Books

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The Great Christmas Boycott of 1906

2025

An Untold Story of Antisemitism and the Battle Over Christianity in the Public Schools

The story of New York's Jews and their allies as they challenged Christmas exercises in the public schools and confronted the boundaries between religion, politics and public education.

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The Chief Rabbi's Funeral

2024

The Untold Story of America's Largest Antisemitic Riot

The story of Jacob Joseph, New York's first and only chief rabbi, the attack on his funeral procession and the Jewish community's fight for justice.

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Murder in Manchuria

2023

The True Story of a Jewish Virtuoso, Russian Fascists, a French Diplomat, and a Japanese Spy in Occupied China

A true story of intrigue, antisemitism, espionage and violence in Japanese-occupied Manchuria.

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A Second Reckoning

2021

Race, Injustice, and the Last Hanging in Annapolis

The case of John Snowden, a Black man hanged in Maryland in 1919 and pardoned posthumously more than eight decades later.

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The Great Kosher Meat War of 1902

2020

Immigrant Housewives and the Riots that Shook New York City

The revolt of immigrant Jewish housewives who challenged the “meat trust” and showed the political power of organized consumers.

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The Third Degree

2018

The Triple Murder that Shook Washington and Changed American Criminal Justice

A 1919 murder case that helped shape the law governing the admissibility of confessions in court and foreshadowed the 1966 Miranda decision.

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Tong Wars

2016

The Untold Story of Vice, Money and Murder in New York's Chinatown

A narrative history of organized crime, politics and violence in early twentieth-century New York Chinatown.

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The First Chinese American

2013

The Remarkable Life of Wong Chin Foo

The biography of Wong Chin Foo, journalist, lecturer, activist and pioneer of Chinese American identity.

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Three Tough Chinamen

2012

The story of three Moy brothers who challenged the limits imposed on Chinese immigrants in America.

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The Cultural Revolution Cookbook

2011

Simple, Healthy Recipes from China's Countryside, Tenth Anniversary Edition

Recipes and stories from China's countryside during the Cultural Revolution, drawn from the experience of sent-down youth.

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Chinese Business Etiquette

2008

A Guide to Protocol, Manners, and Culture in the People's Republic of China

A practical guide to cultural expectations, business protocol and etiquette in China.