Biography & Autobiography - Historical

From internationally bestselling author of the "gripping" (Michael Connelly, #1 New York Times bestselling author) Into the Lion's Mouth comes the extraordinary true story of Odette Sansom, the British spy who operated in occupied France and fell in love with her commanding officer during...

In this authoritative and engrossing full-scale biography, Walter Isaacson, bestselling author of Einstein and Steve Jobs, shows how the most fascinating of America's founders helped define our national character. Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us, the one who seems made...

One of the most important and memorable events of the United States' westward push across the frontier came with the discovery of gold in the lands that became California in January 1848. Located thousands of miles away from the country's power centers on the...

Jacob Abbott was a well-known 19th century historian who wrote biographies on various leaders and famous individuals, including this one about Queen Elizabeth I of England. When Queen Elizabeth II came to the throne in 1952, many commentators heralded the beginning of her reign...

John Quincy Adams is a classic US president biography by John. T. Morse. John Quincy Adams (July 11, 1767 - February 23, 1848) was an American statesman who served as a diplomat, minister and ambassador to foreign nations, and treaty negotiator, United States Senator,...

The exciting exploration of Boone's promised land, Kentucky, how Daniel Boone became a living legend, the Indian attack on Boone's teenage son and others, the purchase of scalps of American settlers by the British, other atrocities of the Crown, and many other true historic...

The Mayflower sailed from England in 1620. Aboard were John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley. At one point during the voyage John was washed into the sea in a violent storm and nearly drowned. He was saved by a boat hook wielded by one of...

This is the first volume of the Biographical Dictionary of South Sudan, an ongoing research project begun in July 2001. As the subtitle of the book, the Notable Firsts, suggests, this volume is primarily concerned with historically significant South Sudanese personalities, deceased and contemporary...

The inspiring true story of the tragic loss and triumphant resurrection of a basketball team and its coach at the heart of a small Indiana town.By 1977 the University of Evansville's Purple Aces basketball team had won five small-college national championships. With a charismatic...

The inspiring true story of the tragic loss and triumphant resurrection of a basketball team and its coach at the heart of a small Indiana town.By 1977 the University of Evansville's Purple Aces basketball team had won five small-college national championships. With a charismatic...

The inspiring true story of an indomitable librarian's journey from Nazi Germany to Seattle to Vietnam--all for the love of books.Growing up under Fascist censorship in Nazi Germany, Ruth Rappaport absorbed a forbidden community of ideas in banned books. After fleeing her home in...

A Market man's tale is essentially a story charting my own upbringing in the Markets area of Belfast city, which is an area steeped in folklore history and tradition. Whilst many would describe A Market man's tale as a memoir, I prefer to view...

Jacob Abbott was a well-known 19th century historian who wrote biographies on various leaders and famous individuals, including this one about the Russian czar Peter the Great. For anyone trying to understand the origins of modern Russia, the search should begin with Tsar Peter...

This is a concise but comprehensive biography of Joan of Arc. Joan of Arc is one of the most famous women in history: a French folk legend, a Catholic saint, and a military heroine. Yet almost nothing is truly known about the Maid of...

M. de Lorgues' History contains the details and events of the Voyages of Colmubus, as well as those of his Life; but the object of the present work being to reproduce his Life, the Voyages, with the exception of the first, and the return...

An idyllic childhood ends abruptly in heartbreak and bloodshed as Hitler's army reached into every corner of Europe. This is the story of losing everything that mattered and was held dear, a story that was repeated in towns and villages everywhere that the German...

Two Years and Four Months in a Lunatic Asylum is a memoir of the author's time spent in a Utica, New York insane asylum. I have been urged ever since I left the mental asylum, by friends, to write my history of those two...

Eva Per n's legacy has left her shrouded in myth. The English-speaking world has known her primarily through the distorted lens of opposition politics--until now. The first volume of the most in-depth biography to date, Evita's World: The Defining Years covers 1919 to 1947....

This is the first biography of Lizzy Lind af Hageby, a unique study of an engaging and humanitarian woman who had an enormous influence on the cause of animal rights all over the world. Lizzy Lind af Hageby (1878-1963) was a wealthy Swedish philanthropist...

*Includes pictures *Includes footnotes and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents "I think the secret is really observation. Well, if you observe what's going on and try to figure out how people are thinking, I think you can always write...

AUTHOR CARL H. VANN INVITES YOU TO COME JOIN HIM ON A JOURNEY BACK IN TIME WHERE YOU'LL DISCOVER ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR PLACES IN ST. LOUIS HISTORY.A PLACE WHERE THE FAMOUS AND NOT SO FAMOUS WOULD ALL GATHER TO CREATE MEMORIES THAT...

In this magisterial work, Joseph O'Callaghan offers a detailed account of the establishment of Alfonso X's legal code, the Libro de las leyes or Siete Partidas, and its applications in the daily life of thirteenth-century Iberia, both within and far beyond the royal courts....

The statesman and political philosopher Edmund Burke (1729-1797) is a touchstone for modern conservatism in the United States, and his name and his writings have been invoked by figures ranging from the arch Federalist George Cabot to the twentieth-century political philosopher Leo Strauss. But...

Prince Prisdang Chumsai (1852-1935) served as Siam's first diplomat to Europe during the most dramatic moment of Siam's political history, when its independence was threatened by European imperialism. Despite serving with patriotic zeal, he suffered irreparable social and political ruin based on rumors about...

