John Florio
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 5
Description
The authors of "One Nation Under Baseball: How the 1960s Collided with the National Pastime" deliver a riveting narrative nonfiction about a boxing match that represented the growing tensions between the United States and Nazi Germany in the lead up to World War II.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Relates the story of how in the early 1920s, as a Red Scare gripped America, two Italian immigrants, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, were wrongly accused, tried, and executed for murder, making front-page headlines as they maintained their innocence to the very end.