Biography & Autobiography - Historical

"An illuminating account of how Franklin D. Roosevelt's struggles with polio steeled him for the great struggles of the Depression and of World War II."--Jon Meacham "A valuable book for anyone who wants to know how adversity shapes character. By understanding how FDR became...

Daniel Russell is a good example of what Carl Degler has termed "the other South." The son of an aristocratic eastern North Carolina family of staunch Whig-Unionists, he entered politics when the Republican party first appeared in the state after the Civil War. For...

Wells' "History of Roane County" is divided into five sections, the first four of which constitute a sourcebook of genealogical material--early tax lists and lists of voters, militiamen, justices, veterans of the Revolution and the War of 1812, marriages, church members, and communicants. The...

For more than thirty years, William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody entertained audiences across the United States and Europe with his Wild West show. Scores of books have been written about Cody's fabled career as a showman, but his involvement in the film industry--following the...

One of the most eccentric and accomplished politicians in all of American history, John Randolph (1773-1833) led a life marked by controversy. The long-serving Virginia congressman and architect of southern conservatism grabbed headlines with his prescient comments, public brawls, and clashes with every president...

Bonneville Lock and Dam became one of the symbols of the Great Depression era efforts to jump-start the economy and get people working again. During the 1930s, massive public works projects like Bonneville gave the people of the Great Depression jobs and hope. Bonneville...

Acclaimed historian Alan Brinkley gives us a sharply realized portrait of Henry Luce, arguably the most important publisher of the twentieth century. As the founder of Time, Fortune, and Life magazines, Luce changed the way we consume news and the way we understand our...

As we travel back down the timeline to 1970, America had just closed its history book on the Attica riots. The Kent State University tragedies and then the Jackson Riots screamed out new headlines. The Native American takeovers of Alcatraz and Wounded Knee were...

"A fabulous, gripping story, with a nice dose of suspense at the end of each chapter, making you want to turn the page." -Arnold Ismach, journalism dean, University of Oregon "I read Angels in the Forest with great interest and admiration.... a terrific book....

It was called "the dirtiest campaign in American history."Author: Neil RoldeISBN-10: 1684751292ISBN-13: 9781684751297Publisher: Down East BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/2023Pages: 384Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.13lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.80d

Five women who shared one of the most extraordinary and privileged sisterhoods of all time... Vicky, Alice, Helena, Louise, and Beatrice were historically unique sisters, born to a sovereign who ruled over a quarter of the earth's people and who gave her name to...

A revelatory look at the residences of Adolf Hitler, illuminating their powerful role in constructing and promoting the dictator's private persona both within Germany and abroad Adolf Hitler's makeover from rabble-rouser to statesman coincided with a series of dramatic home renovations he undertook during...

A New York Times bestseller A USA Today bestseller The long-hidden diary of a young Polish woman's life during the Holocaust, translated for the first time into English"The publication of Renia's Diary offers a reminder of the power of bearing witness." --The New York...

In the early 1980s, Kevin joined the Key West Fire Department. His dream of being a professional firefighter had come true. He hadn't imagined how being gay would threaten his fellow firefighters. Kevin became the target of fierce and unrelenting homophobic assaults intended to...

A Labrador Doctor: The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell is a memoir written by the author himself, Wilfred Thomason Grenfell. The book chronicles the life and work of Grenfell, who was a medical missionary in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The narrative begins with his...

"Go on, say "T'ree tins of turpentine!", you bogtrotter!" was one of many jeers towards Irish families settling in Leicester in the 1950s, and is the inspiration behind the title of Tim O'Sullivan's debut book.In 2008, after realising he was the family storyteller at...

Author: H. H. HalsellISBN-10: 0875652255ISBN-13: 9780875652252Publisher: Texas Christian University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/2000Pages: 276Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.76lbsSize: 8.03h x 5.03w x 0.72d

Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's heroic opposition to Hitler in 1944 cost him his life. In this intriguing, well-paced tale of a journalistic coup, Marshall, the first to discover the real events behind Rommel's death, tells how he learned the facts from Rommel's widow and...

One of America's foremost civil engineers of the past 150 years, John Frank Stevens was a railway reconnaissance and location engineer whose reputation was made on the Canadian Pacific and Great Northern lines. Self-taught and driven by a bulldog tenacity of purpose, he was...

As a follow-up to his lengthy biography of Conrad Weiser, Paul A. W. Wallace narrates the impacts of the prominent Muhlenberg family from Pennsylvania. Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, the founder of the Lutheran Church in America, married Anna Maria Weiser, the daughter of Conrad Weiser,...

There's no available information at this time. Author will provide once information is available.Author: James O. ThomasISBN-10: 1401044131ISBN-13: 9781401044138Publisher: Xlibris UsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/26/2002Pages: 266Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.04lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.75d

This book is about the gift of life, love, laughter, deceit, tragedy, and forgiveness. It follows people seeking meaning and happiness, but not all follow the high road. It captures the tragedy of the 1972 Sunshine Mine Fire, one of the worst disasters in...

