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In the 1920s and 30s, Benito Mussolini and his Fascists enjoyed broad popularity in America. Like certain political figures today, he was seen as a "strongman" who brought order to Italy and was a bulwark against the spread of international bolshevism. But one Italian anarchist in New York City was virulently anti-Fascist -- Carlo Tresca. He was a man, it was said, who "held tenaciously to his hatreds." When he died a violent death on a dark New York street, he had made so many enemies that it was anyone's guess who had killed him.

An excerpt from my book "Victory City."

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On the morning of October 12, 1964, a drab green bus pulled up near a launchpad at the Soviet spaceport called the Baikonur Cosmodrome in bleak and dreary Kazakhstan. The door opened and three small men in soft white aviator caps and what looked like wool leisure suits stepped down. They were dressed more for a cruise ship than a spaceship... An excerpt from "The Wrong Stuff."

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On Sunday, December 7, 1941, news of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor began to reach New Yorkers in the middle of the afternoon. In the Brill Building, America's pop songwriters went to war that very day. They reacted to Pearl Harbor with instant fury and patriotic zeal, churning out hundreds of war songs at a ferocious clip. An excerpt from "Victory City."