Marc Aronson, Author . Clarion $20 (238p) ISBN 978-0-618-18179-7
Aronson's opening author's note explains that this title, together with two of his previous books (about John Winthrop and Oliver Cromwell, and about Sir Walter Ralegh) comprise "three acts in the unfolding saga of the period between the
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Marc Aronson, Author . S&S $8.99 (272p) ISBN 978-1-4169-0315-4
In a starred review, PW
wrote, "The author dramatically and convincingly sets the stage for the now infamous 1692 Salem witch trials, then ably deconstructs much of the misinformation that has been perpetuated through popular theories and...
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Marc Aronson, Author . S&S/Atheneum $18.99 (322p) ISBN 978-0-689-86554-1
Conducting a brisk run from early Western civilization to the present, Aronson (Witch Hunt
) gathers historical accounts, literature and artifacts to explore how and why the idea of “race” was invented. He keeps the pace fast and the...
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Marc Aronson, National Geographic, $17.95 (64p) ISBN 978-1-4263-0599-3
Illustrated with full-color photos, this informative and perceptive book focuses on the Riverside Project’s archeological expedition to Stonehenge. Aronson, who visited the team on the dig, provides a fresh first-person perspective as he explains...
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Marc Aronson, Author Clarion Books $24 (192p) ISBN 978-0-395-79729-7
Aronson combines traditional art historical narrative with his personal passion for all of the arts to make a convincing case that pop art, surrealism, dadaism, cubism, abstract expressionism--and all the other ""isms""of convention-defying avant-gar
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Marc Aronson, Author Clarion Books $21.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-395-84827-2
Demonstrating the same keen passion for his subject as in his Art Attack, Aronson examines the life of a contradictory and complex Elizabethan figure, both poet and soldier. As in the best of biographies, the author expands his narrative beyond the...
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Marc Aronson, Author Clarion Books $20 (205p) ISBN 978-0-618-18177-3
A pair of books put historical events in the context of their time. Following Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado, John Winthrop, Oliver Cromwell, and the Land of Promise by Marc Aronson describes the interactions of these two...
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Marc Aronson. S&S/Atheneum, $16.99 (144p) ISBN 978-1-4169-1397-9
Aronson marks the one-year anniversary of the collapse of a Chilean copper mine that entombed miners for more than two months with a riveting, in-depth recounting of the events that held the world rapt. His fluid narrative begins with a brief...
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Marc Aronson. Candlewick, $25.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7636-5025-4
“[T]his book is not and should not be just about Hoover,” Aronson (Trapped) tells readers in the epilogue to this wide-ranging, extensively researched, and detailed biography of the controversial 20th-century FBI director. He’s not kidding: Hoover’s
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Marc Aronson and Adrienne Mayor, illus. by Chris Muller. National Geographic, $18.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-4263-1108-6
What started as a hunch—that the legend of the griffin began with people who had seen fossils of extinct animals—led self-taught scientist Mayor to trace the origins of a myth to a basis in fact. With the suspense of a detective story, the narrative
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Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos. Holt, $22.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-8050-9835-8
Collaborating as their subjects did, Aronson and Budhos (Sugar Changed the World) vividly and intimately recount the story of pioneering war photojournalists Robert Capa (1913–1954) and Gerda Taro (1910–1937). Writing in the present tense to...
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Marc Aronson, Author, Stephanie Anderson, Illustrator . S&S/Atheneum $18.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-689-84864-3
Aronson (Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado
) dramatically and convincingly sets the stage for the now infamous 1692 Salem witch trials, then ably deconstructs much of the misinformation that has been perpetuated through popular theories...
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Mark Aronson, Author, Marc Aronson, Author . Viking $15.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-670-06066-5
Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated on June 4, 1968, just after winning the California Democratic primary. Many Americans remember him as a passionate, hardworking man who fought for fairer working conditions, civil rights, health care and education...
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Candy J. Cooper with Marc Aronson. Bloomsbury, $18.99 (256p) ISBN 978-1-5476-0232-2
Effectively chronicling the Flint water crisis, investigative reporter Cooper and author Aronson (Rising Water) unearth the complex underpinnings of this tragedy. Placing later events in context with a history of Flint’s rise from a trading village...
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Marc Aronson. Candlewick, $29.99 (440p) ISBN 978-0-7636-5137-4
In this ambitious, richly visual “biography of an island and an idea,” Aronson (Poisoned Water) covers 400 years of Manhattan history, beginning with Munsee and Lenape agriculture and continuing through Civil War draft riots, AIDS activism, and...
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