A RENAISSANCE MAN FOR THE 21ST CENTURY… Once upon a time in that faraway place, Middletown, Ohio, on 25 October 1930, there was born a beautiful baby boy who was destined to live a blessed life, and a very long one. When he approached his 90th birthday, still in command of his powerful mental faculties,…

ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER and her story burn as brightly today as when Boston Society and the world first met her in the late 19th century. And the years have been kind to Isabella since that splashy entrance. Today she takes her rightful place as one of the earliest of the independent American women…now referred to…

A personalized look at the life and times of James Abbott McNeill Whistler… During the course of his work for the art patron, Frederick R. Leyland, a Liverpool shipowner, the following transpired: “That gave the excitable Whistler a clear field. Alone in the house, he more than touched up the room with a little gold…

Going far back to the first time we got a really good look at the famous “SUNFLOWERS” they were standing guard over the salon of the famous Linda Benz on Rainbow Boulevard in Kansas City, Missouri. They were tall and wide and stretched clear up to the ceiling. They were poundingly full of life, brilliantly…

The 1930s was a wild and woolly time in the infant world of air planes… “Once upon a time” begins the compelling story of Louise Thaden, a pioneer aviatrix of great distinction…her adventures… …her records set…her recognition for daring and brilliant flying… is the stuff of aeronautic legend…culminating with the naming of the cutting edge…

The single compelling link between Joan and her readers is… the power of her prose. Writing is what she does, and reporting is what she does best. At the peak of her career her writing was recognized for its significance in defining and observing American subcultures for mainstream audience. If you wondered why she was…

The imaginative re-telling of the well known story of Marie and Pierre Curie, their passionate love, their passionate research, their brilliant discovery, blooms in the book Radioactive…Marie & Pierre Curie A Tale of Love and Fallout by Lauren Redniss. Radioactivity had made the Curies immortal. Now it was killing them. Early on in our story, we are…

The inspired creation of THE MONUMENTS MEN Foundation and the rescue and restoration of millions of the most important and iconic works of art stolen by the Nazis during World War II is gripping reading of the highest order. And it is all TRUE! Thanks to the innovative thinking and powerful drive of Robert Edsel,…