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David McCullough

Faces

by Amazon (Digital) (Release Date: 2006-06-16)
We have no photographs from the Revolutionary War, nothing to give us the look of those who served in what they called The Glorious Cause. With no photographs to take us there, and only paintings that make it look like a costume pageant, the Revolutionary War has seemed less ...
Faces

James Dalessandro

The Damnedest, Finest Ruins: The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire

by Amazon (Digital) (Release Date: 2006-04-15)
The 1906 Earthquake was the most dramatic event in American history outside of war, the greatest disaster in our history, and for nearly a century was the subject of enormous lies and misrepresentations. The men who ran the city claimed they were great heroes rallying San ...
The Damnedest, Finest Ruins: The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire

Kenneth D. Ackerman

Young J. Edgar: Hoover, The Red Scare, and The Assault on Civil Liberties

by Amazon (Digital) (Release Date: 2007-04-30)
In Young J. Edgar, I try to bring to life the Red Scare following World War I and, with it, the coming of age adventure of then-young J. Edgar Hoover who led the brutal anti-communist “Palmer Raids.” This is a narrative rife with modern overtones, a metaphor on post-9/11 ...
Young J. Edgar: Hoover, The Red Scare, and The Assault on Civil Liberties

Harry S. Dent

Bubble After Bubble in The Ongoing Bubble Boom: Oil Bursts, the Housing Bubble Fades and Now Stocks Emerge Into a Greater Bubble that Finally Ends in 2010

by Amazon.com (Digital) (Release Date: 2005-06-21)
In my recent book, The Next Great Bubble Boom, I explain the crash of 2000 - 2002 as a natural part of an 80-year demographic-driven technology cycle with one more technology lead bubble ahead from late 2005 into 2010. This piece updates that book and shows investors how ...
Bubble After Bubble in The Ongoing Bubble Boom: Oil Bursts, the Housing Bubble Fades and Now Stocks Emerge Into a Greater Bubble that Finally Ends in 2010

Gregory David Roberts

Roma

by Amazon.com (Digital) (Release Date: 2005-06-21)
"Roma" is one story from an anthology that places a society or characters in a timeline that is consecutive, so that each story adds another element in the unfolding lives and spiritual development of the characters. This timeline has a spiritual arrow as well as a ...
Roma

M. William Phelps

Amy Archer-Gilligan: Entrepreneur, Caretaker, Serial Killer

by Amazon (Digital) (Release Date: 2006-02-16)
I have written two books about serial murderers, Perfect Poison and Every Move You Make. This Short is also about a serial killer, Amy Archer-Gilligan, Joseph Kesselring's inspiration for the smash Broadway hit Arsenic and Old Lace, which later became a Hollywood film. ...
Amy Archer-Gilligan: Entrepreneur, Caretaker, Serial Killer

Bruce Henderson

Rescue Dawn: The Story of Dieter Dengler, the U.S. Navy Pilot Who Escaped from a Vietnam POW Camp

by Amazon (Digital) (Release Date: 2006-03-22)
This is the true yet unbelievable story of how U.S. Navy pilot Dieter Dengler pulled off the impossible: he is one of only a few who escaped from extended captivity in a POW camp during the Vietnam War. Dieter was shot down while flying a bombing mission off the aircraft ...
Rescue Dawn: The Story of Dieter Dengler, the U.S. Navy Pilot Who Escaped from a Vietnam POW Camp

Margaret George

Helen of Troy: The Enigma of Beauty

by Amazon (Digital) (Release Date: 2006-09-08)
While writing my novel Helen of Troy, many people asked me, “Was she really the most beautiful woman in the world?” Our fascination with beauty has not diminished one iota since the Bronze Age, and I wanted to explore that phenomenon in “Helen of Troy: The Enigma of ...
Helen of Troy: The Enigma of Beauty

Brad Lewis

Conspiracy Theories: Marilyn Monroe, JFK & RFK - What was the Role of Los Angeles Gangster Mickey Cohen?

by Amazon (Digital) (Release Date: 2007-06-25)
During Mickey Cohen's mob tenure, all of his well-known contacts may have helped his business and publicity, but in later years, those same associations led many to place him at the core of the worst-case conspiracy theories, a voyeuristic peek between the sheets of ...
Conspiracy Theories: Marilyn Monroe, JFK & RFK - What was the Role of Los Angeles Gangster Mickey Cohen?

Larry Wood

Badman Bill Cook

by Amazon (Digital) (Release Date: 2007-10-08)
This is a little-known but fascinating true-crime story. On December 30, 1950, ex-convict Bill Cook flagged down a family of five who were traveling along Oklahoma's Route 66 , brandished a gun as he jumped in the vehicle, and forced them to crisscross the Midwest pell-mell ...
Badman Bill Cook