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After Tripoli declared war on the United States in 1801, Barbary pirates captured 300 U.S. sailors and marines....

For the truly well-rounded "intellectual," nothing fascinates so much as the subversive, the contrarian, the suppressed, and the bizarre. Richard Zacks has unloosed his admittedly strange mind and astonishing research abilities upon the entire spectrum of human knowledge....

Captain Kidd has gone down in history as America's most ruthless buccaneer....

“There are two times in a man’s life when he should not speculate,” he wrote. “When he can’t afford it and when he can.” The publishing company Twain owned was failing; his investment in a typesetting device was bleeding red ink....

A rollicking narrative history of Theodore Roosevelt's embattled tenure as police commissioner of corrupt, pleasure-loving New York City in the 1880s, and his doomed mission to wipe out vice....