For most Americans, George Washington is more of a legend than a man-a face on our currency or an austere figure standing in a rowboat crossing the icy Delaware River.
The first biography of an extraordinary woman and architect who left her mark on world capitals and reshaped modern designElla Briggs (18801977) was a talented architect, designer, and writer whose influence was felt on both sides of the Atlantic.
Known as the celebrated director of critical and commercial successes such as Psycho (1960) and The Birds (1963), Alfred Hitchcock is famous for his distinctive visual style and signature motifs.
2016 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature - Longlisted2016 RBC Taylor Prize - LonglistedThe unforgettable memoir of Giller Prize-winning author and poet Austin Clarke, called "e;Canada's first multicultural writer.
The first general survey of relations between Protestants and Catholics in America during the past half century will be welcomed not only by social historians but by clergymen and laymen interested in the development of constructive interfaith relations.
George Smitherman tells all about his successes and failures as a politician - in Ontario's legislature and in Toronto's city hall - and shares the joys and sorrows of his personal life.
2014 Forest of Reading, White Pine Award - Winner, NonfictionThe true story of how a young Quebecois nun ended up a prisoner of war in Buchenwald and how her daughter discovered her secrets.
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.
Henry Kissinger conducted American foreign policy with a distinctive assurance and panache that gave dramatic force to his tenure as secretary of state.
Returning to Kentucky in the spring of 1829 after four years as secretary of state in the administration of John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay quickly regained the political dominance at home that would carry him to the U.
"e;In her portrayal of the life of Sister Catherine Donnelly, founder of the Sisters of Service, author Jeanne Beck has succeeded in weaving a tapestry rich in texture, broad in scope and deeply revealing of the character of a memorable Canadian woman.
The culminating volume in The Papers of Henry Clay begins in 1844, the year when Clay came within a hair's breadth of achieving his lifelong goal-the presidency of the United States.
Washington Allston (1779-1843), the first major American artist trained in Europe, produced important paintings, explored sculpture and architecture, and published poetry and art criticism.
Alben Barkley's final words before he was struck down by a heart attack summed up his long, eventful life: "e;I have served my country and my people for half a century as a Democrat.
Students of Browning have long been puzzled by the discrepancies between the dramatic framework of Fifine and its symbolic development, but these difficulties are resolved in Southwell's explication by a biographical hypothesis.
2013 Hamilton Arts Council Literary Award - Winner, Non-Fiction The miracle of a new baby turned into a nightmare There is something about the loss of a child that everyone takes to heart.
One of Canada's great entrepreneurial success storiesHarry Steele was born in Musgrave Harbour, an isolated outport on the eastern coast of Newfoundland.
A new literary history that places women writers at the center of poetic theory and practice in English literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Many of the terms we use today to describe poetic style originated in the early modern period: original ideas, feminine rhyme, irregular rhythm, smooth verse.
