Douglas Brinkley, Author, Julie M. Fenster, Author . Morrow $24.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-06-077684-8
Fr. Michael McGivney (1852–1890) is under consideration for sainthood in the Roman Catholic Church. So why has almost no one heard of this Connecticut parish priest who helped to transform American Catholicism? McGivney entered seminary when...
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Debbie Wasserman Schultz, with Julie M. Fenster. St. Martins, $25.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-00099-6
In this rote, camera-ready recitation of the party platform, Democratic National Committee Chair Wasserman Schultz hews close to official talking points. The youngest woman ever elected to the Florida State Legislature, only the third woman to head...
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Julie M. Fenster, Author . HarperCollins $24 (278p) ISBN 978-0-06-019523-6
The fates of the men involved in the first use of anesthesia in surgery—in Boston, on October 16, 1846—and its aftermath read like a tragedy by Aeschylus or Racine. Fenster, a columnist for American Heritage
and a contributor to the...
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Julie M. Fenster, Author . Crown $25 (400p) ISBN 978-0-609-61096-1
In February 1908, six teams entered an automobile race heading west from New York to Paris. It's difficult to overstate the audacity of this project: still crude, most autos died after about 10,000 miles; the prospect of nearly 22,000 miles of...
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Julie M. Fenster. Crown, $30 (368p) ISBN 978-0-307-95648-4
Fenster (FDR’s Shadow), a specialist in 19th-century American history, details the political strategies behind President Thomas Jefferson’s decision to dispatch teams of explorers to the vast lands west of the Mississippi River. During Jefferson’s...
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Julie M. Fenster, Author, Douglas Brinkley, Foreword by Palgrave MacMillan $24.95 (255p) ISBN 978-1-4039-7635-2
In excruciating detail, author Fenster chronicles the 1856 case of murdered blacksmith George Anderson, and the role of young Illinois attorney and former congressman Abraham Lincoln. As the early days of the murder investigation unfold, a parallel...
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