Smith, Frederika Shumway. Stanley, African Explorer. New York: Rand McNally, 1968.
Stanley, Henry M. Autobiography of Henry Morton Stanley, edited by his wife, Dorothy Stanley. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1909.
Stanley, Henry M. My Early Travels in America and Asia. London: Duckworth, 2001.
Stanley, Henry M. Through the Dark Continent. Vols. 1 & 2. New York: Dover Press, 1988.
Wassermann, Jacob. Bula Matari: Stanley, Conqueror of a Continent. New York: Liveright, 1939.
CHAPTER 11: JACK LONDON
Kershaw, Alex. Jack London: A Life. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997.
Kingman, Russ. A Pictorial Life of Jack London. Foreword by Irving Stone. New York: Crown Publishers, 1979.
London, Jack. John Barleycorn: An Alcoholic Memoir. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978.
London, Jack. Novels and Social Writings. New York: Library Classics of the United States, 1982.
London, Jack. Novels and Stories. New York: Library Classics of the United States, 1982.
London, Joan. Jack London and His Times: An Unconventional Biography. New York: Book League of America, 1939.
Sinclair, Andrew. Jack: A Biography of Jack London. New York: Harper and Row, 1977.
Stasz, Clarice. American Dreamers: Charmian and Jack London. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1988.
CHAPTER 12: LAWRENCE OF ARABIA
Aldington, Richard. Lawrence of Arabia, a Biographical Enquiry. Chicago: Henry Regnery, 1955.
Barr, James. Setting the Desert on Fire: T. E. Lawrence and Britain’s Secret War in Arabia, 1916–1918. New York: W. W. Norton, 2008.
Brown, Michael. Lawrence of Arabia: The Life, the Legend. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2005.
Graves, Robert. Lawrence and the Arabs. New York: Paragon House, 1991.
James, Lawrence. The Golden Warrior: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia. New York: Paragon House, 1993.
Knightley, Phillip. Lawrence of Arabia. New York: Thomas Nelson & Co. 1977.
Lawrence, T. E. Seven Pillars of Wisdom, A Triumph. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1936.
Liddell Hart, Sir Basil Henry. Colonel Lawrence, the Man behind the Legend. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1934.
Thomas, Lowell. With Lawrence in Arabia. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1967.
Wilson, Jeremy. Lawrence: The Authorized Biography of T. E. Lawrence. New York: Atheneum, 1990.
CHAPTER 13: BILLIE HOLIDAY
Chilton, John. Billie’s Blues. New York: Stein and Day, 1975.
Clarke, Donald. Wishing on the Moon. New York: Viking, 1994.
Davis, Angela Y. Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday. New York: Vintage, 1998.
Greene, Meg. Billie Holiday. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2007.
Griffin, Farah Jasmine. If You Can’t Be Free, Be a Mystery: In Search of Billie Holiday. New York: Ballantine Publishing Group, 2001.
Holiday, Billie, and William Dufty. Lady Sings the Blues. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1956.
Nicholson, Stuart. Billie Holiday. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1995.
O’Meally, Robert G. Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday. New York: Arcade Publishers, 1991.
CHAPTER 14: EVA PERÓN
Barnes, John. Evita: First Lady. New York: Grove Press, 1978.
Bourne, Richard. Political Leaders of Latin America. New York: Knopf, 1970.
Evita Perón Historical Research Foundation website. http://evitaperon.org.
Martinez, Tomas Eloy. Santa Evita. Translated by Helen Lane. New York: Random House Inc, 1997.
Ortiz, Alicia Dujovne. Eva Perón. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1996.
Perón, Eva. La razon de mi vida. Buenos Aires: Editorial Peuser, 1951.
CHAPTER 15: FIDEL CASTRO
Bourne, Peter G. Fidel: A Biography of Fidel Castro. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1986.
Castro, Fidel, Ignacio Ramonet, and Andrew Hurley. Fidel Castro: My Life. New York: Scribner, 2008.
Castro, Fidel, with Deborah Shnookal and Pedro Álvarez Tabío. Fidel: My Early Years. New York: Ocean Press, 2005.
Castro, Fidel, David Deutschmann, and Deborah Shnookal. Fidel Castro Reader. New York: Ocean Press, 2007.
Coltman, Leycester, and Julia Sweig. The Real Fidel. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003.
Geyer, Georgie Anne. Guerrilla Prince: The Untold Story of Fidel Castro. Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1991.
