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Larry Mantle

"Larry Mantle has hosted the daily radio show This is AirTalk on KPCC in Pasadena since 1985. He celebrates his twentieth anniversary on the airwaves with an introductory memoir and conversations with Steve Allen, Milton Berle, Jimmy Carter, Divine, George Foreman, Anne Garrels, Frank Gehry, Chuck Jones, Steve Martin, John McCain, Walter Mosley, Carl Reiner, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Sting, Jack Welch and others. Foreword by Patt Morrison"--Provided by publisher.