Fred L Israel

A biography of the German immigrant whose family came to the United States to escape Nazi persecution of Jews and who served this country as secretary of state under two Presidents.

Elections, Constitution, and Index (REFERENCE SECTION)

Essays and documents provide a comprehensive analysis of the issues and events of each presidential election.

In the fields of health and medicine, the years following the end of the Civil War to the beginning of the 20th Century marked a time when diseases almost now forgotten - tuberculosis, diphtheria, typhus, smallpox, yellow fever - caused enormous suffering and this is the story of how this has changed.

Contains forty-two essays that explore the education of U.S. presidents from George Washington to George W. Bush, and discusses how each man's background and educational experiences influenced his performance as leader of the nation. Includes illustrations and sidebars.

Reprints reports and photographs that appeared in "National Geographic" magazine in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, which tell of the discoveries made by archaeologists on some of their first investigations of ancient Mayan and Aztec civilizations.