Leonard, Thomas M. Fidel Castro. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2004.
Matthews, Herbert L. Fidel Castro. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1969.
Oppenheimer, Andres. “After 50 Years, Cuba Has Little to Show.” The Miami Herald, December 12, 2008.
Skierka, Volker, and Patrick Camiller. Fidel Castro. Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2004.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I would like to thank my coauthors Edwin Kiester Jr., Ed Wright, and Alan Axelrod for their help writing this book. Many thanks also to my gifted, patient editor, Cara Connors, who kept me focused and on track. Lastly, thanks to Tom Donnarumma for all his support and encouragement.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Juré Fiorillo is a freelance writer specializing in history and criminology. She was a contributor to History’s Greatest Lies and Before They Changed the World. The coauthor of True Stories of Law & Order and True Stories of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, she has a master’s degree in criminal justice.
INDEX
Note: Page numbers in italics indicate figures.
The 26th of July Movement, 253
A
abandonment, 7
Abudullah, 204
Abu el Lissal, 207
Abyssinia (Ethiopia), 169, 170
acknowledgment, parental, 7
Adams, John, 109, 116–117
Adams, John Quincy, 6, 120
Africa, 171–172, 173, 174, 176–177
Albieri di Giovanni Amadori, 28, 28–29, 30
Alexander VI, Pope, 32
Ali, 204
Allenby, Edmund, 197, 210
Almagrists, 44, 57, 58, 59
Almagro, Diego de, 43, 44, 45, 48, 49, 51, 55, 57, 59
Amboise, France, 29
American Colonies, 104–105, 109, 111
American Revolution, 104, 111, 136
Andagoya, Pascal, 49
Andes Mountains, 54, 132, 142, 143
Andrea del Verrochio, 28, 36
Angevins, 23
Anglican Church, 62, 66
Anglicanism, 86
Anglicans, 86
Anglo-Dutch brigade, 89
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, 17
Anglo-Saxons, 10, 18
Anjou, 14, 18, 22
Anne of Cleves, 67
Antonio da Vinci, 28, 32, 33
Antonio da Vinci (grandfather), 28, 36
Antonio di Piero Buti del Vacca (Accattabriga), 28, 29
Aqaba, 206–207, 210
Arab Revolt, 195, 197, 204, 206, 207, 208–209, 210
Arabs, 195, 197, 203, 204, 206, 208–209
Araucano People, 133, 141
Archbishop of Canterbury. See Cranmer, Thomas
Argentina, 6, 132, 140, 142, 144, 228–241
Argyll, Earl of, 96
Army of the Andes, 133, 142, 144
Artie Shaw Orchestra, 215
Ashridge, England, 60
Atacama Desert, 132
Atahuallpa, 45, 52, 53, 54, 55
Auda Abu Tayi, 207
Austria, 94, 137
Ávila, Pedro Arias de (Pedrarias), 44, 46–48, 49
Avon River, 97
Axminister, England, 95
Aztecs, 54
B
Balboa, Vasco Núñez de, 44, 46–48, 47, 49
Bank of New York, 105, 112, 117
Bank of the United States, 105
“base coinage”, 62
Basie, William (“Count”), 222
bastard, 34
Bath, E
ngland, 96
Batista, Fulgencio, 244, 245, 252, 253, 254
Bayeux Tapestry, 9, 15, 23
Bay of Pigs, 245, 255
Bay of San Miguel, Panama, 49
Belgium, 177
Bell, Alexander Graham, 121, 129, 129
Bennett, James Gordon Jr., 162, 163, 168, 169, 171, 172, 176
Benny Goodman Orchestra, 214, 222
Bernhart, Sarah, 149
Bihart, Claude, 12
Birán, Cuba, 244, 246
Biru River, 49
Blackadder, John, 93
Bloody Assizes, 100–101
Bloody Mary. See Mary, Queen of Scots
Boleyn, Anne, 62, 63, 66–67, 70
Bolivia, 132, 140
Bonaparte, Joseph, 132, 139
