A profile of ill-fated automobile manufacturer John DeLorean discusses his rise from poverty, career at General Motors, glittering jet-set lifestyle, founding of his own automobile company, and final cocaine bust

Dream Maker: The Rise and Fall of John Z. DeLorean

Srodes, James

Fallon, Ivan.

Business & Money

Putnam Pub. Group

Historian and biographer James Srodes tells Benjamin Franklin's incredible life story, making full use of the previously neglected Franklin papers to provide the most riveting account yet of the journalist, scientist, polilician, and unlikely adventurer. From London, Paris, Philadelphia to his numerous romantic liaisons, Franklin's life becomes a panorama of dramatic history.

Franklin: The Essential Founding Father

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Regnery History

"This marvelously detailed biography of Allen Dulles, one of the few CIA directors who devoted much of his life to intelligence operations, traces much of the history of the United States in the twentieth century through these operations. Dulles's virtues - and weaknesses - are revealed. We are left with a full portrait of an authentic American patriot and statesman." James Schlesinger, former Director of Central Intelligence and Secretary of Defense

Allen Dulles

Few individuals have shaped America's intelligence community and foreign policies as powerfully as Allen Dulles. Presenting previously classified documents and exclusive interviews with eyewitnesses, James Srodes corrects the long-held misconception about this giant on the international political scene.

Allen Dulles: Master of Spies

Regnery Pub.

Prize-winning author James Srodes offers a vivid and scintillating portrait of the twelve young men and women who, on the eve of World War I, came together in Washington, D.C.’s tony Dupont Circle neighborhood. They were ambitious for personal and social advancement, and what bound them together was a sheer determination to remake America and the rest of the world in their progressive image. At one residenceknown ironically as The House of Truthlived Felix Frankfuter, a future Supreme Court Justice, and Walter Lippman, later the most important political writer of the twentieth century. Another house served as the base for three siblings: John Foster Dulles, future Secretary of State, Allen Dulles, one of the founders of the CIA, and sister Eleanor Lansing Dulles, one of the most important economists of the age. Meanwhile, nearby lived young Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, who even then were rising political stars, William Bullitt, a charming and unscrupulous writer and future ambassador, and Herbert Hoover, already the most famous American in the world. The group mixed cocktails, foreign policy, and bed-mates as they set out to remake the world. For the next twenty years they pursued increasingly important careers as their private lives become ever more entangled. By the end of this story, on the eve of WWII, the group came together again for a second chance at historythis time the result was the United Nations.

On Dupont Circle: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and the Progressives Who Shaped Our World

History

Americas

Counterpoint

Sarah Aaronsohn was a twenty-first century woman in a nineteenth-century world. She and her siblings were born as part of the first wave of Jewish immigrants who fled the pogroms of Russia and Eastern Europe in the 1880s, settling in the province of Syria-Palestine. By the outbreak of World War I in 1914 the settlers had come a dramatic distance in creating the Eretz Israel of their Biblical prophecies. Sarah’s home village of Zichron Ya’akov brought prosperity to their lands between the Mediterranean coast and the Mount Carmel range. But when the Ottoman Turkish Empire sided with Kaiser Wilhelm II and the other Central Powers in World War I, the Jewish settlements faced cruel oppressions. This book describes how the Aaronsohns, one of the most prominent families in the province, came to commit themselves and their comrades to the Allied side and how they formed the NILI espionage organization to spy against the Turkish Army. Late in the war, in 1917, Sarah assumed command of the spy network as the group’s penetration of the Turkish army reached a critical juncture. Sarah was idolized by T.E. Lawrence, the fabled Lawrence of Arabia who dedicated his flowery biography, The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, to her.

Spies in Palestine: Love, Betrayal and the Heroic Life of Sarah Aaronsohn

Community & Culture

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Dream Maker: The Rise and Fall of John Z. DeLorean

Franklin: The Essential Founding Father

Franklin: The Essential Founding Father

Allen Dulles

Allen Dulles: Master of Spies

On Dupont Circle: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and the Progressives Who Shaped Our World

On Dupont Circle: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and the Progressives Who Shaped Our World

Spies in Palestine: Love, Betrayal and the Heroic Life of Sarah Aaronsohn

Spies in Palestine: Love, Betrayal and the Heroic Life of Sarah Aaronsohn