Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Re=3295&N=3+4359+6634 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743606 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743603 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743597 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1697524 History has been kind to the American generals of World War II and less kind to the generals of the wars that followed. Setting out to explain why, Thomas E. Ricks cites a widening gulf between performance and accountability. Then, scores of American generals were relieved of command simply for not being good enough. Today, as one American colonel said bitterly, A private who loses a rifle suffers far greater consequences than a general who loses a war. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743604 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743596 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1577899 Explores the anxious and emotional events surrounding the attack on Pearl Harbor, showing how the president and the American public responded in the pivotal hours that followed the attack. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1653174 Behind the bland smile and apparent simplemindedness, Eisenhower was a brilliant, intellectual tactician, and a master of calculated duplicity. Facing the Soviet Union, China, and his own generals, some of whom believed a first strike was the only means of survival, Eisenhower would make his boldest and riskiest bet yet, one of such enormity that there could be but two outcomes: the survival of the world, or its end. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1550828 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1615566 Historian and China expert Paul French uncovers the truth behind the notorious murder of Pamela Werner, and offers a rare glimpse of the last days of colonial Peking. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1559051 Combining groundbreaking investigative research with a shocking and true conspiracy story, investigative journalists Andrew Gumbel and Roger Charles puncture the myth about what happened on April 19, 1995 at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. Oklahoma City reveals that more players were involved in the plot than simply Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1624838 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1657431 Enter the world of military working dogs extraordinary training, heroic accomplishments, and the lasting impacts they have on those who work with them. People all over the world were riveted by the story of Cairo, the Belgian Malinois who was a part of the Navy SEAL team that led the raid on Osama bin Ladens compound. A dogs natural intelligence, physical abilities, and pure loyalty contribute more to our military efforts than ever before. In Soldier Dogs, Maria Goodavage tells the heartwarming stories of training, combat operations, retirement, and adoption -- often into the families of fallen soldiers -- of these remarkable dogs who have become some of Americas most devoted warriors. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1678922 Recounts the murder of John Fitzgerald Kennedy and how gunshots on a Dallas afternoon not only killed a beloved president but also sent the nation into the cataclysmic division of the Vietnam War and its culture-changing aftermath. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1548516 The dramatic tale of a pivotal period in the Obama presidency, from the game-changing 2010 midterm elections to the beginning of the critical 2012 campaign season--a tumultuous time that tested the president as never before and set the stage for a titanic clash over the future of the nation. After Barack Obamas first two years as president--during which he navigated the United States through its severest economic crisis since the Great Depression while managing wars in Afghanistan and Iraq--he was faced with a bitterly divided nation and an emboldened political opposition dedicated to impeding his presidency. What followed was a year of political crises and fierce battles that would transform Obama and profoundly shape the terrain for the next election. Here, political journalist David Corn chronicles and examines this crucial time in the Obama presidency and its impact on the nations future.--From publisher description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1544885 A narrative account of the twentieth presidents political career offers insight into his background as a scholar and Civil War hero, his battles against the corrupt establishment, and Alexander Graham Bells failed attempt to save him from an assassins bullet. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1272313 Documents the efforts of the first American ambassador to Hitlers Germany, William E. Dodd, to acclimate to a residence in an increasingly violent city where he is forced to associate with the Nazis while his daughter pursues a relationship with Gestapo chief Rudolf Diels. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1431394 The NBC news anchor and former White House correspondent evaluates the American dream of the past, present, and future as experienced by four generations of his and other families. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1397758 Draws on hundreds of hours of interviews and in-depth research to relate the complete story of the nations financial meltdown, from the trading floors of lower Manhattan to the power corridors inside the Beltway. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1431741 In January 1943, the Gestapo hunted down 230 women of the French Resistance and sent them to Auschwitz. This is their story, told in full for the first time--a searing and unforgettable chronicle of terror, courage, defiance, survival, and the power of friendship to transcend evil that is an essential addition to the history of World War II. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1262733 In 1945, a sightseeing trip over Shangri-La turned deadly when the plane crashed, leaving only three survivors who, battling for their survival, were caught between man-eating headhunters and the enemy Japanese, in this real-life adventure drawn from personal interviews, declassified Army documents and personal photos and mementos. