Bruce E Watson

Leaving Paradise: Indigenous Hawaiians in the Pacific Northwest, 1787-1898

Desert Battles: From Napoleon to the Gulf War

Exit Rommel: The Tunisian Campaign, 1942-43

Sieges : A Comparative Study

Atlantic Convoys And Nazi Raiders: The Deadly Voyage of the Hms Jervis Bay

Taxonomies and Toolkits of Regular Language Algorithms

The Man Who Changed How Boys and Toys Were Made: The Life and Times of A. C. Gilbert, the Man Who Saved Christmas

Bread and Roses: Mills, Migrants, and the Struggle for the American Dream

Salem 1692: What Devils Made Them Do It?

Salem 1692 – the name and date are synonymous with sorcery. But what caused the worst witch-hunt in U.S. history? What demons sent 20 innocent people to their deaths? Was it panic? Payback? Puritanism run amok? In this probing, brief 20-page eBook , Bruce Watson captures all the fear and fear-monger...

Jon Stewart: Beyond The Moments Of Zen

Jon Stewart, host of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, has been called a “cultural force,” a “fourth branch of government,” and “the most influential man in America.” In this pioneering biography, award-winning journalist Bruce Watson charts Stewart’s remarkable rise from a wise-cracking New Jersey c...

Stephen Colbert: Beyond Truthiness

Stephen Colbert is far more than a comedian and improv genius. As head of his fanciful Colbert Nation, the quick-witted host of Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report has delighted fans with his wit, audacity, and innovative uses of language and the media. In this biography, award-winning journalist Br...

Light: A Radiant History from Creation to the Quantum Age

Light begins at Stonehenge, where crowds cheer a solstice sunrise. After sampling myths explaining First Light, the story moves on to early philosophers' queries, then through the centuries, from Buddhist temples to Biblical scripture, when light was the soul of the divine. Battling darkness and des...

Sacco and Vanzetti: The Men, the Murders, and the Judgment of Mankind

In this groundbreaking narrative of one of America?s most divisive trials and executions, award-winning journalist Bruce Watson mines deep archives and newly available sources to paint the most complete portrait available of the ?good shoemaker? and the ?poor fish peddler.? Opening with an explosion...

The Navajo Code Talkers

A top secret military code helped win World War II in the Pacific. The unbroken code was not based on numbers or symbols but on birds and whales and fish. This is the story of the Navajo Code Talkers, who left high desert country to storm tropical jungles, armed only with their language and a rare c...

Freedom Summer: The Savage Season of 1964 That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy

A riveting account of one of the most remarkable episodes in American history. In his critically acclaimed history Freedom Summer, award- winning author Bruce Watson presents powerful testimony about a crucial episode in the American civil rights movement. During the sweltering summer of 1964, mor...

Bread and Roses: Mills, Migrants, and the Struggle for the American Dream

On January 12, 1912, an army of textile workers stormed out of the mills in Lawrence, Massachusetts, commencing what has since become known as the "Bread and Roses" strike. Based on newspaper accounts, magazine reportage, and oral histories, Watson reconstructs a Dickensian drama involving thousands...

Bruce Wats (guitarist)

Bruce Watson (born Bruce William Watson, 11 March 1961, Timmins, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian-born Scottish guitarist, best known for being a founding...