Bill Yenne

Provides capsule views of one hundred exceptional men, for either good or ill, on the highways of history.

General Henry Harley "Hap" Arnold is widely considered the father of the United States Air Force. But his long list of accomplishments doesn't begin or end there. He was also the first and only five-star general of the US Air Force; one of the first US military aviators; the first American to carry air mail; and the architect of the war-winning air strategy of World War II.

Collection of early photographs with text chronicling the opening of the American West, looking at the legends and the people associated with the gold rush, transcontinental railroad, and the cowboy way of life.

Bladen Cole is getting a handsome sum of money from Isham Ransdell, the owner of the Gallatin City Bank, for the men who killed Ransdell's associates. The banker wants the Porter boys dead or alive--preferably dead. Cole questions the motives of his new client, the only rich man in the city somehow left unscathed. The manhunt goes smoothly enough until he finds himself between two rival Blackfoot bands. Forced to take sides, Cole is led straight to...

Growing up in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, the author adores the Cantonese cooking her mother prepares for the family and shares it adapted with produce from America. The book mixes these with spirit and wisdom gleaned from multiple travels to China, once as leader of a study trip for the Smithsonian.