Thomas Fensch

This is a short classic autography from a gifted writer, the dog he had as a child; his marriage, the dogs he and his wife had together, and the sudden death of his wife; his second marriage and the long slow death of his second wife from cancer. The dogs they had together and the dogs he had as companions after the deaths of his wives, eight and one-years apart.

During the Nixon administration, lists were drawn up with names of people thought to be liberal and anti-Nixon; the list was orighinally to be 20 names-- politicans and entertainers, but eventually grew to be well over 700 names, on two lists. The Nixon administration wanted the Internel Revenue Service to audit their tax data and harass them; the I.R.S. refused to do so and made the scandal public. None of the Nixon people were charged with crimes,...

All readers have favorites from their personal history; "The Books That Haunt Us" is an analysis of 18 of the author's favorite books beginning with Steinbeck's "Tortilla Flat," 1935 up through "The Tattooist of Auschwitz," 2018. Other titles include: "It Can't Happen Here," 1935; "Address Uknown," 1938; "Darkness at Noon" 1940; "Hiroshima," 1946; "If This is a Man," 1947; "McElligot's Pool" 1947; "1984," 1949; "Night," 1960; "Black Like Me," 1960;...

"The world will hold its breath when Operation Barbarossa is executed" -- Adolf Hitler. Operation Barbarossa was the code name for Nazi Germany's invasion of Soviet Russia. Thus German/Nazi historian Helmuth Greiner quoted Hitler. Greiner served as Custodian of the War Dairy in Hitler's Headquarters August 1939 until April 1943, when he was dismissed, apparently for not being sufficiently pro-Nazi. He survived the war without being sent to a death...

This book is ideal for beginning and intermediate writers -- it shows 25 techniques for beginning any writing project, with examples for each; four key articles structures for writing complete articles and 14 types of effective endings. The book has examples on virtually every page and advisories indicating which technique is effective in which article subject (i.e. - - effective beginnings for sports articles, or self-help or personal "I" form articles...

Nikita Khrushchev began correspondence with then-President John Kennedy in early 1960, as a way of improving USSR-USA relations. Eventually there were 120 letters between them, in this file, until Kennedy's assassination. They discussed: the Cuban Missile Crisis; the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty; the divided Germany; the war in Laos and other major topics. This file was Top Secret until 2000 and published in book form in 2001. 575 pages. Ideal for analysis...

Canadian Journalist Herbert Steinhouse met Oskar Schindler in 1946; Schindler told Steinhouse his story. At first, Steinhouse didn't believe him,. but by 1949, Steinhouse had written an article "The Man Who Saved 1,000 Lives." That article pre-dates -- and validates --all subsequent Schindler research. An interview with Steinhoue and his original article open the book; there are sections about Schindler the man, the book "Schindler's List," the award-winning...

"The Man Who Was Dr. Seuss" is the first personal AND literary biography of Theodor Geisel, known world-wide for classic children's books such as "Green Eggs and Ham"; "How the Grinch Stole Christmas!" and many others. It shows the morals that children instinctively understand from such simple story-telling; why parents are seldom seen in Dr. Seuss books, why the action in Dr. Seuss books always moves to the right and which character is a "trickster...

Although Elvis Presley was never accused of a crime, FBI files about him show the theft of an executive jet he owned, which the FBI had to track down, death threats, blackmail threats and other matters the FBI had to handle confidentially. This book shows the dark side of American fame. 165 pages. Contains an Appendix of 36 facsimile pages of original FBI documents.

This book offers new insights into James Thurber, the man who has been called "America's Twentieth Century Mark Twain." The book places Thurber in the context of his early years in Ohio -- his highly dysfunctional family, his curious relatives -- his memory -- which evolved into his fictional world of "confusion, eccentricity and chaos." "The Man Who Was Walter Mitty" shows how his world was leavened by both humor and tragedy -- how his world was...