When Charles Lindbergh won the 1940 presidential election, fear invaded every Jewish household in America. He publicly blamed the Jews for pushing America towards a pointless war with Nazi Germany. This book recounts the menacing years of the...

Offers a sweeping exploration of how American fiction was received in both public and private spheres in the United States before the Civil War. This work takes four antebellum authors - Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Catharine Sedgwick...

In 2008, Mark Beaumont smashed the world record for cycling around the world, by an astonishing 81 days. In 2009, Mark set out on his second ultra-endurance challenge. And this one would involve some very big mountains. This title tells the story...