David Fisher

The must-have companion to Bill O'Reilly's historical docudrama Legends and Lies: The Patriots, an exciting and eye-opening look at the Revolutionary War through the lives of its leaders
The American Revolution was neither inevitable nor a unanimous cause. It pitted neighbors against each other, as loyalists and colonial rebels faced off for their lives and futures. These were the times that tried men's souls: no one was on stable

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The American Revolution was not inevitable, nor was it a unanimous cause. It pitted neighbors against one another, as loyalists and colonial rebels faced off for their lives and futures. Through the remarkable lives of the first Americans, this book reveals the contentious arguments that turned friends into foes and the land into a war zone. From the riots over a child's murder that led to the Boston Massacre, to the Continental Army's first victory...

At the end of the summer of 1859, twenty-two-year-old Peachy Quinn Harrison went on trial for murder in Springfield, Illinois. Abraham Lincoln, who had been involved in more than three thousand cases -- including more than twenty-five murder trials -- during his two-decades-long career, was hired to defend him. Lincoln's debates with Senator Stephen Douglas the previous fall had gained him a national following, transforming the little-known, self-taught...

Presents a description of basic training in the American military, describing how the eight-week course imparts key physical, mental, and disciplinary skills to turn trainees into order-ready soldiers.

Doctor Who, travels with his intergalactic sidekick, Romana, while they comb the universe for the six segments of the powerful Key to Time. The Ribos Operation: Doctor Who and Romana trace the first segment of the Key to Time to a faraway planet plagued with ignorance, con artists, spies and interminably long winters. The Pirate Planet: The search for the Key's second segment is written by The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's Douglas Adams, and...

A young girl is destined to liberate her world from the grip of the Magisterium, which represses people's ties to magic and their animal spirits known as daemons. "[This program] reveals a young orphan's incredible journey into a parallel world where a human soul exists outside of the body--in the form of a talking animal. ... The series follows Lyra ... who was left as a baby at Oxford's Jordan College but now desires a life of adventure beyond...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. A Mental Floss Book to Read in Summer 2019. A President on Trial. A Reputation at Stake. ABC News legal correspondent and host of LIVE PD Dan Abrams reveals the story of Teddy Roosevelt's last stand-an epic courtroom battle against corruption-in this thrilling follow-up to the New York Times bestseller Lincoln's Last Trial. "No more dramatic courtroom scene has ever been enacted," reported the Syracuse Herald on...