Books written by David Von Drehle
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Among the Lowest of the Dead: The Culture of Capital Punishment
Also in 1994 , an admiring biography of retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell was published . Powell had been one of the architects of the modern death penalty . As one of the troika of swing votes in 1976 , he had helped to ...
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Triangle: The Fire that Changed America
At just this low point , however , a woman whose name was almost a synonym for money joined the cause : Anne Morgan , daughter of the most powerful capitalist in the world . Her father , J. Pierpont Morgan , controlled the steel ...
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Rise to Greatness: Abraham Lincoln and America's Most Perilous Year
Howe's verses were an immediate sensation among the strong minority of Northern women and men for whom the Union was not worth saving unless it could be cleansed of the stain of slavery. Her words expressed with coiled power the radical ...
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Among the Lowest of the Dead: The Culture of Capital Punishment
Gibson stood quietly and thought. The moment demanded something distinctive, something to make Graham's piece of history purely his own. Gibson's mind drifted back to his earliest memory of the man. They were student body presidents at ...
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TIME JFK
Around this time, John F. Kennedy had a visit from another historian, David Herbert Donald, who listened as the incumbent complained bitterly about the scrutiny that he knew would someday be turned on him, too.
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Rise to Greatness: Abraham Lincoln and America's Most Perilous Year
Voorhees, Daniel W. “The Liberty of the Citizen.” In Speeches ofDaniel W. Voorhees, of Indiana, Embracing His Most Prominent Forensic, Political, Occasional, and Literary Addresses. . . with a Short Biographical Sketch.
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Among the Lowest of the Dead
Among the Lowest of the Dead
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Among the Lowest of the Dead: The Culture of Capital Punishment
Originally published: 1st ed. New York: Times Books, c1995. With new introd.
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Rise to Greatness: Abraham Lincoln and America's Most Perilous Year
In Rise to Greatness, acclaimed author David Von Drehle has created both a deeply human portrait of America's greatest president and a dramatic narrative about our most fateful year.
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Triangle: The Fire that Changed America
Describes the 1911 fire that destroyed the Triangle Shirtwaist factory in New York's Greenwich Village, the deaths of 146 workers in the fire, and its implications for twentieth-century politics and labor relations.
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Triangle: The Fire That Changed America
It portrays the Dickensian work conditions that led to a massive waist-worker’s strike in which an unlikely coalition of socialists, socialites, and suffragettes took on bosses, police, and magistrates.
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The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man
... Nighthawk Blues . " When Coon and Sanders start to play Those Nighthawk Blues you start to sway ; Tune right in on the radio Rat - a - tat - tat and say hello ! From coast to coast and back again You can hear that syn - co - pated ...