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The Touch of Greatness
Colonel William C. Bentley Jr., Usaac/Usaf; Aviation Pioneer
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
Colonel William C. Bentley Jr. was a member of the small elite group of U.S. Army Air Corps officers who formed the genesis for the development of what we now know as the U.S. Air Force. He was not only rated as a Command Pilot and was a test pilot on the B-17, but he was a doctrinal visionary in...
by Chris M. Calkins, Ginette Aley, Jaime Amanda Martinez
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2011
By January 1865, most of Virginia's schools were closed, many newspapers had ceased publication, businesses suffered, and food was scarce. Having endured major defeats on their home soil and the loss of much of the state's territory to the Union army, Virginia's Confederate soldiers began to desert...
The Civil War in Georgia
A New Georgia Encyclopedia Companion
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Georgians, like all Americans, experienced the Civil War in a variety of ways. Through selected articles drawn from the New Georgia Encyclopedia (www.georgiaencyclopedia.org), this collection chronicles the diversity of Georgia’s Civil War experience and reflects the most current scholarship in...
Supreme Commander
MacArthur's Triumph in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Seymour Morris Jr. combines political history, military biography, and business management to tell the story of General Douglas MacArthur's tremendous success in rebuilding Japan after World War II in Supreme Commander, a lively, in-depth work of biographical history complementary to The Generals,...
The Only Way I Know
With Highlights from the 1997 Season
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1998
There aren't many Americans who didn't feel a lump in their throat watching Cal Ripken, Jr. take a historic jog around the bases on the evening of September 6, 1995--the night he smashed **Lou Gehrig'**s record number of 2,130 consecutively played games. But, as "the hardest working man in baseball"...
Alexander Wilson
Enlightened Naturalist
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
When talking about the Enlightenment, ornithology is seldom the first topic of conversation. Still, Enlightenment and ornithology converge in one important respect, that of abundance. In our time, new-wave ornithologists have renewed their faith in eighteenth-century expectations for the discovery...
Athwart History: Half a Century of Polemics, Animadversions, and Illuminations
A William F. Buckley Jr. Omnibus
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2010
For most of the last century, William F. Buckley Jr. was the leading figure in the conservative movement in America. The magazine he founded in 1955, National Review, brought together writers representing every strand of conservative thought, and refined those ideas over the decades that followed. Buckley’s...
Editing Lives
Essays in Contemporary Textual and Biographical Studies in Honor of O M Brack, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
Central to all post-Renaissance scholarship, textual studies continues to evolve, both in its techniques and methods as well as in the illumination it affords all other areas of modern knowledge. The life of our fellow human beings, and how we know and tell lives, is one such area of modern knowledge...
Dolor
Deceived by Love
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
This Revised poetry manuscript is of the pain & the hope, one finds in romance. Now known and titled as: Dolor; “Deceived By Love”. Includes 84 Poems, of 34 additional poems not previously published of poetry writings between the end of 2001 through 2003. Michael said, " This collection of poetry...
Is American Democracy in Crisis?
The Munk Debates
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
“Our country is now as close to crossing the line from democracy to autocracy as it has been in our lifetimes.” — E. J. Dionne, Jr.
It is the public debate of the moment: is Donald Trump precipitating a crisis of American democracy? For some the answer is an emphatic “yes.” Trump’s...
Democracy in the Dark
The Seduction of Government Secrecy
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
“A timely and provocative book exploring the origins of the national security state and the urgent challenge of reining it in” (The Washington Post**).**
From Dick Cheney’s man-sized safe to the National Security Agency’s massive intelligence gathering, secrecy has too often captured...
Fragile Innocence
A Father's Memoir of His Daughter's Courageous Journey
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2006
Fragile Innocence is the story of a child devastated by pure chance. This moving narrative of a father’s journey to understand and accept the profound changes in his daughter’s life is at once memoir, biography, mystery, and drama, all centered around one remarkable young woman who cannot talk...
by James Rada Jr
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Catoctin Mountain runs from northern Frederick County, Md., to northern Loudoun County, Va., crossing the Potomac River as it does. Its natural history dates back to prehistoric times. Its history during the era of man is more recent and more fascinating filled with crimes, secrets, monsters, and...
by L.B. Taylor Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
“If you believe in ghosts, this is the book for you.” The author of The Big Book of Virginia Ghost Stories focuses on the “Scare City” (The Roanoke Times).
Roanoke, in the heart of southwestern Virginia, is one of the most haunted cities in the commonwealth. The Star City is brimming...