A Second Reckoning - Other Works

Other Works by Scott D. Seligman

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In The Great Kosher Meat War of 1902: Immigrant Housewives and the Riots that Shook New York City, Jewish women take to the streets of the Lower East Side of Manhattan in 1920 to protest a quantum jump in the price of kosher meat. With few resources and little experience but a great deal of steely determination, they organize themselves into a potent fighting force and, in their first foray into the political arena in their adopted country, successfully challenge powerful, vested corporate interests and set a pattern for future generations to follow.
Part murder mystery, part courtroom drama and part landmark legal case study, The Third Degree: The Triple Murder that Shook Washington and Changed American Criminal Justice tells the true, but forgotten, story of a young Chinese man’s abuse by the police and his arduous, seven-year journey through the legal system that that drew in Warren G. Harding, William Howard Taft, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John W. Davis and even J. Edgar Hoover and helped lay the groundwork for the Supreme Court's famous Miranda decision.
A true story of money, murder, gambling, prostitution and opium: the Chinese gang wars that engulfed New York’s Chinatown from the 1890s through the 1930s. Tong Wars: The Untold Story of Vice, Money and Murder in New York's Chinatown is historical true-crime set against the perfect landscape: Tammany-era New York City. Representatives of rival tongs (secret societies) corner the various vice markets using admirably creative strategies. The book roars through three decades of turmoil, with characters ranging from gangsters and drug lords to reformers and do-gooders to judges, prosecutors, cops, and pols of every stripe.
America's Chinese had a leader and a fighter in Wong Chin Foo. A firebrand and a trailblazer, Wong, whose life in chronicled in The First Chinese American: The Remarkable Life of Wong Chin Foo, challenged Americans to live up to the values they so freely espoused on one hand, and so utterly failed to apply to the Chinese on the other. The first to use the term "Chinese American," the first to organize an association of Chinese voters and the first Chinese to testify before Congress, he charted the path to an entirely new identity - that of the Chinese American.
Three Tough Chinamen is the true story of three scrappy and ambitious brothers. Late 19th century Chinese immigrants to America, they had come to stay. The trio crossed lines and broke barriers. Tough men whose lives were hemmed in by prejudice and restrictive laws, they fought hard for their share of the American dream, spoke out against injustice and fought for their countrymen.
Written with Sasha Gong, The Cultural Revolution Cookbook tells of the 17 million city youth “sent down” to the countryside from 1966-1976. Life was hard, but they learned to prepare tasty and healthy dishes with the fresh, wholesome foods in season, to conserve scarce fuel and to improvise when ingredients were unavailable. These authentic recipes are easy to prepare in an American kitchen.
Business is booming as thousands flock to China to seize explosive opportunities. But knowing the protocol and being aware of cultural differences is a must. Chinese Business Etiquette, an Amazon bestseller, provides advice on how to succeed, avoid gaffes, interpret behavior and make a positive impression. It provides hands-on advice on meeting and greeting people, participating in a business meeting and a Chinese banquet, gift-giving and navigating the Chinese bureaucracy.
Written with I-chuan Chen, this illustrated phrasebook for travelers is perfect as a take-along guide for visitors to China. It features general information and bilingual lists of 1,500 most-often-used words and expressions for travelers, with phonetic spellings, Chinese characters and English translations. The book is sold by itself and may also be purchased bundled with an audio CD that includes approximately 70 minutes of bilingual dialogue and an audioscript.

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