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Kate Fennigate was a manager, even as a young child; she influenced her mother, her schoolmates, and, particularly, her father. Because of her good manners, however, Kate was never offensive in her desire to lead. Her father, who had showed great promise as a lawyer when he was young, had permitted both women and liquor to interfere with his career. Mrs. Fennigate had no great interest in life except eating, and Mr. Fennigate had no great interest...

"James Allison joined with Carl G. Fisher in 1904 to found Prest-O-Lite. This biography tracks Allison's involvement in the Indianapolis 500, which he cofounded with Fisher and two others, and his construction of the Liberty engine and the V1710. Allison created a legacy that still resonates today at the Indianapolis 500, Rolls-Royce, and Allison Transmission"-- Provided by publisher.

Through an examination of the lives of several Americans and leading public figures over the past three decades, Packer portrays a superpower in danger of coming apart at the seams, its elites no longer elite, its institutions no longer working, its ordinary people left to improvise their own schemes for success and salvation.

"Who am I to tell my story? And how can we grant ourselves permission to write the stories we're compelled to tell when we've been told we shouldn't? Without fail, almost every writer--new or experienced--has faced dire questions of permission and story ownership: there is something that they want to write about, that they need to write about. Yet: they can't. They have been warned not to. They might be paralyzed with shame, threatened with shunning,...

A biography of C.T. Studd, a wealthy Englishman who became famous for his missionary work in Central Africa.