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When History Is Personal
When History Is Personal contains the stories of twenty-five moments in Mimi Schwartz’s life, each heightened by its connection to historical, political, and social issues. These essays look both inward and outward so that these individualized tales tell a larger story—of assimilation, the women’s m... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Good Neighbors, Bad Times Revisited: New Echoes of My Father's German Village
Mimi Schwartz&’s father was born Jewish in a tiny German village thirty years before the advent of Hitler when, as he&’d tell her, &“We all got along.&” In her original memoir, Good Neighbors, Bad Times, Schwartz explored how human decency fared among Christian and Jewish neighbors before, during, a... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Ticker: The Quest to Create an Artificial Heart
by Mimi SwartzIt wasn’t supposed to be this hard. If America could send a man to the moon, shouldn’t the best surgeons in the world be able to build an artificial heart? In Ticker, Texas Monthly executive editor and two time National Magazine Award winner Mimi Swartz shows just how complex and difficult it can be... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Power Failure: The Inside Story Of The Collapse Of Enron
"They're still trying to hide the weenie," thought Sherron Watkins as she read a newspaper clipping about Enron two weeks before Christmas, 2001. . . It quoted [CFO] Jeff McMahon addressing the company's creditors and cautioning them against a rash judgment. "Don't assume that there is a smoking... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2003 -
Widows' Words: Women Write on the Experience of Grief, the First Year, the Long Haul, and Everything in Between
by Alice Goode-Elman • Kelli Dunham • Penelope Dugan • Melanie K Finney • Ellen Schrecker • Raquel Ramkhelawan • Maxine Marshall • Lauren Vanett • Alice Derry • Michele Neff Hernandez • Elisa Clark Wadham • Deborah E Kaplan • P. C. Moorehead • Mimi Schwartz • Anne Bernays • Edie Butler • Debby Mayer • Sonia Jaffe Robbins • Barbara Marwell • Maggie Madagame • Roni Sherman Ramos • Doris Friedensohn • Nancy H Womack • Joan Michelson • Tracy Milcendeau • Merle Froschl • Andrea Hirshman • Molly A McEneny • Heather Slawecki • Kathleen Fordyce • Patricia Life • Nancy Shamban • Susanne Braham • Alice Radosh • Parvin Hajizadeh • Jean Y Leung • Joan Gussow • Kathryn Temple • Carrie L West • Lise Menn • Christine Silverstein • Tara SabharwalBecoming a widow is one of the most traumatic life events that a woman can experience. Yet, as this remarkable new collection reveals, each woman responds to that trauma differently. Here, forty-three widows tell their stories, in their own words. Some were widowed young, while others were married... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Gray Love: Stories About Dating and New Relationships After 60
by Sarah Dunn • Natasha Josefowitz • Erica Manfred • Jonathan Ned Katz • David Levy • Dustin Beall Smith • Paul Lauter • Barbara Abercrombie • Irvin Peckham • Susan Ostrov Weisser • Amy Rogers • Phyllis Carito • Mimi Schwartz • Doris Friedensohn • Nan Bauer-Maglin • Daniel E. Hood • Alice F. Freed • Cynthia McVay • Neil Stein • Laura Broadwell • Stephanie M. Brown • Elizabeth Locke • Candida B. Korman • Margie Kaplan • Hedva Lewittes • Rett Zabriskie • William Wiesner • Phyllis Bogen • Judith Ugelow Blak • Linda Wright Moore • Jean Y. Leung • Jan Jacobson • Stephanie Speer • Sandi Goldie • Jim Bronson • Vincent Valenti • Stacey Parkins Millett • Eugene Roth • Isabel Hill • Susan O’Malley • Susan Bickley • Bonnie Fails • Angela Page • Tierl Thompson • Idris WaltersGray Love narrates stories about the most common themes – searching for and (perhaps) finding love. Forty-five men and women between ages 60 and 94 from diverse backgrounds talk about dating, starting or ending a relationship, embracing life alone or enjoying a partnered one. The longing for connect... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2023