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First published in 2003, City on Fire is a gripping, intimate account of the explosions of two ships loaded with ammonium nitrate fertilizer that demolished Texas City, Texas, in April 1947, in one of the most catastrophic disasters in American history.

The rich, complex lives of African Americans in Texas were often neglected by the mainstream media, which historically seldom ventured into Houston's Fourth Ward, San Antonio's East Side, South Dallas, or the black neighborhoods in smaller cities. When Bill Minutaglio began writing for Texas newspapers in the 1970s, few large publications had more than a token number of African American journalists, and they barely acknowledged the things of lasting importance to the African American community. Though hardly the most likely reporter--as a white, Italian American transplant from New York...

Desafiando las expectativas, estadísticas y estereotipos, Alberto Gonzales se ha convertido en uno de los hombres más poderosos de América. Gonzales es una figura clave en la administración de Bush, mantiene puntos de vista espinosos y posiciones muy influyentes acerca de los asuntos que polarizan a la nación. Su apoyo indiscutible a George W. Bush, cuya presidencia va más allá de lo “controversial, ” es un estudio fascinante en la política de la ambición.

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