Ken Ackerman
Ken Ackerman, a lawyer in Washington, DC, and veteran of senior positions on Capitol Hill and in two administrations, is the author of Boss Tweed: The Corrupt Pol Who Conceived the Soul of Modern New York; Dark Horse: The Surprise Election and Political Murder of President James A. Garfield; Young J. Edgar: Hoover and the Red Scare, 1919-1920; The Gold Ring: Jim Fisk, Jay Gould, and Black Friday 1869; and, most recently, Trotsky in New York, 1917: A Radical on the Eve of Revolution. He also serves on the boards of the Writers Center in Bethesda, MD, and the Museum of Political Corruption in Albany, NY.
3 entries by Ken Ackerman
Iron Empires
By Michael Hiltzik
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The railways made the U.S. what it is today. Do financiers deserve all the credit?
Iron Empires: Robber Barons, Railroads, and the Making of Modern America
By Michael Hiltzik
The railways made the U.S. what it is today. Do financiers deserve all the credit?
Lenin: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror
By Victor Sebestyen
This “balanced, scholarly, and highly readable” new work captures the history-altering Bolshevik’s human side.