Biography & Autobiography - Historical

This Path I Took is an illuminating story of one man's recollection of his early years of how a young Cape Verdean boy struggled with discrimination, loneliness and poverty, how it manifested into his teenage years, his introduction into self-medicating and the graduation from...

"A readable and enjoyable book, recommended for most libraries."--Steven Mayover, Philadelphia Naval Shipyard LibraryAuthor: Victor BoesenISBN-10: 059537820XISBN-13: 9780595378203Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/30/2005Pages: 236Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.77lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.54d

A memoir of Bernard Maslow a remarkable man, who was a victim of the U.S. Army/McCarthy Hearings at Ft. Monmouth, N.J., 1954. And the after effects of the trauma and climate of fear created by McCarthy on our loving family relationships. A memoir of...

In the early '30s Howard Kron took a bus to Hollywood to pursue his acting dreams. Before the decades end he had traveled the nightclub circuit as a popular singer, and discovered the world of pottery design, the arena in which he would excel....

Victor tells the story of a young man in German occupied Belgium, who became a Jesuit priest, and managed to sneak out of war torn Europe to escape to the United States, where he taught at Loyola University, and lectured throughout the south. Father...

Bob Lenon came from Nebraska to Yuma, in 1914, just two years after Arizona had become the 48th state. He remembers seeing the Colorado River when it had no highway bridges and traveling on a plank road across dunes where an Interstate Highway now...

The Absolute Truth And Other Uncertainties-A Remembrance chronicles the life of Fairfield Goodale, a New Englander who left Harvard to become a World War II fighter pilot but later returned to school to become a physician. Goodale was propelled into a successful medical career...

The Youngest Brother is a first-person account by the youngest of five children born to a prosperous Kansas wheat farmer during the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression. This is a family's struggle to preserve their relationships and maintain the farm after the father...

Land of Our Father; Land of Ours is written by co-authors, Erma (Britton) Moore and Rita (Moore) King, this heart written non-fiction story is told by a mother and daughter who bring to paper a life adventure story of five generations. The main characters...

"A Woman Named Catherine" begins with the birth of Catherine de Medici in Florence, Italy. The story follows the story of the woman who grew facing immense challenges and threats to her life and achieved nothing less than to rise as Queen of France....

At the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, the British government, alarmed at the Duke and Duchess of Windsor's association with the Nazis and the possibility that they would remove themselves to the United States to preach their pacifist (and slightly pro-German)...

Made up of men from Iowa, Minnesota and South Dakota, the 34th Infantry "Red Bull" Division was the first American division to sail for European Service in World War II. This is the account of one of these men, Ralph B. Schaps, a common...

Author: William BryantISBN-10: 0595269761ISBN-13: 9780595269761Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/09/2003Pages: 192Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.64lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d

Author: Ed TaggertISBN-10: 0595260136ISBN-13: 9780595260133Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/10/2003Pages: 260Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.87lbsSize: 9.22h x 6.08w x 0.63d

Here is proof that the lives of ordinary people can have an extraordinary impact. This book is complied as a literary photo album; the theme is my grandparents, Nick and Ineke Willems. Come and be a part of the WillemsAuthor: Hannah WillemsISBN-10: 0595258778ISBN-13: 9780595258772Publisher:...

During thirty years of service in The United States Navy, Captain Bill Bruce had occasion to hear many, many stories from U.S. sailors, both officers and enlisted men. His favorite times were experienced while standing at duty stations, a place where a person is...

Author: Duane J. WilliamsISBN-10: 0595215300ISBN-13: 9780595215300Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/21/2002Pages: 156Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.52lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.36d

Author: Thomas J. LarsonISBN-10: 0595204333ISBN-13: 9780595204335Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2001Pages: 276Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.97lbsSize: 8.94h x 5.96w x 0.73d

Author: Sophie Weisz MiklosISBN-10: 0595151221ISBN-13: 9780595151226Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/20/2000Pages: 148Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.34d

Author: Steven K. SchneiderISBN-10: 0595137016ISBN-13: 9780595137015Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2001Pages: 124Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.42lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.29d

