Thomas Fensch: 19 books
Steinbeck and Covici
The Story of a Friendship
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2014
John Steinbeck's first three books were published by firms that disappeared during The Great Depression. Publisher Pascal Covici read them and decided to publish Steinbeck; first with his own firm, Covici-Friede, then with The Viking Press, where Covici moved, as editor. Steinbeck stayed with Covici...
Oskar Schindler and His List
The Man, The Book, The Film, The Holocaust and Its Survivors
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2015
Canadian Journalist Herbert Steinhouse met Oskar Schindler in1946; Schindler told Steinhouse his story. At first, Steinhouse didn't believe him,. but by 1949, Steinhouse had written an article "The Man Who Saved 1,000 LIves." That article pre-dates -- and validates --all subsequent Schindler research....
The Man Who Was Walter Mitty
The Life and Work of James Thurber
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
This book offers new insights into James Thurber, the man who has been called "America's Twentieth Century Mark Twain." The book places Thurber in the context of his early years in Ohio -- his highly dysfunctional family, his curious relatives -- his memory -- which evolved into his fictional world of...
The Man Who Was Dr Seuss
The Life and Work of Theodor Geisel
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
"The Man Who Was Dr. Seuss" is the first personal AND literary biography of Theodor Geisel, known world-wide for classic children's books such as "Green Eggs and Ham"; "How the Grinch Stole Christmas!" and many others. It shows the morals that children instinctively understand from such simple story-telling;...
by Thomas Fensch
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2014
This is the complete formerly Top Secret record of the C.I.A. and the U-2 spy plane program. The U-2 was a spy plane that could fly at 70,000 feet, above the radar of any other country. To build such an aircraft was a daunting task. But on May 1, 1960 ,one U-2 was shot down over Russia; pilot Francis...
by Thomas Fensch
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
Although Elvis Presley was never accused of a crime, FBI files about him show the theft of an executive jet he owned, which the FBI had to track down, death threats, blackmail threats and other matters the FBI had to handle confidentially. This book shows the dark side of American fame. 165 pages. Contains an Appendix of 36 facsimile pages of original FBI documents.
by Thomas Fensch
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
In this captivating anthology of interviews with a great American humorist, the inimitable James Thurber can be heard again, sharIng his memories and insights and regaling us with his wit and imagination. In these pages one can hear Thurber again and can visualize the Thurber men, the Thurber women,...
The Man Who Changed His Skin
The Life and Work of John Howard Griffin
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
John Howard Griffin was a Texan who traveled to France at 15, alone and was in France when World War Two began. He helped rescue French Jews and was hunted by the Gestapo before he was 2,. He came back to the U.S., joined the Army Air Force and was stationed in the South Pacific. He became blind during...
by Thomas Fensch
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
When John Steinbeck published "The Grapes of Wrath"in 1939- -- it generated a whirlwind of controversy . Some -- including J.Edgar Hoover and his FBI - -believed Steinbeck was a communist. The FBI files, many meaningless, cost Steinbeck a commission as an officer in the Army during World War Two. By...
Of Sneetches and Whos and the Good Dr. Seuss
Essays On the Writings and Life of Theodor Geisel
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Children and adults alike remember Dr. Seuss's cat in the hat, the culinary delight to be found in green eggs and ham and the fate of the Grinch who stole Christmas. What few know is that Theodor Seuss Geisel's first book came to him while returning from Europe aboard an ocean liner; he found himself...
The Sordid Hypocrisy of to Protect and to Serve
Police Brutality, Corruption and Oppression in America
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
This book traces brutality, corruption and oppression in major police departments throughout the United States: from the Rodney King beating, caught on videotape in Los Angeles in 1991; corruption in the Albuquerque Police Department; a 62-police vehicle chase in Cleveland which resulted in the deaths...
by Thomas Fensch
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2014
This is the complete 580-page FBI file on the kidnapping of the baby son of aviator Charles Lindbergh. Although the crime occurred in New Jersey, the FBI maintained its own records of the case. It was the first "Crime of the Century" in the U.S. Bruno Richard Hauptmann was eventually arrested for...
Steinbeck's Bitter Fruit
From the Grapes of Wrath to Occupy Wall Street
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
John Steinbeck published his epic novel "The Grapes of Wrath" in 1939--after observing the plight of he homeless and the dispossessed--the Okies-- "The Grapes of Wrath is now considered the seminal work of the Depression years. "Steinbeck's bitter fruit" is a two-part pat analysis--Steinbeck's work during...
At the Dangerous Edge of Social Justice
Race, Violence and Death in America
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
"at the dangerous edge of social justice" is a searing indictment of reprehensible - and often -- murderous racism in America -- from Huck Finn and Nigger Jim on the Mississippi, to the murder of Emmett Till in in Mississippi, in 1955, the murder of Medgar Evers in 1963, Malcolm X in 1965, Martin Luther...
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