Like other kids in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, Ejovi Nuwere grew up among thugs and drug dealers. When he was eleven, he helped form a gang; at twelve, he attempted suicide. In his large, extended family, one uncle was a career criminal, one a graduate student with his own computer. By the time Ejovi was fourteen, he was spending as much time on the computer as his uncle was. Within a year he was well on his way to a hacking career that would lead him to one of the most audacious and potentially dangerous computer break-ins of all time, secret until now. Before he finished high school he had created a hidden life in the hacker underground and an increasingly prominent career as a computer security consultant. At the age of twenty-two, he was a top security specialist for one of the world's largest financial houses. Hacker Cracker is at once the most candid revelation to date of the dark secrets of cyberspace and the simple, unaffected story of an inner-city child's triumph over shattering odds to achieve unparalleled success.

Hacker Cracker: A Journey from the Mean Streets of Brooklyn to the Frontiers of Cyberspace

Chanoff, David

Nuwere, Ejovi

Reference

Harper-perennial

Presents the startling, personal story a young ghetto kid from Brooklyn who became one of the world's foremost computer hackers and then, a security specialist for one of the world's top financial firms. 50,000 first printing.

Computers & Technology

William Morrow

"... the ultimate insider's account of the war from the South Vietnamese side, including the appalling story of how the American intervention actually happened." ―Washington Post
"This book gives Americans a rare opportunity―the chance to see the Vietnam experience through Vietnamese eyes. Few Vietnamese know their recent history as well as Bui Diem does. And none has told it better." ―Ambassador William Jorden
"... well-written and at times illuminating... " ―Library Journal
In the Jaws of History is the most important book written on the Vietnam War from the viewpoint of the South, from an author who was a senior official of the South Vietnamese government and later ambassador to the U.S.

In the Jaws of History: (Vietnam War Era Classics Series)

History

David Chanoff

Diem, Bui

Bui, Diem

Americas

Indiana University Press

Born Vito Farinola in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn in 1928, Vic worked as an usher at the fabled Paramount Theatre before realizing a dream by shooting to the top of the Billboard Chart in 1947 with his first hit “I Have But One Heart.” He was mentored by everyone from Perry Como to Tommy Dorsey. Frank Sinatra praised his voice and became a friend for life, giving him advice on singing and women. Damone had one of the most successful careers ever had by an American pop singer and one of the most glamorous and exciting lives of any guy who lived while the Ratpack reigned. • He was almost thrown out of the window of a New York City hotel by a mobster. • He dated Ava Gardner, who got him drunk for the first time. • He married glamorous Italian actress Ana Maria Pierangeli and later, Diahann Carroll. • He appeared at the Sands Hotel during the glory days of Vegas and once took a nude chorus girl into the steam room where the Ratpack was relaxing. In Singing Was the Easy Part, he talks frankly about his bankruptcy, his many marriages and his belief in God. It’s a warm, funny, and inspiring memoir from one of America’s greatest pop singers.

Singing Was the Easy Part

Damone, Vic

Humor & Entertainment

St.Martin's Press

Here is the story of the "other side" of the Vietnam War--of the Vietcong and North Vietnamese--which has been largely untold until now. In this remarkable piece of oral history, the story emerges of the ordinary people of both North and South Vietnam, of the Vietcong guerrilla fighters and terrorists, North Vietnamese soldiers and cadres, monks, opposition leaders, propaganda chiefs and village secretaries. Vietnam: A Portrait of its People at War provides an account of dedication and heroism at all levels and also of the brutality and trauma faced by a people in the grip of revolution and war.

Portrait of the Enemy

Literature & Fiction

Random House]

A former South Vietnamese official offers an account of his three-decade struggle to establish a democracy in his country and reveals the relationship between America and its small allies

In the Jaws of History

Asia

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

Like other kids in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, Ejovi Nuwere grew up among thugs and drug dealers. When he was eleven, he helped form a gang; at twelve, he attempted suicide. In his large, extended family, one uncle was a career criminal, one a graduate student with his own computer. By the time Ejovi was fourteen, he was spending as much time on the computer as his uncle was. Within a year he was well on his way to a hacking career that would lead him to one of the most audacious and potentially dangerous computer break-ins of all time, secret until now. Before he finished high school he had created a hidden life in the hacker underground and an increasingly prominent career as a computer security consultant. At the age of twenty-two, he was a top security specialist for one of the world's largest financial houses. Hacker Cracker is at once the most candid revelation to date of the dark secrets of cyberspace and the simple, unaffected story of an inner-city child's triumph over shattering odds to achieve unparalleled success.

Hacker Cracker

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Tandem Library

The author recounts his arrest and two-year imprisonment without trial by the Vietnamese government and explains how he survived

The Vietnamese Gulag (English and French Edition)

Van Toai, Doan

Simon&Schuster

A CIA leader in Vietnam recalls his experiences

Slow Burn: The Rise and Bitter Fall of American Intelligence in Vietnam

Deforest, Orrin

The story of an anthropologist who lived for twelve years among the fierce Yanomama Indians, and fell in love with a native woman

Into the Heart: One Man's Pursuit of Love and Knowledge Among the Yanomama

Politics & Social Sciences

Good, Kenneth

Social Sciences

Touchstone Books

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