Biography & Autobiography - Historical

Given that he loved his wife and family, why did Alexander Hamilton choose to have an affair with Maria Reynolds? And why did he publish a pamphlet five years later telling the whole world about it? Via dozens of primary sources and contemporary images,...

Vanished tells the seven different tales of adventurers who vanished and were never seen again.Author: Evan L. BalkanISBN-10: 089732983XISBN-13: 9780897329835Publisher: Menasha Ridge PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/28/2007Pages: 168Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.69lbsSize: 8.99h x 6.34w x 0.46d

Thomas Jefferson's was one of history's greatest voices for the importance of individual freedom. His eloquence on this fundamental right became the cornerstone of our nation and a central theme of the Enlightenment. And yet, Jefferson presided over a society that depended on slavery...

This classic of war literature is the story of Guglielmo Petroni--not only his experiences in the hands of Fascist police and the Gestapo, but a meditation on the survival and growth of his compatriots and his nation. Terror, uncertainty, the fear of death, and...

Repeated clashes between American fur traders and the Plains Indians following the War of 1812 lent urgency to demands that the United States government protect its territory in the West. To remedy the situation, Secretary of War John C. Calhoun planned a military occupation...

Author: Billie HobartISBN-10: 0759606331ISBN-13: 9780759606333Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/20/2001Pages: 108Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.27lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.26d

From the bestselling author of "Assassination Vacation" and "The Partly Cloudy Patriot," an insightful and unconventional account of George Washington s trusted officer and friend, that swashbuckling teenage French aristocrat the Marquis de Lafayette.Chronicling General Lafayette s years in Washington s army, Vowell reflects...

In the mid-1930s, author Vera Haldy-Regier's father, a minor, recalcitrant diplomat in Hitler's government, is banished to a post in Vladivostok, Russia, and later to the former German lease territory of Tsingtao, China. While openly critical of the Nazis, he nonetheless remains employed by...

Author: Lurey KhanISBN-10: 0595217362ISBN-13: 9780595217366Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/2002Pages: 244Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.87lbsSize: 9.04h x 6.00w x 0.65d

An influential and controversial figure in military, political, international, and social affairs, Earl Mountbatten has been referred to as the most remarkable naval officer of the 20th century. This book provides a guide to the literature on Mountbatten. It includes: biographies, descriptions of sources...

Maclure of New Harmony follows the twists and turns of William Maclure's intriguing life. A native Scotsman, Maclure (1763-1840) became a merchant, made a fortune, and retired in his early thirties. Then his life became interesting. Fascinated by the study of geology, Maclure did...

This book tells the story of the queen whose marriage to King Henry VII ended England's Wars of the Roses and inaugurated the 118-year Tudor dynasty. Best known as the mother of Henry VIII and grandmother of Elizabeth I, this Queen Elizabeth contributed far...

Mahathir Mohamad turned Malaysia into one of the developing world's most successful economies. He adopted pragmatic economic policies alongside repressive political measures and showed that Islam was compatible with representative government and modernization. He emerged as a Third World champion and Islamic spokesman by...

"A heart-pounding, mind-bending adventure." --Ilyon WooA riveting biography of Alexander the Great's final years, when the leader's insatiable desire to conquer the world set him off on an exhilarating, harrowing journey that would define his legacy. By 330 B.C.E., Alexander the Great had reached...

JFK, JAILED FOR KENNEDY" takes readers on a journey while collecting JFK memorabilia. All this began the moment Fred Nicholas Ciacelli came home from the 4th grade to see his mother crying about the death of the President. Unknowingly his life would change forever....

"Paula Byrne brings J.F.K.'s adored little sister, Kick, back to life." --Vanity FairFrom celebrated biographer Paula Byrne, the remarkable life of the vivacious, unconventional--and nearly forgotten--young Kennedy sister who charmed American society and the English aristocracy, and would break with her family for love.Encouraged...

In James G. Blaine: Architect of Empire, author Edward P. Crapol assesses Blaine's role as an architect of empire and revisits the ambitious imperialistic goals of this two-time secretary of state. Crapol examines Blaine's pivotal role in shaping American foreign relations and looks at...

"My favorite part was when his wingmen told him he was trailing smoke, that somewhere in his airplane, there was a fire. 'Paul and Russ agreed to do the radio work just when my radio died. The receiver-transmitter is behind the pilot's seat. I...

*Includes historic illustrations of Anne Bonny and important people in her life. *Includes a profile of Anne Bonny from the famous English pirate history "A General History of the Pyrates". *Discusses common legends about Anne Bonny and what is known and unknown about her....

A stirring memoir of a young, single woman's laborious struggle to save her family's New England apple farm from going under during the Great Depression. The Orchard is an exquisitely beautiful and poignant memoir of a young woman's single-handed struggle to save her New...

This book-Familie Allwein: Volume III: Western Migrations-is volume three of a series of books about the history of the Allwein family in America, a family descended from an eighteenth-century German immigrant Johannes (Hans) Jacob Allwein and his wife, Catharina. Familie Allwein: Volume III: Western...

*Includes pictures*Includes quotes*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading"I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results." - Alfred NobelIt does not take a genius to...

This book-Familie Allwein: Volume III: Western Migrations-is volume three of a series of books about the history of the Allwein family in America, a family descended from an eighteenth-century German immigrant Johannes (Hans) Jacob Allwein and his wife, Catharina. Familie Allwein: Volume III: Western...

