Edward Baltram is overwhelmed with guilt. His nasty little prank has gone horribly wrong: He has fed his closest friend a sandwich laced with a hallucinogenic drug and the young man has fallen out of a window to his death. Edward searches for redemption through a reunion with his famous father, the reclusive painter Jesse Baltram. Funny and compelling, The Good Apprentice is at once a supremely sophisticated entertainment and an inquiry...

Looks at American political and military activities and operations in Vietnam from the arrival of advisors during the 1960s through the escalation of the war, and the final evacuation of troops in 1975.

One of the best-known female disco artists from the '70s Gloria Gaynor's greatest hits are gathered in this collection including the enormously successful '79 hit, I Will Survive.

Discusses the fashions, fads, politics, advances in medicine and technology, people, and world issues that made the 1940s a unique time in American and world history.