Lucy Moore

An exhilarating portrait of the era of jazz, glamour, and gangsters from a bright young star of mainstream history writing.
The glitter of 1920s America was seductive, from jazz, flappers, and wild all- night parties to the birth of Hollywood and a glamorous gangster-led crime scene flourishing under Prohibition. But the period was also punctuated by momentous events-the political show trials of Sacco and Vanzetti, the huge Ku Klux Klan...

From one of the most exciting young historians at work today, the story of the French Revolution told through the lives of six remarkable women from different strata of French society. 16-page color insert.

Presents the story of four progressive maharanis, wives of maharajas, who, during the early years of India's independence, acquired educations, became ruling regents, advocated for women's rights, and ran for parliament.

Moore writes this dramatic biography of two notorious criminals in eighteenth-century London. Jonathan Wild is an underworld lord whose chief pursuit is selling goods back to their rightful owners when he himself just stole them, and Jack Sheppard is the petty thief who refuses to work for him. When Wild has Sheppard imprisoned and Sheppard uncannily escapes, the event sets up a folk-hero tale between two thieves which captivates the poorer side of...