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  • Buried Truths and the Hyatt Skywalks

    The Legacy of America’s Epic Structural Failure

    In 1981 the sudden collapse of two skywalks in Kansas City’s Hyatt hotel killed 114 people and injured another 200. There never was a public trial, nor a full airing of everything that went wrong. Richard A. Serrano shared a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the disaster at the time; now he returns to the tragedy to learn all that went wrong, how it could have been avoided, and what lasting ... Leer más

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  • American Endurance

    Buffalo Bill, the Great Cowboy Race of 1893, and the Vanishing Wild West

    Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Richard A. Serrano's new book American Endurance: Buffalo Bill, the Great Cowboy Race of 1893, and the Vanishing Wild West is history, mystery, and Western all rolled into one. In June 1893, nine cowboys raced across a thousand miles of American prairie to the Chicago World's Fair. For two weeks they thundered past angry sheriffs, governors, and Humane ... Leer más

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  • Summoned at Midnight

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    Uncovers the hidden world of the military legal system and the intimate history of racism that pervaded the armed forces long after integration.Richard A. Serrano reveals how racial discrimination in the US military criminal justice system determined whose lives mattered and deserved a second chance and whose did not. Between 1955 and 1961, a group of white and black condemned soldiers lived ... Leer más

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  • Last of the Blue and Gray

    Old Men, Stolen Glory, and the Mystery That Outlived the Civil War

    Richard Serrano, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for the Los Angeles Times, pens a story of two veterans. In the late 1950s, as America prepared for the Civil War centennial, two very old men lay dying. Albert Woolson, 109 years old, slipped in and out of a coma at a Duluth, Minnesota, hospital, his memories as a Yankee drummer boy slowly dimming. Walter Williams, at 117 blind and deaf and ... Leer más

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  • Neither a Borrower

    Forging Traditions in French, Chinese and Arabic Poetry

    "In his studies of borrowing from distant poetic traditions, Serrano aims to uncover the heterogenity of influences and intentions in the most canonical of texts: ""Mallarme"" (1842-98), ""Segalen"" (1878-1919), ""Wang Wei"" (701-61), the ""Classic of Poetry"" (8th century BCE), ""Buhturi"" (821-97), and the ""Qur'an"" (7th century CE). Arguing, among other things that Mallarme was really a ... Leer más

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  • My Grandfather's Prison

    A Story of Death and Deceit in 1940s Kansas City

    James Patrick Lyons abandoned his family for a life on Kansas City’s skid row. A town drunk, he was arrested eighty times for public intoxication. On the night of his last arrest, he was taken to the city jail and held in solitary confinement. The next morning he was dead. Officials said it was natural causes—yet they could not explain his broken neck.When Richard Serrano learned of the ... Leer más

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    Last of the Blue and Gray

    Old Men, Stolen Glory, and the Mystery That Outlived the Civil War

    Narrado por Dan John Miller ...

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    7 hora 3 minutos

    In the late 1950s, as America prepared for the Civil War centennial, two very old men lay dying. Albert Woolson, 109 years old, slipped in and out of a coma at a Duluth, Minnesota, hospital, his memories as a Yankee drummer boy slowly dimming. Walter Williams, at 117, blind and deaf and bedridden in his daughter's home in Houston, Texas, no longer could tell of his time as a Confederate forage ... Leer más

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    Summoned at Midnight

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    8 hora 55 minutos

    Uncovers the hidden world of the military legal system and the intimate history of racism that pervaded the armed forces long after integration.Richard A. Serrano reveals how racial discrimination in the US military criminal justice system determined whose lives mattered and deserved a second chance and whose did not. Between 1955 and 1961, a group of white and black condemned soldiers lived ... Leer más

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