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Tom Shachtman
Tom Shachtman is an author, filmmaker, and educator. He has written or co-authored more than thirty books, including Rumspringa, Airlift to America, and Terrors and Marvels, as wel...view moreTom Shachtman is an author, filmmaker, and educator. He has written or co-authored more than thirty books, including Rumspringa, Airlift to America, and Terrors and Marvels, as well documentaries for ABC, CBS, NBC, and PBS, and has taught at major universities. Publishers Weekly lauded his book Rumspringa: To Be or Not to Be Amish as "not only one of the most absorbing books ever written about the Plain People, but a perceptive snapshot of the larger culture in which they live and move." He has written articles for The New York Times, Newsday, Smithsonian, and environmental monthlies, and writes a column for The Lakeville Journal (CT). A two-hour television documentary based on his book Absolute Zero and the Conquest of Cold was broadcast on PBS in February 2008.view less
Books by Tom Shachtman
Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI Gentlemen Scientists and Revolutionaries: The Founding Fathers in the Age of Enlightenment Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Absolute Zero and the Conquest of Cold Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dead Center: Behind the Scenes at the World's Largest Medical Examiner's Office Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Founding Fortunes: How the Wealthy Paid for and Profited from America's Revolution Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Rumspringa: To Be or Not to Be Amish Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Forty Years War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEchoes: or, The Insistence of Memory Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMemoir of the Minotaur Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Audiobooks by Tom Shachtman
Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Founding Fortunes: How the Wealthy Paid for and Profited from America's Revolution Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5