“Whoever Fights Monsters is now more than 20 years old … but it’s not dated …. A strong, fast-moving read, detailed but not pedantic, and the voice is knowledgeable without bragginess or condescension. An A-plus plane read.” Sarah D. Bunting, editor-in-chief and publisher of The Blotter, a crime books blog, March 2013. Whoever Fights Monsters: […]
Books
Absolute Zero
ABSOLUTE ZERO AND THE CONQUEST OF COLD. Available in paperback, and also as an e-book. In a sweeping yet marvelously concise science adventure story, rich with historical characters, including Galileo, Newton, and Einstein, ABSOLUTE ZERO AND THE CONQUEST OF COLD takes the reader on a journey in which the extraordinary secrets of cold are teased […]
Edith and Woodrow
EDITH AND WOODROW: A PRESIDENTIAL ROMANCE Less than a year after President Woodrow Wilson’s first wife had died, he met Edith Bolling Galt, widowed, lovely, adventurous, independent in spite of a genteel Southern upbringing, and the proprietress of Washington’s best jewelry store. She instantly captivated the president, and with an instinctive grasp of politics became […]
Terrors and Marvels
TERRORS AND MARVELS: How Science and Technology Changed the Character and Outcome of World War II. In papeback as LABORATORY WARRIORS. “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 Gilded Leaf
THE GILDED LEAF: TRIUMPH, TRAGEDY, AND TOBACCO: Three Generations of the R. J. Reynolds Family and Fortune, by Patrick Reynolds and Tom Shachtman THE GILDED LEAF is the riveting, dramatic saga of the R. J. Reynolds tobacco family, one of America’s richest and most intensely private clans. R.J. was the original founder of the company […]
Torpedoed!
Torpedoed: An American Businessman’s True Story of Secrets, Betrayal, Imprisonment in Russia, and the Battle to Set Him Free. By Edmond D. Pope and Tom Shachtman It was the year 2000. Edmond D. Pope, former U.S. Naval Intelligence officer, then a private businessman, was in Russia looking for new technology to import to the United […]