Stephen: 10786 books
Kierkegaard
A Single Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
Discover a new understanding of Kierkegaard’s thought and his life, a story filled with romance, betrayal, humor, and riots.
Kierkegaard, like Einstein and Freud, is one of those geniuses whose ideas permeate the culture and shape our world even when relatively few people have read their...
Abraham Lincoln
The Man Behind the Myths
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
“There is no better introduction to current thinking about Lincoln and his place in history.” —Newsday
“Here, in these pages, Lincoln is still alive.” —Los Angeles Times
From Stephen B. Oates comes a riveting companion to his seminal Lincoln biography With Malice Toward None....
by Stephen E. Ambrose
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012
In this classic portrait of Dwight D. Eisenhower the soldier, bestselling historian Stephen E. Ambrose examines the Allied commander’s leadership during World War II.
Ambrose brings Eisenhower’s experience of the Second World War to life, showing in vivid detail how the general’s skill...
by Stephen Kinzer
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
A joint biography of John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles, who led the United States into an unseen war that decisively shaped today's world
During the 1950s, when the Cold War was at its peak, two immensely powerful brothers led the United States into a series of foreign adventures whose effects...
A Common Struggle
A Personal Journey Through the Past and Future of Mental Illness and Addiction
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
In this New York Times bestseller Patrick J. Kennedy, the former congressman and youngest child of Senator Ted Kennedy, details his personal and political battle with mental illness and addiction, exploring mental health care's history in the country alongside his and every family's private struggles.
On...
Cheney
The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
During a forty-year career in politics, Vice President Dick Cheney has been involved in some of the most consequential decisions in recent American history. He was one of a few select advisers in the room when President Gerald Ford decided to declare an end to the Vietnam War. Nearly thirty years...
Ike's Spies
Eisenhower and the Espionage Establishment
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012
This classic Cold War-era history looks at the way President Dwight Eisenhower managed America’s secret operations as general and as commander in chief and is based on privileged access to the president and his private papers—from bestselling historian Stephen E. Ambrose.
During his time...
by Stephen Mansfield
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2011
Barack Obama. The speculation about his religious life abounds. Is he a closet Muslim? Is he really a Christian? Does his faith have anything to do with his governing? As the picture of President Obama’s faith has emerged over recent years, questions about the foundation of his beliefs continue...
More Than Freedom
Fighting for Black Citizenship in a White Republic, 1829-1889
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
A major new narrative account of the long struggle of Northern activists-both black and white, famous and obscure-to establish African Americans as free citizens, from abolitionism through the Civil War, Reconstruction, and its demise
Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation is generally...
Invisible
The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America's Most Powerful Mobster
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
The bestselling author delves into his past and discovers the inspiring story of his grandmother’s extraordinary life
She was black and a woman and a prosecutor, a graduate of Smith College and the granddaughter of slaves, as dazzlingly unlikely a combination as one could imagine in New York...
Justice Brennan
Liberal Champion
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
A sweeping insider look at the life of William Brennan, champion of free speech and widely considered the most influential Supreme Court justice of the twentieth century
Before his death, William Brennan granted Stephen Wermiel access to volumes of personal and court materials that are sealed...
Vidas frágiles
Historias entre la vida y la muerte de un cardiocirujano en la mesa de operaciones
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 15, 2018
El equilibrio entre la vida y la muerte es muy delicado, y el cardiocirujano camina sobre el delgado hilo que los une. En la sala de operaciones no hay lugar para las dudas. Solo hay carne, sangre y costillas; y el órgano vital que hay que bombear con la mano para que recupere su latido. Un día...
by Stephen Brodowski
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2018
This true,(R) rated story is full of Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, skin-crawling Suspense, and Secrets, finally revealed by a Surgical Technician who was there, in Vietnam, aboard a busy Hospital Ship, Subic Bay, Philippines, and Bangkok,Thailand 1968-1969. Twenty riveting episodes that may take...
Raising the Ruins
The fight to revive the legacy of Herbert W. Armstrong
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Herbert W. Armstrong was the world's leading televangelist and one of the most prominent religious leaders of the 20th century, watched, read and followed by millions worldwide. But his legacy of Bible-based humanitarianism came under attack after he died. The cabal of leaders who took control of...