Warriors - Evolved from the earliest hunter classes.They have become specialists in the art of enforcing social order through violence and projecting power at all levels of society's hierarchies from the dawn of time. Often associated with the most prestigious classes of human society,...

"Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" is an autobiography by a young mother and fugitive slave Harriet Ann Jacobs. Jacobs contributed to the genre of slave narrative by using the techniques of sentimental novels "to address race and gender issues." She explores...

"Honest, shrewd, sentimental, resolute, American primitive," this is how the author characterizes President Coolidge. The storry of the Coolidge period, a stirring drama, hangs on the undramatis and slight figure of the man who dominated the era, and by his qualities rather than by...

The girl and the monarch Lucia Elizabeth (Betsy) Balcombe was born in 1802, the second child of William Balcombe, an official of the Honourable East India Company, and his wife Jane, who were living with their family in a cottage called The Briars, on...

A thrilling new account of the tragic story and troubled times of Henry VI, who inherited the crowns of both England and France and lost both. Firstborn son of a warrior father who defeated the French at Agincourt, Henry VI of the House of...

This collection of correspondence between medieval scholar Peter Abelard and Heloise, a French nun, chronicles one of the most tragic love affairs in all history. With their letters, the estranged lovers both mourn and reproach their romantic history as they address a variety of...

Upson County, Georgia, has produced great Negro leaders whom God has given gifts to make a difference in the first one hundred years of history. As I researched the history of Upson County, Georgia, my soul got excited about what God did through willing...

Jimmy Hoffa's American Fights: A Highly Opinionated History is both an accessible introduction to the life, times, trials, and disappearance of one of the most famous Americans of the 20th Century. Starting when Hoffa was a young man in the about-to-be boomtown of Detroit,...

Written by Nikola Tesla at the age of sixty-three, this autobiography is a fascinating glimpse into the interior life of a man who may have contributed more to the fields of electricity, radio, and television than any other person living or dead, a man...

This is a new release of the original 1943 edition.Author: J. H. HunterISBN-10: 149401906XISBN-13: 9781494019068Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/27/2013Pages: 140Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.43lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.30d

How George Washington survived so many close encounters with the Grim Reaper - in the wilderness frontier, on the battlefield, from serious illness, and in terrifying accidents - can be read only in the story of a steady succession of miracles. For the incredible...

In the summer of 1940, the German Luftwaffe was preparing to destroy London by bombing it for fifty-six consecutive days and nights. To spare British children from witnessing the carnage and from possible death, millions of youth were evacuated from their London homes and...

History is more than national personalities, wars, and horrible catastrophes; it is stories told by people who have lived ordinary lives. In Where Did All the Cowboys Go?, author Joe Millard gives a first-person account of what life was like growing up in rural...

Author: Lore Wallburg McCarthyISBN-10: 1441587233ISBN-13: 9781441587237Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/06/2010Pages: 108Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38d

Author: Yanina CywinskaISBN-10: 1434342425ISBN-13: 9781434342423Publisher: AuthorhouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/09/2008Pages: 308Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.34lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d

Author: Krista Perry DunnISBN-10: 1413486428ISBN-13: 9781413486421Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/08/2006Pages: 368Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.32lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.94d

Author: Jeanie Sutton LambrightISBN-10: 141342306XISBN-13: 9781413423068Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/11/2005Pages: 428Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.22lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.58w x 1.09d

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,...

Author: Robert W. LindISBN-10: 125850636XISBN-13: 9781258506360Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/20/2012Pages: 208Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.63lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.44d

Author: Clair Francis BeeISBN-10: 1258186195ISBN-13: 9781258186197Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/15/2011Pages: 220Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.66lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.46d

My Story Of Being Raised Up By God To Take The Message Of His Healing Power To My Generation.Author: Oral RobertsISBN-10: 125812467XISBN-13: 9781258124670Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/15/2011Pages: 224Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.67lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.47d

Billy Brahman: The Story Of A Calf is a children's book written by James Q. Roop. The book tells the story of a young calf named Billy Brahman and his journey from being born on a farm to becoming a grown-up bull. The story...

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 inspiring memoir begins in 1983, on the day John Charles Thomas was sworn in as the first Black--and, at thirty-two years of age, the youngest--justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia in the commonwealth's history. This high point was preceded, however, by a...

"In Wallance's bracing narrative, Kennan emerges as a cheerful, deeply decent companion, an uncompromising observer whose greatest strength was his ability to change his mind. He's a welcome change from the callous imperialists who people most Victorian travelogues, and his humanity allows Into Siberia...

Pan's Garden: A Volume of Nature Stories is a collection of short stories written by Algernon Blackwood and published in 1919. The book contains 14 stories that explore the relationship between humans and nature, and the mystical and supernatural elements that exist in the...

The Wade Genealogy: Being Some Account Of The Origin Of The Name, And Of The Lost Folk Story Of The Famous Hero, Wada (1900) is a book written by Stuart Charles Wade. This book is a detailed account of the origin of the name...