Bonaparte, Napoleon. See Napoleon
Borgia, Cesare, 29, 32
Borgia, Lucrezia, 32
Bothwell Bridge, Battle of, 83, 89, 92–93, 95
Bourbons, 137
Bretons, 23
Brett, George Platt Sr., 191–192
Bridgwater, England, 83, 96–97
Bristol, England, 95, 96
British West Indies, 104
Brittany, 14, 18, 22
Buenos Aires, Argentina, 142, 144
Burr, Aaron, 105, 114–115, 116–117
Burr-Hamilton Duel, 105, 114–115, 116–117
C
Cádiz, Spain, 137
Cajamarca, Peru, 54, 55
Calhoun, John, 118
Cambpeltown, Scotland, 96
Camp Douglas, 168
Carillo, Luis, 48
Carlos IV, 132, 138–139
Carrera, Javiera, 141
Carrera, José Miguel, 141, 142, 144
Carrera, Juan José, 141
Carrera, Luis, 141, 142
“Carta della Catena”, 31
Castro, Angelita, 248
Castro, Fidel, 242–257, 243, 248, 250
The 26th of July Movement and, 253
adopts title of President of the Council of State, 245
Bay of Pigs and, 245, 255
becomes a guerrilla, 244, 252–253
becomes first secretary of Communist Party of Cuba, 245
becomes prime minister, 245
birth of, 244, 246
at Colegio Dolores, 242
Cuban Missile Crisis and, 245, 255–256
education of, 249–251, 252
exiled in Mexico, 244, 253
imprisonment of, 244, 253
as leader of Cuba, 245, 255–256
legitimization of, 244, 252
overthrows Batista, 245
resignation of, 245, 256–257
runs for parliament, 244, 252–253
Castro, Maria Luisa, 246, 251, 252
Castro, Ramon, 248
Castro, Raúl, 243, 245, 249–250, 257
Castro y Argiz, Angel, 244, 245, 246, 247, 249, 251, 252
Caterina, 26, 28–29, 30
Catherine of Aragon, 63, 66
Catherine of Braganza, 83, 86, 93
Catholic Church, 32, 67, 133
Catholicism, 62, 70, 80, 86
Catholics, 62, 76, 86, 94, 101
Cecil, William, 76
Chacabuco, Chile, 144
Chaney, William, 178, 180, 181, 182, 182, 186, 188
Chapman, Thomas Robert Tighe, 195–196
Chappel, Alonzo, 103, 110
Chard, England, 83, 95
Charles I, 83, 85
Charles II, 80, 82, 83, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 93, 100
Charles V, 45, 52, 57
Cheke, John, 68
Cheshire, England, 96
Children Act (UK), 7
Chile, 130–145, 140
Chilean Independance Day, 139
Chilean War for Independence, 130, 132, 133, 141–145, 143
Chillan, Chile, 132
Choate, Rufus, 121
Christianity, 6, 17
Churchill, Winston, 79, 201, 211
Church of England. See Anglican Church
Clement VII, Pope, 32, 63, 64–65, 66
Cloux, France, 29
Clyde River, 89
the Cobb, 94
Colombia, 46, 50–51, 51
colonialism, 132
Columbia Records, 222
Columbus, Christopher, 42, 45
Commodore Records, 222
Confederate Army, 162, 166–168
the Congo, 163, 177
Continental Army, 111
Coolidge, Calvin, 117
Cortés, Hernán, 49, 52
Cotton Club, 221
Covenanters Rebellion, 83, 89, 95
Cranmer, Thomas, 64–65, 66
criollos, 135, 139
Crofts, James (father), 82, 83, 85. See also Scott, James
Crofts, James (son), 93
Crofts, William, 85
Cromwell, Oliver, 86
Cromwell, Richard, 86
Cromwell, Thomas, 66, 67
Cruger, 108
Crusades, 13
Cuba, 242–257
Cuban Missile Crisis, 245, 255–256
Cuzco, Peru, 54–55, 57–58
Cypress Bend, Arkansas, 166–168
D
da Vinci family, 28, 29
Davis, Angela, 222
Dawson, Anna, 217
Dean, Alice, 212, 219
de la Cruz, Nicolas, 136, 137
Delfin, Thomas, 138
Demetrio, 133
Democratic-Republican Party, 117
Denbigh, Wales, 162–163
los descamisados, 233, 235
Devereux, Robert, 76
Diaz Balart, Mirta, 244, 252
Dillingham, John, 11
discrimination, 7
Dixie Grays, 167–168
Dove, Billie, 220
Down Beat magazine, 225
Drake, Francis, 63
