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Heart Like Water: Surviving Katrina and Life in its Disaster Zone
"Hundreds of oral histories, interviews, and anecdotes lace through the author's own narrative of the storm and its ten week aftermath." Clark lived in New Orleans when Katrina hit and did not evacuate, this is his memoir.
Tags: Hurricane Katrina; natural disasters; memoir; New Orleans; wetland
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Barack Obama's Family Tree
Presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama's heritage has played a key part in his public persona. In his own memoir, "Dreams From My Father," Obama touches on his family history but Sun-Times reporter Scott Fornek went into deeper detail than any other published documentation about the candidate. Without aid from Obama or his staff, Fornek uncovered past dealings that had never been brought to the public's attention.
Tags: President; black; family tree; relative;
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Navahoax
Fleischer's investigation into the memoirs of Nasdijj, a writer who claims to be Native American. In his award winning memoirs, Nasdijj claims to be of Navajo descent and to have lived a life of tremendous poverty and suffering. In reality Nasdijj is Tim Barrus, a middle class white man with a history as a pornographer. His falsified story borrows heavily from authentic Native American writers.
Tags: Native Americans; identity fraud; memoirs; Navajo; fabrications; internet investigation;
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Finding Manana: A Memoir of a Cuban Exodus
Ojito relates her story of growing up in Cuba in the 1960's-70's, under Fidel Castro's government, and leaving Cuba in the 1980 Mariel boatlift when she was 16. She tells how the role of ordinary people in the boatlift managed to change the history of Cuba, South Florida and the U.S., as, she claims, President Carter partly lost the reelection because of the boatlift. She tells how although the White House attempted to deter the boatlift, Cubans came together to flee Cuba and arrive in Key West.
Tags: Fidel Castro; Cuba; Carter; Mariel; White House; Communist; Cold War; memoir
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Terrorist Hunter
This story is the memoir of a counter - terrorism expert. She has penetrated front groups of anti - American terrorist organizations operating in America. The book chronicled her escape from Iraq to Israel, her involvement in US intelligence gathering and her infiltration of various terrorist organizations.
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