The Real Story of the Writing of the Greatest American Novel
The Great Gatsby has sold 25 million copies worldwide and sells 500, 000 copies annually. The book has been made into three movies and produced for the theatre. It is considered the Greatest American Novel ever written. Yet, the story of how The Great Gatsby was written has not been told except as embedded chapters of much larger biographies. This ......
One hundred and sixty minutes. That is all the time rescuers would have before the largest ship in the world slipped beneath the icy Atlantic. There was amazing heroism and astounding incompetence against the backdrop of the most advanced ship in history sinking by inches with luminaries from all over the world. It is a story of a network of ......
How Wilbur Wright Solved the Problem of Manned Flight
"This book is the first deconstruction of the Wright Brothers' myth. They were not -- as we have all come to believe--two halves of the same apple. Each had a distinctive role in creating the first 'flying machine'."--Provided by publisher.
Hell and Glory in Cuba and the Writing of The Old Man and the Sea
Hemingway's Attic focuses on Ernest Hemingway's years in Cuba from 1950 to 1952, and also tells the story behind the writing of The OldMan and the Sea from the contemporary viewpoint of writing in Hemingway's attic from 1998 to 2008. One would think after all this time there is nothing more to be said about Ernest Hemingway. Much has been written ......
The story of the last two years of Theodore Roosevelt's life, from April 1917 to January 6, 1919--a time when he was plagued by illness and injury, denied leadership of his own regiment in World War I, and lost his son Quentin, but also one when he made plans for another run at the Presidency and set the stage for the 1918 rise of the Republican ......
The Darkest Winter of the Revolutionary War and the Plot to Kidnap George Washington
In the fall of 1779 George Washington took his 10,000 men into winter camp at Morristown, New Jersey after six long years of fighting. It would be a brutal winter of suffering, depression, starvation, betrayal, mutiny, treason and an attempt to kidnap George Washington by the British.
ISBN-13: 9781493056620
(Hardback)
Publisher: GLOBE PEQUOT Imprint: TAYLOR TRADE PUBLISHING
The Story of a Boston Bookseller's Heroic Expedition That Saved the American Revolution
The inspiring story of a little-known hero's pivotal role in the American Revolutionary War During the brutal winter of 1775-1776, an untested Boston bookseller named Henry Knox commandeered an oxen train hauling sixty tons of cannons and other artillery from Fort Ticonderoga near the Canadian border. He and his men journeyed some three hundred ......
A Witness to the Fort Lauderdale Airport Shooting Reflects on America's Mass Shooting Epidemic
Though focused on one terrifying incident that the author witnessed, this story is also a prototype of American shootings showing the interplay of victims, police, media, the shooter, and what constitutes this peculiar American form of violence. The author documents the perverse chain of events that set the stage for this tragedy- the failure of ......
