Biography & Autobiography - Historical

From the purple sage ranges of the American west to the pulpits of Oneness Pentecostal churches, the cowboy-turned preacher C. Haskell Yadon represents an important vestige of a vanishing past. This is the third part of a trilogy intentionally undertaken to preserve aspects of...

To get to the top, Joseph Stalin outmaneuvered Lenin, Trotsky, Kirov, and a legion of equally ruthless revolutionaries. This accessible and easy to read reference work reveals the more personal side of the Machiavellian mastermind, who not only orchestrated the Great Terror but also...

Maine-born Dr. Sumner "Jack" Jackson joined the British Army as a volunteer physician during World War I. After the Battle of the Somme, he married a beautiful French Red Cross nurse. When the war was over, Jackson joined the staff of the American Hospital...

As a young man Charles Dahlgren, brother of the famous Union admiral John A. Dahlgren, moved from Pennsylvania to Natchez, Mississippi, in search of glory. He made a spectacular start by acquiring two mansions overlooking the Mississippi River and cultivating acres of cotton fields...

Adolph Hitler used William Rhodes Davis as his main agent of influence in the United States. A superb manipulator, Davis could beguile German leaders while simultaneously receiving the assistance of American leaders such as President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Among his many nefarious deeds were...

From Kirkus Reviews: A friendly yet not uncritical biography of the secretary of state in the Lincoln and Andrew Johnson Cabinets. Taylor--who chronicled his father's life in General Maxwell Taylor (1987)- -offers neither much original scholarship nor a fresh approach, but writes smoothly and...

On a chilly October afternoon in 1881, two brothers named Tom and Frank McLaury were gunned down on the streets of Tombstone, Arizona, by the Earp brothers and Doc Holliday. The deadly event became known as the gunfight at the O.K. Corral, and in...

Literary Criticism. Reach for the Sun is the third volume of Bukowski's letters from Black Sparrow Press, selected by Seamus Cooney.Author: Charles BukowskiISBN-10: 1574230883ISBN-13: 9781574230888Publisher: Ecco PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/31/2002Pages: 320Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 8.98h x 5.94w x 0.97dReview Citation(s): Library Journal 07/01/1999 pg. 89Reference and...

She has learned to forgive, but she can never forget. And neither can we.Gerty Spies was born in 1897 at Trier into a Jewish family whose ancestors had lived in Germany for centuries. Separated from her family by the Nazis, she was sent to...

Paul Schneider (1897-1939) was a German Reformed pastor, father of six, and part of the Bekennende Kirche during World War II. Schneider's unequivocal opposition to the quickly ascending Nazi regime led to his imprisonment, torture and eventual execution at the hands of the Gestapo...

The story of Samuel Crawford's life and the turbulent events he experienced help us understand the Civil War period from the viewpoint of a complex and compassionate doctor-turned-general.Author: Richard WagnerISBN-10: 1572493720ISBN-13: 9781572493728Publisher: White Mane Publishing CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2006Pages: 352Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.11lbsSize: 8.96h x 6.32w...

Author: E. Stanly Godbold JrISBN-10: 1572331615ISBN-13: 9781572331617Publisher: Univ Tennessee PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2002Pages: 224Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.66lbsSize: 8.66h x 5.48w x 0.57d

The story of the Captain Robert H. Kuykendall family in America and the entry of the family with the Anglo Settlement into Mexican/Texas in Stephen F. Austin's Colony in 1821. - Includes Allied families - Early, Hardin, Moore, Shannon and Swift - Includes the...

James Clinton Neill could be the unsung hero of the Alamo and the battle for Texas Independence. It was his failure to obey Sam Houston's command to abandon the Alamo that left Texians in the mission and gave Texans their cradle of liberty. Neill...

"Simple, elegant, and enduring." --KIRKUSIn The Country of Language, Sanders recalls the stories and experiences that have guided him as a writer, and speaks on behalf of a life rooted in the commonplace, in what is becoming paradoxically rare: a sense of "at-homeness" in...

