Recent biographies of Thomas Jefferson have stressed the sphinxlike puzzles of his characterfamous champion of freedom yet lifelong slaveholder, foe of miscegenation yet secret lover of a beautiful slave for 30 years, aristocrat yet fervent advocate of government by the people.
Captured by hostile natives, a Puritan woman in colonial New England must rely on her faith to survive When Mary Rowlandson awoke on February 10, 1675, the village of Lancaster, Massachusetts, was already on fire.
Novelist Anne Bernays and biographer Justin Kaplan -- both native New Yorkers -- came of age in the 1950s, when the pent-up energies of the Depression years and World War II were at flood tide.
Before there was television, before there were computers, before there was the Internet with its audio and video streaming, before there were cell phones, iPods, and iPads, there was radio.
Max Weber (1864-1920) is recognized throughout the world as the most important classic thinker in the social sciences there is simply no one in the history of the social sciences who has been more influential.
More than an account of Churchill's momentous meetings with Roosevelt, Stalin and other leaders at the height of the Second World War, this book illuminates the practicalities of transporting a prime minister through dangerous skies and across hostile oceans in a time of global war.
"e;2018 SAN FRANCISCO BOOK FESTIVAL HONORS VIETNAM SAGA FOR TOP PRIZESAN FRANCISCO: The remarkable story of an enlisted mans struggles in the jungles of Vietnam is the grand prize winner of the 2018 San Francisco Book Festival, which honors the best books of the spring.
The remarkable story of a girl growing up in the backdrop of pre-partition India, Juliet Raza's memoir recounts an extraordinary young life from the luxury and splendor of palaces and hunting trips as the sister of the Rani of Manpara, to a close family friendship with Gandhi, and a convent education that was to have a far-reaching influence on her life.
Meeting Lori Bakker today-a young woman with a bright, outgoing personality, you could hardly imagine her as a teenager living a life of flagrant sexual promiscuity and drug abuse.
The acclaimed Lincoln scholar examines the president’s treatment of Southern civilians during the Civil War, shedding new light on his wartime conduct.
A study of the rivalry between two American politicians and how it transformed them & the nation they sought to lead in the dark days before the Civil War.
