This volume puts a new twist on the textbook definition of a leader as a person who achieves results through others. It emphasizes that leaders must be of service to others. It’s another win for author Blanchard, a well-known speaker,... Read More

An armored cavalry platoon leader in Vietnam, the author has spent much of the thirty-five years since then coming to terms with what the war meant to him emotionally, and what its cultural and historical legacy has been for America.... Read More

The Peace Corps, Head Start, Job Corps, VISTA, and the Special Olympics were some of the enduring New Frontier and Great Society legacies of the Kennedy and Johnson presidencies, 1960-1968. All of these public service programs were led... Read More

Was Theodora a ruthless Byzantine empress who plotted and schemed her way onto the throne? Or antiquity’s own feminist who merits a place in the annals of history’s extraordinary women? The author brings to life a female legend upon... Read More

Young Tillie Pierce and a friend who wandered near the battlefield after the first day of fighting at Gettysburg were horrified at the sight. They were so overcome by the sad and awful spectacle that they hastened back to the house,... Read More

By the early 1940s, studio executives making B Westerns featuring entertainer Roy Rogers realized that they needed to jazz up their movies with a little romance. “Half of the viewers going to the movies were females and they wanted to... Read More

A legendary Samurai was once challenged to a fight to the death by a brash ronin, or masterless Samurai. The elder man tried to dissuade the younger from persisting, saying that he had so much to live for, to no avail. The ronin,... Read More

The typical picture of menopause is a woman crying in front of the freezer in the middle of the night. She’s hot, tired, cranky, and bloated. The author, a women’s health care specialist, thinks she’s been having perimenopausal... Read More