Recounts the remarkable, courageous efforts of the Swedish businessman and diplomat turned guerilla fighter in rescuing tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews

Lost Hero: The Mystery of Raoul Wallenberg

Thurston Clarke

Frederick E. Werbell

Biographies & Memoirs

McGraw=Hill

By Blood and Fire: Attack on the King David Hotel

Arrow Bks.

Equator: A Journey

Travel

Arrow Books, Ltd.

A revelatory, minute-by-minute account of JFK’s last hundred days that asks what might have beenFifty years after his death, President John F. Kennedy’s legend endures. Noted author and historian Thurston Clarke argues that the heart of that legend is what might have been. As we approach the anniversary of Kennedy’s assassination, JFK’s Last Hundred Days reexamines the last months of the president’s life to show a man in the midst of great change, finally on the cusp of making good on his extraordinary promise.Kennedy’s last hundred days began just after the death of two-day-old Patrick Kennedy, and during this time, the president made strides in the Cold War, civil rights, Vietnam, and his personal life. While Jackie was recuperating, the premature infant and his father were flown to Boston for Patrick’s treatment. Kennedy was holding his son’s hand when Patrick died on August 9, 1963. The loss of his son convinced Kennedy to work harder as a husband and father, and there is ample evidence that he suspended his notorious philandering during these last months of his life.Also in these months Kennedy finally came to view civil rights as a moral as well as a political issue, and after the March on Washington, he appreciated the power of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., for the first time.Though he is often depicted as a devout cold warrior, Kennedy pushed through his proudest legislative achievement in this period, the Limited Test Ban Treaty. This success, combined with his warming relations with Nikita Khrushchev in the wake of the Cuban missile crisis, led to a détente that British foreign secretary Sir Alec Douglas- Home hailed as the “beginning of the end of the Cold War.”Throughout his presidency, Kennedy challenged demands from his advisers and the Pentagon to escalate America’s involvement in Vietnam. Kennedy began a reappraisal in the last hundred days that would have led to the withdrawal of all sixteen thousand U.S. militaryadvisers by 1965.JFK’s Last Hundred Days is a gripping account that weaves together Kennedy’s public and private lives, explains why the grief following his assassination has endured so long, and solves the most tantalizing Kennedy mystery of all—not killed him but who he was when he was killed, and where he would have led us.

JFK's Last Hundred Days. An Intimate Portrait of a Great President

History

Americas

Penguin

ISLOMANIA is not really about the famous fictional castaway at all - it is more about the place he was forced to make his temporary home, and other places like it. Renowned travel writer Thurston Clarke has long been obsessed with islands, an affliction he calls 'islomania', and his new book is a kind of love letter to these little (and not so little) worlds surrounded by sea. Beginning with the accepted model for Robinson Crusoe's remote abode, Mas a Tierra in the Pacific, Clarke then takes us on a hugely enjoyable tour of his favourite islands, exploring their geography, history and culture. From George Orwell's Jura, where he wrote '1984', to the beautiful (but slowly sinking) Maldives in the Indian Ocean, this is a book about some of the most curious and evocative places on earth. And over every island falls the shadow of Crusoe, persuading us that islands are more liberating than confining, more contemplative than lonely, more holy than barbaric ...

Islomania : A Journey Among the Last Real Islands

ABACUS +

Board a train to exotic Istanbul or snake through the Canadian Rockies. Head into the Yangtze's wild gorges on a riverboat. Take an African safari by Jeep and hot-air balloon, or ride an elephant to an ancient Indian citadel. Great journeys invite great adventures, as travelers from the past have vividly recounted. In Great Journeys of the World join our writers and photographers as they recapture the romance of storied excursions across four continents. Enthralling stories and more than 200 matchless photographs take you on some of the world's truly great journeys.

NG Destinations, Great Journeys of the World (National Geographic Destinations)

Cynthia Russ Ramsay

Patrick R. Booz

Ron Risher

Elisabeth Benson Booz

Travel Writing

National Geographic Society

(from the back cover) "The Last Campaign is  a great read, an evocative ad engaging reminder of the glory and the tragedy of Bobby Kennedy's run for the presidency is 1968. Thurston Clarks's keey eye for the telling detail and his fast-paced narrative make The Last Campaign a must-have fur any student of American Politics." - Tom Brokaw

The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America by Thurston Clarke (2008) Paperback

Leaders & Notable People

Henry Holt and Company, LLC

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