Bøger af David Pietrusza

A Documentary Biography of America's Thirtieth President Calvin Coolidge Calvin Coolidge: A Documentary Biography reveals the "album version" of President Calvin Coolidge, featuring extended excerpts and, indeed, often the entire texts of major Coolidge addresses-as well as presenting a host of other illuminating documents, authored both by or about America's vastly underrated thirtieth president. Calvin Coolidge: A Documentary Biography shines a searchlight on Silent Cal Coolidge's world and worldview as no previous book ever has. It's all here: The opposites-attract love story of taciturn Cal Coolidge and his outgoing wife Grace Goodhue Coolidge.Jack Kennedy had his Irish Mafia, Jimmy Carter had his Georgia Mafia. The story of Frank Stearns, Dwight Morrow, and Calvin Coolidge's "Amherst Mafia."Phenomenal vote getter Coolidge won more offices than any other president. The secret of how this painfully shy man did it. His strong appeal to Democrats.The 1919 Boston Police Strike. How a city under siege ultimately makes Calvin Coolidge president.How a runaway 1920 GOP convention stampedes to nominate Coolidge for the vice-presidency.Unbelievable tragedy visits in July 1924 as Calvin Coolidge stands to become president in his own right--the death of his son Cal Jr.The Coolidge presidency: a partnership of three remarkable figures: Coolidge, Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon, and Budget Director Herbert Lord.Coolidge vs. the Klan: reaching out to embattled minorities: Jews, blacks, Catholics.The gutsy Coolidge vetoes.How Coolidge chose "not to run" in 1928.Each entry also includes a revealing explanatory introduction by noted Coolidge scholar and award-winning author David Pietrusza. The book is further augmented by: a Calvin Coolidge fact sheet.a comprehensive Coolidge bibliography.a detailed Coolidge time line.a photo insert plus illustrations throughout the text.an essay detailing recently discovered facts regarding the fabled Coolidge "Persistence" quote.In addition to numerous key speeches and texts from Coolidge himself, the volume includes contemporary readings from: Bruce BartonThe Boston HeraldMarion Leroy BurtonFirst Lady Grace Goodhue CoolidgeVice President Charles G. DawesFrederick H. GillettAl JolsonWalter LippmannJudge Wallace McCamantTreasury Secretary Andrew W. MellonDwight W. MorrowAlexandra Carlisle PfeifferH. I. PhillipsThe Pittsburgh CourierTheodore RooseveltC. Bascom SlempFrank W. StearnsR. M. WashburnPRAISE FOR DAVID PIETRUSZA'S "SILENT CAL'S ALMANACK""Calvin Coolidge was one of the greatest presidents of the 20th century and is certainly the most underrated. This book, compiled by one of my favorite historians, will give readers a full appreciation of why Silent Cal's wisdom shines like a beacon through the fog of historical amnesia."-Jonah Goldberg, author of Liberal Fascism "an authority on the 1920s and [Calvin] Coolidge . . . David Pietrusza has brought Coolidge back to life with his volumes about the president . . ."-Amity Shlaes

From the Council of Trent to Benedict XVI's Motu Proprio A new generation of Catholics is discovering the beauty, reverence, appropriateness, and efficacy of the Tridentine Mass. The Traditional Latin Mass, as the saying goes, is "the Mass the martyrs died for." It is also the Mass the faithful lived for and which gave life to them and to the Church itself. This small volume is designed to humbly guide you in an appreciation of the Traditional Latin Mass' beauties, coherence, logic, aesthetics, glories, and graces. Featuring the works of: The Council of Trent Pius V Pius X Pius XI Pius XII John XXIII Paul VI John Paul II Benedict XVI St. Charles Borromeo Fr. Adrian Fortescue Bl. John Henry Cardinal Newman Alfons Cardinal Stickler Dom Fernand Cabrol Michael Davies Fr. Uwe Michael Lang Bp. Athanasius Schneider Fr. John T. Zuhlsdorf Micheal S. Rose . . . and more.

