Execution politics aren't pretty. As governor of Arkansas, Bill Clinton left the campaign trail in 1992 to personally oversee the execution of a brain-damaged man, Ricky Ray Rector, and prove his tough-on-crime bona fides.
Will he ever find a way to tell the people that he wants blueberry pie? And will they make him one? This book, originally published in 1961 by Jane Thayer, the pen name of Catherine Woolly, is representative of the high quality stories that were written for young children in the 1940s, 50s, and early 60's.
10. Saint-ExupÃ©ry never saw the book published in his home country. First published in 1943, The Little Prince was released in French and English, but only in the United States. Due to his controversial political views, Saint-ExupÃ©ryâs works were not easily available under the Vichy regime, so it wasnât until the liberation of France that the book was made available in the authorâs homeland.