(480 pages)
a deep dive look at the US/Mexico border. Its history, the battles fought on or near it, and the future of how these two nations will deal with the issues of immigration, drugs, etc.
(496 pages)
the prospectors, inventors, and explorers who filled in the blank spaces on the map of the US. Everything from mining, to railroads, to the laying of telegraph and telephone lines this book shows the people who’s names might not be well known but we wouldn’t have the lives we do today without their efforts.
(400 pages)
John Wesley Powell and his crew of boatmen head off from Wyoming hoping to be the first (white) people to travel down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. A series of misadventures and white water rapids try to defeat the party.
(449 pages)
looking at the end of the Hawaiian monarchy and the takeover of the islands by the United States. Focusing on both the Hawaiian Royal Family and the insurrection leaders this book shows almost down to the minute the end of the Kingdom of Hawaii.
(640 pages)
a huge book that shows the history of the FBI from it’s creation to the end of the reign of J. Edgar Hoover. Focusing on agents and criminals alike, this book showcases the events that brought this agency to life and the cases that brought it into the public eye.
Incendiary: The Psychiatrist, the Mad Bomber, and the Invention of Criminal Profiling by Michael Cannell
(304 pages)
trying to capture “The Mad Bomber,” of NYC in the 1950’s this book shows how the NYPD captured this criminal. Pipebombs are placed throughout NYC in public places leads to hundreds of injuries and untold amounts of damage to the city. The creation of the Bomb Squad leads to race against time to arrest this bomber before even more destruction is levelled.
