Biography & Autobiography - Historical

A fascinating examination of what "the pursuit of happiness" meant to our nation's Founders and how that famous phrase defined their lives and became the foundation of our democracy. The Declaration of Independence identified "the pursuit of happiness" as one of our unalienable rights,...

When Vikings raided the abbey of Lindisfarne in 793 they found the island of Britain awash in bloodshed and political upheaval. Numerous Anglo-Saxon kingdoms vied for supremacy while fighting off encroachment from ancient Celtic kindoms and the northern kingdoms of Scots and Jutes. Over...

Civil Rights Activists and PoliticiansAn old saying. . .Without them (trailblazers) there would be no us, and without their courage andsacrifices, many civil rights and politicians' careers might have been thrown under the bus.A dynamic group of politicians and civil rights activists, who just...

In this book, Frank Bruen tells the story of Christian Forrer, a Swiss clockmaker who immigrated to the United States in the 19th century. Through extensive research and personal anecdotes, Bruen provides insights into Forrer's life and the challenges he faced as an immigrant...

In this classic autobiography, Booker T. Washington describes his dramatic rise from slavery to become one of the most influential figures in American history. He explains how his tireless work at the Tuskegee Institute transformed the lives of millions of African Americans, and reflects...

Following the discovery of the decapitated corpse of Arthur Rochford Manby in his nineteen-room mansion in Taos, New Mexico, there quickly arose two schools of thought as to the event. One sect accepted that he was gruesomely murdered, while the second held to the...

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"Uncharted Destiny" is a captivating memoir exploring the many paths that shape our lives and the challenges we face in choosing which to follow. Gerry Leiske's book takes readers on a journey through family history, religion and the music industry of the late twentieth...

My journey goes back in time to Burton, Michigan's history, when it was still the "Atherton Settlement" (1835-1855). Genesee County was formed in 1836, Michigan wasn't even a state, until 1837. This was an exciting time for new families to settle here, finding land...

Refusal to Submit reflects on the personal sacrifices necessary to make political change.Author Richard Gould documents the Draft Resistance Movement and a young man's coming of age during the Vietnam War. He details his decision to refuse to be drafted into the U.S. army...

"Excellent and absorbing.... Indispensable to any attempt to understand the Khmer Rouge." -William Shawcross New York Review of Books "A dramatic account of Pol Pot's rise to power in 1975 and his direction of Cambodia's autogenocide.... David Chandler has given us an absorbing and...

Elite, personable, and persuasive, Edward Douglass White, a ''large and bearish man from Louisiana, '' served on the United States Supreme Court for twenty-seven years. During his tenure, first as an associate justice (1894-1910) and then as the ninth chief justice (1910-1921), White significantly...

[A] searing memoir. . . . An enduring, indeed universal, story. Robert Taylor, The Boston Globe Summoned with her mother to Gestapo headquarters in 1943, fourteen-year-old Cordelia Edvardson was given a terrible choice: to acknowledge her secret Jewish heritage and suffer the consequences or...

"Thank you for being my husband these 48 years. It was the greatest lesson in living my life and made every difference in my thinking." -Geraldine Meek "Love is for youth & I am old Love is for warmth & I am cold Love...

Ruth Steinberg's Frame of Reference is the Holocaust. But the Holocaust is a minor character in these gripping and evocative poems. The major players are the poet and her parents as they learn to live in the aftermath of their dislocation, trauma and loss....

My first realization that something unusual and very terrible had happened in Russia occurred one day while I was sitting on the floor of our salon and drawing a picture of an imaginary "firebird." I had heard the word Bolsheviks many times, but it...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

This is the first biography of one of the wealthiest and most influential bishops of medieval Europe, who for a period of over thirty years exercised a degree of power over the thirteenth-century Plantagenet court second only to that of the king. The career...

The story of an ambitious family at the forefront of the great middle-class land grab that shaped early American capitalism American Aristocrats is a multigenerational biography of the Andersons of Kentucky, a family of strivers who passionately believed in the promise of America. Beginning...

The first biography of Ernst Julius Rm - German military officer, commander of the Nazi Stormtroopers, and homosexual.Author: E. HancockISBN-10: 0230604021ISBN-13: 9780230604025Publisher: Palgrave MacMillanLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/17/2008Pages: 273Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 8.30h x 5.70w x 0.80d

Lynell Nolan was born in the village of Mt. Lily on the island of Nevis, West Indies, in 1947. After his formal education in 1965, he joined the St. Christopher, Nevis & Anguilla Police Force. In 1972 he immigrated to Canada and served as...

"Mein Kampf" is the autobiographical manifesto penned by Adolf Hitler, the infamous leader of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP). In this chilling account, Hitler outlines his life, political beliefs, and vision for Germany's future. The book delves into his extremist ideology, promoting...

"Mein Kampf" is the autobiographical manifesto penned by Adolf Hitler, the infamous leader of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP). In this chilling account, Hitler outlines his life, political beliefs, and vision for Germany's future. The book delves into his extremist ideology, promoting...

In the US Army there are only a few men able to earn all three Army Tabs worn on the military uniform; the Airborne Tab, the Ranger Tab and the Special Forces Tab. Those men are known by many terms, but one of the...

The life stories of eight working-class militants railroaded to prison or the gallows for the 1886 Haymarket bombing in Chicago. Written from prison, these accounts present a living portrait of the labor movement of the time, as well as the lives and ideas of...

