Golay, Michael

Provides an account of the Spanish-American War, beginning with the explosion of the USS "Maine" in Cuba's Havana Harbor, discusses the objectives and strategies of the combatants, looks at key battles and leaders, and considers the significance of the conflict.

During the harshest year (1933) of the Great Depression, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's right-hand-man, Harry Hopkins, hired newspaperwoman Lorena Hickok to embark with her close friend, FDR's wife, Eleanor, on a journey to the hardest-hit areas of the country to report back to the president the degree of devastation Americans were coping with. Hickok's contribution to the policies of the New Deal were pivotal and her ill-fated relationship with Eleanor Roosevelt began to unravel after the trip.

Covers African-American advancements during the period of the federal government's management of the defeated Southern states.

Follows the story of Lorena Hickok--personal friend of Eleanor Roosevelt and a successful woman news reporter--on her 1933 through 1934 journey across America, dispatched by President Roosevelt himself to find and report on the places the Great Depression had hit hardest.

Presents a history of the Civil War, discussing the historical background, causes, military strategies, significant battles, and final surrender by the Confederate forces of the South.