Product Description: Originally published: New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

Product Description: An American heiress turned resistance hero, Muriel Gardiner was an electrifying woman who impressed everyone she met with her beauty, intelligence, and powerful personality. Her adventurous life led her from Chicago's high society to a Viennese medical school, from Sigmund Freud's inner circle to the Austrian underground...read more

Product Description: Fry was the American Schindler with desperate exiles, menacing Nazis, forged documents and midnight escapes [think] Casablanca.-New York TimesVarian Fry, the only American honored at Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust memorial, was a young New Yorker who rescued more than 1,500 Europeans from the Nazi's including Marc Chagall, Max Ernst, Hannah Arendt, and other intellectuals, political activists, and "degenerative" artists, many of them Jews...read more

Product Description: "Author Sheila Isenberg provides a fascinating look at women'compelled todance with the masters of death'women so obsessed with convicted murders that they marry them, often giving up everything else in their lives, including their children, to fulfill their deepest fantasies...read more

The controversial lawyer recounts his transformation from liberal to radical during the sixties, recalls his many celebrated cases--from the Chicago Seven trial to the World Trade Center bombing--and explains why he tests democracy by defending social pariahs