YALE NEEDS WOMEN How the First Group of Girls Rewrote the Rules of an Ivy League Giant Special Surprise:  The author will talk with two women interviewed for the book 1969 was a landmark year. More than 350,000 rock-n-roll fans flocked to Woodstock, the Boeing 747 jumbo jet made its debut, and the Apollo 11 mission put the first two men on the moon. What else?  Yale University, dedicated to graduating “one thousand male leaders every year” finally opened its…

THE CROWDED HOUR Theodore Roosevelt, The Rough Riders and the Dawn of the American Century When America declared war on Spain in 1898, the US Army numbered 26,000 men, scattered around the country.  Hardly an army at all.  In fact, Theodore Roosevelt’s Rough Riders was born out of desperation. At first glance, they were a motley group of volunteers—heavier on Ivy League athletes and Arizona cowboys than traditional soldiers.  But what they lacked in experience, they made up for in…

COAST TO COAST IN 48 HOURS On July 7, 1929, Charles Lindbergh’s dream of coast-to-coast travel came true. That’s when Transcontinental Air Transport (T.A.T.) began providing passenger service between New York and Los Angeles using airplanes by day and trains by night. The ambitious trip across the country on what would become known as the “The Lindberg Line” took 48 hours, cutting the 72 hour travel time by rail alone by two-thirds. A one-way ticket cost $338, more than half…

SHE CAME TO SLAY The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman Everybody knows she was one of the most famous conductors on the Underground Railroad. Everybody knows she risked her life to lead hundreds of slaves to freedom. But there’s so much more to know about the indomitable and indefatigable Harriet Tubman.  She was a fierce suffragist, advocate for the aged, and spy for the Union army.  She was also the first women to lead an armed expedition during the…

THE GHOSTS OF EDEN PARK The Bootleg King, the Women who Pursued Him, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz-Age America Move over Al Capone.  There was once a bigger bootlegger than you.  In the early days of Prohibition, George Remus quit practicing law and started trafficking whiskey.  By the summer of 1921, The teetotaler owned 35 percent of all the liquor in the United States and the title “King of the Bootleggers."  Remus became a multi-millionaire--with the emphasis on multi.…

HONORABLE EXIT How a Few Brave Americans Risked All to Save Our Vietnamese Allies at the End of the War The iconic photograph of the Fall of Saigon shows desperate Vietnamese scrambling to board a helicopter evacuating the last American personnel from Vietnam. It is an image of U.S. failure and shame. Or is it? This groundbreaking revisionist history reveals the less-known acts of American heroism that saved more than one-hundred-thousand South Vietnamese from communist revenge. During those final days,…

WASHINGTON’S END The Final Years and Forgotten Struggle This story begins where most leave off.  After eight years as president, George Washington exits the office and enters what would become the most bewildering stage of his life.  Surrendering power proved to be more difficult than he imagined and brought his life to an end he never expected. Nor will you. With every page turn of this astonishingly true story, you’ll discover something you never knew about Washington’s forgotten last years:…