Biography: historical, political and military

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The life story of the Kentucky-born son of immigrants who became part of American history in 1916 as the first Jewish Supreme Court justice.

The Not Forgotten War chronicles the experiences of Private Nicholas Dick, who served in a machine gun crew during the last few months of the Korean conflict.

World War II helped to define Tristan Jones as an adventurous Welsh youth.

Victoria Woodhull is a historical figure too often ignored and undervalued by historians.

As World War II recedes further into the past, still each year hundreds of new books are published about some aspect of this global conflict.

This book is simultaneously a biography of Rear Admiral Herbert Victor Wiley and a history of the U.

In Warfighter, Colonel Jesse L.

Texas Jack: America's First Cowboy Star is a biography of John B.

In 1903, Theodore Roosevelt planned a tour of the mid-West and Western states.

Wild Bill Hickok and Buffalo Bill Cody were considered heroes and the greatest plainsmen of their time.

A collage of characters shaped the west of the nineteenth century.

You've heard Doc Holliday's history, but do you know his story?

You've heard Doc Holliday's history, but do you know his story?

There is no one quite like her.

He was an actor, newly divorced, whose controversial tenure as president of the Screen Actors Guild was drawing more attention than his fading film career.

In 1861, war between the United States and the Chiricahua seemed inevitable.

Born to wealth, adventuresome in spirit, shrewd in business, gallant in war, and a beau ideal of his class, Tommy Hitchcock was the epitome of the American hero, a legend even in his own time.

The Grimaldis of Monaco tells in full the remarkable history of the world's oldest reigning dynasty.

A brutal siege.

Roy Rogers and Dale Evans ruled the West from the silver screen as the King of Cowboys and the Queen of the West.

Westlake Girl: My Oregon Frontier Childhood is the true story of a spirited girl coming of age in an isolated village on the Oregon coast from 1928 to 1936.

Born to wealth, adventuresome in spirit, shrewd in business, gallant in war, and a beau ideal of his class, Tommy Hitchcock was the epitome of the American hero, a legend even in his own time.

In 1981, the Commonwealth of Virginia, which had been dominated for decades by ';the Organization,' a political machine led by former Governor and U.

The Cowboy President: How the American West Transformed Theodore Roosevelt details how his time spent in the Western Dakota Territory helped him recover from an overwhelming personal loss, but more importantly, how it transformed him into the man etched onto Mount Rushmore, a man who is still rated as one of the top five Presidents in American history.

';Like taking a tour of the White House with a gifted storyteller at your side!

The story of Harriet Smith Pullen's early life, from her childhood journeys by covered wagon to her family's subsistence in sod houses on the Dakota prairie where they survived grasshopper plagues, floods, fires, blizzards, and droughts is a narrative of American migration and adventure that still resonates today.

President Abraham Lincoln is known as the Great Emancipator, the Savior of the Union, and an American martyr to the people who read about him.

Ronald Reagan assumed the presidency at a time when Japan and Europe, fully recovered from wartime devastation, threatened America's position as the number one economy in the world.

More Tales Behind the Tombstones tells the stories behind the deaths (or supposed deaths) and burials of even more of the Old Wests most nefarious outlaws, notorious women, and celebrated lawmen.

Long before the silver screen showed the face of Mary Pickford to millions of Americans, Annie Oakley, born as Phoebe Anne Oakley Moses on August 13, 1860, had won the right to the title of ';America's Sweetheart.

Massacres, mayhem, and mischief fill the pages of Outlaw Tales of South Dakota.

In time for the 100th anniversary of America's entry into the First World War, Private Heller and the Bantam Boysbased on Heller's long-hidden diarytells the tale of a group of privileged yet nave Princeton University students and their big, brawny Midwestern farm boy interloper, Ralph Heller.

Speaking Ill of the Dead: Jerks in Idaho History features fourteen short profiles of notorious bad guys, perpetrators of mischief, visionary if misunderstood thinkers, and other colorful antiheroes from the history of the Gem State.

The Lady Rode Bucking Horses depicts an era of the American West when capturing renegade horses from the hills above the homestead served as training ground for extraordinary horsemanship.

The first woman ever elected to the U.

Driven by the promise of prosperity and opportunity on the frontier, thousands of men and women traveled west in the mid-1800s to forge a new life.

From Dodge City to Abilene and beyond, Kansas in its early years was one fine place for outlaws, and one of the most violent places in Americas history.

The Kennedys endure as American icons because of the mix between power and vulnerability that so many of them embodied.

William Morgan, a tough-talking ex-paratrooper, stunned family and friends when in 1957 he left Ohio to join freedom fighters in the mountains of Cuba.

When most people hear the name Earp, they think of Wyatt, Virgil, Morgan, and sometimes the lesser known James and Warren.

This collection of short, action-filled stories of the Old West's most egregiously badly behaved female outlaws, gamblers, soiled-doves, and other wicked women by offers a glimpse into Western Women's experience that's less sunbonnets and more six-shooters.

In this revealing and beautifully written memoir, Mark Obama Ndesandjo, recounts his complex relationship with his older half-brother, President Barack Obama, including their first meeting in Kenya over twenty years ago.

From Calamity Jane's relentless pursuit of Wild Bill Hickok to Emma Walters, who gave it all up for the dashing Bat Mastersonand learned to regret it, these romantic stories from the Old West are still familiar and entertaining to readers today.

MoreFrontier Justice in the Wild West; Bungled, Bizarre and Fascinating Executions reveals the details of more than two dozen instances of frontier justice from the era of the Wild West.

True stories of the Show Me state's most infamous crooks, culprits, and cutthroats.

It's beenfifty years since JFKs assassination and nearly twenty since Ronald Reagan disappeared from public life.

Cuando se estudia la vida de un grande hombre, los biógrafos suelen seguir cronológicamente el itinerario de sus hechos notables, de aquellos acontecimientos de su vida pública y privada que fueron hitos de su existencia y que quedaron allí, detenidos en el tiempo, señalando los perfiles mismos de la personalidad que se proponen definir y analizar.

The interconnected ways that sexism functions in academic Islamic studies and how to shift professional norms toward parityDespite remarkable shifts in the demographics of Islamic studies in recent decades, the field continues to be dominated by men, who often relegate other scholars and their workparticularly research on genderto its periphery, while treating subfields in which men predominate as more rigorous and central.

The classic bestselling autobiography of the most successful fighter pilot of the First World War.