Schon Huchs Studien zur Geschichte der Romantik, mit denen sie zu einer Zeit, als sie langst schon als Dichterin anerkannt war, auftrat, feierten sofort Erfolge, die ein anderer, selbst womoglich Fachschriftsteller, nur nach langerer Zeit muhsam erringen kann, und ihre Monographie uber Wallenstein schloss sich hier nahtlos an.
Known as the "e;only living Father of Confederation"e; in his lifetime, Joey Smallwood was an entertaining, crafty, and controversial politician in Canada for decades.
The private and public lives of James David Edgar and Matilda Ridout Edgar symbolized the increasingly complex nature of Toronto society as older generations gradually gave way to a new generation of "e;outsiders"e; seeking fame and prominence.
Wilson Wyatt was Jack Kennedy's presidential emissary to Sukarno in a crisis that might have cost the West the oil of the East Indies and lost Indonesia to the Communist orbit.
In 1979 Robert Penn Warren returned to his native Todd Country, Kentucky, to attend ceremonies in honor of another native son, Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, whose United States citizenship had just been restored, ninety years after his death, by a special act of Congress.
Short-listedfor the 2005 Ottawa Book Award for Non-fiction Soldier, sailor, adventurer, and philosopher, Louis-Antoine de Bougainville was a talented French officer whose remarkable career took him from the boudoirs of Paris to the flintlock battlefields of North America and on to the luch islands of the South Pacific.
The three Kentucky presidents-Abraham Lincoln, Zachary Taylor, and Jefferson Davis-were profoundly shaped by their experiences in Kentucky, poised as it was on the border between the North and the South, the East and the Western Frontier.
Cairine Wilson, Canada's first female senator, was one of nine children raised in an atmosphere of rugged Scots liberalism and strict presbyterianism by affluent Montreal parents in the late nineteenth century.
Senator from Georgia, minister to France, cabinet officer, and unsuccessful presidential candidate, William Harris Crawford was one of the major figures of the early republic.
Neue, unbekannte Einblicke in Konrad Adenauers Politik in der Endphase als Kanzler und CDU-Parteivorsitzender gibt das erst 2015 entdeckte Tagebuch des Sohnes Paul Adenauer.
A stirring, heartfelt manifesto written by a man who fervently believes in what workers with their civil society allies can achieve for the good of all.
A National Bestseller * The Hill Times: Best Books of 2016This unauthorized biography provides a rare look at the real Justin Trudeau, retracing his steps from his early days to the height of power.
For Margaret Moninger-a brilliant, fun-loving, and dedicated young woman from Iowa-a career as a missionary in China promised adventure and the chance for responsibility and authority denied most American women of her time.
A remarkable cast of past and present young Canadians stride across the pages of Legends In Their Time, each having a significant role to play in Canadian history.
During the 1940s and 1950s, one name, John Bartlow Martin, dominated the pages of the "e;big slicks,"e; the Saturday Evening Post, LIFE, Harper's, Look, and Collier's.
Hosea Ballou Morse (1855-1934) sailed to China in 1874, and for the next thirty-five years he labored loyally in the Imperial Chinese Maritime Customs Service, becoming one of its most able commissioners and acquiring a deep knowledge of China's economy and foreign relations.
