King of the Gunrunners Paul H. Robinson Constantly evolving

Constantly evolving

Francis Jenkins from his former place in the footnotes to his rightful position as a true pioneer of today's film and television

Jamison journeys into the past and surveys the present to tell the story behind the square dances

their efforts fail to generate news coverage and come with deleterious consequences

King of the Gunrunners Paul H. Robinson Constantly evolvingBy the time he turned thirty at the end of the nineteenth century, John D. Hart thrived as the busiest importer of bananas on the East Coast. A master of ships with a thunderous voice, Hart aggressively carried tropical fruit to an insatiable market with little concern for notions of supply and demand. But when an unexpected crisis hit the fruit business, Hart was unprepared. The financial Panic of 1893 doomed his strategy of bringing in limitless