Los generales de Dios 4: Los evangelistas de sanidad

Vincent Sheean, a groundbreaking American foreign correspondent and author, is known for reporting from Europe, North Africa, and Asia, writing news reports, articles, and books. A few books and articles have described Vincent Sheean’s life, and briefly discussed his major nonfiction books. However, no book-length study or article has closely examined his nonfiction books. 'Seeking to Understand the World: Literary Journalism of Vincent Sheean', textually analyzes his five nonfiction, journalistic books to examine them for characteristics of literary journalism. Spanning nearly the entirety ...

An oral history of four generations of Hispanic women in New Mexico. Twenty-one Hispanas recall life experiences spanning a period from the time when New Mexico was a Spanish-speaking territory until today. Themes include: the shift from a rural to an urban environment ; the struggle to preserve culture and traditions ; efforts to cope with discrimination ; changes in family relations ; the striving for education, job, and careers ; service to family and community ; dedication to social change.

During 1994's World Cup in the United States, Joe McGinniss develops a passion that changes his life forever, going against North America's historical lack of interest in soccer as a whole. He discovers the intense emotions brought on by the sport and Italy's "calcio," succumbing to Roberto Baggio's style, which impresses and fails spectacularly in equal parts during that particular World Cup. Soon after, now a full-blown soccer convert, McGinniss understands the achievements of an underdog team from Castel di Sangro, a town of fewer than 5,000 residents lost within the rural Abruzos of...

Se diría que sabemos todo (o casi todo) de Winston Churchill. Y, sin embargo, como en toda vida, siempre se nos escapa algo. Y es ahí, en esos resquicios dejados de lado por la historiografía oficial o crítica, donde entra el excepcional talento narrativo de Erik Larson. Circunscrito a un período muy concreto, de mayo de 1940 a mayo de 1941, el período más cruento del Blitz, este libro narra, casi como una novela, "cómo Churchill y su círculo sobrevivían cotidianamente: los pequeños episodios que revelan cómo se vivía de verdad bajo la tempestad de acero de Hitler. Ese fue el...