Bøger af Ted Reed

Kenny Riley is the charismatic leader of the Charleston local. Riley combines commitment to the civil rights movement with the practicality to ensure that Charleston remains a principal East Coast port. This is Riley's story as well as a behind-the-scenes look at organised black labour in a Deep South port.

History has remembered Carl Furillo as an opponent of Jackie Robinson becoming a member of the Brooklyn Dodgers, despite that being untrue. This biography sets the record straight, while also detailing Furillo's contributions as a clutch hitter and an outstanding right fielder, his angry departure from the team, his hearing before the commissioner of baseball, and his life after the sport.

The 2013 merger of American Airlines and US Airways marked a major step in the consolidation of the US airline industry. A young management team that began plotting mergers a decade earlier designed a brilliant strategy to seize an industry prize. The airlines' histories and the inside story of the takeover is told by two veteran airline reporters.