Charles Slack: 2 books
Liberty's First Crisis
Adams, Jefferson, and the Misfits Who Saved Free Speech
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
“Slack engagingly reveals how the Federalist attack on the First Amendment almost brought down the Republic . . . An illuminating book of American history.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review
In 1798, with the United States in crisis, President John Adams and the Federalists in control of...
Hetty
The Genius and Madness of America's First Female Tycoon
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
When J. P. Morgan called a meeting of New York's financial leaders after the stock market crash of 1907, Hetty Green was the only woman in the room. The Guinness Book of World Records memorialized her as the World's Greatest Miser, and, indeed, this unlikely robber baron -- who parlayed a comfortable...