Belo

Judith Garrett Segura

• Paperback | Engels | Focus on American History
• Founded in Galveston in 1842 with the launch of the Daily News , the Belo Corporation entered the twenty-first century as a powerhouse conglomerate, o... Lees meer

Danger Pay

Carol Spencer Mitchell

• Hardcover | Engels | Focus on American History
• "You're going where?" Carol Spencer Mitchell's father demanded as she set off in 1984 to cover the Middle East as a photojournalist for Newsweek and o... Lees meer

The First Texas News Barons

Patrick L Cox

• Paperback | Engels | Focus on American History
• Newspaper publishers played a crucial role in transforming Texas into a modern state. By promoting expanded industrialization and urbanization, as wel... Lees meer

Alexander Watkins Terrell

Lewis L Gould

• Paperback | Engels | Focus on American History
• Alexander Terrell's career placed him at the center of some of the most pivotal events in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century history, ranging fro... Lees meer

Kindler of Souls

Rabbi Henry Cohen

• Paperback | Engels | Focus on American History
• In September 1930, the New York Times published a list of the clergy whom Rabbi Stephen Wise considered "the ten foremost religious leaders in this co... Lees meer

The Hogg Family and Houston

Kate Sayen Kirkland

• Paperback | Engels | Focus on American History
• Progressive former governor James Stephen Hogg moved his business headquarters to Houston in 1905. For seven decades, his children Will, Ima, and Mike... Lees meer

Relentless

Neil Leifer

• Hardcover | Engels | Focus on American History
• Neil Leifer is the best-known sports photographer of the past half century. Beginning in 1960, his pictures have regularly appeared in every major nat... Lees meer

The Texas Book

• Paperback | Engels | Focus on American History
• As the University of Texas at Austin celebrates its 125th anniversary, it can justly claim to be a "university of the first class," as mandated in the... Lees meer

Changing the Face of Power

Melina Mara, Helen Thomas

• Hardcover | Engels | Focus on American History
• They are America's most powerful women. The fourteen female U.S. senators currently in office have changed not only the face of power, but the exercis... Lees meer