First Threshold Editions/Mercury Radio Arts hardcover edition
Description:
xiii, 306 pages ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references
Contents:
Grover Cleveland : the mysterious case of the disappearing president "I did not kill Armstrong" : the war of wills in the early days of radio Woodrow Wilson : a masterful stroke of deception Streets of gold : Charles Ponzi and the American scheme He loved Lucy: the tragic genius of Desi Arnaz, the inventor of the rerun The muckracker : how a lost letter revealed Upton Sinclair's deception Alan Turing : how the father of the computer saved the world for democracy The spy who turned to a pumpkin : Alger Hiss and the liberal establishment that defended a traitor The City of Tomorrow : Walt Disney's last and lost dream "Make it great, John" : how Steve Jobs and John Lasseter changed history at Pixar
