A. J Baime
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Heroes are often defined as ordinary characters who are thrust into extraordinary circumstances, and through courage and a dash of luck, cement their place in history. Chosen as FDR's fourth-term vice president for his well-praised work ethic, good judgment, and lack of enemies, Harry S. Truman--a midwesterner who had no college degree and had never had the money to buy his own home--was the prototypical ordinary man. Until, that is, he found himself...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xviii, 364 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
hronicles Detroit's dramatic transition from an automobile manufacturing center to a highly efficient producer of World War II airplanes, citing the essential role of Edsel Ford's rebellion against his father, Henry Ford.
Author
Language
English
Description
A riveting biography of Walter F. White, a little-known Black civil rights leader who passed for white in order to investigate racist murders, help put the NAACP on the map, and change the racial identity of America forever
Walter F. White led two lives: one as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance and the NAACP in the early twentieth century, the other as a white newspaperman who covered lynching crimes in the Deep South at the blazing height of racial...
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xiii, 384 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Walter F. White led two lives: one as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance and the NAACP in the early twentieth century; the other as a white newspaperman who covered lynching crimes in the Deep South at the blazing height of racial violence. Born mixed race and with very fair skin and straight hair, White was able to "pass" for white. He leveraged this ambiguity as a reporter, bringing to light the darkest crimes in America and helping to plant the...