Tom Shachtman (born 1942) is an American author, journalist, filmmaker, and educator. He has published more than thirty books across a variety of topics, including histories, biographies, and books for children. He lives in

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Awards

Shachtman and British filmmaker David Dugan won the 2009

American Institute of Physics The American Institute of Physics (AIP) promotes science and the profession of physics, publishes physics journals, and produces publications for scientific and engineering societies. The AIP is made up of various member societies. Its corpora ...

Science Writing Award The American Institute of Physics (AIP) instituted their Science Writing Award to "promote effective science communication in print and broadcast media in order to improve the general public's appreciation of physics, astronomy, and allied scien ...

for their two-part

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documentary "Absolute Zero.""American Institute of Physics announces the winners of the 2009 AIP Science Communication Awards", 10 February 2010.
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Books

Nonfiction

* ''The Day America Crashed: A Narrative Account of the Great Stock Market Crash of October 24, 1929'' (1979, G. P. Putnam's Sons) * ''Edith & Woodrow: A Presidential Romance'' (1981, G. P. Putnam's Sons) * ''The Phony War, 1939–1940'' (1982,

Harper & Row Harper is an American publishing house, the flagship imprint of global publisher HarperCollins based in New York City. History J. & J. Harper (1817–1833) James Harper and his brother John, printers by training, started their book publishin ...

) * ''Decade of Shocks: Dallas to Watergate, 1963–1974'' (1983,

Poseidon Press Poseidon Press was an imprint of Simon & Schuster publishing, operating from 1982 to 1993. The founding editor was Ann Patty, who later went on to become an executive editor at Harcourt. The imprint was best known for discovering interesting ne ...

) * ''The FBI-KGB War: A Special Agent's Story'', with Robert J. Lamphere (1986,

Random House Random House is an American book publisher and the largest general-interest paperback publisher in the world. The company has several independently managed subsidiaries around the world. It is part of Penguin Random House, which is owned by Germ ...

) * ''The Gilded Leaf: Triumph, Tragedy, and Tobacco: Three Generations of the R. J. Reynolds Family and Fortune'', with Patrick Reynolds (1989,

Little, Brown Little, Brown and Company is an American publishing company founded in 1837 by Charles Coffin Little and James Brown (publisher), James Brown in Boston. For close to two centuries it has published fiction and nonfiction by American authors. Ear ...

) * ''Straight to the Top: Beyond Loyalty, Gamesmanship, Mentors, and Other Corporate Myths'', with Paul G. Stern (1990,

Warner Books Grand Central Publishing is a book publishing imprint of Hachette Book Group, originally established in 1970 as Warner Books when Warner Communications acquired the Paperback Library. When Time Warner sold their book publishing business to Hachet ...

) * ''Image by Design: From Corporate Vision to Business Reality'', with Clive Chajet (1991,

Addison-Wesley Addison-Wesley is an American publisher of textbooks and computer literature. It is an imprint of Pearson PLC, a global publishing and education company. In addition to publishing books, Addison-Wesley also distributes its technical titles throug ...

) * ''Skyscraper Dreams: The Great Real Estate Dynasties of New York'' (1991, Little, Brown) * ''Whoever Fights Monsters: Inside the Minds of the World's Most Notorious Serial Killers'', with Robert K. Ressler (1992, St. Martin's Press) * ''Justice Is Served'', with Robert K. Ressler (1994, St. Martin's Press) * ''The Inarticulate Society: Eloquence and Culture in America'' (1995, Free Press) * ''I Have Lived in the Monster: A Report from the Abyss'', with Robert K. Ressler (1997, St. Martin's Press) * ''The Most Beautiful Villages of New England'', with photographs by Len Rubenstein (1997,

Thames & Hudson Thames & Hudson (sometimes T&H for brevity) is a publisher of illustrated books in all visually creative categories: art, architecture, design, photography, fashion, film, and the performing arts. It also publishes books on archaeology, history, ...

) * ''Around the Block: The Business of a Neighborhood'' (1997,

Harcourt Brace Harcourt () was an American publishing firm with a long history of publishing fiction and nonfiction for adults and children. The company was last based in San Diego, California, with editorial/sales/marketing/rights offices in New York City ...

) * ''Absolute Zero and the Conquest of Cold'' (1999,

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) * ''Torpedoed: An American Businessman's True Story of Secrets, Betrayal, Imprisonment in Russia, and the Battle to Set Him Free'', with Edmond D. Pope (2001, Little, Brown) * ''I Seek My Brethren: Ralph Goldman and "The Joint": The Work of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee'' (2001,

Newmarket Press Newmarket Publishing and Communications Company, and its publishing arm Newmarket Press, was founded in 1981 by President and Publisher Esther Margolis. Newmarket published about 20-30 mainly non-fiction books a year, primarily in the areas of chi ...

) * ''Terrors and Marvels: How Science and Technology Changed the Character and outcome of World War II'' (2002, William Morrow) * ''25 to Life: The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth'', with Leslie Crocker Snyder (2002, Warner Books) * ''Rumspringa: To Be or Not to Be Amish'' (2006,

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) * ''Dead Center: Behind the Scenes at the World's Largest Medical Examiner's Office'', with Shiya Ribowsky (2006, Regan) * ''Airlift to America: How Barack Obama, Sr., John F. Kennedy, Tom Mboya, and 800 East African Students Changed Their World and Ours'' (2009, St. Martin's Press) * ''The Forty Years War: The Rise and Fall of the Neocons, from Nixon to Obama'', with Len Colodny (2010, Harper) * ''Building Tall: My Life and the Invention of Construction Management: A Memoir'', with John L. Tishman (2010, University of Michigan Press) * ''American Iconoclast: The Life and Times of Eric Hoffer'' (2011, Hopewell) * ''Gentlemen Scientists and Revolutionaries: The Founding Fathers in the Age of Enlightenment'' (2014,

Palgrave Macmillan Palgrave Macmillan is a British academic and trade publishing company headquartered in the London Borough of Camden. Its programme includes textbooks, journals, monographs, professional and reference works in print and online. It maintains off ...

) * ''How The French Saved America: Soldiers, Sailors, Diplomats, Louis XVI, and The Success of a Revolution'' (2017,

) *''The Founding Fortunes: How the Wealthy Paid for and Profited from America's Revolution'' (2020, St. Martin's Press)

Books for Children

* ''Growing Up Masai'' (1981, Macmillan) * ''The Birdman of St. Petersburg: Ralph T. Heath, Jr.'' (1982, Macmillan) * ''Parade!'', with photographs by Chuck Saaf (1985, Macmillan) * ''America's Birthday: The Fourth of July'', with photographs by Chuck Saaf (1986, Macmillan) * ''Beachmaster: A Story of Daniel Au Fond'' (1988, Henry Holt & Co.) * ''Video Power: A Complete Guide to Writing, Planning, and Shooting Videos'', with Harriet Shelare (1988, Henry Holt & Co.) * ''Wavebender: A Story of Daniel Au Fond'' (1989, Henry Holt & Co.) * ''The President Builds a House'' (1989,

Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster () is an American publishing company and a subsidiary of Paramount Global. It was founded in New York City on January 2, 1924 by Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster. As of 2016, Simon & Schuster was the third largest publi ...

) * ''Driftwhistler: A Story of Daniel Au Fond'' (1991, Henry Holt & Co.)

References

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