He signed up for one year. He got 4 1/2. And during Harry Lyman Smith's 1,692 days of military service, he experienced a war story, a love story and an incredible story of four brothers facing extraordinary risks during the biggest and deadliest global...

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,...

Nancy Liebman memoir about Art Deco historic preservation.Author: Nancy LiebmanISBN-10: 8731669409ISBN-13: 9798731669405Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/10/2021Pages: 116Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.28d

Once Lived a Village is about the author's search for his dad's village, burned to the ground by zealous Polish nationalists in 1945, just at the end of World War II. His search for the village began in 1967 at a time when he...

An escape on foot from captivity in France in 1810, the attempted murder of a young wife in New Zealand and a heroic death in the Transvaal in 1880 are just three of the extraordinary stories recounted in Sailors, Settlers & Sinners. Beginning in...

Jahangir was the fourth of the six "Great Mughals," the oldest son of Akbar the Great, who extended the Mughal Empire across the Indian Subcontinent, and the father of Shah Jahan, builder of the Taj Mahal. Although an alcoholic and opium addict, his reputation...

*Includes pictures*Includes excerpts of contemporary accounts"We have met the enemy and they are ours." - Oliver Hazard PerryAmericans had few things to celebrate during the Barbary Wars or the War of 1812, but one of them was the growing prestige of the U.S. Navy,...

This information is not available at this time. Author will provide once available.Author: Duane F. AlwinISBN-10: 1441500537ISBN-13: 9781441500533Publisher: Xlibris UsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/12/2009Pages: 786Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.86lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.88d

Eric LaMont Gregory provides an eye-opening account of American foreign policy and how the decisions made today will influence the forces that propel America into the future. His international career began in the Middle East in the 1960s. Over the next 40-plus years, he...

The "Definitive Biography." xiii, 445 pp. Originally published: Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1947]. Francis Lieber 1798-1872] was a prominent political philosopher and who helped lay the foundation for the study of political science in the United States. Renowned for his theory of...

Nili Gold, who was born in Haifa to German-speaking parents in 1948, the first year of Israeli statehood, here offers a remarkable homage to her native city during its heyday as an international port and cultural center. Spanning the 1920s and '30s, when Jews...

A fascinating journey into history and literature, "The Diary of Dr. John William Polidori" is Polidori's account of his travels from London to Switzerland with Lord Byron, an English poet and one of the leading figures of the Romantic Movement in the early 19th...

This is a new release of the original 1928 edition.Author: Rudolf Steiner, Marie SteinerISBN-10: 1494094304ISBN-13: 9781494094300Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/27/2013Pages: 358Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.83lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.74d

If you love Greensboro, this book is for you. It is a twentieth-century history of our city that was researched and written over a five-year period by Howard Covington Jr., who is a splendid storyteller who makes our leaders, our crises, our successes, our...

The Politics of Passion is the first comprehensive collection of the writing and art of Dr Norman Bethune. A Canadian medical pioneer and a communist, Bethune gained fame during the 1930s while serving in the Spanish Civil War and participating in China's struggle against...

The fate of Richard III's two nephews, Edward V and Richard of York, who disappeared after his coronation in 1483, has remained controversial centuries after Thomas More's history and Shakespeare's play laid the blame on their conniving uncle. Some later writers, unconvinced of the...

When people outside of Vietnam hear the name of this country, they often automatically think of war, politics, and lives lost. Little attention is given to the people who live there and the rich history of the country itself. Poultry specialist Robert C. Hargreaves...

Author: Jean Rutherford DuaineISBN-10: 144152990XISBN-13: 9781441529909Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/02/2009Pages: 198Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.99lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d

From a plantation ledger, an abandoned graveyard, a fragile manuscript, and old newspapers, author Mary Helen Griffin Halloran has raised the bones of her ancestors and made them come alive in this memoir that traces the history of five generations of her Mississippi family....

True Indian Stories: With Glossary of Indiana Indian Names is a book written by Jacob Piatt Dunn. The book is a collection of stories about the Native American tribes that lived in Indiana before the arrival of European settlers. The stories are based on...

In 1938 our father Herman Larsen takes a position with the Alaska Native Service to teach in a small Athabascan Indian village. Herman, his wife Mae, and their eight-year-old daughter Etola travel from Mandan, North Dakota, for 58 days to get to their new...

The Gift of Ah Marr By Rose L. Tse and Gloria Bond As far back as she could remember, Dr. Rose L. Tse was driven by a burning desire to study in America, but this dream appeared to be impossible, since she was a...

As the author of this work; I have accumulated some 200 documents about Blevins Families in America and drawing on around an additional 400 pages of manuscript, I will be working to add additional information on the descendants of - William Blevins of Virginia...

This historical biography of John Alden, one of the pilgrims who founded Plymouth Colony, was commissioned by his descendant Augustus Alden.We commence with a summary of the period in which John was born; Elizabethan England and its politics are pertinent to how the subject's...

'Mahatma Gandhi' written by Romain Rolland, a French novelist and Nobel Prize winner, presents the life and legacy of the legendary Indian Political Leader. Mahatma Gandhi was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and political ethicist, who employed non-violent resistance to lead the successful campaign...

Author: William WhiteheadISBN-10: 1258535920ISBN-13: 9781258535926Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/26/2013Pages: 18Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.09lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.04d

The Real Story Of Al Jolson is a comprehensive biography of the legendary American entertainer, Al Jolson, written by Martin Abramson. The book delves into Jolson's life and career, from his early days as a child performer in vaudeville to his rise to fame...