Thomas Fleming, Author . Forge $27.95 (544p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0322-6
A century of aviation and world history are revisited in novelist and historian Fleming's latest offering, which tracks the development of the airplane from a fantastic toy into a potent economic and military force. In the early 1930s, Frank...
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Thomas Fleming, Author Forge $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-312-87743-9
Entertaining in all of the ways readers have come to expect, the prolific Fleming's (The Officers' Wives; Remember the Morning; etc.) newest historical fiction concerns a British scheme to kidnap George Washington. It's the winter of 1780, and...
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Thomas Fleming, Author Forge $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-86781-2
The Irish struggle for independence moves onto American soil in Fleming's (The Wages of Fame) latest novel, which posits the existence of an IRA cell that crosses the Atlantic to infiltrate Paradise Beach, a sleepy Jersey Shore town, in the mid...
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Thomas Fleming, Author Basic Books $30 (446p) ISBN 978-0-465-01736-2
A hero of the Revolution, Aaron Burr served as vice-president under Jefferson and is rumored to have been the biological father of Martin Van Buren. Nevertheless, Burr remains best known as the slayer of Alexander Hamilton in 1804, and for...
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Thomas Fleming, Author Forge $26.95 (464p) ISBN 978-0-312-86309-8
Too much history, and not enough fiction, mars this continuation of the Stapleton family saga (after Remember the Morning) from 1827 to 1861. The three main characters--George Stapleton, Hudson Valley land-heir and politician; Caroline Kemple...
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Thomas Fleming, Author Forge $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-86308-1
Sixth in the generational saga of the Stapleton family (Liberty Tavern, etc.), this sad, intricately plotted book takes readers back in time to colonial New York. Bestselling novelist Fleming (Officers' Wives) has created a grim, compelling tale of...
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Thomas Fleming, Author HarperCollins Publishers $24 (574p) ISBN 978-0-06-017709-6
Elaborately plotted and meticulously researched, this sprawling saga of World War II offers some new political insights but ultimately succumbs to a combination of melodramatic prose, flat characters and abundant cliches. Bestselling author Fleming (
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Thomas Fleming, Author Simon & Schuster $19.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-62151-3
Fleming's astonishing gift for portraying the gut realities of war experience in a vast, historically accurate context, clearly evidenced in his bestselling The Officers' Wives, shines forth in this battleship of a novel about the Pacific conflict...
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Thomas Fleming, Author Forge $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-87204-5
Fleming's latest historical, set in Indiana and Kentucky during the final months of the Civil War, is jagged around the edges yet moving and memorable. Based on the true story of a partisan militia intent on uniting Kentucky, Indiana and other...
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Thomas Fleming, Author Viking Books $39.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-670-87021-9
Not surprisingly, Fleming, who is as well known for his historical novels (e.g., Remember the Morning, Forecasts, Aug. 4) as for his histories and biographies (e.g., Now We Are Enemies), concentrates on dramatic events and colorful personalities in...
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Thomas Fleming, Author . Harper/Smithsonian $27.99 (456p) ISBN 978-0-06-113912-3
In this solid, sometimes titillating account, novelist and historian Fleming (The Perils of Peace
) draws parallels to today's media obsession with our leaders' sex lives. The media were obsessed at the nation's beginning, too. As...
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Thomas Fleming, Author . Collins/Smithsonian $27.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-113910-9
The battle of Yorktown in October 1781 and the surrender of Cornwallis's army to Washington is popularly thought to have made the success of the American Revolution a done deal. True, the war officially ended two years later—but surely...
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Thomas Fleming, Author . Scholastic Nonfiction $19.99 (96p) ISBN 978-0-439-63404-5
Historian Fleming (Liberty! The American Revolution
, companion to the PBS documentary) reminds readers in this inviting, expansive text that the American Revolution was not just "a struggle between two groups of Englishmen who happened to live...
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Thomas Fleming, Author . Forge $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1352-2
Historian and bestselling author Fleming (The Officers' Wives
; When This Cruel War Is Over
) poses an intriguing question in his latest historical novel: what if the victorious Union had put Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee on trial for treason?...
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Thomas Fleming, Author . Smithsonian $27.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-082962-9
Fleming enhances his position as a leading general-audience historian of the American Revolution in this convincing argument for the importance of internal diplomacy in the conflict's development. Like David McCullough's 1776
, Fleming's
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Thomas Fleming, Author . Forge $25.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0644-9
Bess Fitzmaurice, the idealistic heroine of Fleming's historical melodrama, suffers no reticence in recounting her many sexual liaisons ("He took my hand and put his swelling manhood in it"). More seriously, through Bess's gushing...
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Thomas Fleming, Author . Wiley $19.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-471-26738-6
Most high school students ought to remember learning a little something about the Louisiana Purchase, but this pivotal event in American history has rarely received sustained attention until this year, the event's bicentennial. Noted historian...
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Thomas Fleming, Author . Basic $32.50 (628p) ISBN 978-0-465-02464-3
Fleming, who previously endeavored to rehabilitate the villainous Aaron Burr in Duel,
now attempts even more absurd revisionism. Franklin Roosevelt has been lauded by most historians—most brilliantly by Eric Larrabee in his book Commander in
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Zilpha Keatley Snyder, Author, Thomas Fleming, Author Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $15.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-385-31056-7
Play Day is approaching, but Cat Kinsey, the fastest runner at school, won't be participating in the races because her old-fashioned, bull-headed father won't allow her to wear pants even while playing sports. Cat is so busy being angry at her...
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Thomas Fleming. DaCapo, $26.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-306-82126-4
Always a quirky, contrarian writer-historian, the prolific Fleming (Washington’s Secret War) offers what he deems a fresh take on the causes of the Civil War. But despite its subtitle, his interpretation isn’t new, and it doesn’t hold up. Fleming’s...
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Thomas Fleming. Da Capo, $27.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-306-82127-1
At the dawn of the American republic, the Founding Fathers, once united in their common pursuit of freedom, split ideologically. Thomas Jefferson's distrust of monarchical tendencies led him to oppose the more pragmatic and Federalist George...
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