W. Bennett, Author, William J. Bennett, Author Simon & Schuster $12.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-689-81240-8
its own reward? A slipcovered, paperback set of four stories from the PBS animated series Adventures from the Book of Virtues, based in turn on William J. Bennett's The Book of Virtues, extols four different virtues. Each title is adapted by Shelagh
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William J. Bennett, Author . Doubleday $22.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-385-49915-6
Pointing to contemporary attitudes on divorce, homosexuality, children born out of wedlock, fatherlessness and cohabitation as challenges to the stability of traditional marriage, bestselling author and former secretary of education Bennett (The...
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William J. Bennett, Author . Doubleday $19.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-385-50680-9
National morals arbiter Bennett takes America's reaction to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and uses it as a platform to discuss a half dozen of the major social and political issues—including the role of pacifism, patriotism, "Islamoph
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William J. Bennett, Author . Nelson Current $29.99 (573p) ISBN 978-1-59555-055-2
Bennett, a secretary of education under President Reagan and author of The Book of Virtues
, offers a new, improved history of America, one, he says, that will respark hope and a "conviction about American greatness and purpose" in readers....
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William J. Bennett, Author Simon & Schuster $35 (832p) ISBN 978-0-684-80313-5
Like Bennett's bestselling Book of Virtues, this volume gathers hundreds of stories, poems and essays that defend or illustrate virtue and family values. Quoting Flannery O'Connor, Bennett states the book's purpose: ``You have to push as hard as the
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William J. Bennett, Author Nelson Current $29.99 (592p) ISBN 978-1-59555-057-6
The second volume of Bennett's overview of U.S. history begins with the events leading up to WWI, tracing the progress of the U.S. through the end of Reagan's presidency. Bennett (The Book of Virtues) has a long history of government service-he was...
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William J. Bennett, Author Simon & Schuster $19.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-67062-7
Secretary of Education since 1985, Bennett has been a visible and vocal advocate of school reform, urging a return to basics and mastery of the classics. In this collections of addresses delivered during his tenure, he focuses on `` what works in...
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William J. Bennett, Author, John P. Walters, With, John J. Dilulio, Jr., With Simon & Schuster $23.5 (271p) ISBN 978-0-684-83225-8
The authors bring vast amounts of varied expertise to the problems of crime and drugs in America. Bennett (The Moral Compass) was head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy in the Bush administration; DiIulio is a professor of politics and...
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William J. Bennett, Author, William J. Bennett, Editor, Michael Hague, Illustrator Doubleday Books for Young Readers $19.95 (112p) ISBN 978-0-385-74624-3
William Bennett (The Book of Virtues) brings together stories, poems, biographies and more in The Children's Book of Home and Family, illus. by Michael Hague. Among the offerings: ""The Legend of the Hummingbird"" a South American story about the
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William J. Bennett, Author, John T. E. Cribb, Jr., Joint Author, Chester E. Finn, Jr., Joint Author The Free Press $30 (688p) ISBN 978-0-684-83349-1
Former U.S. Secretary of Education Bennett (The Book of Virtues) and his colleagues (Finn, author of We Must Take Charge; Cribb, formerly of the U.S. Department of Education) offer American parents an impassioned and straight-shooting reference for...
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