Albert Marrin
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Description
Albert Marrin (born July 24, 1936) is an American historian, professor of history, and author of more than forty juvenile nonfiction books. He was born in New York City. He graduated from City College of New York, Yeshiva University, and Columbia University. He taught in the public schools New York City. He is Chairman of the history department at Yeshiva University. He lives with his wife in the Bronx, New York.
Books
The Great Adventure: Theodore Roosevelt and the Rise of Modern America
"We knew toil and hardship and hunger and thirst . . . but we felt the hardy life in our veins, and ours was the glory of work and the joy of living." -Theodore Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt is one of Americaas liveliest and most influential figures. He was a scholar, cowboy, war hero, explorer, and a brilliant politician. As president, Rooseveltas far-reaching policies abroad and at home forever changed both our nationas place in the world and the life of every modern American. Fascinating details and an intimate, fast-paced narrative explore the heroic life and complex world of an American icon.
Oh, rats!
A history of the relationship between rats and people and the many ways rats have been perceived by mankind.
Secrets from the Rocks
A biography of the scientist-adventurer, Roy Chapman Andrews, focusing on the expeditions he led for New York's American Museum of Natural History to the Gobi Desert in Mongolia in an effort to uncover dinosaur fossils
Terror of the Spanish Main
An account of the life and times of the English buccaneer, Henry Morgan, from his birth in Wales through his daring exploits in the Spanish Main to his later years in Jamaica.
Empires lost and won
Discusses the history of the southwestern region of the United States from the sixteenth century to the Mexican War, examining the interactions between the Spanish, Indians, and American pioneers.
Commander in Chief Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War
Brings Lincoln to life by placing him in the context of his own personal background and the larger circumstances of the country's greatest conflict.
Plains warrior
Traces the life of the American Indian chief who led the Comanches in the battle and remained their leader on the reservation where he guided the people in accepting their new life.
Unconditional Surrender
The final part of Waugh's Sword of Honour trilogy.
Cowboys, Indians, and gunfighters
Describes life in the American West and the growth of the cattle industry, from the introduction of horses and cattle by the Spanish through the reign of the cattle barons in the late nineteenth century.
America and Vietnam
A powerfully written, emotion-packed, highly biased account of America's involvement in Vietnam. Marrin mentions a variety of views on the war, but his sympathies are clearly with the Americans who fought there. While he details the grunts confusion, frustration, and suffering and apologizes for the atrocities they committed as aberrations, he depicts the communists as ruthless and power-hungry, the South Vietnamese as corrupt, the US government as blind and indecisive, the news media as sensation-seeking, and the antiwar activists as spoiled brats. He also emphasizes the suffering of American POWs (and, to a lesser degree, some of the Vietnamese). Though he quotes a number of Vietnamese sources and presents some background on the country, the Vietnamese are the villains in virtually every comparison with Americans; Marrin's presumption of motives is good for American soldiers, bad for everyone else. To his credit, he attributes quotes and offers a reasonably complete bibliography. Useful as a digest of some of the adult oral histories, but not as an objective summary. Index and b&w photos not seen.
Napoleon and the Napoleonic wars
Follows Napoleon Bonaparte from his origins as a lowly soldier to his rise to military power and his conquest of Europe.