David Bruce

This is a short, quick, and easy read.Some Sample Anecdotes: - Norman Mailer was an activist, among his many other activities. During the Cold War, he was arrested in New York for civil disobedience...

Some Sample Anecdotes: - Simon and Schuster once published a children's book titled Dr. Dan the Bandage Man. As a publicity gimmick, they decided to include a half-dozen band-aids in each book, so...

This is a short, quick, and easy read.Some Sample Anecdotes: - While studying theater at UCLA, Carol Burnett took a course in acting, where she prepared to recite a speech in front of her class...

This is a short, quick, and easy read. - While on tour, Merce Cunningham and his dance troupe stopped at the Brownsville Eat-All-You-Want Restaurant, where they wolfed down food in huge quantities...

This is a short, quick, and easy read.Some Sample Anecdotes: - John Steinbeck always toasted Ava Gardner whenever he began to drink. Here's the story: While Mr. Steinbeck was in Hollywood working as...

This is a short, quick, and easy read.Some sample anecdotes: - In 1912, Margaret Higgins Sanger wrote about such topics as conception and sexually transmitted diseases in a series of articles titled...

This is a short, quick, and easy read.Some Sample Anecdotes: - Edsel Ford of the famous Ford family had the ability to recognize good advertising, and he had the ability to make up his mind quickly...

Most of these anecdotes are funny, but some are touching rather than humorousSome samples: 1) When major-league baseball star Barry Bonds was still attending classes and playing games at Arizona...

Some samples: 1) In 1949, journalist James Morris married Elizabeth Tuckniss. Later, Mr. Morris got a sex change and became Jan Morris. Because of the sex change, the married couple was forced to...

This is a short, quick, and easy read.Some samples: 1) Just after the end of World War II, while country comedian Archie Campbell was still an enlisted man in the United States Navy, he hadn't seen...

This book contains 250 anecdotes about movies, including this one: Late in Peter Lorre's career, after he had begun to make bad films, a fan wrote him, "I would love to be tortured by you." Mr. Lorre...

This is a short, quick, and easy read.Samples: - Songwriter Steve Earle also occasionally acts. To prepare for a role as a recovering junkie in the HBO TV series The Wire, he allowed his hair to grow...

Some Samples: - Rolling Stones Keith Richard and Ron Wood attended a party hosted by Dudley Moore and Peter Cook at the Cobden Working Men's Club in London. The party was upstairs, over a bar, and so...

This is a short, quick, and easy read.Some Sample Anecdotes: - During a long-distance telephone call, choreographer Agnes de Mille told her soldier husband, Walter Prude, that she was pregnant:...

Note: The relationships in this book are of several kinds, not just of Significant Others.- When African-American poet Nikki Giovanni was a teenager in Knoxville, Tennessee, people gathered together...

This is a short, quick, and easy read.Some Sample Anecdotes: - Jackie Robinson, the African American who integrated modern major-league baseball with the Brooklyn Dodgers, was an activist long before...

This is a short, quick, and easy read.Samo Sample Anecdotes: - In 1966, women were not allowed to run in the Boston Marathon. Fortunately, an "uppity" woman did not let that stop her. Roberta Gibb...

This is a short, quick, and easy read.Most of these anecdotes are probably just OK, but there should be at least one or two that you will want to tell your friends.Anecdotes are retold in my own...

This is a short, quick, and easy read.Some Sample Anecdotes: - As a young actress just starting in show business, Eve Arden quickly learned not to be absent minded. She once finished a play's first...

Soem samples: 1) An impoverished cobbler once complained to R. Ezekiel that whenever he worked a little too long, continuing his work into the Sabbath, his neighbors reproached him. On the other...

Some samples: 1) Ohio State University football coach Woody Hayes spent a lot of time visiting ill children in Children's Hospital. One day, he got a telephone call from a woman he didn't know, but...

This is an easy-to-read retelling of THE HISTORY OF KING LEIR, a play by an anonymous author that was a source for William Shakespeare's KING LEAR. Do you know a language other than English? If you...

The doing of good deeds is important. As a free person, you can choose to live your life as a good person or as a bad person. To be a good person, do good deeds. To be a bad person, do bad deeds. If...

The doing of good deeds is important. As a free person, you can choose to live your life as a good person or as a bad person. To be a good person, do good deeds. To be a bad person, do bad deeds. If...

The doing of good deeds is important. As a free person, you can choose to live your life as a good person or as a bad person. To be a good person, do good deeds. To be a bad person, do bad deeds. If...

The doing of good deeds is important. As a free person, you can choose to live your life as a good person or as a bad person. To be a good person, do good deeds. To be a bad person, do bad deeds. If...

The doing of good deeds is important. As a free person, you can choose to live your life as a good person or as a bad person. To be a good person, do good deeds. To be a bad person, do bad deeds. If...

This is an easy-to-read retelling of THE MERRY DEVIL OF EDMONTON, a popular anonymous comedy of the Elizabethan era. At one time, William Shakespeare was believed to have written the play. in this...

Academy Awards- In 2008, Charlize Theron, 32 years old and an Oscar-winner as Best Actress in the movie Monster, and AnnaSophia Robb, 14 years old and the lead actress in the kids' movie Because of...

1) In September 2008, James Meeks, a Baptist minister and state senator, organized an impressive act of activism. He led a boycott of Chicago Public Schools by nearly 1,000 students and instead bused...