Ron Powers, Author . St. Martin's $25.95 (316p) ISBN 978-0-312-26240-2
Powers, Pulitzer-winning columnist and coauthor of Flags of Our Fathers, weaves together three eras of Hannibal, Mo.'s history—Mark Twain's early 19th century, his own 1940s and '50s and the 1990s lives of two duos of teen killers&
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Ron Powers, Author . Free Press $35 (722p) ISBN 978-0-7432-4899-0
After dozens of biographies of Twain (1835–1910), one can fairly ask, "Why another?" But Powers, who wrote about Twain's Missouri childhood in Dangerous Water: A Biography of the Boy Who Became Mark Twain
, early on promises "in
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Ron Powers, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $24.95 (382p) ISBN 978-0-15-111251-7
Powers, the first TV critic to be awarded a Pulitzer Prize, here offers a collection of his GQ columns, 1984-1990. The pieces reveal an articulate, civilized reviewer who is profoundly disturbed by certain trends in televisionland. His targets...
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Ron Powers, Author Penguin Books $7.95 (313p) ISBN 978-0-14-010409-7
In 1984, as plans for the Mark Twain sesquicentennial were being formed, CBS News commentator Powers returned to his hometown of Hannibal, Mo., and here lovingly compares contemporary Hannibal with the Hannibal of his boyhood and of Mark Twain's...
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Ron Powers, Author Anchor Books $12 (317p) ISBN 978-0-385-42424-0
Pulitzer Prize-winning TV critic Powers's vital and disturbing book compares and contrasts Cairo, Ill., and Kent, Conn. (Sept.)
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Ron Powers, Author University Press of New England $25 (269p) ISBN 978-0-87451-690-6
This collection of lectures, fiction excerpts and criticism by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Powers has as its theme the author's faith in the redemptive power of the written word and his parallel belief that exploitative broadcast media are...
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Ron Powers, Author Basic Books $24 (328p) ISBN 978-0-465-07670-3
""The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow,"" opined Samuel Clemens (aka Mark Twain). Here, Powers (The Cruel Radiance) follows Twain's genius to its source, illuminating both the sorrow and the exhilaration of a boyhood that provided a...
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Ron Powers. Hachette, $28 (342p) ISBN 978-0-316-34117-2
This resounding rebuke to scornful attitudes toward the mentally ill takes its title from a notably insensitive 2010 email exchange between high-level staffers of Scott Walker during his run for Wisconsin governor. Using that moment as a touchstone...
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Ron Powers, Author, R. Powers, Author Anchor Books $13 (372p) ISBN 978-0-385-41821-8
This collection of TV critic Powers's GQ columns since 1984 targets children's programs apparently calculated to appeal to future consumers; shallow news broadcasts; the unending procession of talk-show celebrities. ``The pieces reveal an articulate,
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Ron Powers, Author, Ron Powers, Read by , read by the author. Simon and Schuster Audio $39.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7435-4706-2
Many readers of Powers's biography of Mark Twain noted the historian's remarkable sensitivity to the use of rhetoric, dialect and drama in Twain's work. As the audio's narrator, Powers proves he intuitively understands Twain's...
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Ron Powers, Author, John Baldwin, Author Crown Publishing Group (NY) $25.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-307-23655-5
Thriller writer Baldwin (The Eleventh Plague et al.) joins forces with the prolific Powers (coauthor ofFlags of Our Fathers et al.) to come up with a fast-reading Civil War true adventure saga centered a on young CSA navy lieutenant. The 24-year-ol
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Ron Powers, Author, David Rosenthal, Editor Random House (NY) $22 (317p) ISBN 978-0-394-57034-1
In a vital and disturbing book, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Powers ( White Town Drowsing ) contrasts the changes in the characters of two towns: Cairo, Ill., which he visited for this study, and Kent, Conn., where he had a home until recently,...
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