1904-1971

Taking readers back to 1924, this shocking true crime story follows two eighteen-year-old college students who kidnapped and murdered a child they both knew, their trial, and how a renowned defense attorney enabled them to avoid the death penalty.

How did two teenagers brutally murder an innocent child...and why? And how did their brilliant lawyer save them from the death penalty in 1920s Chicago? Written by a prolific master of narrative nonfiction, this is a compulsively readable true-crime story based on an event dubbed the "crime of the century." In 1924, eighteen-year-old college students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb made a decision: they would commit the perfect crime by kidnapping and murdering a child they both knew. But they made one crucial error: as they were disposing of the body of young Bobby Franks, whom they had bludgeoned to death, Nathan's eyeglasses fell from his jacket pocket. Multi-award-winning author Candace Fleming depicts every twist and turn of this harrowing case--how two wealthy, brilliant young men planned and committed what became known as the crime of the century, how they were caught, why they confessed, and how the renowned criminal defense attorney Clarence Darrow enabled them to avoid the death penalty.

A historical novel that tells about the life and times of photographer Margaret Bourke-White.

Collects ten essays that were featured at a conference that was held in June 2004 at University of California in Los Angeles to commemorate Ralph J. Bunche, a founding father of the United Nations, who was a key figure in planning the international trusteeship system that paved the way for the decolonization process in Africa and Asia following World War II.

In graphic novel format looks at blind prisoner Matt Rizzo who lost his sight with a shotgun blast to the face while participating in an armed robbery and how his life and soul were saved by Nathan Leopold Jr., one of America's most notorious killers at Stateville Prison.

In this historical novel, noted writer Carolyn Meyer deftly captures the daring and passionate life of photographer Margaret Bourke-White.

A biography of Ralph Bunche, the African-American who won the Nobel peace prize in 1950. Text and photographs depict the tireless fighter for peace and human dignity who rose from modest circumstances to become the foremost mediator and peacekeeper of his time.

A retrospective of photography taken between the 1920s and 1950s by photographer Margaret Bourke-White, drawn from her personal archives, including early industrial photographs, as well as work done while at "LIFE" magazine.