Books by Scott Christianson

A chronological survey of the world's most influential books.

The Knight must restore his honor; a Princess must save her Kingdom. A powerful weapon called the Scepter has been broken and the pieces scattered across the lands. The Evil Dark Sorcerer wants it for himself and will stop at nothing to get it. The Knight must protect the Princess while she searches for the Scepter. Then she must unite the pieces together to form the mighty weapon to save her Kingdom. Will the Evil Dark Sorcerer and his Black Knight, who commands the armies of Orcs, Goblins, and Dragons prevail and conquer all that is good. Or with the help of a Dwarf, a Thief a Wizard and the Armies of Pathano's can the Princess and the White Knight restore the Scepter and save the Kingdoms of Kantara? Maybe.... Just Maybe read on and found out if you dare.

A look at the prisioners who are unfairly imprisioned, written by a journalist.

The Last Gasp takes us to the dark side of human history in the first full chronicle of the gas chamber in the United States. In page-turning detail, award-winning writer Scott Christianson tells a dreadful story that is full of surprising and provocative new findings. First constructed in Nevada in 1924, the gas chamber, a method of killing sealed off and removed from the sight and hearing of witnesses, was originally touted as a "e;humane"e; method of execution. Delving into science, war, industry, medicine, law, and politics, Christianson overturns this mythology for good. He exposes the sinister links between corporations looking for profit, the military, and the first uses of the gas chamber after World War I. He explores little-known connections between the gas chamber and the eugenics movement. Perhaps most controversially, he has unearthed new evidence about American and German collaboration in the production and lethal use of hydrogen cyanide and about Hitler's adoption of gas chamber technology developed in the United States. More than a book about the death penalty, this compelling history ultimately reveals much about America's values and power structures in the twentieth century.

This is the first book to examine the deadly history and potential apocalyptic future of both natural and man-made lethal gases that threaten our world.

In the annals of American criminal justice, two prisons stand out as icons of institutionalized brutality and deprivation: Alcatraz and Sing Sing. This book takes us on a disturbing and poignant tour of Sing Sing's legendary death house, and introduces us to those whose lives Sing Sing claimed.

Recounts the life and epic rescue of captured fugitive slave Charles Nalle of Culpeper, Virginia, who was forcibly liberated by Harriet Tubman and others in Troy, New York, on April 27, 1860. This title follows Nalle from his enslavement by the Hansborough family in Virginia through his escape by the Underground Railroad.