Biography & Autobiography - Historical

Jack Ruby changed history with one bold, violent action: killing accused presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald on live TV two days after the November 22, 1963, murder of President John F. Kennedy. But who was Jack Ruby--and how did he come to be in...

Sharp, resourceful, and with a style all her own, Althea Altemus embodied the spirit of the independent working woman of the Jazz Age. In her memoir, Big Bosses, she vividly recounts her life as a secretary for prominent (but thinly disguised) employers in Chicago,...

A Washington Post Most Notable Nonfiction Book of the Year"Delicious and infuriating . . . unputdownable."--Sadie Stein, The New York Times"A tour de force. . . . The stories are gripping, horrific and sometimes funny, but most important of all they are important."--The Washington...

"I have learned what suffering means. In away that was impossible, I think I can understand something of the pain black people have come to endure. I know I contributed to that pain, and I can only ask your forgiveness." George Wallace made an...

Step into the chaotic world of Carlos Dias, a talented and enterprising young man whose vision takes him into the world of glamour and prestige as a highly regarded and gifted Ugandan designer and tailor. Spanning three continents and several tumultuous decades, Carlos' story...

"I have learned what suffering means. In a way that was impossible, I think I can understand something of the pain black people have come to endure. I know I contributed to that pain, and I can only ask your forgiveness." George Wallace made...

Would it surprise you to learn that there was a contemporary of Ernest Hemingway's who, in his romantic questing and hell-or-high-water pursuit of life and his art, was closer to the Hemingwayesque ideal than Hemingway himself? Almost Hemingway relates the life of Negley Farson,...

Bill Robertson was one of our greatest pioneers and a tireless advocate for racial justice. One of his final acts was the completion of his memoirs. Lifting Every Voice reveals how the advances made during his lifetime were no foregone conclusion; without the passionate...

At the turn of the twentieth century, Am駘ie Rives was one of the most famous women in America. A member of Virginia's First Families--and granddaughter of a U.S. senator, she belonged to the southern aristocracy. Considered one of the great beauties of her time,...

When interviewed by the Charlottesville, Virginia, Ridge Street Oral History Project, which documented the lives of Black residents in the 1990s, Mable Jones described herself as a children's nurse, recounting her employment in New York City in the 1940s and 1950s. Emily Abel and...

"A penetrating biography.... Ludington offers a psychological portrait of an intense, contradictory, scornful, but gentle man who transcended his nineteenth-century roots in Lewiston, Maine, to view Europe as his home and to make a distinctive contribution to modernism."--Kirkus Reviews"Drawing on Hartley's letters and other...

International bestseller! James Bond has nothing on Dusko Popov. A double agent for the Abwehr, MI5 and MI6, and the FBI during World War II, Popov seduced numerous women, spoke five languages, and was a crack shot, all while maintaining his cover as a...

At once a romantic history of a mighty river, an autobiographical account of Twain's early steamboat days, and a storehouse of humorous anecdotes and sketches, here is the raw material from which Mark Twain wrote his finest novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Hannibal, Missouri,...

Author: Julia Fox, John GuyISBN-10: 8212698750ISBN-13: 9798212698757Publisher: HarperCollinsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/24/2023Format: CDWeight: 0.73lbsSize: 5.59h x 6.19w x 1.60d

The Baby Boom generation (those born between 1946-1965) are starting to reach three quarters of a century in age. Their youth came after the Great Depression and World War II; and Americans were longing for fun activities that sports provided. Baby Boomers grew up...

Trn Van Thuy is a celebrated Vietnamese filmmaker of more than twenty award-winning documentaries. A cameraman for the People's Army of Vietnam during the Vietnam War, he went on to achieve international fame as the director of films that address the human costs of...

To Them Of The Last Wagon: And The Pioneers is a book written by J. Reuben Clark Jr. that tells the story of the pioneers who settled in the American West. The book is a tribute to those who traveled in the last wagon...

Uncommon is a tribute to those who teach Sunday school from the cradle roll to senior adults. It is designed as a gift book for presentation to these heroes of the faith by their church, Sunday school class, or friends in appreciation for their...

The book recounts the incredible life stories of the author starting with his life as a persecuted minority in the Indian subcontinent where he hopped across many geographical boundaries and socio-political- religious divides as a destitute refugee in search of his material and spiritual...

From Dodge City to Abilene and beyond, Kansas in its early years was one fine place for outlaws, and one of the most violent places in America's history. Consider the exploits of Jesse James--a sociopathic killer or a Robin Hood who redistributed Union wealth?...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

Author: Richard PetersISBN-10: 125852080XISBN-13: 9781258520809Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/02/2012Pages: 234Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.49d

Famous, highly decorated aviator and war hero - Sir Basil Embry - decided to live out his dream in retirement, carving out the family fortunes in heavily timbered bush in Western Australia. Challenges and hardship were already in his DNA and seizing opportunities had...

