Jeanne Marie Laskas je americká spisovateľka známa svojimi esejami a publicistikou. Jej písanie sa vyznačuje prenikavým pohľadom na ľudské vzťahy a každodenný život, často s dôrazom na osobné príbehy a ich hlbšie významy. Ako profesorka tvorivého písania prispieva k rozvoju literárneho talentu a formovaniu nových hlasov v americkej literatúre. Laskasová svojimi textami dokáže čitateľov zaujať a prinútiť ich k zamysleniu sa nad svetom okolo nás.
President Barack Obama received ten thousand letters a day from his constituents. This is the story of the private and profound relationship with letter writers that shaped his presidency. Their voices combine to reveal a diary of a nation. Every evening for eight years, at his request,... číst celé
In 2002, forensic pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu picked up a scalpel in a Pittsburgh morgue and made a discovery that would rattle America. The body on the slab in front of him belonged to a fifty-year-old named Mike Webster, aka "Iron Mike," a Hall of Fame center for the Pittsburgh Steelers. After retiring in 1990, Webster had suffered a dizzyingly steep decline. The search for answers put Omalu in the crosshairs of one of the most powerful corporations in America: the National Football League. Iron Mike's mental deterioration was caused by blows to the head that could affect everyone playing the game -- the one truth the NFL wanted to ignore