A collection of 67 original recordings of speeches significant in United States and world history. Hear presidents, politicians, activists, sports figures and more in their own words as they talk about some of the most important events in the 20th century.

Jewish mobster Dutch Schultz was assassinated at the Palace Chop House located at 12 E. Park St., Newark, New Jersey because he proposed to The Commission the murder of prosecutor of the county of New York, Thomas Dewey for investigating Dutch Schultz's illegal prostitution and gambling rings. The Commission has a ruling committee headed by five crime bosses representing the five families of New York City in addition to the bosses of the Chicago Outfit and Buffalo, Philadelphia and Detroit...

My mission is to allow others an opportunity to know that the same God with the same power that raised Jesus Christ from death and the grave, the same power of God that called Lazarus forth, healed Jarius's daughter, healed the servant, and made the blind man see, the lame to walk, the deaf and dumb to talk. The power that healed, delivered, and raised yours truly from Anita's bed of affliction and sustained Anita's life is the same God who still holds the same power and who can perform a ...

Theories of Democracy builds on Robert Dahl's observation that there is no single theory of democracy; only theories. Beyond the broad commitment to rule by the majority, democracy involves a set of contentious debates concerning the proper function and scope of power, equality, freedom, justice, and interests. In this anthology, Ronald J. Terchek and Thomas C. Conte have brilliantly assembled the works of classical, modern, and contemporary commentators to illustrate the deep and diverse ...

Four different writers explore the darker aspects of crime fiction in THE NOIR NOVEL MEGAPACK™:HUNTER AT LARGE, by Thomas B. Dewey ... Mickey requested a year's leave of absence from his job on the police force. What else could he do? He'd just spent five months in the hospital because he'd been the only witness to a brutal murder...and the victim was his own wife!NEVER BET YOUR LIFE, by George Harmon Coxe ... It was a tidy Florida motel with all the important conveniences:...

Sailing in the Caribbean, Captain Alan Lewrie, RN, is once again pursuing a chimera.A rich French prize ship he'd left at anchor at Dominica has gone missing, along with six of his sailors. What starts as a straightforward search for it, and them, from Hispaniola to Barbados, far down the Antilles, leads Lewrie to a gruesome discovery on the Dry Tortugas and to a vile cabal of the most pitiless and depraved pirates ever to sail under the "Jolly Roger" . . . and the suspicion that on...

The Suspense Novel MEGAPACK® is the first in what we hope will become a long-running series collecting (obviously enough) novels of suspense. To kick things off, we have selected 4 terrific books we hope you will find interesting and entertaining:CAN A MERMAID KILL? by Thomas B. Dewey — An exciting new novel of suspense by the master of murder-mystery!KILL JOY, by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding — "Another beautiful study in the subtle an...

"Lambdin is closing on Patrick O'Brian as the most prolific historical novelist to celebrate a Royal Navy mariner." —Washington TimesDewey Lambdin presents a new short story, "Lewrie and the Hogsheads," starring the most colorful captain of the Royal Navy, Alan Lewrie.Capt. Lewrie of the HMS Reliant has been stuck in Nassau Harbor, biding his time after ferreting out pirates on the coast of Spanish Florida. Until, that is, one of his brig sloops comes into harbor with an unex...

An eighteenth-century Royal Navy captain sails between warring empires and into a revolution in "one of the author's best" naval adventures ( Bowsprit ).In Sea of Grey, Captain Alan Lewrie's HMS Proteus sets sail for the French colony of Saint Domingue, where a brutal slave rebellion led by Toussaint L'Ouverture threatens to derail a failing British intervention. Amidst the chaos and bloodshed, Lewrie mus...

From a writer whose last book, Henry and Clara, prompted John Updike to declare Thomas Mallon one of the most interesting American novelists at work, comes a story that perfectly captures the delightful romance and wistful magic of our recent, and more innocent, past.Thomas Mallon has masterfully appropriated a jubilant legend (and famous headline) of modern American history -- Harry Truman's upset victory over Thomas E. Dewey in t...

The presidential election of 1944, which unfolded against the backdrop of the World War II, was the first since 1864—and one of only a few in all of US history—to take place while the nation was at war. After a brief primary season, the Republican Party settled upon New York governor Thomas E. Dewey, the former district attorney and popular special prosecutor of Legs Diamond and Lucky Luciano, as its nominee for president of the United States. The Democratic nominee for pr...

The fourteenth tale in Dewey Lambdin's classic naval adventure seriesSpring of 1800, and Captain Alan Lewrie, fresh from victory in the South Atlantic, is reckoned a hero on a par with Nelson in all the papers. Back in England, he's fitting out his new frigate, HMS Savage, the fruits of that victory, the largest and best-armed frigate he's ever commanded. But you can't leave Lewrie ashore too long without trouble arising.A Jamaica court has tried him in absentia