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White Tie and Dagger - Inside Embassy Row: The Story of How Foreign Embassies Spy on the U.S. and Influence American Opinion, Policy and Law Diplomats are astute representatives of their countries, skilled in negotiating, masters of tact, and authorities  about everything you would ever want...

The average spy during the post WW II era never saw the enemy. An informant could be a physicist, a chemist, an engineer, a professor of languages, a counterfeiter, an electronics expert, a communications technician, an airplane pilot, a soldier, a sailor, a cryptologist, a translator of Sanskrit....

“Mrs. Astor's regal poise, so frequently noted by breathless society editors of the day, as often as not was caused by the great brackets of diamonds overspread on her back, which prevented her from sitting back in her chair.” Era of Elegance  is a fascinating chronicle of the New...

At 9:45 p.m. on August 24, 1814, the British set fire to the White House and, within an hour, the Capitol had been gutted.   How could this happen? Simply stated, Washington fell because its defenders did not choose to defend it. The war was not widely supported and the defense of Washington...

Two ten year old boys, Waino and Ivar, returned from hunting one cold winter's day and skied back to the livery stable where Ivar's father boarded horses and mules. As Waino pinged his air rifle at a fence he dreamed about the moose he could have shot. All at once there was a very sad sound. It went...

The neon lights and promised excitement of Hollywood are sure different from the peepers and the cicadas of an Iowa night ― lots better ― at least according to Pa Boyers who had retired to the tinsel city after a fulfilling but hard life as an Iowa farmer. Although Boyers still gets a few hundred...

During the early 20th century, county fairs were anticipated with a passion that might only be compared to the modern fans’ fervor about an approaching Super Bowl.  For most rural families the excitement built all year long, transmitted through the community and magnified to unendurable proportions...

As a nine-year old city boy travels from Des Moines, Iowa by train to visit his grandfather's farm in the early 1900s, he imagines how he will impress his cousins ― with stories of skyscrapers and trolley cars, automobiles and the Union Park Zoo, Ingersoll Amusement Park, and the Capitol ― things...

Bert was nine years old and really needed a dog.  So along came No-Sitch. He was a dog that mooed and  galloped, loped, singlefooted, paced or cantered and often tried to do them all at once.  As a puppy he  stood about two-feet-six in his bare feet and was about three cats long....

Separated from her husband in New York and between jobs, Louise Storr finds herself at the steps of her grandfather's Iowa farm. Grandpa Storr, full of years and wisdom, is a patriarch who has been the master of the Storr lands for generations. Witty and grand, he rules his homestead with a serene...

As a nine-year old city boy travels from Des Moines, Iowa by train to visit his grandfather's farm in the early 1900s, he imagines how he will impress his cousins ― with stories of skyscrapers and trolley cars, automobiles and the Union Park Zoo, Ingersoll Amusement Park, and the Capitol ― things...

Thorne Smith once again has our eyes fastened to the words as he blends satire, charm and imagination into his fascinating story. Mr. Quintus Bland, is he a man or a skeleton? After this well-known photographer attempts to perfect X-ray film, something went terribly awry. Each moment is an...

Mad, Hilarious, Degenerate, or simply Fun Fantasy? Only the reader can decide.  Thorne Smith opens with a fairly normal young executive, Peter Van Dyke, and his young secretary, Jo. Although he is engaged to another, she has far from given up. Laughter ensues as they go from one mishap...