Books by Patrick Williams

From a Letterman to a Better Man depicts the story of the rise and fall of the infamous Dallas Carter High School football team; but from the personal vantage point of Patrick "PK" Williams. Williams, a defensive player for the Carter Cowboys at the time, chronicles his journey from "pedestal to prison" where he served 3 years, 4 months and 19 days, which is one of the chapters of the book. His story is one of redemption, humility and his quest to be a better man.

The problem of purpose in the title is the 130-year debate within the library community over the proper place for the library in society. Chapters discuss roles for public libraries from the founding of the Boston Public Library with its clear educational purpose through attempts at rational planning for library roles in the 1980s.

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This is the first biography of the last major unknown figure in European history. The Duke of Lerma was the first and greatest of the royal favourites of the European seventeenth century. He was the greatest art patron of his generation and the greatest lay builder in Spanish history. This study is profoundly well researched and fluently written. -- .

He led Europe in its defence against the seemingly irresistable power of the Ottoman Empire and many of the nations of Western Europe were forged in part by their responses to his ambitions - Portugal was conquered and most of Italy was controlled by him, while the Low Countries, England and France fought long and bitter wars against him.