David G McCullough
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
1982.
Physical Desc
636 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A detailed account of the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge providing background on its engineering history as well as the political and social climate of the late-nineteenth century.
5) Nixon
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 170 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Covers the span of Richard M. Nixon's political life during his early political career.
6) LBJ
Publisher
Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 235 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
LBJ, Lyndon Baines Johnson -- Texan, Democrat, political virtuoso. He rises up out of the 1960s like a Colossus, like something from Shakespeare, filling the stage -- 10, 12 characters in one. He is admired and he is detested. But the real measure of a leader is what he gets done, the size of the problems he faces. Before Lyndon Johnson, we were essentially a segregated society. Inequality among black Americans in the South was set in law. Before...
Series
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Examines the efforts of the Children's Aid Society in New York, organized by minister Charles Loring Brace, which from 1853 to 1929 sent over 100,000 unwanted and orphaned children from the city to homes in rural America.
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
On October 29, 1929 - Black Monday - large and small investors alike lost corporate and personal fortunes when the stock market crashed. This program examines the reasons behind the crash and whether the crash was predictable.
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
2003, c2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Looks at the lives and careers of Orson Welles and William Randolph Hearst, and how Hearst tried to suppress the 1941 film Citizen Kane and destroy Welles.
Publisher
Distributed by WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
December 1944, Hitler wages one more desperate bloody attack. Hitler struck back with a brutal counterattack and the Battle of the Bulge was the single biggest and bloodiest battle U.S. soldiers have ever fought. Almost 80,000 Americans were killed, injured, or captured in an infernal test of courage and endurance that ultimately ended with a hard-won victory for the Allies. Told through the eyes of the U.S. soldiers and combat officers in the field....