Thomas Maier
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Meticulously researched, The Kennedys: America's Emerald Kings examines the Kennedys as exemplars of the Irish Catholic experience. Beginning with Patrick Kennedy's arrival in the Brahmin world of Boston in 1848, Thomas Maier delves into the deeper currents of the often spectacular Kennedy story, and the ways in which their immigrant background shaped their values — and, in turn, twentieth century America — for over five generations.
...Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Description
xii, 388 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates : black and white photographs ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Mafia Spies is the definitive account of America's most remarkable espionage plots ever, with CIA agents, mob hitmen, zkompromaty sex, presidential indiscretion, and James Bond-like killing devices together in a top-secret mystery full of surprise twists and deadly intrigue. In the early 1960s, two top gangsters, Johnny Roselli and Sam Giancana, were hired by the CIA to kill Cuba's Communist leader, Fidel Castro, only to wind up murdered themselves...
Author
Series
NASA technical memorandum volume 104006
Pub. Date
[1993]
Physical Description
1 volume.
Language
English
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Description
4 videodiscs (approximately 676 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the lives of sex researchers William Masters and Virginia Johnson. Masters, a successful OB/GYN, is conducting a secret study of human sexuality. Soon, he meets Virginia Johnson, a former nightclub singer who is now part of the hospital secretarial staff. He enlists her help with his study, and she quickly proves to be an asset to Masters' work. Together, they delve deeper than anyone before them into the science of sex and later become...
