Gerard Helferich

Broschiertes Buch

Theodore Roosevelt and the Assassin

Madness, Vengeance, and the Campaign of 1912

Beschreibung

A New York Times Bestseller, rich with local color, period detail, and a fully realized historical and political backdrop, that tells the forgotten story of the lone, fanatical assailant who stalked Theodore Roosevelt on the 1912 presidential campaign trail until the evening of October 14 in Milwaukee, when he shot the Bull Moose in the chest from ten feet away

Autor

Gerard Helferich is the author of Stone of Kings: In Search of the Lost Jade of the Maya (Lyons Press, December 2011), which was selected by the American Booksellers Association for its Indie Next List of recommended titles. He is also the author of the highly praised Humboldt's Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Latin American Journey That Changed the Way We See the World (Gotham Books, 2004), which was a Discover magazine Science Bestseller, and High Cotton: Four Seasons in the Mississippi Delta (Counterpoint, 2007), which was a Book Sense Notable Title and winner of the 2008 Authors Award for Nonfiction from the Mississippi Library Association. A member of the National Book Critics Circle, he publishes frequent book reviews in the Wall Street Journal (available at gerardhelferich.com under "Other Recent Writings") and has contributed to the Fodor's travel guides to Mexico and Guatemala. For the last decade he has been on the faculty of the Columbia Publishing Course at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism in New York, and for the past half dozen years has presented nonfiction workshops at the San Miguel Writers Conference. Before turning to writing in 2002, he was an editor and publisher for 25 years at companies such as Doubleday, Simon & Schuster, and John Wiley & Sons. He lives in Yazoo City, Mississippi, and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, with his wife, the writer Teresa Nicholas. Visit gerardhelferich.com.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 209mm x 140mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 327g
• ISBN-13: 9780762788415
• ISBN-10: 0762788410
• Artikelnr.: 40543759