Charlie Pierces encapsulates his book with this line: “America’s always been a great place to be crazy. It just used to be harder to make a living that way.”

The US presidential election of 1912 had 4 viable candidates and was remarkable in many ways. Moreover, issues from that time are still being debated today.

Paul Bowles was a polymath – composer , author, traveler, and lover of both men and women. This is the story of Paul, his wife Jane, and their unusual life together.

My bar-none favorite author records vehicular adventures – from racing in the creepy Baja California desert to steering a rusted out Soviet army truck.

When first running for the presidency in 1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt said: “I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a New Deal for the American People.”

This is the tragic story of a well-educated, left-leaning, idealistic American being seduced into serving the despotic successors of the Russian Bolsheviks.

This British-Iranian author had rare access to people and places in the toxic underbelly of Iran’s capital, Tehran, where hypocrisy is found at every turn.

The 1960 summer Olympics were the first “modern” games owing to the impact of geopolitics, performance-enhancing drugs, racial issues, and TV broadcasting.

The salacious, unsolved 1947 murder of a beautiful but shadowy young woman in Los Angeles is revisited by a LAPD veteran with a personal connection.

Boston area rabbi Harold Kushner completely re-thought his views on God and His presence in our lives after his young son died from a rare genetic disease.