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1378235 Alexandra Fuller braids a multilayered narrative around the perfectly-lit, Happy Valley-era Africa of her mothers childhood; the boiled cabbage grimness of her fathers English childhood; and the darker, civil war-torn Africa of her own. A story of survival and madness, love and war, loyalty and forgiveness, this intimate exploration of Fullers family - at its heart, the story of her mother, Nicola - is as funny, terrifying, exotic, and unselfconscious as Nicola herself. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1338287 Relates the story of the American artists, writers, and doctors who traveled to Paris in the nineteenth century, fell in love with the city and its people, and changed America through what they learned there. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1426819 Throw out everything you know about Columbus. In the first major biography of the iconic explorer in more than sixty years, Laurence Bergreen shows us both the madness and genius of the man. Everyone knows about 1492, but Columbus embarked upon three more journeys, made all the more amazing by the fact that he sailed on instinct alone, never losing a man in his crossings. And Columbus left his mark (not always for the better) everywhere he went. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1251510 Draws on first-person accounts to examine the Deepwater Horizon oil-rig explosion and the offshore-drilling culture that laid the groundwork for the disaster. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1213408 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1382286 Because the U.S. began as an idea, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Gordon S. Wood believes that the American Revolution is the most important event in our history, bar none. American identity is not based on any universally shared heritage, so we have had to return to our nations founding to understand who we are. Wood explores the ideological origins of the revolutions attempts to forge an American democracy, and traces the origins of American exceptionalism. What may simply seem like audacity now was considered radical in the 18th century. Today there exists what Wood calls a terrifying gap between the founders and us, such that it requires almost an act of imagination to fully recapture their era. Because we now take our democracy for granted, it is nearly impossible for us to appreciate how deeply the founders feared their grand experiment in liberty could evolve into monarchy or dissolve into mob rule. Gracefully written and filled with insight, The Idea of America helps us to recapture the fears and hopes of the revolutionary generation and its attempts to translate those ideals into a working democracy. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1426727 In the spring of 1865, Americas Civil War finally comes to an end, In the midst of the patriotic celebrations in Washington, D.C., John Wilkes Booth - charismatic ladies man and impenitent racist - murders Lincoln at Fords Theatre. A furious manhunt ensues, ending in a fiery shootout and several court-ordered executions. With an unforgettable cast of characters, vivid historical detail, and page-turning action, this is history that reads like a thriller. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1361961 An examination of Hawaiis emblematic and exceptional history, retracing the impact of New England missionaries who began arriving in the early 1800s to remake the island paradise into a version of New England. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1278500 From the bestselling editor of The Reagan Diaries come the newly disclosed notebooks of Ronald Reagan that bring to light his most intimate thoughts and favorite quotations. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1431385 Plotted in secret, launched in the dark, John Browns raid on Harpers Ferry was a pivotal moment in U. S. history. But few Americans know the true story of the men and women who launched a desperate strike at the slaveholding South. Now, Midnight Rising portrays Browns uprising in vivid color, revealing a country on the brink of explosive conflict. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1498280 The names Elizabeth Eckford and Hazel Bryan Massery may not be well known, but the image of them from September 1957 surely is: a black high school girl, dressed in white walking stoically in front of Little Rock Central High School--and a white girl standing directly behind her screaming racial epithets. This famous photograph captures the full anguish of desegregation throughout the South and an epic moment in the civil rights movement. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1243712 A portrait of the thirty-fourth president by his grandson draws on personal stories and writings to chronicle his final years during the authors coming-of-age period, describing various aspects of Eisenhowers character and his contributions to successive presidential administrations. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1059976 Prof. Woody Holton (NBA-finalist for Unruly Americans) reveals that American icon Abigail Adams was far wiser and wilier than previously known. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1066694 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1213681 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1115938 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1044321 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1115024 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1057936 Ten years in the making and a masterpiece of reportage, Columbine is an award-winning journalists definitive account of one of the most shocking massacres in American history. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1150865 From the acclaimed author of Agent Zigzag comes an extraordinary account of the most successful deception--and certainly the strangest--ever carried out in World War II, one that changed the prospects for an Allied victory. The purpose of the plan--code named Operation Mincemeat--was to deceive the Nazis into thinking that Allied forces were planning to attack southern Europe by way of Greece or Sardinia, rather than Sicily, as the Nazis had assumed, and the Allies ultimately chose. