Prophet from Plains covers Nobel Peace Prize winner Jimmy Carter's major achievements and setbacks in light of what has been at once his greatest asset and his greatest flaw: his stubborn, faith-driven integrity.
In this, the liveliest and most accessible one-volume life of Edmund Burke, Russell Kirk ingeniously combines into a living whole the private and the public Burke.
This biography of Joseph Henry Lumpkin (1799-1867) details the life and work of the man whose senior judgeship on Georgia's Supreme Court spanned more than twenty years and included service as its first Chief Justice.
In the late 1980s Sirous Houshmand found himself in the confines of Tehran's notorious Evin Prison, a political prisoner facing a future where survival seemed unlikely.
The book is divided into ten chapters, which respectively explain Wu Jingzi's life, novels, literary theory, friendship, Confucianism and influence on later generations.
Former deputy director of the Eisenhower Library and Museum dispels rumors, finds the truth behind the myths, and answers the most-asked questions about the thirty-fourth president, offering a picture of Ike as hes never been seen before.
