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  • Stephen Colbert: Beyond Truthiness

    by Bruce Watson ...
    Stephen Colbert is far more than a comedian and improv genius. As head of his fanciful Colbert Nation, the quick-witted host of Comedy Central's The Colbert Report has delighted fans with his wit, audacity, and innovative uses of language and the media. In this biography, award-winning journalist Bruce Watson, author of Jon Stewart: Beyond the Moments of Zen, charts Colbert's rise from boyhood ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Navajo Code Talkers

    by Bruce Watson ...
    A top-secret military code helped the Allies win World War II in the Pacific. The unbroken code was not based on numbers or symbols but on birds and whales and fish. This is the story of the Navajo Code Talkers, who left high desert country to storm tropical jungles, armed only with their language and a rare courage in the face of fire. Author Bruce Watson tells the story in this short-form book, ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Jon Stewart: Beyond The Moments Of Zen

    by Bruce Watson ...
    Jon Stewart, host of Comedy Central's The Daily Show, has been called a "cultural force," a "fourth branch of government," and "the most influential man in America." In this pioneering biography, award-winning journalist Bruce Watson charts Stewart's remarkable rise from a wise-cracking New Jersey comic to a powerful pundit hosting presidents and prime ministers, all with a smirk. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Salem Witch Trials

    by Bruce Watson ...
    What caused the worst witch-hunt in U.S. history? What demons sent twenty innocent people to their deaths? Was it panic? Payback? Puritanism run amok? In this probing short-form book, award-winning journalist Bruce Watson captures all the fear and fear-mongering while exploring the latest historical research into this unforgettable American tragedy. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Freedom Summer

    The Savage Season of 1964 That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy

    by Bruce Watson ...
    A riveting account of one of the most remarkable episodes in American history.In his critically acclaimed history Freedom Summer, award- winning author Bruce Watson presents powerful testimony about a crucial episode in the American civil rights movement. During the sweltering summer of 1964, more than seven hundred American college students descended upon segregated, reactionary Mississippi to ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Salem 1692: What Devils Made Them Do It?

    by Bruce Watson ...
    Salem 1692 the name and date are synonymous with sorcery. But what caused the worst witch-hunt in U.S. history? What demons sent 20 innocent people to their deaths? Was it panic? Payback? Puritanism run amok? In this probing look, Bruce Watson captures all the fear and fear-mongering while exploring the latest historical research into this unforgettable American tragedy. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Edward Stratemeyer: The Man Who Created Nancy Drew

    by Bruce Watson ...
    Edward Stratemeyer was the biggest selling writer you never heard of. In an age when top authors sold tens of thousands of books, Stratemeyer sold tens of millions. His name is unknown but his creations are the classics of kidlit: Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, Tom Swift, the Bobbsey Twins. These and dozens more were all created by Stratemeyer and a literary syndicate that churned out novels like ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bread and Roses

    Mills, Migrants, and the Struggle for the American Dream

    by Bruce Watson ...
    On January 12, 1912, an army of textile workers stormed out of the mills in Lawrence, Massachusetts, commencing what has since become known as the "Bread and Roses" strike. Based on newspaper accounts, magazine reportage, and oral histories, Watson reconstructs a Dickensian drama involving thousands of parading strikers from fifty-one nations, unforgettable acts of cruelty, and even a protracted ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Light

    A Radiant History from Creation to the Quantum Age

    by Bruce Watson ...
    Light begins at Stonehenge, where crowds cheer a solstice sunrise. After sampling myths explaining First Light, the story moves on to early philosophers' queries, then through the centuries, from Buddhist temples to Biblical scripture, when light was the soul of the divine.Battling darkness and despair, Gothic architects crafted radiant cathedrals while Dante dreamed a "heaven of pure light." ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Edgar Rice Burroughs: The Man Who Created Tarzan

    by Bruce Watson ...
    In 1912, a frustrated writer sat at his typewriter seeking armchair adventure. Edgar Rice Burroughs had failed at nearly everything he had tried, yet he knew a good story when he read one. The tale of an ape-man torn between primal desires and civilization’s demands seemed like it might sell. A century later, in movies, on television, and in 74 novels, Tarzan still swings. In this digital short, ... Read more

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  • Jack London: A Short, Wild Life

    by Bruce Watson ...
    At the turn of the twentieth century, Jack London was the most celebrated author in the United States. As rugged as the wilderness he detailed in his adventure stories, he scratched his way up from a hardscrabble beginning to the pinnacle of publishing. But London heard his own call of the wild. From the details surrounding his conception and birth to the dissolution of his marriage, London's life ... Read more

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  • A Long Week

    by Bruce Watson ...
    A chance meeting of two people in one of the remotest parts of the world leads to situations that neither could have anticipated in their wildest dreams. endeavouring to survive against nature and evil men brings them together and tests their combined resources of character. ... Read more

    $3.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus