Richard Zacks: 5 books

Book cover of An Underground Education

An Underground Education

The Unauthorized and Outrageous Supplement to Everything You Thought You Knew Ab out Art, Sex, Business, Crime, Science, Medicine, and Other Fields of Human

by Richard Zacks
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2010

The best kind of knowledge is uncommon knowledge. Okay, so maybe you know all the stuff you're supposed to know--that there are teenier things than atoms, that Remembrance of Things Past has something to do with a perfumed cookie, that the Monroe Doctrine means we get to take over small South...
Book cover of Island of Vice

Island of Vice

Theodore Roosevelt's Quest to Clean Up Sin-Loving New York

by Richard Zacks
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012

A ROLLICKING NARRATIVE HISTORY OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT'S EMBATTLED TENURE AS POLICE COMMISSIONER OF CORRUPT, PLEASURE-LOVING NEW YORK CITY IN THE 1880s, AND HIS DOOMED MISSION TO WIPE OUT VICE In the 1890s, New York City was America’s financial, manufacturing, and entertainment capital, and...
Book cover of Chasing the Last Laugh

Chasing the Last Laugh

Mark Twain's Raucous and Redemptive Round-the-World Comedy Tour

by Richard Zacks
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016

From Richard Zacks, bestselling author of Island of Vice and The Pirate Hunter, a rich and lively account of how Mark Twain’s late-life adventures abroad helped him recover from financial disaster and family tragedy—and revived his world-class sense of humor Mark Twain, the highest-paid...
Book cover of The Pirate Hunter

The Pirate Hunter

The True Story of Captain Kidd

by Richard Zacks
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2003

Everybody knows the legend of Captain Kidd, America's most ruthless buccanneer. Few people realize that the facts of his life make for a much better tale. Kidd was actually a tough New York sea captain hired to chase pirates, a married war hero whose secret mission took a spectacularly bad turn. This...
Book cover of The Pirate Coast

The Pirate Coast

Thomas Jefferson, the First Marines, and the Secret Mission of 1805

by Richard Zacks
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005

A real-life thriller--the true story of the unheralded American who brought the Barbary Pirates to their knees. In an attempt to stop the legendary Barbary Pirates of North Africa from hijacking American ships, William Eaton set out on a secret mission to overthrow the government of Tripoli....
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