Ted Gottfried

Series

Book report biographies

Pub. Date

c1997

Description

A biography of the British bacteriologist, born in Scotland, who was knighted and awarded the 1945 Nobel Prize in medicine for discovering penicillin.

2) Deniers of the Holocaust: who they are, what they do, why they do it

Author

Series

Holocaust

Pub. Date

c2001

Description

Discusses the Holocaust and dispels the rumors that the Holocaust didn't really happen.

3) The death penalty: justice or legalized murder?

Author

Pub. Date

[2002]

Description

Examines the controversy that surround capital punishment and how public opinion has played a role.

4) Displaced persons: the liberation and abuse of Holocaust survivors

Author

Pub. Date

c2001

Description

Describes the liberation of the 100,000 Jewish survivors of the Nazi concentration camps and their struggle to return home. Includes information on anti-Semitism in both Europe and the United States following World War II and the creation of Israel.

5) Homeland security versus constitutional rights

Author

Pub. Date

[2003]

Description

Examines both sides of the question: Are we defending our nation against terrorism at the expense of the rights of the individual citizen?

6) The road to Communism: The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union

Author

Series

Pub. Date

c2002

Description

Chronicles the Czarist Russian Empire in the 1800s, the birth of Bolshevism, events leading to the Russian Revolution of 1917, and the development of new political structures in its aftermath.

7) The Great Fatherland War: The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union

Author

Series

Pub. Date

[2003]

Description

Discusses the Soviet Union's involvement in World War II, from their non-aggression pact with Germany to their subsequent invasion and eventual defeat, highlighting the hardships endured by the Soviet peopleduring the war years.

8) Nazi Germany

Author

Holocaust (Twenty-First Century Books)

Series

Pub. Date

[2000]

Description

Describes the Nazis' rise to power in Germany and their efforts to conquer Europe, as well as their full-scale war against Jews and others.

9) James Baldwin: voice from Harlem

Author

Series

An Impact biography

Pub. Date

c1997

10) The Stalinist empire: The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union

Author

Series

Pub. Date

c2002

Description

Chronicles the years of Joseph Stalin's iron-fisted reign in the Soviet Union, from the time of Lenin's death to the dawn of World War II.

11) The Cold War: the rise and fall of the Soviet Union

Author

Series

Pub. Date

c2003

Description

Focuses on Soviet politics in the period between the end of World War II and the collapse of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), known as the Cold War.

12) Homelessness: whose problem is it?

Author

Pub. Date

c1999

Description

Discusses the issue of homelessness, examining who the homeless are, how they become that way, and differing views on how to deal with the problem.

13) Martyrs to madness

Author

Holocaust (Twenty-First Century Books)

Series

Pub. Date

[2000]

Description

Discusses how the Nazis came to power in Germany and the systematic brutalization they perpetrated on such groups as the Jews, Gypsies, Catholics, homosexuals, and others.

14) Israelis and Palestinians

Author

Series

Headliners

Pub. Date

c2000

Description

Examines the latest developments in the peace process between Israel and the displaced Palestinians led by Yasir Arafat.

15) The fight for peace: a history of antiwar movements in America

Author

Series

People's history

Pub. Date

c2006

Description

This book traces the work of anti-war activists from the Revolutionary War to the present.

16) Heroes of the Holocaust

Author

Holocaust (Twenty-First Century Books)

Series

Pub. Date

[2001]

Description

Describes resistance to the Holocaust in Nazi-occupied Europe.

17) The American media

Author

Series

Impact book

Pub. Date

c1997

Description

Surveys the history of American media, covering such aspects as yellow journalism, the syndicates, and radio news.

18) Police under fire

Author

Pub. Date

[1999]

Description

Examines issues of police brutality, corruption, and racial bias against a historical backdrop of police culture.

19) Censorship

Author

Series

Open for debate

Pub. Date

2006

Description