Author Kati Marton follows these nine over the decades as they flee fascism and anti-Semitism, seek sanctuary in England and America, and set out to make their mark. The scientists Leo Szilard, Edward Teller, and Eugene Wigner enlist Albert Einstein to get Franklin Roosevelt to initiate the development of the atomic bomb. Along with John von ...
A hugely appealing book reveals the ways in which presidential marriages have affected the tone, character, and policies of 12 administrations, from Woodrow and Edith Wilson to George W. and Laura Bush. Photos throughout.
In this study of 12 presidential marriages of the 20th century, Kati Marton examines how the unique synergy brought about by these marriages substantially influenced presidential power. She also looks at the individual ways each presidential wife expanded her constitutionally undefined role, and how each one shaped the public's expectations.
Here is a paperback reprint of the acclaimed and riveting story of the 1948 murder of the dogged and renowned CBS correspondent George Polk and the Cold War politics that protected his killers. Acclaimed journalist Marton is the former Bonn bureau chief for ABC News. 32 pages of photographs. To be a major movie starring Mel Gibson.
Here is a paperback reprint of the acclaimed and riveting story of the 1948 murder of the dogged and renowned CBS correspondent George Polk and the Cold War politics that protected his killers. Acclaimed journalist Marton is the former Bonn bureau chief for ABC News. 32 pages of photographs. To be a major movie starring Mel Gibson.
January 17, 1995, marks the 50th anniversary of the disappearance of Raoul Wallenberg, one of the greatest heroes of the Holocaust. Here is an authoritative account of Wallenberg's days in Budapest, his mysterious disappearance into Soviet prisons, and the most detailed account available of how he saved over 100,000 Jews from Nazi death camps. 8 ...
A dramatic account of the forces that propelled the Israeli Stern Gang to its 1948 assassination of the first mediator in the Arab-Israeli conflict. This book illuminates the forces that first dictated the tactics of violence in Israel and that continue to shape the thinking of those now determined to block accommodation with the Palestinians. 16 ...
On the evening of September 17, 1948, a car carrying Count Folke Bernadotte, the first United Nations-appointed mediator in the Middle East, traveled up a narrow Jerusalem street. As the car shifted gears for the climb toward the New City, an Israeli Army jeep nosed into the road, forcing Bernadotte's car and the two following him to come to a ...
The Committee to Protect Journalists is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization founded in 1981 it monitors abuses of the press and to promote press freedom internationally. CPJ is the only organization in the United States with a full-time staff devoted to documenting and responding to violations of press freedoms. Drawn from the first-hand ...
In a dark, compelling narrative of secrecy and betrayal, "New York Times"-bestselling author Marton trolls the archives of the Hungarian secret police to piece together her parents' imprisonment in and flight from Hungary in the mid-1950s.
In this true-life thriller, Kati Marton draws on her skill as an investigative reporter to discover who her journalist parents really were---and how they survived the Nazis in Budapest and imprisonment by the Soviets during the Cold War.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780393024203ISBN:0393024202
Description: A wonderful copy with some minor edgewear to the cover. Dust Jacket may have chips and close tears. -, Hard Cover, Very Good / Good. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
Date Published: 17/03/2008
ISBN-13:9780743261166ISBN:074326116X
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