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Josh Mensch

Biography

Josh Mensch

Josh Mensch is a New York Times bestselling author and documentary television producer with a focus on American history and culture. He is the coauthor with Brad Meltzer of THE NAZI CONSPIRACY: The Secret Plot to Kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill, THE LINCOLN CONSPIRACY: The Secret Plot to Kill America's 16th President --- and Why It Failed, and THE FIRST CONSPIRACY: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington. For television he has written, directed and been a showrunner on nonfiction series for PBS, the History Channel and other networks. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his family.

Books by Josh Mensch

by Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch - History, Nonfiction

In 1943, as the war against Nazi Germany raged abroad, President Franklin Roosevelt had a critical goal: a face-to-face sit-down with his allies Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill. This first-ever meeting of the Big Three in Tehran, Iran, would decide some of the most crucial strategic details of the war. Yet when the Nazis found out about the meeting, their own secret plan took shape --- an assassination plot that would’ve changed history. A true story filled with daring rescues, body doubles and political intrigue, THE NAZI CONSPIRACY details FDR’s pivotal meeting in Tehran and the deadly Nazi plot against the heads of state of the three major Allied powers who attended it.

by Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch - History, Nonfiction

Everyone knows the story of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination in 1865, but few are aware of the original conspiracy to kill him four years earlier in 1861, literally on his way to Washington, D.C., for his first inauguration. The conspirators were part of a pro-Southern secret society that didn’t want an antislavery President in the White House. They planned an elaborate scheme to assassinate the brand new President in Baltimore as Lincoln’s inauguration train passed through en route to the Capitol. The plot was investigated by famed detective Allan Pinkerton, who infiltrated the group with undercover agents. Had the assassination succeeded, there would have been no Lincoln presidency, and the course of the Civil War and American history would have been forever altered.

by Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch - History, Nonfiction

In 1776, an elite group of soldiers were handpicked to serve as George Washington’s bodyguards. Washington trusted them. But unbeknownst to him, some of them were part of a treasonous plan. In the months leading up to the Revolutionary War, these traitorous soldiers, along with the Governor of New York, William Tryon, and Mayor David Mathews, launched a deadly plot against the most important member of the military: George Washington himself. This is the story of the secret plot and how it was revealed. It is a story of leaders, liars, counterfeiters and jailhouse confessors. It also shows just how hard the battle was for Washington and how close America was to losing the Revolutionary War.