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1213292 The authors grandfather, Sam Stone, placed an ad in the Canton, OH, newspaper shortly before Christmas in 1933, offering cash gifts to seventy-five families in distress. Readers were asked to send letters describing their hardships to a benefactor calling himself Mr. B. Virdot. The author investigates a suitcase full of letters responding to these ads as he learns more about his grandfathers hidden past as well as the suffering and triumphs of strangers during the Great Depression. -- From publishers description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1191994 In this work, the author, a biographer provides a portrait of the father of our nation, dashing forever the stereotype of a stolid, unemotional man, and revealing an astute and surprising portrait of a canny political genius who knew how to inspire people. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1003381 The authors describe their investigation into the death of King Tut, recounting how they drew on forensic clues, historical information, and the writings of Howard Carter to conclude that Tut did not die of natural causes. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1045016 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=977782 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=995730 Following 9/11, a small band of Special Forces soldiers secretly entered Afghanistan and rode to war on horseback against the Taliban. Outnumbered forty to one, they pursued the enemy across the mountainous terrain and captured the strategic city of Mazari-Sharif. The bone-weary Americans were welcomed as liberators, and overjoyed Afghans thronged the streets. Then the action took an unexpected turn: the Horse Soldiers were ambushed. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=998078 Throughout history, food has done more than simply provide sustenance. It has acted as a tool of social transformation, political organization, geopolitical competition, industrial development, military conflict, and economic expansion. An Edible History of Humanity is an account of how food has helped to shape societies around the world, from the emergence of farming in China by 7,500 BCE to todays use of sugar cane and corn to make ethanol. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=966208 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=881027 Evaluates Lincolns talents as a commander in chief in spite of limited military experience, tracing the ways in which he worked with, or against, his senior commanders to defeat the Confederacy and reshape the presidential role. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=930767 From the author of the New York Times bestseller Assassination Vacation comes an examination of the Puritans, their covenant communities, deep-rooted idealism, political and cultural relevance, and their myriad oddities. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=988075 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=963158 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1025041 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=784322 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=754516 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=741707 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=743952 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=742995 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=713680 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=640532 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=649103 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=655862 Political analyst Kevin Phillips offers an explosive examination of the political coalition led by radical religion that is driving America to the brink of disaster. From ancient Rome to the British Empire, Phillips demonstrates that every world-dominating power has been brought down by a related set of causes: a lethal combination of global overreach, militant religion, resource problems, and ballooning debt. It is the same axis of ills that has come to define Americas political and economic identity in the past decade - that, left unchecked, will bring America to its knees. With an eye on the past and a searing vision of the future, Phillips has written a book that no American can afford to ignore. Book jacket.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=684127 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=610888 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=614435 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=572635 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=640461 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=592824 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=611983 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=572631 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=594266 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=584406 Based on extensive research in both American and British archives, 1776 is the story of Americans in the ranks, men of every shape, size, and color, farmers, schoolteachers, shoemakers, no-accounts, and mere boys turned soldiers. And it is the story of the British commander, William Howe, and his highly disciplined redcoats who looked on their rebel foes with contempt and fought with a valor too little known. But it is the American commander-in-chief who stands foremost -- Washington, who had never before led an army in battle. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=591752 The American Revolution was a home-front war that brought scarcity, bloodshed, and danger into the life of every American. The author shows that women played a vital role throughout the struggle: we see women boycotting British goods in the years before independence, writing propaganda that radicalized their neighbors, raising funds for the army, and helping finance the fledgling government. We see how they managed farms, plantations, and businesses while their men went into battle, and how they served as nurses and cooks in the army camps; risked their lives carrying intelligence, participating in reconnaissance missions, or seeking personal freedom from slavery; served as spies, saboteurs, and warriors; and lived with the daily knowledge that their husbands could be hanged as traitors if the revolution did not succeed. