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How I Write: Mike Mullane

Since when does a former space-shuttle astronaut show a natural narrative voice and poetically capture the beauty of outer space? And since when does an astronaut candidly admit the fears he felt on the launch pad? For readers of his memoir, Riding Rockets, Mike Mullane shows a lot of the right stuff ? literarily speaking. "He?s a natural when it comes to voice and narrative," says Brant Rumble, his editor at Scribner's....(read more)

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Patty's Got a Gun: Patricia Hearst in 1970s America The Atlantic Monthly
Patty's Got a Gun: Patricia Hearst in 1970s America by William Graebner
U.S. vs. Them: How a Half Century of Conservatism Has Underminded America's Security New York Review of Books
U.S. vs. Them: How a Half Century of Conservatism Has Underminded America's Security by J. Peter Scoblic
Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America The Nation
Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America by Rick Perlstein
X Films: True Confessions of a Radical Filmmaker Powells.com
X Films: True Confessions of a Radical Filmmaker by Alex Cox
The Sister Washington Post Book World
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