"A reevaluation of Bismarck's motives and methods, focusing on the chancellor's rise to power in the 1860s and his removal from office in 1890"--Amazon.com.Author: A. J. P. TaylorISBN-10: 0394703871ISBN-13: 9780394703879Publisher: VintageLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/12/1967Pages: 288Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.41lbsSize: 7.27h x 4.35w x 0.83d

The Way It Was is the memoir of Olga B. Kurtz, but it is more than a personal story. From the time of the Great Depression, when the author as a child and her mother came to America from Poland, through her several careers...

Author: John HurkalaISBN-10: 1258514923ISBN-13: 9781258514921Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/27/2012Pages: 200Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.42d

Originally published in six volumes, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Carl Sandburg's Abraham Lincoln was called "the greatest historical biography of our generation." Sandburg distilled this work into one volume that became the definitive life of Lincoln.Author: Carl SandburgISBN-10: 0156027526ISBN-13: 9780156027526Publisher: Clarion BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2002Pages: 800Format:...

Romanian exile Norman Manea's internationally acclaimed memoir/novel, now available to English-language readers "A fascinating, beguiling record of the almost incredible events that can transpire in one life, especially if that life is lived in twentieth-century Eastern Europe. The Hooligan's Return operates on so many...

The word "unbelievable" defines the life of Dr. Harrison Miller Moseley. As a testament to grit, determination and faith, Dr. Moseley's life exemplifies the good that can come from facing and surviving extremely challenging circumstances. As his biography reveals, his astonishing life had a...

Collected together for the very first time, witty and wide-ranging essays from the celebrated author of Little Women. Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) is, of course, best known as the author of Little Women (1868). But she was also a noted essayist who wrote on...

An accessible biography of the venerable Bede, regarded as the father of English history. A 2023 History Today Book of the Year This book investigates the life and world of Bede (c. 673-735), the foremost scholar of the early Middle Ages and the "father...

The first biography of Henry VIII's court fool William Somer, a legendary entertainer and one of the most intriguing figures of the Tudor age In some portraits of Henry VIII there appears another, striking figure--a gaunt and morose-looking man with a shaved head and,...

J. Robert Oppenheimer is known as the "Father of the Atomic Bomb". Oppenheimer was a great physicist and the head of the "Manhattan Project". It is such an irony to see that he was the protector and destroyer of the world. The use of...

In this heartwarming memoir, Linenberger shares his grandfather's life story and reflects on the lessons he learned from this remarkable man. An inspiring read for anyone who appreciates family and values the wisdom of their elders.This work has been selected by scholars as being...

Author: Mark SeamanISBN-10: 178946143XISBN-13: 9781789461435Publisher: John BlakeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/23/2020Pages: 368Format: Paperback

A love unlike any other, but it's not what you think.A woman recalls her first love in early 1960s Brooklyn. The only child of a hard-working immigrant couple, Masha ricochets between Mama's strict discipline and Papa's unconditional love and protection. She adores Papa, who...

Author: Claire TomalinISBN-10: 8200077004ISBN-13: 9798200077007Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/18/2012Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.20lbs

After graduating from college with a degree in forestry, Frank Fowler was eager to apply his newly acquired knowledge, but instead was drafted into the army. He was not prepared for the debilitating effect of losing his personal freedom. Supervision was often couched in...

Green Underwear is the playful autobiographical account of two boys growing up in the Cold War era of the 1950s and 60s. Terence and Timothy McSweeney lived in Hartford, Connecticut during a time when America was shaking off a World War in an era...

Richard Jefferies (1848-1887) was a naturalist, novelist and social commentator. A perceptive observer of human and animal life, in countryside and town, his sensitive, exquisite writing has always been cherished and admired. In 1883, towards the end of his short life, he set down...

A story of a family from Eastern Poland, their experiences in two Nazi concentration camps, and their struggles to rebuild their lives after. It tells, in words and pictures, the horrors endured by Jews and Gentiles, the heroism and compassion of those who risked...

In the years following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, several polls show that at least 48% of all Americans, and an even greater number worldwide, do not believe the U.S. government's official version of what happened. Based on knowledge of the conspiracy...

Twenty-eighth in a series of Company Men, this volume includes five generations of the descendants of John and James Inkster, sons of John Inkster and Isabel Foularton of the Orkney Islands. Witnessed events and notes are included for baptisms, marriages, burials, employment history, scrip...

This revised memoir refreshes out culture of remembrance with humor and tears through the eyes of a child coming of age among the tide of baby boomers in the Deep South in a cotton mill village in the 1950s and 1960s. In the Shadow...

" Lagnado writes] in crystalline yet melodious prose." --New York TimesLucette Lagnado's acclaimed, award-winning The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit (" a] crushing, brilliant book" --New York Times Book Review) told the powerfully moving story of her Jewish family's exile from Egypt. In...

Setting the Supper Table is a comprehensive guide to the 2019 monumental homage to the 40th anniversary of Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party, complete with art, essays, bios, backers, and everyone who was involved in this 50+ woman arts project created entirely by SC...

The recollections of a childhood and early adulthood growing up in rural Aberdeenshire in a bygone age, in the hope that those who follow on, knowing where they came from, will have a better idea of where they are going.Author: William CowieISBN-10: 1789555930ISBN-13: 9781789555936Publisher:...

Heil Hitler, Herr G d is the first of a two-part novel based on the true-life memoirs of the author's grandfather. The author brilliantly weaves the collection of short stories and experiences left behind by his grandfather into one contiguous story that takes place...