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=584859 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=527536 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=474665 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=482176 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=570284 James Bradleys acclaimed bestseller brilliantly illuminates a hidden piece of World War II history as it tells the harrowing true story of nine American airmen shot down in the Pacific. One of them, George H. W. Bush, was miraculously rescued. The fate of the others -- a closely guarded sixty-year-old secret -- is revealed for the first time in Flyboys.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=350278 Sailing across the Pacific, the battle-scarred heavy cruiser U.S.S. Indianapolis had just delivered a secret cargo that would trigger the end of World War II. As she was continuing westward, her captain asked for a destroyer escort. He was told it wasnt necessary. But it was. She was torpedoed and sunk by a Japanese submarine. In twelve minutes, some 300 men went down with her. More than 900 others spent four horrific days and five nights in the ocean with no water to drink, savaged by a pitiless sun and swarms of sharks. Incredibly, nobody knew they were out there until a Navy patrol plane accidently discovered them. Miraculously, 316 crewmen still survived. How could this have happened - and why? This updated edition of Abandon Ship!, with a new introduction and afterword by Peter Maas, supplies the chilling answer.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=379601 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=373483 In This Beautiful American Family Album, history comes alive and is preserved in peoples own words, through stories, reflections, and memorabilia of World War II, and through photographs and time lines that commemorate important dates and events. An Army Air Corps veteran who enlisted in 1941 at age seventeen writes to describe the Bataan Death March. A black nurse tells of her encounter with wartime segregation. Other members of the Greatest Generation describe their war -- in such historic episodes as Guadalcanal, the D-Day invasion, the Battle of the Bulge, and Midway -- as well as their lives on the home front. Starting with the Depression and Pearl Harbor, moving on through the war years in Europe, in the Pacific, and at home, this unique book preserves a peoples rich historical heritage and the legacy of a nations heroism in war and its courage in peace -- in the shaping of their lives and of the world we have today. Book jacket.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=364333 During the thirteen days in October 1962 when the United States confronted the Soviet Union over its installation of missiles in Cuba, few people shared the behind-the-scenes story as it is told here by the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy. In a new foreword, the distinguished historian and Kennedy adviser Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. discusses the books enduring importance and the significance of new information about the crisis that has come to light, especially from the Soviet Union. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=373459 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=297488 In 1942 Fred Rochlin joined the Army Air Corps. After eight months of training, he was stationed in Italy, serving as the navigator on a B-24 bomber and flying missions over Germany. Fifty such missions were required for a successful tour of duty. This was the first time that Fred Rochlin had been away from home. He was nineteen years old.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=297490 On the eve of World War II, Americas newest submarine plunged helplessly to the North Atlantic bottom during a test dive. Miraculously, thirty-three crew members still survived. In this thrilling narrative of terror, heroism and courage, prize-winning author Peter Maas brings us a vivid account of the disaster and its outcome. The sub was the Squalus. The man was a U.S. Navy officer, Charles Swede Momsen, an extraordinary combination of visionary, scientist and man of action. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=312397 The Screaming Eagles of the 101st Airborne Division had just finished the battle for the bridge too far, and, as Christmas 1944 approached, they were settling in for some hard-earned R&R. Then Hitler ordered a massive Nazi counterattack through the Ardennes Forest. The Screaming Eagles were rushed to Bastogne, a small Belgian crossroads where seven roads met and where the lightly armed and under-supplied division became the cork in the bottle of the Nazi onslaught. Burgetts stirring memoir (he was 19) recounts how epic courage bought the time needed for Pattons Third Army to redeploy. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=295866 At the dawn of the twentieth century, a great confidence suffused America. Isaac Cline was a scientist who believed he knew all there was to know about the motion of clouds and the behavior of storms. The idea that a hurricane could damage his home city of Galveston, Texas, was to him an absurd delusion, so he ignored unusual weather patterns, ominous signs, and warnings from Cuban meteorologists about an approaching storm. Within hours, at least 6,000 people would lose their lives in what is still the nations deadliest natural disaster -- and Isaac Cline would suffer his own unbearable loss. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=275030 On December 7, 1941, as U.S. battleships lie paralyzed and burning at Pearl Harbor, a crack team of Navy divers was flown to the island of Oahu tasked with rescuing sailors and marines trapped below. The author, the chief diver of the Pearl Harbor salvage operations, tells the story of men who entered the completely black interior of shipwrecks and attempted untested and potentially deadly diving techniques to save their comrades. The author brings their mission vividly to life in a long overdue salute to courageous men who performed a Herculean task. