Philip Bosco
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Explores the era of unbounded optimism on Wall Street leading up to the Stock Market Crash of 1929. Tells the story of how a small group of bankers, brokers and speculators manipulated the market, grew wealthy and helped create the economic boom in the decade preceding the crash. Then discover how the false promise or permanent prosperity came to an abrupt end in 1929 through the recollections of people whose families experienced the crash.
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Horatio Nelson Jackson, an eccentric Vermont doctor, drove from San Francisco to New York City, in 1903 to became the first person to drive an automobile across the continent - a feat never before accomplished. It would mark the beginning of a new era in America and the end of another. It took Lewis & Clark over two years to go from the Atlantic to the Pacific - Horatio went the opposite direction, by means of the "Horseless carriage", in less than...
4) Mark Twain
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Recounts Mark Twain's life told primarily through his own words. Includes interviews with Hal Holbrook, Arthur Miller, William Styron and many others.