A Gospel of Shame: Children, Sexual Abuse, and the Catholic Church

The relentless crescendo of revelations of sexual abuse in the nation's Catholic churches has rocked the nation. Just how widespread is child sexual abuse by the Catholic clergy? And why hasn't the Catholic church done more to stop it?
In A Gospel of Shame, Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalists Elinor Burkett and Frank Bruni provide the answers to these questions and more. The answers, however, turn out to be infuriating and heartbreaking, difficult to accept but impossible to dismiss. The authors thoroughly document dozens of cases across the country and reveal how this heinous abuse of trust has been tacitly sanctioned by the Church's silence.

Bruni, Frank

Burkett, Elinor

Religion & Spirituality

Harper-perennial

The unlikely Odyssey of George W. Bush. 
 As the principal New York Times reporter assigned to cover George W. Bush's presidential campaign from its earliest stages – and then as a White House correspondent – Frank Bruni has spent as much time around Bush over the last two years as any other reporter.
 In Ambling Into History, Bruni paints the most thorough, balanced, eloquent and lively portrait yet of a man in many ways ill–suited to the office he sought and won, focusing on small moments that often escaped the news media's notice. From the author's initial introduction to Bush through a nutty election night and Bush's first months in office, Bruni captures the president's familiar and less familiar oddities and takes readers on an often funny, usually irreverent, journey into the strange, closed universe – or bubble – of campaign life.
 The result is an original take on the political process and a detailed study of George W. Bush as most people have never seen him.

Ambling into History: The Unlikely Odyssey of George W. Bush

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

In many ways George W. Bush did not seem built for the presidency or the paces necessary to win it. He was a laid-back good-time guy with little appetite and limited talent for formal oratory, someone who often projected affability more easily than authority. He was a homebody who seemed to prefer surroundings and situations that were utterly familiar to those that were risky and unpredictable. His interests could be narrow and his efforts to expand them only fitful.
But he got there, and after September 11, 2001, confronted a challenge more daunting than many of his predecessors had faced. In the wake of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Bush was left with the responsibility to lead Americans through a time of unusual anxiety and uncertainty, to inspire and reassure them. Could he do it?
In Ambling Into History, Frank Bruni, who covered Bush's presidential campaign and first eight months in the White House for the New York Times, mines the countless hours during which he observed and interacted with Bush to explore that question, and to present sides of Bush that readers have never encountered. He looks to small moments for big truths, going behind the scenes and offering fresh insights into Bush's oft-chronicled weaknesses, sometimes overlooked strengths, and his journey-alternately earnest and reluctant-from an innate levity to a newfound gravity.
Bruni also takes readers on his own trip through the strange maze of presidential politics, wryly chronicling life in the insular "bubble" of political reporting and its frequently dispiriting effect on the coverage that politicians get. It is a candid, eloquent, and illuminating adventure that shows why Newsweek called Bruni "probably the most influential" reporter on the Bush beat.

Ambling Into History: The Unlikely Odyssey of George W. Bush

Leaders & Notable People

Harper

The New York Times restaurant critic's heartbreaking and hilarious account of how he learned to love food just enough Frank Bruni was born round. Round as in stout, chubby, and always hungry. His relationship with eating was difficult and his struggle with it began early. When named the restaurant critic for The New York Times in 2004, he knew he would be performing one of the most watched tasks in the epicurean universe. And with food his friend and enemy both, his jitters focused primarily on whether he'd finally made some sense of that relationship. A captivating story of his unpredictable journalistic odyssey as well as his lifelong love-hate affair with food, Born Round will speak to everyone who's ever had to rein in an appetite to avoid letting out a waistband.

Born Round: A Story of Family, Food and a Ferocious Appetite

Professionals & Academics

Penguin Publishing Group

A memoir from the "New York Times" restaurant critic traces his unlikely path to his profession and offers an honest exploration of his lifelong struggle with food.

Born Round: The Secret History of a Full-time Eater

Penguin Audio

A documented report on the frequent occurrence of child sexual abuse within the Catholic Church draws on interviews with victims to examine how the Church hierarchy's silence on the issue intensifies the problem and discusses why priests molest children. Tour.

VIKING

History

Americas

Thorndike Pr

In tracing the highly unusual path he traveled to become the New York Times restaurant critic, Frank Bruni tells the captivating story of an unpredictable journalistic odyssey and provides an unflinching account of one person's tumultuous, often painful lifelong struggle with his weight. How does a committed eater embrace food without being undone by it? (Bestseller)

Born Round: The Secret History of a Full-Time Eater

Thorndike Press

The Age of Grievance

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Thorndike Press Large Print

From New York Times columnist and bestselling author Frank Bruni comes a wise and moving memoir about aging, affliction, and optimism after partially losing his eyesight. One morning in late 2017, New York Times columnist Frank Bruni woke up with strangely blurred vision. He wondered at first if some goo or gunk had worked its way into his right eye. But this was no fleeting annoyance, no fixable inconvenience. Overnight, a rare stroke had cut off blood to one of his optic nerves, rendering him functionally blind in that eye--forever. And he soon learned from doctors that the same disorder could ravage his left eye, too. He could lose his sight altogether. In The Beauty of Dusk, Bruni hauntingly recounts his adjustment to this daunting reality, a medical and spiritual odyssey that involved not only reappraising his own priorities but also reaching out to, and gathering wisdom from, longtime friends and new acquaintances who had navigated their own traumas and afflictions. The result is a poignant, probing, and ultimately uplifting examination of the limits that all of us inevitably encounter, the lenses through which we choose to evaluate them and the tools we have for perseverance. Bruni's world blurred in one sense, as he experienced his first real inklings that the day isn't forever and that light inexorably fades, but sharpened in another. Confronting unexpected hardship, he felt more blessed than ever before. There was vision lost. There was also vision found.

The Beauty of Dusk: On Vision Lost and Found (Thorndike Press Large Print Biography and Memoir)

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A Gospel of Shame: Children, Sexual Abuse, and the Catholic Church

Ambling into History: The Unlikely Odyssey of George W. Bush

Ambling Into History: The Unlikely Odyssey of George W. Bush

Born Round: A Story of Family, Food and a Ferocious Appetite

Born Round: The Secret History of a Full-time Eater

A Gospel of Shame: Children, Sexual Abuse, and the Catholic Church

Ambling into History: The Unlikely Odyssey of George W. Bush

Born Round: The Secret History of a Full-Time Eater

The Age of Grievance

The Beauty of Dusk: On Vision Lost and Found (Thorndike Press Large Print Biography and Memoir)