Bernstein: 367 books
Bath Massacre
America's First School Bombing
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2009
"With the meticulous attention to detail of a historian and a storyteller's eye for human drama, Bernstein shines a beam of truth on a forgotten American tragedy. Heartbreaking and riveting."
---Gregg Olsen, New York Times best-selling author of Starvation Heights
"A chilling and...
by Matthew Bernstein
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
“Music Soothes the Soul” features engaging stories from seventy musicians, artists, scientists and entrepreneurs who show how music can positively impact our lives. These personal narratives demonstrate that music truly is a universal language.
“Music Soothes the Soul” reveals the worlds...
Disturbed in Their Nests
A Journey from Sudan's Dinkaland to San Diego's City Heights
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Nineteen-year-old refugee Alephonsion Deng, from war-ravaged Sudan, had great expectations when he arrived in America three weeks before two planes crashed into the World Trade Towers. Money, he'd been told, was given to you in pillows. Machines did all the work. Education was free.
Suburban...
Raising Lombardi
What It Takes to Claim Football's Ultimate Prize
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
To raise it means you've won it, and to win it means you've survived an epic journey fraught with peril and untold adversity. The highly anticipated sequel to Raising Stanley has arrived. Ross Bernstein, the best-selling author of nearly 50 sports books, including The Code: Football's Unwritten Rules...
Promises Kept
John F. Kennedy's New Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1993
A counter-revisionist examination of JFK and his administration, Promises Kept presents a policy history of major domestic legislative efforts between 1961 and 1963. Bernstein focuses on administraive and congressional progress under Kennedy in civil rights, education, taxes, unemployment, Medicare,...
Swastika Nation
Fritz Kuhn and the Rise and Fall of the German-American Bund
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
In the late 1930s, the German–American Bund, led by its popinjay dictator Fritz Kuhn, was a small but powerful national movement in pre-World War II America, determined to conquer the United States government with a fascist dictatorship. They met in private social halls and beer garden backrooms,...
Raising Stanley
What It Takes to Claim Hockey's Ultimate Prize
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Steeped in a history and tradition that spans three centuries, the Stanley Cup is without question the most unique and storied trophy in all of professional sports. Ross Bernstein, the bestselling author of more than 40 sports books, interviewed more than 100 current and former NHL players and coaches...
by Fred A. Bernstein
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
Bernstein interviewed 25 mothers of Jewish people, including Clara Sussman, mother of Rosalyn Yalow, a Nobel Medalist in medicine. Like other mothers in the book, Clara, who died recently, exemplified a life of hard work and sacrifice, as well as worry about her child when a teacher told her Rosalyn...
America Is the Prison
Arts and Politics in Prison in the 1970s
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
In the 1970s, while politicians and activists outside prisons debated the proper response to crime, incarcerated people helped shape those debates though a broad range of remarkable political and literary writings.
Lee Bernstein explores the forces that sparked a dramatic "prison art renaissance,"...
by Richard J. Bernstein
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2018
Recently there has been an extraordinary international revival of interest in Hannah Arendt. She was extremely perceptive about the dark tendencies in contemporary life that continue to plague us. She developed a concept of politics and public freedom that serves as a critical standard for judging...
Knickers in a Twist
A Dictionary of British Slang
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Brits and Americans dress the same, eat at the same chain restaurants, pass music back and forth across the Atlantic, and our national leaders are practically conjoined twins. But the second the Brits open their mouths, all bets are off. So don’t dream of visiting the UK, dating a Brit, or truly understanding...
Vice
Dick Cheney and the Hijacking of the American Presidency
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2006
The riveting, disturbing exposé of the vice president who co-opted executive control over the U.S. government and became the “shadow president” of the George W. Bush administration.
Dick Cheney was the most powerful yet most unpopular vice president in U.S. history. He thrived alongside...
by Hilda Bernstein
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The World that was Ours is about the events leading up to the 1964 Rivonia Trial when Hilda Bernstein's husband was acquitted but Mandela and the 'men of Rivonia' received life sentences. 'This passionately political memoir,' observed The Times, 'is vibrant with the dilemmas of everyday family life,...
by Victor H. Bernstein
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
Using documents from German sources…Final Judgment: The Story of Nuremberg is a revealing X-ray of the whole political, economic, and moral system that the Nazis built up. It uses the Nuremberg trials as its starting point. But it peels away, one after another, the layers of meaning behind Nuremberg.
Anyone...