"The Inquisition in Hollywood" examines the suppression of radical political activity in the film industry from the days of the Great Depression through the tumultuous House Un-American Activities Commission era to the waning days of the infamous blacklist. Although this thirty-year period of Americ[...]
A remarkable analysis to the study of modern history's most famous general and statesman. As Englund charts Napoleon's dramatic rise and fall - from his Corsican boyhood, his French education, his military victories and acts of reform as First Consul (1799-1804) to his controversial record as empero[...]