Thurston Clarke: 8 books
by Thurston Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
After John Kennedy's assassination, Robert - formerly his brother's no-holds-barred political warrior - was left stunned and grieving. He was haunted by his brother's murder and by the nation's failure to address its most pressing challenges - race, poverty, and the war in Vietnam....
Ask Not
The Inauguration of John F. Kennedy and the Speech That Changed America
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
2013 is the 50th Anniversary of JFK’s assassination.
A narrative of Kennedy's quest to create a speech that would distill American dreams and empower a new generation, Ask Not is a beautifully detailed account of the inauguration and the weeks preceding it. During a time when America was...
Honorable Exit
How a Few Brave Americans Risked All to Save Our Vietnamese Allies at the End of the War
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
A groundbreaking revisionist history of the last days of the Vietnam War that reveals the acts of American heroism that saved more than one hundred thousand South Vietnamese from communist revenge
In 1973 U.S. participation in the Vietnam War ended in a cease-fire and a withdrawal that included...
Equator
A Journey
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Widely considered a jewel of contemporary travel literature, Equator is Thurston Clarke’s magnificent, witty account of his solo journey along the earth’s torrid midsection—a grueling twenty-five-thousand-mile odyssey that spanned three years and as many continents. His was a perilous trek...
JFK's Last Hundred Days
The Transformation of a Man and the Emergence of a Great President
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
**A Kirkus Best Book of 2013
A revelatory, minute-by-minute account of JFK’s last hundred days that asks what might have been**
Fifty years after his death, President John F. Kennedy’s legend endures. Noted author and historian Thurston Clarke argues that the heart of that legend...
The Last Caravan
1970s in the Sahara: The Natural Disaster that Threatened a Nomadic People with Extinction
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
The Last Caravan is a powerful and dramatic account of how the great African drought of the early 1970s transformed the nomadic Tuareg, the famous blue-veiled men of the Beau Geste legend. Thurston Clarke recounts their story in his words and theirs, allowing them to come to life as they describe...
Pearl Harbor Ghosts
The Legacy of December 7, 1941
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
A landmark book published to rave reviews a decade ago, PearlHarborGhosts has now been updated to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the surprise attack that forever changed the course of history.
Full of gripping drama and vibrant details, here is the intimate human story of the events surrounding...
By Blood and Fire
July 22, 1946: The Attack On Jerusalem's King David Hotel
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
On July 22, 1946 six members of the Irgun, a Jewish underground group headed by future Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, entered the basement of Jerusalem’s King David Hotel and planted seven milk churns filled with explosives underneath the wing housing the headquarters of the British Mandatory...