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David Pietrusza
Author
Language
English
Description
A colorfully written account of a crime genius. Rothstein follows the life and career of Arnold Rothstein, the man who fixed the 1919 World Series. The book follows his tempestuous career throughout, as an underworld figure, and introduces readers to the grimy world that clung to the glittering Jazz Age of New York City like a barnacle. The model for The Great Gatsby's Meyer Wolfsheim and Nathan Detroit in Guys and Dolls, Arnold Rothstein was much...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A riveting new account of Theodore Roosevelt's impassioned crusade for military preparedness as America fitfully stumbles into World War I, spectacularly punctuated by his unique tongue-lashings of the vacillating Woodrow Wilson, his rousing advocacy of a masculine, pro-Allied "Americanism," a death-defying compulsion for personal front-line combat, a tentative rapprochement with GOP power brokers--and perhaps even another presidential campaign"--...
Author
Publisher
Diversion Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Diversion books edition.
Physical Desc
xx, 519 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An original and authoritative account of Franklin Roosevelt's unprecedented 1936 re-election landslide.
Author
Publisher
Lyons Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xxi, 204 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Two Depression-battered nations confronted destiny in 1932, going to the polls in their own way to anoint new leaders, to rescue their people from starvation and hopelessness. America would elect a Congress and a president-ebullient aristocrat Franklin Roosevelt or tarnished "Wonder Boy" Herbert Hoover. Decadent, divided Weimar Germany faced two rounds of bloody Reichstag elections and two presidential contests-doddering reactionary Paul von Hindenburg...
Author
Publisher
Union Square Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
xx, 523 p., [24] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
It was the election that would ultimately give America Camelot and its tragic aftermath, a momentous contest when three giants who each would have a chance to shape the nation battled to win the presidency. Award-winning author Pietrusza chronicles the pivotal 1960 presidential race.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
553 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents a chronicle of the 1920 U.S. presidential election, during which Harding, Wilson, Coolidge, Hoover, and both Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt ran for office and the country began to pass into modern times with the automobile, jazz, and the increase of women voters, campaign spending, radio-broadcast results, and more.
8) 1948: Harry Truman's improbable victory and the year that transformed America's role in the world
Author
Publisher
Union Square Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
xxiii, 520 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The 1948 election was a war for the soul of the Democratic Party, with accidental president Harry Truman pitted against Henry Wallace, his embittered left-wing predecessor as vice president, and young South Carolina segregationist Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond. On the GOP side, it's a four-way battle between cold-as-ice New Yorker Tom Dewey, Minnesota upstart Harold Stassen, stodgy but brilliant Ohio conservative Robert Taft, and imperious but aged Douglas...
9) 1960
Author
Publisher
BrillianceAudio
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Unabridged
Physical Desc
15 audio discs (18.75 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"It was the election that ultimately gave America Camelot and its tragic aftermath. 1960 is a stunning recreation of the bare-knuckle politics of the primaries, the party conventions' backroom dealings, the unprecedented television debates, along with hot-button issues of race, religion, and foreign policy. And, at the center of it all, three future presidents -- Lyndon Johnson, John F. Kennedy, and Richard Nixon. In this essential work of history,...
Author
Publisher
Threshold Editions/Mercury Radio Arts
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First Threshold Editions/Mercury Radio Arts hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 290 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
History is about so much more than memorizing facts. It is, as more than half of the word suggests, about the story. And, told in the right way, it is the greatest one ever written: Good and evil, triumph and tragedy, despicable acts of barbarism and courageous acts of heroism.
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (343 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The series, which blends dramatic scenes with interviews, archival footage and VFX, traces the rise of the American Mafia. A deeper look into the rise of organized crime in America and the legendary five main families with footage spanning over 50 years, beginning in 1905.
