Biography: historical, political and military

A compelling resource for sports enthusiasts, this book places the life and athletic accomplishments of Jesse Owens within the context of race and American history in the early 20th century.

A deft, filled-out portrait of the thirty-first presidentby far the best, most readable study of Herbert Hoovers presidency to date (Publishers Weekly) that draws on rare and intimate sources to show he was temperamentally unsuited for the job.

Diana Bishop recounts growing up in the shadow of her famous grandfather, Canadian First World War flying ace Billy Bishop.

On May 25th, 1946, after 22 years as a congressional secretary, Jane Pratt was elected as North Carolina's first congresswoman.

A woman comes to terms with her family’s dark Nazi past in this memoir from the author of Nine and a Half Weeks—A moving and profound exploration of the legacy of war and hate on an individual life.

The painfully honest and personal story of one of baseball's most intriguing players.

Forgiveness is possible even in impossible circumstances.

On 29 September 1934, at the German Embassy office in London, Christabel Bielenberg officially became a German citizen.

This is the first full biography of Justice Leah Ward Sears.

A well-educated, outspoken member of a politically prominent family in Bowling Green, Kentucky, Josie Underwood (1840-1923) left behind one of the few intimate accounts of the Civil War written by a southern woman sympathetic to the Union.

The untold story of Hamid Karzai's dramatic rise to the presidency of Afghanistan and the problems he and his country faceIn 2004, Hamid Karzai was elected president in Afghanistan's first-ever democratic election.

Los Angeles Times bestseller: A memoir by the M*A*S*H actor revealing his hardscrabble childhood, his life in Hollywood, and his passion for human rights.

In this beautifully written and propulsive memoir, Huma AbedinHillary Clinton's famously private top aide and longtime adviseremerges from the wings of American political history to take command of her own story.

For more than two centuries, Edward Hyde, Viscount Cornbury royal governor of New York and New Jersey from 1702 to 1708 has been a despised figure, whose alleged transgressions ranged from raiding the public treasury to scandalizing his subjects by parading through the streets of New York City dressed as a woman.

Ruth Edwards was born in 1926 in Vienna.

This is the previously untold story of the remarkable relationship between a young British diplomat and Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia from the latter's Coronation in 1930 until his murder in 1975.

This timely compilation of papers was originally presented at the 1987 Hofstra University Conference on the Nixon Presidency.

One week after Ronald Reagan announced his candidacy for governor of California, the San Francisco Chronicle gibed: It was simply a flagrant example of miscasting.

The Honourable Landon Pearson's domestic and global advocacy efforts with, for, and on behalf of children and young people have unfolded over a period of sixty years including thirty years in the Canadian Foreign Service and eleven years in the Senate of Canada.

Yossi Beilin was a seminal figure during the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.

This book by one of Italy's oldest and wisest intellectuals is a philosophical and personal meditation on ageing.

Wall Street Journal's Five Best Books About CultsFor five days in December 1908 the body of Cyrus Teed lay in a bathtub at a beach house just south of Fort Myers, Florida.

At the beginning of Europe's turbulent seventeenth century, no one knew how the brain worked.

Abraham H.

David Lesch is a modern-day Renaissance man whose work has spanned continents and allowed him to explore cultures near and far.

The most accessible and popular of British Columbias great scenic fjords, Jervis Inlet punches 60 kilometres into the Coast Mountains a days cruising north of Vancouver.

Ike Alterman was born in 1928 in Ozarow in Poland.

Norman Sherman's idea of fun is attending a political convention.

Arnold J.

This book provides reliable information about important world religious leaders, correcting the misinformation that can be on the internet.

In this sequel to the enormously successful Seven Men, #1 New York Times bestselling author Eric Metaxas offers more captivating stories of some of the most inspiring men in history.

This book contains two stories, but the first one is nested in the second one.

'A story told with verve and passion' The Times, Book of the Week'An alternative and engaging biography.

The West Wing meets The Office in this ';funny, moving story about working in the White House that is a must read for anyone who misses having Barack Obama as President' (Dan Pfeiffer, cohost of Pod Save America), directly from his senior writer and former Deputy Director of Messaging.

One of a select group of American foreign service officers to receive specialized training on the Soviet Union in the late 1920s and early 1930s, George Frost Kennan eventually became the American government's chief expert on Soviet affairs during the height of the Cold War.

Project Management for Book Publishers provides readers with a solid understanding of efficient processes and workflows for content creation, product development, and the marketing and distribution of both physical and digital products.

Winner of the 2018 Ohioana Book Award for Nonfiction The little-known but uniquely American story of the unlikely friendship of two famous figures of the American WestBuffalo Bill Cody and Sitting Bulltold through the prism of their collaboration in Cody's Wild West show in 1885.

THE FIREBOMBING OF TOKYO.

Kronprinz Rudolf von Habsburg – der einzige Sohn von Kaiser Franz Joseph I.

The Dialogue of Love is written from the perspective of an evangelical Catholic Ecumenist.

Spiritual trailblazer Huston Smith has written comprehensive books about religion and a memoir of his own life, but nowhere has he merged the two elements of seeking and experience with such storytelling flair as he has in these pages.

*THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* *A Financial Times Book of the Year**Economist Book of the Year* 'A political epic' - Guardian'This is the book Trump fears most.

"e;[The book's] power lies in a vivid re-creation not only of Churchill's public roles but also his private life-of good fortune but also family tragedy.

Based on the powerful true story of Auschwitz prisoner number 3444 Wilhelm Brasse, whose photographs helped to expose the atrocities of the Holocaust.

A marvelous tale of an adventurous life of great historical importShe has been called the female Lawrence of Arabia, which, while not inaccurate, fails to give Gertrude Bell her due.