Richard Snow, Author . Scribner $27 (353p) ISBN 978-1-4165-9110-8
Former American Heritage
editor-in-chief Snow brings long experience to this graphic account of the Battle of the Atlantic. He seasons it heavily with the letters of his father, who was an officer on one of the U.S. destroyer escorts vital to the U-
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Richard Snow. Scribner, $28 (384p) ISBN 978-1-4516-4557-6
By breaking up the trajectory of this complicated figure’s life into neat, digestible segments, Snow—a novelist, poet, and former editor-in-chief of American Heritage magazine—delivers a highly readable biographical account of Ford’s ascendance to...
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Richard Snow. Scribner, $30 (384p) ISBN 978-1-4767-9418-1
Historian Snow (I Invented the Modern Age) captures the drama of the most well-known naval confrontation of the Civil War in this swift-moving narrative. Snow argues that the creation and immediate deployment of ironclad vessels symbolized the...
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Richard Snow. Scribner, $30 (384p) ISBN 978-1-5011-9080-3
Former American Heritage editor-in-chief Snow (Iron Dawn) tells the story of Disneyland from the park’s ground-breaking to its five-year anniversary in this immensely readable history. According to Snow, Walt Disney was inspired to create the world’s
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Richard Snow. Scribner, $29 (304p) ISBN 978-1-982-18544-2
Historian Snow (Disney’s Land) examines in this gripping narrative the mystery surrounding the 1842 execution of three sailors aboard the training vessel USS Somers. One of the ship’s young recruits was midshipman Phillip Spencer, a teenager who was
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