Books by Yanek Mieczkowski

From the ratification of the Constitution in 1788 to the election of 2000, this fascinating and up-to-date atlas covers all of the US presidential races, using a variety of colourful maps, graphs and illustrations.

In a critical Cold War moment, Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidency suddenly changed when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the world's first satellite. What Ike called "a small ball" became a source of Russian pride and propaganda, and it wounded him politically, as critics charged that he responded sluggishly to the challenge of space...