Ergebnis für "Eisenberg" in Geschichte

The “deeply researched, surprise-on-every-page, and altogether marvelous” (Weekly Standard) tale of the five owners who shepherded the NFL through its tumultuous early decades and built the most popular sport in America The National Football League is a towering, distinctly American colossus...

Fire and Rain is a compelling, meticulous narrative of the way national security decisions formed at the highest levels of government affect the lives of individuals at home and abroad. By drawing these connections, Carolyn Woods Eisenberg brings to life policy decisions about Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, conveying their significance to a new generation. She breaks fresh ground in contextualizing Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger's decisions within a wider institutional and societal framework.

An acclaimed sportswriter offers an inside look at the Black quarterbacks whose skill and grit transformed the NFL In Rocket Men, John Eisenberg offers the definitive history of Black quarterbacks in the NFL—men who shaped not only the history of football but the cause of civil rights in...

A stunning, complex narrative about the fractured legacy of a decades-old double murder in rural West Virginia -- and the writer determined to put the pieces back together. In the early evening of June 25, 1980 in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, two middle-class outsiders named Vicki Durian...

Alex Eisenberg flyttede allerede som 16-årig fra Tyskland til Danmark for at uddanne sig, men kort tid efter brød anden verdenskrig ud, og i 1943 blev han, grundet sin jødiske herkomst, deporteret til koncentrationslejren Theresienstadt. Han overlevede knap to år i lejren, indtil befrielsen i 1945, og 50 år senere skrev han bogen Theresienstadt elegi om sine minder fra den forfærdelige og skæbnesvangre tid.