Author: Chris MeierISBN-10: 0595099033ISBN-13: 9780595099030Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/2000Pages: 176Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 9.06h x 6.06w x 0.47d

Author: Elaine WilliamsISBN-10: 0595094287ISBN-13: 9780595094288Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/2000Pages: 276Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.76lbsSize: 8.62h x 6.24w x 0.69d

Author: Joe KlaasISBN-10: 0595090389ISBN-13: 9780595090389Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2000Pages: 320Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.87lbsSize: 8.24h x 5.80w x 0.76d

Author: Anthony J. BarakISBN-10: 0595010873ISBN-13: 9780595010875Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2000Pages: 156Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.59lbsSize: 9.05h x 6.08w x 0.43d

Since its publication in 1983, Theodor Schieder's study has been recognised as the most distinguished modern study of Prussia's most famous King and a leading figure of the eighteenth century. This abbreviated translation provides the first comprehensive scholarly treatment in English published since 1975....

In this fascinating and meticulously researched book, bestselling historian Arthur Herman sheds new light on two of the most universally recognizable icons of the twentieth century, and reveals how their forty-year rivalry sealed the fate of India and the British Empire. They were born...

The New York Times Bestseller That Reads Like a Back-Porch Conversation with Reba In a dazzling career, Reba McEntire has become a true country superstar--and a trailblazing businesswoman with her own multimedia entertainment corporation. Yet she is a rare celebrity who is also beloved...

WINNER OF THE 1989 CHRISTOPHER AWARD - Here is a thrilling, uplifting story of true-life heroism unequaled since the publication of Anne Frank's diary--a story that the young must hear and their elders must remember. Take Alicia's hand--and follow. "This memoir is heartbreaking. I...

This authoritative Bantam Classic edition presents readers with a wide-ranging selection of Benjamin Franklin's most important writings, illuminating the complex and appealing character of this quintessential American who rose to fame as a publisher, inventor, educator, bon vivant, and statesman. Here are selections from...

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 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 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 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 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...

Historical Outlines of English Syntax is a book written by Leon Kellner and first published in 1892. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the development of English syntax from Old English to Modern English. Kellner's approach is historical and descriptive, focusing on the...

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 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 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 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 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 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 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...

Nathanael West was a comic artist whose insight into the brutalities and absurdities of modern life proved prophetic. He is famous for two masterpieces, Miss Lonelyhearts and the most penetrating novel ever written about Hollywood, The Day of the Locust. Eileen McKenney, accidental muse...

Alfred Hitchcock rigorously controlled his public image, drawing certain carefully selected childhood anecdotes into full focus and blurring out all others. In this gripping short biography, Peter Ackroyd wrests the director's chair back from the master of control to reveal a lugubriously jolly man...

A family's recently-discovered correspondence provides the inspiration for this fascinating and deeply-moving account of Jewish family life before, during and after the Holocaust. Rebecca Boehling and Uta Larkey reveal how the Kaufmann-Steinberg family was pulled apart under the Nazi regime and left divided between...

From December 1915 until the armistice of November 1918, Sir Douglas Haig was commander-in-chief of the largest army his country had ever put into the field. He has been portrayed as both an incompetent 'butcher and bungler' and a clear-sighted, imperturbable 'architect of victory'....

This book is the first modern intellectual biography of the Scottish theologian and political theorist Samuel Rutherford (c. 1600-1661). Its main purpose is to provide a thorough discussion of Rutherford's religious and political ideas, and their role in the ideology of the Scottish Covenanters...

Rufus Kinsley was a farmer from rural Vermont who became an officer in one of the nation's first and most famous black regiments during the Civil War. Diary of a Christian Soldier offers a meticulous reconstruction of Kinsley's life and an annotated transcription of...

Between May 1949 and August 1954 the composers Pierre Boulez and John Cage exchanged a series of remarkable letters that reflect on their own music and the culture of the time. This correspondence, together with other relevant documents, has been edited and annotated by...

James Madison survived longer than any other member of the most remarkable generation of political leaders in American history. Born in the middle of the eighteenth century as a subject of King George II, the Father of the United States Constitution lived until 1836,...