Michael M Greenburg: 3 books
Peaches & Daddy
A Story of the Roaring 20s, the Birth of Tabloid Media, & the Courtship that Captured the Heart and Imagination of the American Public
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2008
A “lively, intelligently rendered account” of a tabloid romance, scandalous divorce and the rise of yellow journalism in Gilded Age New York (Kirkus Reviews).
Edward “Daddy” Browning was a famously eccentric millionaire when he crossed paths with fifteen-year-old shop clerk and aspiring...
This Noble Woman
Myrtilla Miner and Her Fight to Establish a School for African American Girls in the Slaveholding South
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
The singular biography of a forgotten abolitionist and educator for young adults
Frederick Douglass dismissed Myrtilla's plan to open a school for African American girls in the slaveholding South as "reckless, almost to the point of madness." But Myrtilla Miner, the daughter of poor white farmers...
The Mad Bomber of New York
The Extraordinary True Story of the Manhunt That Paralyzed a City
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
Between 1940 and 1957, 33 bombs--strategically placed in Grand Central, Penn Station, Radio City Music Hall, Macy's and other populous areas of New York--paralyzed the city, sending shockwaves of fear through an unsuspecting public. George Metesky, the “Mad Bomber,” unleashed a reign of terror...