Product Description: THE HEDGE FUND – WHERE BLOOD MEETS MONEY Since 1959 Fidel Castro’s Cuba has struggled along ninety miles off the coast of Florida, treated alternately as a threat and an economic basket case by the American colossus to its north...read more

Product Description: In this groundbreaking biography, historian and journalist Burton Hersh combines a lifetime of research and reporting with a lively mixture of never-before-told anecdotes to create a broad yet unfailingly intimate portrait of the politician who would be universally acknowledged as one of the twentieth century’s greatest American legislators...read more

Product Description: In this riveting account of the explosive relationship between Robert F. Kennedy and J. Edgar Hoover, renowned journalist and author Burton Hersh sets their highly publicized clashes in the context of Joe Kennedy’s ongoing manipulation of Congress and his children’s careers, and his lifelong connections to organized crime...read more

Product Description: When ex-CIA operations specialist, Owen Rheinsdorf, picked up the telephone in the midst of a blizzard one bitter November evening, who knew his retirement would be effectively over before he put the receiver back down? That he would risk his reputation to deflate an overblown demagogue? That he would entangle himself, perhaps to the death, with a psychopathic assassin with an itch to molest children...read more

Product Description: The initial publication of "The Old Boys" in 1992 raised so much dust that it has taken a decade for the air to clear. Subtitled "The American Elite and the Origins of the CIA," the work laid out the involvement of the lawyers who founded civilian intelligence in the United States -- 'Wild Bill' Donovan, Allen and Foster Dulles, Frank Wisner -- with several generations of reactionary, even Nazi-lining clients...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: More than his brothers, Ted Kennedy has come to be the most influential political figure of this generation. Jack & Bobby may have the stronger grip on the American psyche, but it is Ted who has done the hard work of writing laws & fighting on the issues...read more

The history of big business unfolds in a definitive biography of the wealthiest of American families that profiles personalities as well as chronicling the growth of the Mellon Bank, Alcoa, Koppers, and the Gulf Company