Joe is a young man on the run during the Great Depression. A late-summer night finds him alone and shivering beside a railroad track in the Adirondack mountains when a private railcar passes. Brightly lit windows reveal well-dressed men at a table and, in another compartment, a …
The hero of this dazzling novel by American master E. L. Doctorow is Joe, a young man on the run in the depths of the Great Depression. A late-summer night finds him alone and shivering beside a railroad track in the Adirondack mountains when a private railcar passes.
Robert Mallon and Detective Lydia Marks investigate a murder victim's life, a case that brings them into conflict with an underworld of dark secrets and deadly hatreds masterminded by an amoral predator who runs a training camp for killers.
A retired land developer and millionaire, Robert Mallon meets a young woman whom he saves from suicide. A few hours later, however, she shoots herself, and Robert feels that he should have done more to help her. Guilt drives him to hire his old partner and now a private investig…
The author, a prize-winning journalist here delivers a full-fledged history not just of the Man of Steel but of the creators, designers, owners, and performers who made Superman the icon he is today.
The author, a prize-winning journalist here delivers a full-fledged history not just of the Man of Steel but of the creators, designers, owners, and performers who made Superman the icon he is today.
The author, a prize-winning journalist here delivers a full-fledged history not just of the Man of Steel but of the creators, designers, owners, and performers who made Superman the icon he is today.
Kritische geschiedenis van de binnenlandse veiligheidsdienst van de Verenigde Staten, het Federal Bureau of Investigation.
A former mistress of the thirty-fifth President breaks forty years of silence to present a memoir of their eighteen-month relationship when she was a college intern at the White House and discusses the effects that keeping silent had on her later life.
Discusses how three companies in the auto industry in the United States fell into bankruptcy, examining various levels of the corporate power structure in Detroit as well the role played by government and business executives in attempting to help fix the problem.
