Get Off Your Knees: A Story of Faith, Courage, and Determination
John Robinson was born a congenital amputee and stands 3 foot 8 inches tall as an adult. His success did not come easily. From learning to dress himself after going away to college at SU, to making new friends and feeling accepted, he struggled to come to terms with his disability and make a life on his own.
Get Off Your Knees is a touching story for anyone who feels the need for inspiration.
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God and the Editor: My Search for Meaning at the New York Times
"This is the best, truest, most revealing insider’s story ever published about life at the New York Times during the golden age of print journalism. . . . Phelps was in the thick of it all and tells it with the care and precision of a great editor"
—Russell Baker, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of Growing Up
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Acts of Conscience: World War II, Mental Institutions, and Religious Objectors
In the mid- to late 1940s, a group of young men rattled the psychiatric establishment by beaming a public spotlight on the squalid conditions and brutality in our nation’s mental hospitals and training schools for people with psychiatric and intellectual disabilities. Bringing the abuses to the attention of newspapers and magazines across the country, they led a reform effort to change public attitudes and to improve the training and status of institutional staff. |
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Governors Island: The Jewel of New York Harbor
From its early days as the site of a British fort in the 1700s, to its longstanding role as a station for the U.S. Army and the Coast Guard, to its function as a venue for political receptions and parties, the island has hosted a dazzling parade of the brave and the dignified. But Governors Island encompasses more than military history; it offers a vivid reflection of historic events in New York City and the world at large.
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