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Pullman porters held the worst job on the train and the best in the black community for the 100 years they worked on George Pullman's sleeping cars. They launched the first successful black trade union and helped fuel with civil rights movement. Yet as Rising from the Rails shows, porters' most lasting legacy was giving birth to children and grandchildren who run America's cities and states, sit on corporate and editorial boards, number among this country's leading professors, doctors and lawyers, and form the core of today's African-American middle class.

Home Lands tells the stories of seven far-flung Jewish communities from Boston to Buenos Aires, Dusseldorf to Dnepropetrovsk deep in the Ukraine. Together they make up a renewed diaspora. It is a world of reawakening, where children are leading parents and grandparents back to their culture and faith. This new Jewish diaspora, Home Lands makes clear, is no mere curiosity of history, but rather the reality of today and tomorrow.

Edward L. Bernays sold American women on smoking cigarettes. He made Ivory the all-American soap and helped make Calvin Coolidge president. This nephew of Sigmund Freud borrowed his uncle's ideas on why people behave as they do, then used them to make people behave the ways his clients wanted. In the process, Father of Spin tells us, Bernays helped shape America's commercial choices and define our political discourse.

Shock is two stories in one. The first half is Kitty Dukakis' 20-year battle against depression, along with alcohol and drug addictions. She tried every medication and treatment available, but it was not until she got electroconvulsive therapy five years ago that she could reclaim her life. In the other half of the book, Larry Tye looks at the science behind ECT and its dramatic yet subterranean comeback. Shock shows how ECT offers a better chance of overcoming depression and other disabling mental illnesses than the best antidepressant or therapy, but it also talks about memory loss and other potential risks.