Results for "Wallance, Gregory J."

"In Wallance’s bracing narrative, Kennan emerges as a cheerful, deeply decent companion, an uncompromising observer whose greatest strength was his ability to change his mind. He’s a welcome change from the callous imperialists who people most Victorian travelogues, and his humanity allows Into Sibe... Read More about Into Siberia: George Kennan's Epic Journey Through the Brutal, Frozen Heart of Russia

Though she lived only to twenty-seven, Sarah Aaronsohn led a remarkable life. The Woman Who Fought an Empire tells the improbable but true odyssey of a bold young woman—the daughter of Romanian-born Jewish settlers in Palestine—who became the daring leader of a Middle East s... Read More about The Woman Who Fought an Empire: Sarah Aaronsohn and Her Nili Spy Ring

At the height of World War II, lawyers in the U.S. Treasury Department discovered that the highly educated, patrician diplomats in the State Department had covered up reports of the Nazi extermination scheme--and then blocked the rescue of 70,000 Romanian Jews forcibly marched into the Nazi-conquere... Read More about America's Soul in the Balance: The Holocaust, Fdr's State Department, and the Moral Disgrace of an American Aristocracy

In the early 1850s, Arba Crane, a young Harvard Law School graduate, arrived in St Louis to begin his law career. Working alone late in the evenings, Crane forms a friendship with the office janitor, a slave named Dred Scott. As Scott recounts his life as a slave, Crane realizes that Scott has a leg... Read More about Two Men Before the Storm: Arba Crane's Recollection of Dred Scott and the Supreme Court Case That Started the Civil War

In the late nineteenth century, close diplomatic relations existed between the United States and Russia. All that changed when George Kennan went to Siberia in 1885 to investigate the exile system and his eyes were opened to the brutality Russia was wielding to suppress dissent. Over ten months Kenn... Read More about Into Siberia: George Kennan's Epic Journey Through the Brutal, Frozen Heart of Russia

In the late nineteenth century, close diplomatic relations existed between the United States and Russia. All that changed when George Kennan went to Siberia in 1885 to investigate the exile system and his eyes were opened to the brutality Russia was wielding to suppress dissent. Over ten months Kenn... Read More about Into Siberia: George Kennan's Epic Journey Through the Brutal, Frozen Heart of Russia