Richard Snow
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xi, 287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"On December 16, 1842, the US brig-of-war Somers dropped anchor in Brooklyn Harbor at the end of a cruise intended to teach a group of adolescents the rudiments of naval life. But this seemingly harmless exercise ended in catastrophe. Commander Alexander Slidell Mackenzie came ashore saying he had narrowly prevented a mutiny that would have left him and his officers dead. Some of the thwarted mutineers were being held under guard, but three had been...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xvi, 408 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"By the early 1950s Walt Disney's great achievements in animation were behind him, and he was increasingly bored by the two-dimensional film medium. He wanted to work in three, to build an entirely new sort of amusement park, one that relied more on cinematic techniques than on thrill rides, one from which all tawdriness had been purged. He achieved it, but just barely: he ran out of money, had to borrow against his life insurance, fell out with his...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xii, 395 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
From acclaimed popular historian Richard Snow, the thrilling story of the naval battle that not only changed the course of the Civil War but the future of all sea power. No single sea battle has triggered more far-reaching consequences than the one fought in the harbor at Hampton Roads, Virginia, in March 1862. The Confederacy, with no fleet of its own, built a sloped iron fort containing ten heavy guns on the hull of a captured Union frigate named...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
xv, 364 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An account of Henry Ford's invention of the Model-T offers insight into his mechanical talents and pioneering work in internal combustion, describing his impact on American culture and the perplexing subsequent changes in his personality.