The Baby Boom generation (those born between 1946-1965) are starting to reach three quarters of a century in age. Their youth came after the Great Depression and World War II; and Americans were longing for fun activities that sports provided. Baby Boomers grew up...

After the heartbreaking loss of her own father, the youngest daughter, Mary, found a replacement in Reverend Jim Jones. But as a member of his Peoples Temple in California, she soon became overworked, underfed, and was beaten. Meanwhile, her family back home watched helplessly...

Caesar Augustus is the single man who had the most influence over the story of our world.Caesar was a strong personality. He was intriguing, intelligent, strategic, smart and ambitious. His life is full of drama, gambles, risks and success. A true leader of men.In...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

In 1917, when he was about 19 years old, Paddy Delaney joined Oglaigh na hEireann, in his native Ballyhaunis, County Mayo, Ireland. He joined to fight for the independence of his country from foreign rule and to establish an Irish Republic. The price he...

Unique among presidents' wives, Lady Bird Johnson was not only one of the leading environmentalists of the twentieth century, she also redefined the institution of First Lady. In this first book in an innovative new series, Lewis Gould shows why Mrs. Johnson ranks with...

This book, written by Mali Karl, is the true and moving story of her life. From her experiences in her home in Lw w, Poland, from which she was brutally snatched away into the whirlwind of events that resulted in the darkest era of...

*Includes pictures*Includes excerpts of both men's workCarl Philipp Gottfried von Clausewitz died almost 200 years ago, yet he remains one of the most important and influential of all military thinkers. His teachings combined strategy with military knowledge to produce a dialectic approach to the...

Who is Oscar Romero, assassinated in 1980 while saying mass, beatified by Pope Francis in 2015, a man Latin Americans already claim as Saint Romero of America? This biography, a Romero primer, sets out to answer this question for the general public ages fifteen...

Dr. the Right Excellent Sir Kennedy Alphonse Simmonds, the only living National Hero of St. Kitts and Nevis, was the first Prime Minister of this great country. He contested nine general elections--1966, 1971, 1975, 1980, 1984, 1989, 1993, 1995 and 2000--the most in our...

A biograhical essay on the life of France's most renown Orientalist of the 20th century, along with a bibliography of his scholarly production.Author: Hartmut WalravensISBN-10: 0933070470ISBN-13: 9780933070479Publisher: Sinor Research Institute of Inner Asian StudiLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2002Pages: 248Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.30lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81dReview...

Booker T. Washington, the most recognized national leader, orator and educator, emerged from slavery in the deep south, to work for the betterment of African Americans in the post Reconstruction period. "Up From Slavery" is an autobiography of Booker T. Washington's life and work,...

*Includes pictures of Michelangelo and some of his most famous art. *Explains how Michelangelo made some of his most famous works, including the Pieta, David, and the Sistine Chapel. *Includes contemporaneous accounts of Michelangelo's life and his relationship with famous contemporaries like Raphael and...

Irène's teenage years in Belgium are spent in the chaos of World War II. In May 1940, her father is sent to the front, while she and her mother evacuate under German Stuka attacks.Author: Irène Litz-BarréISBN-10: 1943331456ISBN-13: 9781943331451Publisher: Ten16 PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/27/2017Pages: 196Format: PaperbackWeight:...

After his expulsion from Russia, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn secretly worked on a memoir that would acknowledge the courageous efforts of the people who hid his writings and smuggled them to the West. Before the fall of Communism, the very publication of Invisible Allies would have...

Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson is the first hand biographical story written by Mary Rowlandson. Rowlandson, a colonial woman in Lancaster, Massachusetts during the late 17th century, was captured by Native Americans for seven week and five days. Narrative...

Forget the myth of the sweet Irish Colleen. Real Irish women were no creampuff debs. From the ancient warrior queens Marrigan, Macha, and Badbh to the labormovement maven Mother Jones, Irish women have backbones of steel. Wild Irish Roses is a fascinating look at...

Arthur Charles Evans was born in 1916 in the Wirral, Cheshire. The first years of his employment were at Lever Bros, soapworks at Port Sunlight, and then with the New Zealand Shipping Company. One voyage to Australia and then another to New Zealand convinced...

Author: Mark WashburneISBN-10: 1483699870ISBN-13: 9781483699875Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/23/2013Pages: 322Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.04lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.72d

Author: George RisingISBN-10: 1456804847ISBN-13: 9781456804848Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/08/2010Pages: 442Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.42lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.98d

Abram Bobrow is a man tormented by the ghosts and horrors of the past. Relentless nightmares force him to relive a time in his life that was unimaginably horrible. A decade after the end of World War II and the Bobrow family's emigration to...

Abram Bobrow is a man tormented by the ghosts and horrors of the past. Relentless nightmares force him to relive a time in his life that was unimaginably horrible. A decade after the end of World War II and the Bobrow family's emigration to...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...