Focuses on a crucial two-day battle in Vietnam that was also marked by an ill-fated protest by University of Wisconsin students at the Dow Chemical Company, in an hour-by-hour narrative.
... 56 organizations joined by, 53, 55, 322 payoff fee and, 250, 321 Pearson and, 250–51, 320–21 Robinson and, 41–42, ... 161, 165 U.S. neutrality and, 140–43, 145 World Youth Festival, 333 Wright, Frank Lloyd, 349 Wright, Richard, 75, ...
... 183–84, 186,419–20 Super Bowl I, 391–97,404,415 Super Bowl II, 429, 431–32, 435 Super Bowl III,452–53,496 Super Bown IV, 481 Surgeon, The (Heinz), 305, 306 Sutherland, Jock, 45, 55 Svare, Harland, 185,468 Svoboda, Bill, 188 Sweeney, ...
In a family of many half siblings, Roy and Auma had the same mother and father, Barack Sr. and Kezia. They both had endured the trauma of that breakup and years of violence and separation when their father was married to the American, ...
There is delightful baseball here, including thrilling accounts of the two World Series victories of Clemente’s underdog Pittsburgh Pirates, but this is far more than just another baseball book.
Mrs. Mackey did not back down. The only office Clinton could hold without going over the point barrier was class secretary, a position that usually went to a girl. He ran for it, challenging Carolyn Yeldell, who was not only his ...
The first collection of the work of Pulitzer Prize winner David Maraniss, one of the most honored and versatile writers of his generation.
“A fascinating political, racial, economic, and cultural tapestry” (Detroit Free Press), Once in a Great City is a tour de force from David Maraniss about the quintessential American city at the top of its game: Detroit in 1963.
An account of the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome reveals the competition's unexpected influence on the modern world, in a narrative synopsis that pays tribute to such athletes as Cassius Clay and Wilma Rudolph while evaluating the roles of ...
Here is an unprecedented, fly-on-the-wall look at the successes, sellouts, and perhaps fatal mistakes of Newt Gingrich's Republican Revolution.
But for all his travails, Thorpe did not succumb. The man survived, complications and all, and so did the myth. Path Lit by Lightning is a great American story from a master biographer.