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I want a good autobiography of a police officer?

I am 15 and am really interested in law enforcement. I am looking for an autobiography of a police officer to help get a feel on how it is that that line of work works. If anyone knows any books that would be good for this please let me know!!!!

Despite the rhetoric of “Goodhi” who has a propensity to waller in his pity pool…there are countless good autobiographies from former and retired police officers on the market today.

One of the better former police authors I know of is Sheriff Jerry Speziale of the Passaic County Sheriff’s Department and his book “Without A Badge.”

Unfortunately, some people fail to maintain higher than a 2 year old demeanor and would have difficulty in finding a good bookstore to start with!

My suggestion…next trip to a local Books-a-Million…check the True Crime section and you’ll find tons of reading material in the topic you seek!

Lady Sings the Blues $9.40 Diana Ross stars as legendary blues singer Billie Holiday in this biopic that chronicles her rise and fall. It begins with her late childhood, a stint as a prostitute, those early days as a blues singer, her marriages, and her drug addiction. Overly glossy and lacking depth, this is worth seeing only for the performances. Diana Ross was nominated for an Oscar for her acting debut. A dynamo with sp…

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Autobiography $1.60 You hear a lot of echoes throughout Ashlee Simpson’s Autobiography, but her big-eyed, bright-smiled sister Jessica isn’t behind a one of them. That’ll come as no surprise to fans and anyone who has caught the “darker” Simpson sister on MTV, which is responsible for hurtling the hard-edged “Pieces of Me” onto radio playlists across the country and creating a mini frenzy over this CD’s content. Stok…

biography – Martin Luther King, Jr. [VHS] $2.00 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. will live long in our collective memory as a symbol of peaceful resistance to injustice. But, of course, he was more than a symbol–he was a man. Biography: Martin Luther King Jr. uses striking images and first-class research to explore both sides of this tragic hero. It tells us how his comfortable upbringing made him resistant at first to his role as leader of th…

Biography – Sir Isaac Newton [VHS] $3.98 “By the age of 23, he had laid the foundations for calculus, the laws of gravity, motion and inertia, and begun experiments on light. His major work, The Principia, has become to science what the Mona Lisa is to art. Isaac Newton has been called the father of Modern Science. His incredible body of work represents arguably the greatest contribution to science ever made by an individual. But…

Dr. Rudolf Steiner and the Science of Spiritual Realities [VHS] Dr. Rudolf Steiner’s fundamental gift to mankind was the creation of the science of spirit known as anthroposophy, from the Greek “anthropos,” or man, and “sophia,” or wisdom. This one hour television documentary takes us on a fascinating journey into the realms just beyond our five senses, where thoughts are things and creation begins. Rudolf Steiner not only found how to experience these areas d…

October Sky (Special edition) $5.33 Based on the memoir Rocket Boys by Homer H. Hickam Jr., October Sky emerged as one of the most delightful sleepers of 1999–a small miracle of good ol’ fashioned movie-making in the cynical, often numbingly trendy Hollywood of the late 20th century. Hickam’s true story begins in 1957 with Russia’s historic launch of the Sputnik satellite, and while Homer (played with smart idealism by Jake Gyllen…

Fly Away Home (Special Edition) $5.67 There are some filmmaking teams that invariably bring out the best in each other, and that’s definitely the case with director Carroll Ballard and cinematographer Caleb Deschanel. They previously collaborated on The Black Stallion and Never Cry Wolf, and Fly Away Home is their third family film that deserves to be called a classic. Inspired by Bill Lishman’s autobiography, the movie tells the sto…

Big Valley – Season 1 $7.59 TV Westerns once ruled the primetime range, inspiring Jonathan Winters to joke at the time, “I like Westerns, I just don’t like 15 of them in a row.” The Big Valley came along near the end of the trail. Premiering in 1965, it ran for four seasons and earned an Emmy for “Miss Barbara Stanwyck,” who stars as widowed matriarch Victoria Barkley. Her brood is a breed apart: Jarrod (Richard Long), the …

The Boy Who Came Back from Heaven: A Remarkable Account of Miracles, Angels, and Life beyond This World $12.23 book. new…

