Fatal Subtraction

O'Donnell, Pierce

Doubleday Page & Company

An account of the lawsuit filed by columnist Art Buchwald when he failed to receive credit for the original story of the movie "Coming to America"

Business & Money

DOUBLEDAY

An account of the lawsuit filed by columnist Art Buchwald when he and his partner failed to receive credit for the original story of the movie "Coming to America."

Fatal Subtraction: How Hollywood Really Does Business

Politics & Social Sciences

Random House Audio |

Dawn's Early Light

Rosebud Publishing

In Time of War: Hitler's Terrorist Attack on America

History

Americas

Blackstone Audiobooks

An updated edition of the best-selling book about the workings of Hollywood recounts the suit against Paramount Pictures by humorist Art Buchwald, who claimed Paramount stole the story to the film, Coming to America, from him. Original.

Fatal Subtraction: The Inside Story of Buchwald V. Paramount

Humor & Entertainment

McDougal, Dennis

Movies

Newstar Pr

It’s a true story that reads like gripping fiction: in June 1942, eight German terrorists landed by submarine on the shores of Long Island and Florida with a mission to blow up major buildings and railroad hubs throughout the United States. In Time of War tells the dramatic story of how they were ultimately betrayed by one of their own, tried by a special military tribunal appointed by FDR, and zealously defended by an army colonel. Six of the eight were executed. The U.S. Supreme Court subsequently upheld the president’s power to order the military trial that passed the death sentences.
More than sixty years later, President George W. Bush, in the wake of the deadly 9/11 terrorist attacks, cited Roosevelt’s act as precedent for imprisoning over six hundred suspected “enemy combatants” in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and indefinitely detaining U.S. citizens suspected of terrorist activities. In a riveting account of this remarkable episode in America’s history (much of it based on documents never before available), O’Donnell, one of the country’s leading trial lawyers, illustrates the parallels between then and now, offering a cautionary tale of the danger of unchecked executive power in a time of crisis.

In Time Of War: Hitler's Terrorist Attack On America

The New Press

A whimsical warmhearted autobiography of a twelve-year-old who became a great trial lawyer 
The oldest of four children in a prototypical Irish Catholic family, Pierce O’Donnell recounts growing up in a village with more cows than residents with his WWII-hero father, who owns the only liquor store; his intellectual mother, the librarian; his spinster aunt, the local postmaster; his three younger sisters; and a ghost named Nora. Last Pick adroitly conjures up a bygone era in which this young boy’s biggest concerns were making the Little League Team (he never did), not freezing to death delivering a newspaper, making Eagle Scout, and learning Latin as a reluctant altar boy allergic to incense. This self-deprecating story of a determined, well-meaning underdog will delight O’Donnell’s fellow Baby Boomers and enchant younger generations for years to come with its witty and timeless humor.

Last Pick: A Whimsical Warmhearted Autobiography of a Twelve-Year-Old Who Became a Great Trial Lawyer

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Rare Bird Books

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