Tom Shachtman (born February 15, 1942) is an American author, journalist, filmmaker, and educator. He has published more than 30 books across a variety of topics, including histories, biographies and books for children. He lives in

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Awards

Shachtman and the 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 for their two-part

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documentary ''Absolute Zero''.

Books

Non-fiction

* ''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. Founded in New York in 1817 by James Harper and his brother John, the company operated as J. & J. Harper until 1833, when ...

) * ''Decade of Shocks: Dallas to Watergate, 1963–1974'' (1983, Poseidon Press) * ''The FBI-KGB War: A Special Agent's Story'', with Robert J. Lamphere (1986,

Random House Random House is an imprint and publishing group of Penguin Random House. Founded in 1927 by businessmen Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer as an imprint of Modern Library, it quickly overtook Modern Library as the parent imprint. Over the foll ...

) * ''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 in Boston. For close to two centuries, it has published fiction and nonfiction by American authors. Early lists featured Emil ...

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

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

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) * ''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

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(1992,

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) * ''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,

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

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) * ''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) * ''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,

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) * ''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,

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

References

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