Tom Shachtman, Author . FSG/North Point $24 (286p) ISBN 978-0-86547-687-5
A teenage Amish girl sits in her buggy, one hand dangling a cigarette while the other holds a cellphone in which she is loudly chatting away. This girl, like many Amish teens 16 and older, is in a period called rumspringa, when the strict rules of...
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Tom Shachtman, Author . St. Martin's $24.99 (273p) ISBN 978-0-312-57075-0
One of the true global cultural exchange programs that paid huge dividends, the African American Students Foundation (AASF), is the timely topic of Shachtman's (Rumspringa
) new book. The brainchild of Kenyan politician Tom Mboya and American...
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Tom Shachtman, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $28 (336p) ISBN 978-0-15-100077-7
After a year interviewing small business owners in one Manhattan community, Shachtman (Skyscraper Dreams) suggests we could do worse than become a nation of shopkeepers. His template is West 17th and 18th Streets (PW's neighborhood), including the...
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Tom Shachtman, Author Little Brown and Company $22.95 (354p) ISBN 978-0-316-78213-5
Shachtman, coauthor of The Gilded Leaf , contends that skyscraper mania--the compulsion to alter and claim part of the New York City skyline and increasingly costly square feet of property--animates successors to the Astors and Rockefellers,...
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Tom Shachtman, Author Henry Holt & Company $14.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-8050-1285-9
Londoners Jamie and Tim are vacationing at the home of Tim's grandparents. One night the boys are told the legend surrounding this English village--that a mystical ``power'' lurking beneath the crypt of a disused church has arbitrarily killed at the
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Tom Shachtman, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $25 (272p) ISBN 978-0-395-93888-1
This uneven narrative history of scientific and commercial cooling seeks to elucidate the very nature of cold. The concept that cold was simply the absence of heat was itself a long time coming. The 17th-century English natural philosopher Robert...
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Tom Shachtman. Palgrave Macmillan, $27 (256p) ISBN 978-1-137-27825-8
The “American Experiment” was not a metaphor in the eyes of our Founding Fathers, according to journalist Shachtman (Rum-springa: To Be or Not to Be Amish) in this lively history of 18th-century science. Retiring early after making his fortune,...
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Tom Shachtman, Author, Jimmy Carter, Introduction by Simon & Schuster $16 (88p) ISBN 978-0-671-67705-3
Former President and First Lady Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter are more than Habitat for Humanity's most famous supporters--they also don overalls and hammers and help with the actual building of the homes done through Habitat's volunteer organization....
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Tom Shachtman, Author, David S. Wyman, Foreword by, Teddy Kollek, Foreword by , forewords by David Wyman and Teddy Kollek, intro. by Mikhail Gorbachev. Newmarket $25.95 (265p) ISBN 978-1-55704-495-2
Billed as "the biography of a remarkable man" and "the story of an organization sponsoring humanitarian aid throughout the world," this is more a collection of often dry facts interspersed with a glowing and frustratingly one-sided...
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Tom Shachtman, Author, Tom Scachtman, Author . Morrow $26.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-380-97876-2
There was more to WWII science than the atomic bomb, demonstrates Shachtman (Absolute Zero and the Conquest of Cold) in his fascinating history of the use of intelligent machines in the conflict. He traces the development of scientifically...
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Len Colodny, Author, Tom Shachtman, Author . Harper $27.99 (489p) ISBN 978-0-06-125389-8
Neoconservative ideologues battle pragmatists by fair means and foul in this scattershot history of American foreign policy. Colodny (Silent Coup
) and Schachtman (Decade
) hang their study on the figure of Fritz Kraemer, an obscure Pentagon analyst,
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Robert K. Ressler, Author, Tom Shachtman, Author, Tom Shactman, With St. Martin's Press $22.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-312-15552-0
During his tenure (1974-1990) with the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit, Ressler plumbed the minds of, and helped to catch, some of the most notorious serial killers of our time. Unfortunately, he detailed much of that work in Whoever Fights Monsters (1
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Thomas Shachtman, Author, Tom Shachtman, Author Free Press $25 (296p) ISBN 978-0-02-928375-2
Shachtman's (Skyscraper Dreams) latest seems to start out as an intriguing study of the fate of conversation and Socratic dialogue in America. But the study of such an elusive topic would require a great deal of supposition, and apparently Shachtman
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Tom Shachtman. St. Martin’s, $27.99 (368p) ISBN 978-1-250-08087-5
Author and filmmaker Shachtman (Gentlemen Scientists and Revolutionaries) highlights France’s role in securing American independence in this otherwise familiar story of the Revolutionary War. Without French recognition and support, he argues,...
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Tom Shachtman. St. Martin’s, $29.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-250-16476-6
Historian Shachtman (How the French Saved America) offers a comprehensive survey of the economic factors that led to the Revolutionary War and explores how wealthy merchants, plantation owners, and privateers supported and benefited from the...
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