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5 Great Books for Poker Fiends
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James McManus has covered poker for The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Harper’s Magazine, Card Player, ESPN.com, and The New Yorker. Positively Fifth Street, his memoir of finishing fifth in the World Series of Poker championship event, was a New York Times bestseller and is already considered a classic.
From David Mamet's American Buffalo to Bill Gates' memoir, poker expert James McManus shares five great works where the game plays a major hand. His new book, Cowboys Full, has just been published.
Why Sue Decker Will Be Yahoo's Next CEO
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Eric Jackson is founder and president of Ironfire Capital LLC.
Steve Ballmer would be best, but Yahoo's Semel-picked board will back insider Decker, a dissident shareholder predicts.
America's Craziest Cities
A True Hollywood Love Story
Rebecca Dana is a senior correspondent for The Daily Beast. A former editor and reporter for the Wall Street Journal, she has also written for the New York Times, the New York Observer, Rolling Stone and Slate, among other publications.
The Rove You Don't Know
Matt Latimer is the author of the New York Times bestseller, SPEECH-LESS: Tales of a White House Survivor. He was deputy director of speechwriting for George W. Bush and chief speechwriter for Donald Rumsfeld.
Iraq's Next First Daughter?
Michael Hastings is a regular contributor to GQ and the author of I Lost My Love in Baghdad: A Modern War Story. He is currently on assignment in Iraq.
Karl Rove's Book of Lies
Paul Begala is a CNN political contributor and a research professor at Georgetown University's Public Policy Institute. He was a senior strategist for the 1992 Clinton-Gore campaign and served as counselor to President Clinton in the White House.
Hillary Deploys a Friend in the Fight for Women's Rights
Sandra McElwaine is a Washington-based journalist. She has been a reporter for The Washington Star, The Baltimore Sun, a correspondent for CNN and People, and Washington editor of Vogue and Cosmopolitan. Currently she writes for The Daily Beast, The Washington Post, Time, and Forbes.
