John Christgau: 3 books
Michael and the Whiz Kids
A Story of Basketball, Race, and Suburbia in the 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Imagine a boy, five feet tall and one hundred pounds, who wants to play high school basketball. Now imagine that he was blind until the age of six and that he’s the first black student to attend his suburban school. And there you have Michael Thompson in 1965 in San Bruno, California. He played...
Incident at the Otterville Station
A Civil War Story of Slavery and Rescue
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
While elated Northerners were celebrating victory at Gettysburg and toasting Abraham Lincoln as the Great Emancipator, Missourian Charles W. Walker was rousing his thirteen slaves in the dark of night. In defiance of a standing Union order prohibiting the transfer of slaves among states, he intended...
Sierra Sue Ii
The Story of a P-51 Mustang
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2000
During World War II, 15,000 P-51 Mustang fighter planes were produced by North American Aviation. Arguably the best fighter plane ever made, today there are less than a hundred left flying in the world. Of those, only a handful saw combat. Sierra Sue: The Story of a P-51 Mustang is the story of one...