This is not a history of Worcester; it does not pretend to be. It is a collection of memories and stories of Worcester from the years immediately after WWII up to the present, years during which accelerating change has swept away much of historic New England's cities and towns. It is a book about things that Worcester people, wherever they may live, today, remember. The serious: those lost in WWII, the Worcester Tornado, the Blizzard of 1978, loved ones at Worcester State Hospital. The traditional: Thanksgiving, a Polish wedding, the downtown stores, delights of kids on "snow days." The...

A chance to live again, love, and fight back--if Caroline Brecher's spirit can survive... A man who loves her, but knows the battle is not only for justice but for the woman she had been... "Caroline Brecher is every woman--and human being--whose courage and will to live and love again are tested when the unimaginable--and unendurable--strikes out of nowhere." To Caroline Brecher, her weekend house in fashionable East Hampton is a symbol of success and the reward of hard work. Arriving on a perfect August afternoon, she doesn't care that she has no social plans, no date, no visitors. But...

America 1972. Bombs have been going off: in university labs, police headquarters, the U.S. Capital, the Pentagon. In California, shootouts with police are weekly. And the Black Liberation Army is about to join with the Weather Underground in a spree of hold-ups to fund the coming revolution. Then, in downtown Boston, the killing goes wholesale when a dynamite bomb shatters the Prudential Center. Martin Trepan of TASK has to find the bombers and wonders if the disappearances of college professors and students is part of puzzle. The beautiful, dangerous Mi-Sun Kane thinks so--and is determined...

Please note: this title is so expensive because all photographs are in full color. The same book with black and white photos is MUCH cheaper. And, if you buy that book, you get the eBook for free, which includes all photographs in full color. This is not a history of Worcester; it does not pretend to be. It is a collection of memories and stories of Worcester from the years immediately after WWII up to the present, years during which accelerating change has swept away much of historic New England's cities and towns. It is a book about things that Worcester people, wherever they may live,...

He was history's luckiest puppy. Abandoned in a German army kennel in the war-torn France of World War I. The town flattened by artillery fire. Only one-week old and still blind, starving with brothers and sisters that a desperate mother had no milk to feed. The German Shepherd puppy's chances of survival should have been zero. Then, an American G.I., on reconnaissance far head of this own unit, happened along. And so the Hollywood--and American--legend began that never faded. Starring in more than two-dozen films, as much a celebrity as any actor, he received the most votes for "best actor"...

When she came out, he started to rise. "No," she said. "Stay. This is something I have to do. It has tormented me for nine years. I can't pretend it doesn't exist." She came and stood before him, only a dozen feet away, and gazed at him. She had removed her shoes and stockings. Looking at him, she reached back and unzipped the dress. She shrugged it off her shoulders. Bell saw that she had removed her brassiere. Under the dress, she was naked. She slowly pulled down the dress, pausing when she had exposed her breasts. "There are these," she said, her gaze never wavering from his. He nodded....

How, then, has the decline in economic freedom-in recent years a remorseless degradation of individual liberty-played out day to day in corporations and small businesses, in Washington, DC, and city hall, on Wall Street and in the courts? What are the grim mechanics in America today of encroaching government control and the inevitable consequence of a shrinking of the domain of innovating, choosing, acting economic man? What specifically are we losing that we care about-or should care about? Those are the questions answered in these 18 essays, which range from a demonstration that government...

On election eve, the TV anchors and panelists awaited the Clinton victory. The polls reliably showed that in two days she had sprung back from the Comey bombshell to leadership; all would be well. They had fashioned, out of postmodernism's premises, a narrative of the politically correct first female candidate for President, bringing us together, and her opponent, the billionaire racist, misogynist, xenophobic, cripple-teasing bigot and "divider." And they had believed this story themselves, as we believe, however improbably, what confirms our deepest assumptions, and focused on the part of...