Wartime America’s nerves were jumpy. One foggy night on a deserted Long Island beach a young coastguardsman heard the muffled engines of a submarine offshore, and suddenly eight shadowy figures loomed up out of the mist
On the brink of the Civil War southern arsenals began to fill with thousands of federal guns, sent there by a Cabinet officer
In his old age, William Randolph Hearst did a stately pleasure dome decree, and yet the secret river, youth, escaped him