Gorn, Elliott J.

Shares the story of Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old African-American beaten and lynched in 1955 due to American racism.

Dillinger's Wild Ride provides a riveting account of the year between 1933 and 1934, when the Dillinger gang pulled over a dozen bank jobs and stole hundreds of thousands of dollars. As Dillinger's wild year unfolded, the tale grew larger and larger in newspapers and newsreels, and even today, Dillinger is the subject of pulp literature, serious poetry and fiction, and film. Indeed, his story has much to tell us about our enduring fascination with outlaws, crime and violence, and about the great changes in American life during the Great Depression.

Chronicles the life of Mary "Mother" Jones, the elderly Irish widow who became famous for her power and grit as she fought for the rights of American workers and children in the early twentieth century.

Chronicles the year-long crime spree by twentieth-century outlaw John Dillinger that brought him fame but ended in his death.

Chronicles the life of Mary "Mother" Jones, the elderly Irish widow who became famous for her power and grit as she fought for the rights of American workers and children in the early twentieth century.