Duarte, Erminda, 233–234
Duarte, Juan, 230, 231, 233, 234
Duarte, Juancito, 234
Duarte, María Eva, 230, 231. See also Perón, Eva
Dudley, Robert, 76
Duke of Northumberland, 64–65
Duke of Somerset, 64–65
Dumas, Alexandre fils, 7, 146–159, 147, 150, 154
awarded the Légion d’honneur, 149, 159
birth of, 148, 151
La Dame aux Camelias, 148, 156
Le Demi-Monde, 158
Diane de Lys, 158
elected to Académie Française, 149, 159
L’Étrangere, 149
Le Fils Naturel, 148, 158
at Institution Goubaux, 146, 149, 151
Un Père Prodigue, 148, 158
at Saint-German-en-Laye, 148, 155–156
stigma of illegitimacy and, 157
Dumas, Alexandre père, 148, 151, 152, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159
Antony, 148
Henri III et Sa Cour, 148
The Three Musketeers, 148
Twenty Years After, 148
The Vicomte of Bragelonne, 148
Dumas, Jeanine, 159
Dumas, Marie-Alexandrine-Henriette, 159
Duplessis, Marie, 156
Duras, Louis de, 83, 96–97
the Dutch. See the Netherlands
Dutch United Provinces. See the Netherlands
E
Earl of Essex, 63
East Anglia, England, 96
Ecuador, 51
Edgar, 17
Edinburgh, Scotland, 96
Edith of Normandy, 15
Edward “the Confessor”, 9, 10, 11, 14, 15, 15–16, 17, 18
Edward VI, 64–65, 67, 68, 70
Egypt, 200–201
Elizabeth I, 7, 60–79, 61, 71
birth of, 62
crowned queen of England, 62, 73
death of, 63
exiled to Woodstock, 72, 73
at Tilbury Camp, 63, 76, 78–79
in the Tower of London, 60, 66–67, 72
as the “Virgin Queen”, 76–77
Eloy Martínez, Tomás, 241
El Roble ford, 141
England, 7, 8–25, 60–79, 74–75, 80–101, 135, 137, 139. See also Great Britain
Norman invasion of, 8–25
English Channel, 8, 10–11, 15, 16, 19, 78
English Civil War, 83
Episcopalian church, 89
Ethelred II, 17
Europe, 6, 7, 73, 136
Evelyn, John, 83
F
Fagan, Charles, 214, 215, 217, 219
Fai al, 197, 204, 206, 207, 210
Falaise, Normandy, 10, 11
Fawcett, Mary, 105
Ferndinand VII, 132, 138–139
Ferrier, Ida, 152, 155
Feversham, Earl of. See Duras, Louis de
filius nullis (England), 7
Flanders, 14
Flaubert, Gustave, 158
Fletch Henderson Band, 220
Florence, Italy, 28, 29, 30, 31, 33
Fort Fisher, 168
France, 7, 8, 18, 62, 73, 86, 88, 89, 132, 139
Francesco da Vinci, 29, 30, 36
Francesco di Gacopo di Guglielmo, 28
Francis, James, 164
Francis I, 29
French Revolution, 136
Freud, Sigmund
A Childhood Memory of Leonardo Da Vinci, 37, 39
Frome, England, 96
Frontier Dragoons, 141
Fulbert, 10
G
García Márquez, Gabriel, 246
Gautier, Théophile, 156–157
Germany, 200–210
Gilbert, David, 126
Giraud, Eugene, 154
Giuliano da Vinci, 32
Glasgow, Scotland, 96
the Glorious Revolution, 101
Godfrey, Richard, 97
Godwin family, 16
Godwinson, Harold, 8, 10, 11, 14, 15, 16, 17–18, 19, 22, 23
Godwinson, Tostig, 10, 11
gold rush, 187
González, Francisca, 42, 44
González, Lina Ruz, 244, 246, 249
Goodman, Benny, 222
Goree, James L., 167
Gough, Philip, 216
Grant, Ulysses S., 168
Great Britain, 7, 132, 136, 138, 163, 169, 170, 200–210, 208–209. See also England; Wales
Great Nefudh Desert, 194, 206
the Great Plague, 88
Greece, 6
Greenwich Palace, England, 62, 66
Grey, Jane, 70
Grey of Warke, 97
Guevara, Ernesto “Ché”, 244, 253, 256
Guy, Joe, 225
Guy of Ponthieu, 16
H
Halley’s Comet, 19
Hamilton, Alexander, 6, 102–117, 103, 110, 113
adultery of, 116
in the American Revolution, 104–105, 111–112
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