An intimate portrait of the first "first family" from the vantage of Washington's adopted daughterEleanor Parke Custis Lewis (1779-1852) was in many ways the quintessential southern lady, but as Martha Washington's granddaughter by her first marriage and George Washington's adopted daughter, she was also...

An award winning account of British Naval Policy before World War IFor most of the twentieth century, historians have thought that British naval policy was driven by the Anglo-German arms race. After examining a prodigious quantity of primary sources, Nicholas A. Lambert concludes that...

A personal view of the secession movement and South Carolina's place in the ConfederacyA Fire-Eater Remembers affords an unprecedented look at the secession crisis and the formation of the Confederacy as seen through the eyes of the man some called the Father of Secession....

The first modern biography of an American Revolutionary War heroIn this definitive biography of one of America's most important but least known Revolutionary War generals, David B. Mattern tells the life story of Benjamin Lincoln, a prosperous farmer who left the comfort of his...

A remarkable account of life on the Charleston frontOn July 10, 1863, Confederate Major Edward Manigault began a diary which is today one of the most unusual documents to survive the Civil War. Covering 13 months of combat, it is a day-by-day, sometimes hour-by-hour,...

The leading Thomas Paine expert in the U.S. presents both a biography of the controversial Founding Father and an analysis of his works. Known as "the Voice of the Revolution, " Paine was a truly original thinker, a man whose magnificient, freedom-loving spirit is...

Each volume in the new American Presidents Reference Series is organized around an individual presidency and gathers a host of biographical, analytical, and primary source historical material that will analyze the presidency and bring the president, his administration, and his times to life. The...

The day Walter White was buried in 1955 the New York Times called him "the nearest approach to a national leader of American Negroes since Booker T. Washington." For more than two decades, White, as secretary of the NAACP, was perhaps the nation's most...

Nothing in the history of empire is stranger than the creation of British rule in India, where a small European island became master of a subcontinent ranging from the Indian Ocean to the Himalayas. In the late 18th century the person most responsible for...

A vivid portrait of Rubens's enormous life against a background of the turbulent history of his times. Without neglecting his paintings, Ms. Lescourret also gives the reader a fascinating picture of Rubens's career as an accomplished diplomat.Author: Marie-Anne LescourretISBN-10: 1566632501ISBN-13: 9781566632508Publisher: Ivan R. Dee...

In this second volume of his major work on Bunin, Marullo recreates his life in exile, chiefly in Paris, after escaping from his newly bolshevized country in 1920. A vivid picture of a man without a country, and a window on the lively but...

Varina Davis is a lady in any event, Southern women of thearistocratic circles of Washington told the war correspondent of theLondon Times who had been sent to the National Capital to reportall the news he could gather concerning the secession of the SouthernStates from...

Master of the Mississippi is the story of Henry Miller Shreve, who taught the Mississippi River to fetch and carry for the nation. The book is compiled from letters written by Shreve, journals kept by his father and brother, and letters written by members...

Observations of a lineman with the 150th Armored Signal company laying wire from 10th Armored Division Headquarters to the forward units in 1944-45.Author: Don YoungISBN-10: 1563112833ISBN-13: 9781563112836Publisher: TurnerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/1996Pages: 170Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.71lbsSize: 8.96h x 6.00w x 0.36d

When Germany invaded Poland in 1939, Halina Nelken was a precocious fifteen-year-old, living a middle-class life in Krakow. Like other girls her age, she recorded her personal observations and feelings in a diary. As conditions in Krakow deteriorated and her family was forced into...

This book challenges the conventional image of John Dee (1527-1609) as an isolated, eccentric philosopher. Instead, William H. Sherman presents Dee in a fresh context, revealing that he was a well-connected adviser to the academic, courtly, and commercial circles of his day.Author: William H....

This English-language translation of Mark Hengerer's Kaiser Ferdinand III: 1608-1657 Eine Biographie is based on an analysis of the weekly reports sent by the papal nuncio's office to the Vatican. These reports give detailed information about the daily whereabouts of the dynasty, courtiers, and...

We all know the names: Grissom, Armstrong, Cernan--legends of the space age whose names resonate with people around the world and whose deeds need no introduction. We know less about the men who led the organization that planned and began the U.S. exploration of...

