Washoe County Library System

On Shelf

South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction
794.1094 JOH 2008
1 available

Description

Journalist, scholar, and chess enthusiast Daniel Johnson is our guide to one of history's most remarkable periods, when chess matches were front-page news and captured the world's imagination. The Cold War played out in many areas: geopolitical alliances, military coalitions, espionage, the arms race, proxy wars--and chess. An essential pastime of Russian intellectuals and revolutionaries, later adopted by the Communists as a symbol of Soviet power,...

2) The zookeepers' war: an incredible true story from the Cold War

Author

Mohnhaupt, Jan

Publisher

Simon & Schuster

Pub. Date

2019.

Language

English

On Shelf

Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
590.7343 MOHNHA 2019
1 available

Description

THE ACCLAIMED INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER. The unbelievable true story of the Cold Wars strangest proxy war, fought between the zoos on either side of the Berlin Wall. Living in West Berlin in the 1960s often felt like living in a zoo, everyone packed together behind a wall, with the world always watching. On the other side of the Iron Curtain, the East Berlin zoo was spacious and lush, a socialist utopia where everything was perfectly planned...and...

3) The broken road: George Wallace and a daughter's journey to reconciliation

Author

Kennedy, Peggy Wallace

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing

Pub. Date

2019.

Language

English

On Shelf

Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
976.1063 KENNED 2019
1 available

Description

"From the daughter of one of America's most virulent segregationists, a memoir that reckons with her father George Wallace's legacy of hate -- and illuminates her journey towards redemption. Peggy Wallace Kennedy has been widely hailed as the 'symbol of racial reconciliation' (Washington Post). In the summer of 1963, though, she was just a young girl watching her father stand in a schoolhouse door as he tried to block two African-American students...

4) Voices of freedom: an oral history of the civil rights movement from the 1950s through the 1980s

Publisher

Bantam Books

Pub. Date

[1990]

Language

English

On Shelf

Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
323.1196 HAM 1990
1 available

Description

In this companion to the acclaimed television series "Eyes on the Prize", the authors draw on nearly 1,000 interviews with civil rights activists, politicians, reporters, Justice Department officials, and hundreds of ordinary people who took part in the struggle, to weave a fascinating narrative of the civil rights movement as told by the people who lived it.