Autobiography $17.49 Autobiography was first published in 1947 and was described by J. B. Priestley as ‘one of the best pieces of writing that ever found a way to our Book Society. He is a writer who has learned how to write and the result is glorious.’ Sir Neville Cardus is best remembered as a writer on both cricket and music and during his lifetime achieved an unparalleled reputation as one of England’s greatest journalists on these two very different subjects. Born in Rusholme in Manchester Cardus carved out an international reputation for himself by his own ability, efforts and imagination and created, as his biographer Christopher Brookes put it, ‘a beguiling personal legend in the course of a career which extended over fifty years.’ ‘This is a very, very good book. Cricket and music – how he makes both these worlds pulsate, life comic as well as life magnificent.’ Robert Lynd ‘A superb work by a master of English.’ Wilfred Pickles

Tudor Autobiography $36 Histories of autobiography in England often assume the genre hardly existed before 1600. But Tudor Autobiography investigates eleven sixteenth-century English writers who used sermons, a saint’s biography, courtly and popular verse, a traveler’s report, a history book, a husbandry book, and a supposedly fictional adventure novel to share the secrets of the heart and tell their life stories.             In the past such texts have not been called autobiographies because they do not reveal much of the inwardness of their subject, a requisite of most modern autobiographies.  But, according to Meredith Anne Skura, writers reveal themselves not only by what they say but by how they say it. Borrowing methods from affective linguistics, narratology, and psychoanalysis, Skura shows that a writer’s thoughts and feelings can be traced in his or her language. Rejecting the search for “ the early modern self” in life writing, Tudor Autobiography instead asks what authors said about themselves, who wrote about themselves, how, and why. The result is a fascinating glimpse into a range of lived and imagined experience that challenges assumptions about life and autobiography in the early modern period.

Pele: The Autobiography $16.35 Even people who don’t know football know Pelé . The best of a generation of Brazilian players universally acknowledged as the most accomplished and attractive group of footballers ever to play the game, he won the World Cup three times and is Brazil’s all-time record goalscorer. But how did this man — a sportsman, a mere footballer, like many others — become a global icon? Was it just by being the best at what he did, or do people respond to some other quality? The world’s greatest footballer now gives us the full story of his incredible life and career. Told with his characteristic grace and modesty, but covering all aspects of his playing days and his subsequent careers as politician, international sporting ambassador and cultural icon, PELE: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY is an essential volume for all sports fans, and anyone who admires true rarity of spirit.

Autobiography as Activism $25 A study of three Black Power narratives as instruments for radical social change Angela Davis, Assata Shakur (a.k.a. JoAnne Chesimard), and Elaine Brown are the only women activists of the Black Power movement who have published book-length autobiographies. In bearing witness to that era, these militant newsmakers wrote in part to educate and to mobilize their anticipated readers. In this way, Davis's Angela Davis: An Autobiography (1974), Shakur's Assata (1987), and Brown's A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story (1992) can all be read as extensions of the writers' political activism during the 1960s. Margo V. Perkins's critical analysis of their books is less a history of the movement (or of women's involvement in it) than an exploration of the politics of storytelling for activists who choose to write their lives. Perkins examines how activists use autobiography to connect their lives to those of other activists across historical periods, to emphasize the link between the personal and the political, and to construct an alternative history that challenges dominant or conventional ways of knowing. The histories constructed by these three women call attention to the experiences of women in revolutionary struggle, particularly to the ways their experiences have differed from men's. The women's stories are told from different perspectives and provide different insights into a movement that has been much studied from the masculine perspective. At times they fill in, complement, challenge, or converse with the stories told by their male counterparts, and in doing so, hint at how the present and future can be made less catastrophic because of women's involvement. The multiple complexities of the Black Power movement become evident in reading these women's narratives against each other as well as against the sometimes strikingly different accounts of their male counterparts. As Davis, Shakur, and Brown recount events in their lives, they dispute mainstream assumptions about race, class, and gender and reveal how the Black Power struggle profoundly shaped their respective identities. Recipient of Mississippi University for Women's Eudora Welty Prize, 1999 Margo V. Perkins is an assistant professor of English and American studies at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.