Empire and Identity is a novel approach to the critical last decades of the Habsburg Empire. The book is organized as three dual political biographies, each focusing a certain problem in the development of the Imperial Austrian state in the early twentieth century. The...

George Ade, one of the most beloved writers of his day, carried on a lively correspondence with the most colorful of the great and near-great. George M. Cohan, William Howard Taft, Theodore Roosevelt, John T. McCutcheon, James Whitcomb Riley, Finley Peter Dunne, Hamlin Garland...

Worthy of the Cause for Which They Fight chronicles the experiences of a well-educated and articulate Confederate officer from Arkansas who witnessed the full evolution of the Civil War in the Trans-Mississippi Department and western theater. Daniel Harris Reynolds, a community leader with a...

Everything to Gain, first published in 1987, is the warm account of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter's life after their years in the White House. They discuss their marriage and health issues, their work with Habitat for Humanity and the Carter Center, and much more.Author:...

In Keeping Faith, originally published in 1982, President Carter provides a candid account of his time in the Oval Office, detailing the hostage crisis in Iran, his triumph at the Camp David Middle East peace summit, his relationships with world leaders, and even glimpses...

Published for the first time in the U.S.--one of the two diaries on which the movie The Motorcycle Diaries is based--the moving and at times hilarious account of Che Guevara and Alberto Granado's eight-month tour of South America in 1952.In 1952 Alberto Granado, a...

This lively and exciting tale of the turbulent times from the thirties to the fifties is a dramatic and colorful study of one of the Texas Rangers' best.Author: Douglas V. MeedISBN-10: 1556227930ISBN-13: 9781556227936Publisher: Taylor Trade PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2000Pages: 275Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.77lbsSize: 8.48h x 5.52w...

The real story of a woman who epitomized America's Golden Age and represented the changing face of the Victorian woman at the turn of the century.Author: Sherrie S. McLeroyISBN-10: 1556225296ISBN-13: 9781556225291Publisher: Taylor Trade PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/30/1996Pages: 232Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.53lbsSize: 8.41h x 5.44w x 0.50d

James Fitzjames was a hero of the early nineteenth-century Royal Navy. A charismatic man with a wicked sense of humour, he pursued his naval career with wily determination. When he joined the Franklin Expedition at the age of 32 he thought he would make...

The Wartime Letters of Leslie and Cecil Frost, 1915-1919 brings to light the correspondence between two officer brothers and their family at home from 1915 to 1919. Despite wartime censorship, Leslie and Cecil wrote frank and forthright letters that show how the young men...

Fond, funny, and sometimes frightening memories exude from this 104 page book. The entrepreneurial and innovative approach to life shown by the author's parents, Howard and Hazel Gunter, are told in conversational style. In addition, early chapters tell of the pioneering great grandparents of...

A light-hearted memoir of the author's experiences as an infantry-man and counter-intelligence agent in World War II, as a member of the intelligence community, as an onlooker at elections in central America and Angola and as a critic of United States policies in those...

A working account of the various duties and achievements of the Escort Carriers during WW II. The hard working but little publicized, thin skinned, baby carriers, who also did battle at extremely close range with enemy battleships, cruisers and destroyers.Author: Walter Edward SkeldonISBN-10: 1553693280ISBN-13:...

I SERVED was written differently from most other Vietnam memoirs. Instead of being a chronological recitation of my experiences growing up in the orphanage and then going to Vietnam and serving with Co. F, 51st Long Range Patrol (Airborne) Infantry, I made its focus...

In 1897, a 21-year-old unemployed Californian named Jack London borrowed funds so he could make his fortune in the Klondike. His life prior to the gold rush had been a story of toil and lean days. He knew how to pitch a tent, start...

Born in 1891 in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas, Ida Williams tells her compelling but true story of family events that turned her very early, loving childhood into one of disbelief, heartache, and horror. Because it was extremely difficult to verbalize the events to...

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Large Print By Harriet A. JacobsAuthor: Harriet a. JacobsISBN-10: 1546704639ISBN-13: 9781546704638Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/19/2017Pages: 176Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.93lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.38dLarge Print