1945-1989

History remembers Robert F. Kennedy as a racial healer, a tribune for the poor, and the last progressive knight of a bygone era of American politics. But Kennedy?s enshrinement in the liberal pantheon was actually the final stage of a journey that had its beginnings in the conservative 1950s. In Bobby Kennedy, Larry Tye peels away layers of myth and misconception to paint a complete portrait of this singularly fascinating figure.

A unique and compelling portrait of William F. Buckley as the champion of conservative ideas in an age of liberal dominance, taking on the smartest adversaries he could find while singlehandedly reinventing the role of public intellectual in the network television era.

Thousands of Nazis, from concentration camp guards and officers in the Third Reich, came to the United States after World War II and quietly settled into new lives. Many gained entry on their own, as refugees, but thousands had help from the U.S. government. The CIA, the FBI and others all put Hitler's minions to work as spies, intelligence assets, and engineers, whitewashing their histories. Only years later did government prosecutors begin trying to identify them, relying on a trove of newly discovered documents.

Reenactments, dramatic readings, and interviews explore U.S. political history from 1980 to 2000 and the presidencies of Reagan, Bush, and Clinton.

Reenactments, dramatic readings, and interviews with historians examine significant events of the Cold War period between the U.S. and the Soviet Union in the post-World War II era, with coverage of the Berlin crisis, Fidel Castro and Cuba, and the collapse of the U.S.S.R.

Reenactments, dramatic readings, and interviews with historians examine U.S. political history from 1960 to 1980 including the presidencies of Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, and Carter; the Civil Rights movement, Iranian hostage crisis, Vietnam, and Watergate.

Uses reenactments, dramatic readings, and interviews with historians to examine significant events in the political history of the U.S. from 1960 to 1980, a period that encompassed the presidencies of Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, and Carter, discussing the Civil Rights movement, the Iranian hostage crisis, the Vietnam War, the Watergate scandal, and other topics.

Traces the life and political career of the thirty-seventh president, from his student days, through the Watergate scandal which cost him the presidency, to his retirement and new career as a writer.

Examines the tense fifty-year power struggle between the communist world and the West, tracing the cold war through its various stages and explaining why the world began to change in the 1980s.

A first-hand description of the changes in political systems in Eastern Europe in 1989 which eliminated Communism, covering the events leading to the elections that will affect European history for years to come.