A treasury of the wit and wisdom of Calvin Coolidge, America's surprisingly eloquent 30th President.You may ask "Why Coolidge?" Everyone asks "Why Coolidge?" We are quite used it. Here is my sound-bite answer (or, at least, one of them): Every politician that comes down the pike, promises you four or five of the same things. He or she will cut taxes, reduce unemployment, spur growth, balance the budget, and suppress inflation. They all promise such things. They never do them--and we fall for it every time.Calvin Coolidge accomplished all of the above--and the historians say he was in office for five years and never did a damn thing. It's time to set the record straight. "Silent Cal's Almanack" includes: The ultimate distillation of Calvin Coolidge political wisdom.A selection of Silent Cal's key speeches.A thought-provoking original biographical essay.A fascinating and unique 50-page portfolio of Coolidge photos, editorial cartoons and campaign memorabilia.A Coolidge timeline.* A Coolidge bibliography."He wrote simply, innocently, artlessly," H. L. Mencken once noted regarding Coolidge's prose, "He forgot all the literary affectations and set down his ideas exactly as they came into his head. The result was a bald, but strangely appealing piece of writing-a composition of almost Lincolnian austerity and beauty. The true Vermonter was in every line of it." Supreme Court Justice David Souter recently wrote of Calvin Coolidge: "The simple beauty of his English prose exceeds anything I could say in praise of it." Featured on the Glenn Beck Show and C-SPAN's BookTV.

INSPIRED BY TRUE STORIES OF DEPRESSION-ERA SING SINGA Brooklyn stickup artist, his taxi-dancing wife, a murderous newspaperman, a risk-taking warden, and a wife with a dark past converge in 1930s Sing Sing heading toward death, redemption-and Ebbets Field. Award-winning author David Pietrusza's Dance Hall: A Novel of Sing Sing unveils a grand and riveting tale of a violent and desperate era, unforgettably narrated in a gripping, often wry, fashion-recorded in tears and punctuated in-rarely innocent-blood. Dance Hall dramatically transports readers to a seedy, volatile 1930s underworld where love and honor and redemption jostle for mere survival with greed and lust and betrayal. Dance Hall unveils the story of a down-on-his-luck Brooklyn stickup artist, his taxi-dancing Filipina spouse, a murderous newspaperman, a risk-taking warden, and a wife with a dark past converging in Sing Sing, destined for love, death, forgiveness, redemption-and Ebbets Field. Dance Hall is so much more than just a heart-pounding crime thriller: it's also an intricate, finely-crafted interweaving of unforgettable characters: a young parish priest gone wrong and then right again, a brutal Bowery killer with escape on his mind, a con man with the vestige of a conscience, a thuggish Garment District goon with a devout sister, a tell-all Broadway gossip columnist with the power to make or break anyone, a rat of an accomplice, a once-disgraced private detective who now surprisingly elevates a principle above a paycheck. Dive into Dance Hall and you live and breathe life inside cold and desperate prison cells; sweaty and often violent Brooklyn dime-a-dance dance halls; crowded tenements, back-alley speakeasies where anything and anybody was for sale; the elegant bastions of the rich and powerful; and of a waiting area for Sing Sing's "Death Row" called "The Dance Hall"-all the while returning you to Depression days when hope reigned supreme. Because hope was all you had.

In these pages Silent Cal Coolidge focuses his famed terse eloquence on the nation's founders, not merely on George Washington's indispensable figure but also on the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, Alexander Hamilton, Washington's fellow Virginia patriots, the Battles of Bunker Hill, Princeton, and Trenton, Ethan Allen's Green Mountain Boys, Boston's Old North Church, Methodist Episcopal Bishop Francis Asbury, and the pivotal role Jewish Americans played in winning of our freedoms.No modern president has spoken so much-or so well-of America's providential genesis. Coolidge turns mere history into a history lesson. David Pietrusza, editor of Silent Cal's Almanack: The Homespun Wit and Wisdom of Vermont's Calvin Coolidge, is also the award-winning author of 1920: The Year of the Six Presidents, 1960: LBJ vs JFK vs Nixon, 1948: Harry Truman's Improbable Victory and the Year that Transformed America, Rothstein: The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius who Fixed the 1919 World Series., and Too Long Ago: A Childhood Memory. A Vanished World.Pietrusza has served on both the national advisory board and the board of directors of the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation. ALSO BY DAVID PIETRUSZA: "SILENT CAL'S ALMANACK""Calvin Coolidge was one of the greatest presidents of the 20th century and is certainly the most underrated. This book, compiled by one of my favorite historians, will give readers a full appreciation of why Silent Cal's wisdom shines like a beacon through the fog of historical amnesia."-Jonah Goldberg, author of Liberal Fascism"David Pietrusza reminds us that decades before the age of the sound bite, Calvin Coolidge mastered the art. But unlike most politicians today, he used few words to say a wisdom-packed mouthful."-David Stokes, author of Apparent Danger-The Pastor of America's First Megachurch and the Texas Murder Trial of the Decade of the 1920s www.davidpietrusza.com

