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  • Conversations With James Thurber

    by Thomas Fensch ...
    In this captivating anthology of interviews with a great American humorist, the inimitable James Thurber can be heard again, sharIng his memories and insights and regaling us with his wit and imagination. In these pages one can hear Thurber again and can visualize the Thurber men, the Thurber women, the Thurber dogs, his drawings, his imagination and his word games, his years at "The New Yorker" ... Read more

    $18.31 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Of Sneetches and Whos and the Good Dr. Seuss

    Essays On the Writings and Life of Theodor Geisel

    by Thomas Fensch ...
    Children and adults alike remember Dr. Seuss's cat in the hat, the culinary delight to be found in green eggs and ham and the fate of the Grinch who stole Christmas. What few know is that Theodor Seuss Geisel's first book came to him while returning from Europe aboard an ocean liner; he found himself obsessed with the throbbing of the ship's engines and repeated the beat until the words of his ... Read more

    $18.31 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Man Who Was Dr Seuss

    The Life and Work of Theodor Geisel

    by Thomas Fensch ...
    "The Man Who Was Dr. Seuss" is the first personal AND literary biography of Theodor Geisel, known world-wide for classic children's books such as "Green Eggs and Ham"; "How the Grinch Stole Christmas!" and many others. It shows the morals that children instinctively understand from such simple story-telling; why parents are seldom seen in Dr. Seuss books, why the action in Dr. Seuss books always ... Read more

    $14.08 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Oskar Schindler and His List

    The Man, The Book, The Film, The Holocaust and Its Survivors

    by Thomas Fensch ...
    Canadian Journalist Herbert Steinhouse met Oskar Schindler in1946; Schindler told Steinhouse his story. At first, Steinhouse didn't believe him,. but by 1949, Steinhouse had written an article "The Man Who Saved 1,000 LIves." That article pre-dates -- and validates --all subsequent Schindler research. An interview with Steinhoue and his original article open the book; there are sections about ... Read more

    $15.49 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The FBI Files on Elvis Presley

    by Thomas Fensch ...
    Although Elvis Presley was never accused of a crime, FBI files about him show the theft of an executive jet he owned, which the FBI had to track down, death threats, blackmail threats and other matters the FBI had to handle confidentially. This book shows the dark side of American fame. 165 pages. Contains an Appendix of 36 facsimile pages of original FBI documents. ... Read more

    $14.08 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Skydiving

    by Thomas Fensch ...
    Short of hurling yourself out of an airplane, Thomas Fensch's Skydiving is the best way yet devised to approximate the rush and the challenge of the sport. This treasury of narrative, poetry, fiction, photography, personal profiles and outrageous jump stories is a complete survey of the mechanics and mystique of skydiving.The close calls, the monumental achievements -- the catastrophes and the ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • FBI Files on the Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping

    by Thomas Fensch ...
    This is the complete 580-page FBI file on the kidnapping of the baby son of aviator Charles Lindbergh. Although the crime occurred in New Jersey, the FBI maintained its own records of the case. It was the first "Crime of the Century" in the U.S. Bruno Richard Hauptmann was eventually arrested for the crime and, in a trial which defined "media circus," was found guilty and exec,ted, but he never ... Read more

    $14.08 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The C.I.A. and the U-2 Program, 1954-1974

    by Thomas Fensch ...
    This is the complete formerly Top Secret record of the C.I.A. and the U-2 spy plane program. The U-2 was a spy plane that could fly at 70,000 feet, above the radar of any other country. To build such an aircraft was a daunting task. But on May 1, 1960 ,one U-2 was shot down over Russia; pilot Francis Gary Powers was put on a "show trial" in Moscow. The incident fractured U.S. - U.S.S.R. relations. ... Read more

    $14.08 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Sordid Hypocrisy of to Protect and to Serve

    Police Brutality, Corruption and Oppression in America

    by Thomas Fensch ...
    This book traces brutality, corruption and oppression in major police departments throughout the United States: from the Rodney King beating, caught on videotape in Los Angeles in 1991; corruption in the Albuquerque Police Department; a 62-police vehicle chase in Cleveland which resulted in the deaths of two unarmed suspects; the chokehold death of Eric Harris in Staten Island; the death of ... Read more

    $18.31 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Man Who Changed His Skin

    The Life and Work of John Howard Griffin

    by Thomas Fensch ...
    John Howard Griffin was a Texan who traveled to France at 15, alone and was in France when World War Two began. He helped rescue French Jews and was hunted by the Gestapo before he was 2,. He came back to the U.S., joined the Army Air Force and was stationed in the South Pacific. He became blind during the war and returned to Texas. 10 years later his eyesight came back-- suddenly--no one knows ... Read more

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  • Anne and Emmett

    by Thomas Fensch ...
    How a Jewish girl, with her family, was hiding from the Nazis in Amsterdam . .How a Black boy near Chicago wanted to visit relatives in Mississippi . . .How the girl and her family was caught by the Nazis and how she died ina death camp at 15 . . .How the boy was lynched at 14 . . .How her diary, found after her death, became one of the most consequential booksof the twentieth century . . ,How his ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Masters of Despair

    by Thomas Fensch ...
    Masters of Despair analyzes one hundred years of dystopian fiction from: We, 1924; Brave New World, 1943; Darkness at Noon, 1932; Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1949; Fahrenheit 451, 1953; The Man in the High Castle, 1962, The Handmaid's Tale, 1986. The Road, 2006 and others. ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD