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A favorite shelf in my bookcase leads with By-Line: Ernest Hemingway, a compendium of journalism the great novelist wrote to support himself as he worked on his fiction. Right next to it is Ernie's War, dispatches by Ernie Pyle, the most famous of World War II correspondents. Milton Nieuwsma's fine volume joins this shelf of honor." -From the foreword by Tom Stites, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning editor/journalist"Compassion and humility radi...

Miracle on Chestnut Street reminds us that the creation of our nation was indeed-and still is-a miracle." -From the foreword by Bill Barker, premiere Jefferson interpreter. ¿Tom Jefferson, a young plantation owner from Virginia, was the least likely member of the Second Continental Congress to make a name for himself. When he arrived in Philadelphia in 1775 it was by default, he had been sent as a substitute for a distant cousin. He resented...

Miracle on Chestnut Street reminds us that the creation of our nation was indeed-and still is-a miracle." -From the foreword by Bill Barker, premiere Jefferson interpreter. ¿Tom Jefferson, a young plantation owner from Virginia, was the least likely member of the Second Continental Congress to make a name for himself. When he arrived in Philadelphia in 1775 it was by default, he had been sent as a substitute for a distant cousin. He resented...

Milton Nieuwsma explains why he wrote Miracle on Chestnut Street and reflects on Thomas Jefferson, the man and his legacy:So why did you write this book?"For a couple of reasons. One was to tell the story of the Declaration of Independence from Jefferson's point of view and in real time. The other reason was to restore his rightful place in history."Why do you say that?"Well, he's had a pretty rough go of it the past few decades, first because...

Insightful…Entertaining… A reminder of how much we owe our forefathers."-Richard Beeman, author of Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution."Inventing America is a terrific way to introduce our nation's founders to a new generation of Americans."-Gleaves Whitney, presidential historianAt the close of the Constitutional Convention of 1787 in Philadelphia an elderly woman approached Benjamin Franklin as he was leaving the Penns...

This book is based on the three-part public television series, Inventing America: Conversations with the Founders. Blending humor with substance, the production was to bring our Founding Fathers back to life before a 21st century audience. While we imagined the conversations and presented them in the format of a television talk show, we based them on fact, using the Founders' actual words as much as possible. In the first four years after its ...

Editorial ReviewsProduct DescriptionSurviving Auschwitz tells the moving and inspirational story of three young girls who survived Auschwitz, Adolph Hitler's most notorious death camp. With dramatic photographs, Tova Friedman, Frieda Tenebaum, and Rachel Hyams document the story in their own words.

Editorial ReviewsProduct DescriptionSurviving Auschwitz tells the moving and inspirational story of three young girls who survived Auschwitz, Adolph Hitler's most notorious death camp. With dramatic photographs, Tova Friedman, Frieda Tenebaum, and Rachel Hyams document the story in their own words.