Award-Winning, Veteran Author: Pietrusza’s books on American history include the Edgar Award Finalist Rothstein: The Life, Times and Murder of the Criminal Genius Who Fixed the 1919 World Series and 1920: The Year of Six Presidents. Critics have compared Pietrusza’s work to that of David McCullough, Theodore S. White, H. L. Mencken, Doris Kearns Goodwin, and Gene Fowler.Frequent Media Appearances: He is a frequent guest and talking head about American history on NPR, MSNBC, The History Channel, C-SPAN and more. He has also appeared on Good Morning America, Morning Joe, The Voice of America, ESPN, and AMC.Site-by-Site Walking Tour of Infamous Roaring '20s Manhattan: GANGSTERLAND takes the reader on a journey—street by street, block by block, building by building—through some of the deadliest and juiciest gangster crimes of 1920s Times Square and Upper West Side.Ideal NYC Gift Book: GANGSTERLAND will fit nicely on any Barnes & Noble or Indie NYC display. Perfect for visitors, NYC history buffs, or mafia history enthusiasts.Hundreds of Gangster Tales: Filled with the era’s most fascinating murders and mayhem, like Arnold Rothstein’s storied nights at Lindy’s Restaurant, and his mysterious murder on a dreary Sunday evening in a conference room in Park Central Hotel.Recurring Cast of Characters: In addition to notorious kingpin Arnold Rothstein, Pietrusza introduces wild characters like con artists Nicky Arnstein, Wilson Mizner, and “Dapper Don” Collins; Crooked cops like the NYPD’s Lt. Charles Becker; Baseball’s John J. “Mugsy” McGraw, New York Giants owner Charles A. Stoneham, Giants outfielder Benny Kauff, and the 1919 Black Sox; Politicians “Gentleman Jimmy” Walker, “Big Tim” Sullivan, “Little Tim” Sullivan, Fiorello “The Little Flower” La Guardia, and James J. Hines; and many more.75-100 vintage B&W photographs, advertisements, and sketches

The wild, combative inside story of the most stunning upset in the history of presidential elections: Harry Truman's 1948 victory over Tom Dewey. "Outstanding. . . . by far the best yet about the fateful [1948] election." -Minneapolis Star-Tribune"Coherent, compelling. . . . A skillful, authoritative investigation." -Kirkus Reviews

Award-winning historian David Pietrusza's hard-edged account of the 1960 Presidential Campaign-the bare-knuckle politics of the primaries, the party conventions' backroom dealings, the unprecedented television debates, along with hot-button of race, religion, and foreign policy. And, at the center of it all, three future presidents-LBJ, JFK, and Nixon.

By acclaimed historian David Pietrusza (Rothstein, 1920, 1960, and 1948), the dazzling series of events and amazing cast of characters that comprised the simultaneous rise of Hitler's Third Reich and FDR's New Deal in 1932, thus setting the stage for World War II. During that year, two Depression-battered and humbled nations confronted destiny.

A colourful biography that brings to life the seedy underworld denizens of jazz-age New York City and its unrivaled kingpin, the model for Damon Runyon's Nathan DetroitProves Arnold Rothstein- perhaps the most influential of American criminals- was the mastermind behind the 1919 Black Sox scandal, despite his small role in EIGHT MEN OUT