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=266674 Charles Kuralt is a national treasure, a reporter and man of the world who was to many the real and true voice of America. To several generations Kuralt was the Mark Twain of television, a wanderer transfixed by the richness and greatness that he found in practically every corner of the country. The project that Kuralt was working on before he died was An American Moment with Charles Kuralt, a series of brief television essays about the people, places, and ideas that define the national spirit: the man who handcrafts the presidents shoes; the Keeper of the Flame on Liberty Island; Paul Bunyans hometown of Bemidji, Minnesota; the Pony Express Museum; cowboy hats; Ferris wheels; and more. Kuralts longtime friend and CBS colleague Peter Freundlich, who wrote and produced the American Moment series for television in collaboration with Kuralt, has edited and collected the essays for this book.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=273739 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=284048 In this book, one of Americas masters of nonfiction takes us home - into Hometown, U.S.A., the town of Northampton, Massachusetts, and into the extraordinary, and the ordinary, lives that people live there. As Tracy Kidder reveals how, beneath its amiable surface, a small town is a place of startling complexity, he also explores what it takes to make a modern small city a success story. Weaving together compelling stories of individual lives, delving into a rich and varied past, moving among all the levels of Northamptons social hierarchy, Kidder reveals the sheer abundance of life contained within a towns narrow boundaries. Does the kind of small town that many Americans came from and long for, still exist? Kidder says yes, although not quite in the form we may imagine. A book about civilization in microcosm, Home Town makes us marvel afresh at the wonder of individuality, creativity, and civic order - how a disparate group of individuals can find common cause and a code of values that transforms a place into a home. And this book makes you feel you live there.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=220213 The cold war was nearly over by 1986, yet under the sea the deadly game of hide-and-seek played by Soviet and American submarines continued unabated. Off the east coast of America, an aging Soviet ballistic missile sub, a boomer, suffered a crippling accident, coming within moments of a nuclear meltdown. Had her reactors exploded, the radioactivity released into the Gulf Stream would have dwarfed the Chernobyl disaster. This is the gripping, true story of the young Soviet sailors who fought to save their submarine, risking fire, smoke, poison gas, and intense radioactivity. Their secret struggle and sacrifice saved the American coast from nuclear catastrophe. Told in the words of the survivors, it is a story never before revealed outside the submarine community. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=234425 Describes the events of December 7, 1941, before, during, and after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, as well as the reactions of the men who lived through the attack. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=2221 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=127297 In 1939, Andrew A. Rooney was a pretty typical twenty-year-old college boy at Colgate University. He played football, was interested in philosophy, thought he wanted to be a writer (but has no idea how to go about becoming one), and felt the America Firsters made pretty good sense. When he read that Hitler had invaded Poland, his first thought was Where is Brest-Litovsk? followed quickly by How can I get out of this? But, like millions of other Americans in that remarkable time, Andy Rooney eventually found himself in basic training in North Carolina, learning to break down a rifle, launch an artillery round, and defend freedom and democracy. In short order, his unit, the 17th Field Artillery Regiment, was in England receiving further training and waiting for the Normandy invasion to begin. And thats where Andy Rooneys war really began. Andy, whose entire journalistic experience until then had consisted of working on the 17th Field Artillery Regiments newsletter, applied for a transfer to become a correspondent for The Stars and Stripes. And he was accepted. My War is an account of what happened then. Like so many men of his generation, Andy was changed forever on the way from Hamilton, New York, to Berlin. As a correspondent covering the air war, D-Day, the drive across France and the low Countries, the discovery of Hitlers concentration camps, and later operations in the Far East, Andy saw life at the extremes of human experience, and wrote about what he observed, telling soldier-readers in Europe about the war they were fighting. But My War is also the story of a naive, inexperienced kid learning the craft of journalism from the masters of the trade. Reporting beside Ernie Pyle, Homer Bigart, Walter Cronkite, and hundreds of other seasoned professionals, Andy found his lifes work in a way he could probably never have imagined when he was in college.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=211001 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729345 In February of 1861, Abraham Lincoln faced a threat of assassination as he traveled by train from Springfield to Washington for his inauguration. Over thirteen days, legendary detective Allan Pinkerton worked feverishly thwart the plot, assisted by Kate Warne, Americas first female private eye. Pinkerton struggled to unravel the details of the plot, even as he contended with Lincoln and his advisors, who refused to believe that the danger was real. With time running out, Pinkerton took a desperate gamble. Shrouded in secrecy -- and later mired in controversy -- the story of the Baltimore Plot is one of the last great untold tales of the Civil War era.