Gail Jarrow is the author of novels, nonfiction books, and magazine articles and stories for readers age 8-18.
COMING SPRING 2012:
THE AMAZING HARRY KELLAR,
GREAT AMERICAN MAGICIAN
LINCOLN’S FLYING SPIES:
Thaddeus Lowe and the Civil War Balloon Corps
During the Civil War, a corps of balloonists led by Thaddeus Lowe spied on the Confederate army. They counted Rebel soldiers, detected troop movement, and directed artillery fire. Using primary sources and dozens of Civil War photographs, Jarrow reveals the dangers, personality clashes, and other challenges faced by the nation’s first air force. From Calkins Creek/Boyds Mills Press, Ages 8 to adult
ROBERT H. JACKSON:
New Deal Lawyer,
Supreme Court Justice,
Nuremberg Prosecutor
Only one man in history served as United States Solicitor General, Attorney General, and Supreme Court Justice. Yet he never attended college or earned a law degree. In the first biography about Jackson published in fifty years, Jarrow details his journey from rural New York to President Franklin D. Roosevelt's inner circle, the Supreme Court Bench, and the Nuremberg Trial.
THE PRINTER'S TRIAL:
The Case of John Peter Zenger
and the Fight for a Free Press
This important trial of a newspaper printer in colonial New York helped shape the Bill of Rights. Today’s headlines show that the debate about First Amendment press freedom continues, almost three hundred years later.
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