James Robenalt: 4 books
January 1973
Watergate, Roe v. Wade, Vietnam, and the Month That Changed America Forever
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
In January 1973, politics in America changed forever as, in the span of 31 days, the Watergate burglars went on trial, the Nixon administration negotiated an end to the Vietnam War, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Roe v. Wade, Lyndon Johnson died in Texas, and Richard Nixon was sworn in for...
Ballots and Bullets
Black Power Politics and Urban Guerrilla Warfare in 1968 Cleveland
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
On July 23, 1968, police in Cleveland battled with black nationalists in a night of terror that saw 6 people killed and at least 15 wounded. The gun battle touched off days of heavy rioting. The question was whether the shootings were the result of a planned attack on white police, or a matter of...
The Harding Affair
Love and Espionage during the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Warren Harding fell in love with his beautiful neighbor, Carrie Phillips, in the summer of 1905, almost a decade before he was elected a United States Senator and fifteen years before he became the 29th President of the United States. When the two lovers started their long-term and torrid affair,...
Linking Rings
William W. Durbin and the Magic and Mystery of America
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
“So how to tell of the life of a magician whose vocation was politics? A simple biography was out of the question. All of the hard research led to an idea. Why not travel back in time for one night to meet the old wizard himself in a car ride that actually did take place at the end of his life?...