The dramatic true story of a celebrated young survivor of a 1919 British massacre in India, and his ferocious twenty-year campaign of revenge that made him a hero to hundreds of millions--and spawned a classic legend. When Sir Michael O'Dwyer, the Lieutenant Governor of...

A "funny and tragic and beautiful in all the right places" (Jenny Lawson, #1 New York Times bestseller author of Furiously Happy) memoir about the immigrant experience and life as a perpetual fish-out-of-water, from the acclaimed Serbian-Australian storyteller.Sofija Stefanovic makes the first of many...

"Robert Wilson's Barnum, the first full-dress biography in twenty years, eschews clich s for a more nuanced story...It is a life for our times, and the biography Barnum deserves." --The Wall Street Journal P.T. Barnum is the greatest showman the world has ever seen....

As a girl of thirteen in Baghdad, Saniha Amin Zaki, whenever she was outside her house was covered, head to foot, with a black robe and was accompanied by a member of her family. But at sixteen she was enrolled in the Medical College,...

As a young student in Russia, Alexander Berkman claims to have heard the bomb explode which killed Tsar Alexander II in 1881. He emigrated to America and, inspired by the Haymarket martyrs, became active in Jewish anarchist circles. When Henry Clay Frick of Carnegie...

George de Mohrenschildt is one of the most controversial figures in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. In The Faux Baron: George de Mohrenschildt, Nancy Weiford has written a captivating story of the roller-coaster life and unique personality of a fascinating man who...

No man since Washington has become to Americans so familiar or so beloved a figure as Abraham Lincoln. He is to them the representative and typical American, the man who best embodies the political ideals of the nation. He is typical in the fact...

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an 1845 memoir and treatise on abolition written by the famous orator and former slave Frederick Douglass. It is generally held to be the most famous of a number of narratives written by former slaves during the...

One of the surest signs of fame is to be known solely by one's first name, with the mention of just that first name making clear who is being spoken of. So it is with Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), known simply as Dante thanks to...

"What a joyous childhood we had " wrote Princess Alice, the second daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. These were no mere words and it was a sentiment shared by many of her siblings. Far from being the tyrannical or neglectful parents presented...

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.) was one of the most famous Romans in his day, and posterity has been even kinder to him. Cicero was a legend in his own time for his oratory abilities, which he used to persuade fellow Senators and denounce...

The book takes it name from Carrizo Canyon, New Mexico, the place where the Abeyta family homesteaded in 1920. The book portrays the life of a Hispanic family in New Mexico whose ancestors first came to New Mexico from Spain in the mid-eighteenth century....

In this riveting true story, three very different women carve out a place in Texas history. Readers will be transported to nineteenth century Texas, where the stories of Annie Tankersley, Mary Jane Metcalfe, and Ellen Osmer Farr come to life through the vivid detail...

Charles Butler (1750-1832) was an English Roman Catholic lawyer and writer. Butler wrote on numerous subjects but his most popular works are biographies on historic figures. One of them was Hugo Grotius, a Dutch jurist who was instrumental in laying out principles of natural...

*Includes pictures. *Includes Depp's own quotes about his life and career. *Includes a bibliography for further reading. "I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it's going to work or whether I'm going to fall flat on my face." - Johnny...

*Includes pictures. *Includes Kubrick's quotes about his life and career. *Includes a bibliography for further reading. "When I made my first film, I think the thing was probably helped me the most was that it was such an unusual thing to do in the...

When Gregory P. Wilson began researching his family history, he never expected to uncover an ancestor as unique and fascinating as Jonathan Roberts. A devout Quaker, Roberts wore many hats throughout his life. He was a farmer, surveyor, husband, and father. He also was...

This early work on Martin Luther is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It details the life of the monk responsible for translating the Bible from Latin into German and for inspiring the Lutheran movement. This is a fascinating work...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Author: John BakelessISBN-10: 144372985XISBN-13: 9781443729857Publisher: Bakeless...

Madame De Lafayette And Her Family. CHAPTER I - In this day, when the white light of historical research has fallen on even the most obscure characters, bringing into prominence those details which, for the sake of bygone reputations, were better deep buried in...

A considerable corpus of family papers within the Eldon House and prominent among these papers is a collection of diaries that are excerpted in this volume, encapsulating the personalities, activities, and voices of the Harrises of London.Author: Robin S. HarrisISBN-10: 1442631414ISBN-13: 9781442631410Publisher: University of...

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the epic New York Times bestselling account of how Civil War general Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson became a great and tragic national hero. Stonewall Jackson has long been a figure of legend and romance. As much as...

In this definitive biography, noted historian Holger H. Herwig explores the life and times of Karl Haushofer, widely recognized as the "father of geopolitics" and the architect of Lebensraum, the rationale for Germany's control of Europe and the world.Author: Holger H. HerwigISBN-10: 1442261137ISBN-13: 9781442261136Publisher:...

Dr. Martha tells the fascinating story of Martha Hughes Cannon, the first woman elected to the Utah state senate--in 1896. Author: Mari GranaISBN-10: 1442247371ISBN-13: 9781442247376Publisher: Two Dot BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/2015Pages: 192Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.40d

In the twentieth century, African Americans not only helped make popular music the soundtrack of the American experience, they advanced American music as one of the preeminent shapers of the world's popular culture. Vast numbers of black American musicians deserve credit for this remarkable...

The life of Princess May of Teck is one of the great Cinderella stories in history. From a family of impoverished nobility, she was chosen by Queen Victoria as the bride for her eldest grandson, the scandalous Duke of Clarence, heir to the throne,...