Edward J Renehan: 4 books
The Kennedys at War
1937-1945
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2002
A dramatic, fascinating–and revisionist–narrative detailing how America’s first family was changed utterly during World War II. First-rate history grounded in scholarship and brought to life by a critically acclaimed author.
From breathless hagiographies to scandal-mongering exposés,...
Commodore
The Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
Armed with a trove of previously unreleased archives, Edward J. Renehan Jr. offers a compelling portrait of Cornelius Vanderbilt, who built large shipping and rail enterprises into cornerstones of the American economy, and amassed one of the greatest fortunes the world has ever known. This is the...
Dark Genius of Wall Street
The Misunderstood Life of Jay Gould, King of the Robber Barons
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2008
Though reviled for more than a century as Wall Street's greatest villain, Jay Gould was in fact its most original creative genius. Gould was the robber baron's robber baron, the most astute financial and business strategist of his time and also the most widely hated. In Dark Genius of Wall Street,...
The Lion's Pride
Theodore Roosevelt and His Family in Peace and War
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 1999
In The Lion's Pride, Edward J. Renehan, Jr. vividly portrays the grand idealism, heroic bravery, and reckless abandon that Theodore Roosevelt both embodied and bequeathed to his children and the tragic fulfillment of that legacy on the battlefields of World War I. Drawing upon a wealth of previously...