Overview :In September 1869, two young speculators, Jay Gould and Jim Fisk, Jr., undertook perhaps the most audacious financial operation in American ... Read More
Overview :Lev Davidovich Trotsky burst onto the world stage in November 1917 as co-leader of a Marxist Revolution seizing power in Russia. It made him... Read More
Overview :Capitol Hill veteran Kenneth Ackerman re-creates an American political landscape where fierce battles for power unfolded against a chivalrou... Read More
Overview :William Magear Tweed, America's most corrupt politician ever, ruled New York City in the 1860s and 1870s. He rigged the votes, bribed the le... Read More
Overview :Every president is shaped by his nominating convention. Lincoln's in 1860 not only was one of the most important, but also the most exciting... Read More