The American Gun Mystery by Ellery QueenRequirements: .MP3 reader, 277 mbOverview: Buck Horne has roped thousands of cattle, slugged his way out of dozens of saloons, and shot plenty of men dead in the street — but always on the backlot. He is a celluloid cowboy, and his career is nearly kaput. The real box […]
American Queenmaker: How Missy Meloney Brought Women Into Politics by Julie Des Jardins Requirements: .ePUB reader, 2 MBOverview: “Marie ‘Missy’ Mattingly Meloney was born in 1878, in an America where women couldn’t vote. Yet she recognized the power that women held as consumers and family decision-makers, and persuaded male publishers and politicians to take them […]
American Queen: The Rise and Fall of Kate Chase Sprague, Civil War "Belle of the North" and Gilded Age Woman of Scandal by John OllerRequirements: ePUB Reader 4.2 MBOverview: Had People magazine been around during the Civil War and after, Kate Chase would have made its “Most Beautiful” and “Most Intriguing” lists every year. The […]