Tom Wicker
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
An American hero at the close of World War II, General Dwight Eisenhower rode an enormous wave of popularity into the Oval Office seven years later. Though we may view the Eisenhower years through a hazy lens of 1950s nostalgia, historians consider his presidency one of the least successful. At home there was civil rights unrest, McCarthyism, and a deteriorating economy; internationally, the Cold War was deepening. But despite his tendency toward...
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Joe McCarthy first became visible to the nation on February 9, 1950, when he delivered a Lincoln Day address to local Republicans in Wheeling, West Virginia. That night he declared, "I have here in my hand a list of 205 [members of the Communist Party] still working and shaping policy in the State Department." Anticommunism was already a cause embraced by the Republican Party as a whole; McCarthy tapped into this current and turned it into a flood....
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A fully rounded, objective portrait of our forty-first president. A fascinating, timely glimpse into one of the most powerful families in America today, complete with insights into the reign of George W. Bush, the continued legacy of the Bush family, and contemporary American politics.
Author
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
For twenty-five years Tom Wicker wrote for The New York Times with passion, intelligence, and integrity, educating a generation of readers on important political and social issues of the day. Now, in Tragic Failure, this respected observer of America develops his ideas on the subject of race relations. Not until the civil rights movement of the 1960s, one hundred years after the abolition of slavery, were African-Americans able to achieve a semblance...
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Albino alligator: When a holdup goes terribly wrong, the robbers flee to a local bar, desperately taking everyone inside hostage!
Heroic trio: Three female martial arts experts (each with her own superhero identity) team up to battle a powerful wizard who thinks that if he kidnaps all the babies in China he can eventually dominate the world.
Breach of faith: While investigating the murder of a priest, veteran detective Paul Fein searches for a witness...