Depicts the events of 1932, marking the ascent of two political powers that would shape the rest of the twentieth century to come.

Presents a chronicle of the 1920 U.S. presidential election, during which Harding, Wilson, Coolidge, Hoover, and both Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt ran for office and the country began to pass into modern times with the automobile, jazz, and the increase of women voters, campaign spending, radio-broadcast results, and more.

A riveting new account of Theodore Roosevelt's impassioned crusade for military preparedness as America fitfully stumbles into World War I, spectacularly punctuated by his unique tongue-lashings of the vacillating Woodrow Wilson, his rousing advocacy of a masculine, pro-Allied "Americanism," a death-defying compulsion for personal front-line combat, a gingerly rapprochement with GOP power brokers-and, yes, perhaps, even another presidential campaign. Roosevelt...

A site by site, crime by crime, outlaw by outlaw walking tour through the seedy underbelly of Roaring Twenties Manhattan-where gamblers and gangsters, crooks and cops, showgirls and speakeasies ruled the day and, always, the night.Welcome to the kaleidoscopic netherworld of Jazz Age Manhattan. Here in the big city resides a very small world of power and vice, of bright lights and big money, of murder and more murder circling itself like a venomous...