19Th Century category: 5646 books
by Brett Harper
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
He was one of America's greatest presidents and certainly our most colorful. Theodore Roosevelt, known to all but his friends as Teddy, was born a sickly child but transformed himself into an outdoorsman, a cowboy, and a warrior who led his Rough Riders up the San Juan Heights of Cuba in a charge...
Fanny and Stella
The Young Men Who Shocked Victorian England
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2013
28th April 1870. Fanny and Stella, the flamboyantly dressed Miss Fanny Park and Miss Stella Boulton, are causing a stir in the Strand Theatre. All eyes are riveted upon their lascivious oglings of the gentlemen in the stalls. Moments later they are led away by the police. What followed was a scandal...
The Fall of the House of Walworth
A Tale of Madness and Murder in Gilded Age America
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2010
In the tradition of The Devil in the White City comes a spell-binding tale of madness and murder in a nineteenth century American dynasty
On June 3, 1873, a portly, fashionably dressed, middle-aged man calls the Sturtevant House and asks to see the tenant on the second floor. The bellman goes...
The Fall of the House of Wilde
Oscar Wilde and His Family
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
The first biography of Oscar Wilde that places him within the context of his family and social and historical milieu--a compelling volume that finally tells the whole story.
It's widely known that Oscar Wilde was precociously intellectual, flamboyant, and hedonistic--but lesser so that he owed...
Walt Whitman's America
A Cultural Biography
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
Winner of the Bancroft Prize and the Ambassador Book Award and
Finalist for the National for the Book Critics Circle Award
In his poetry Walt Whitman set out to encompass all of America and in so doing heal its deepening divisions. This magisterial biography demonstrates the epic scale of his...
Love and Capital
Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2011
Brilliantly researched and wonderfully written, LOVE AND CAPITAL reveals the rarely glimpsed and heartbreakingly human side of the man whose works would redefine the world after his death. Drawing upon previously unpublished material, acclaimed biographer Mary Gabriel tells the story of Karl and Jenny...
by David McCullough
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2001
In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life-journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot -- "the colossus of independence," as Thomas Jefferson called him -- who spared nothing in his zeal for...
Thomas Jefferson
Author of America
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
In this unique biography of Thomas Jefferson, leading journalist and social critic Christopher Hitchens offers a startlingly new and provocative interpretation of our Founding Father. Situating Jefferson within the context of America's evolution and tracing his legacy over the past two hundred years,...
John Quincy Adams
American Visionary
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Fred Kaplan, the acclaimed, award-winning author of Lincoln, returns with John Quincy Adams, an illuminating biography of one of the most overlooked presidents in American history—a leader of sweeping perspective whose progressive values helped shape the course of the nation.
In this fresh...
Lincoln and the Abolitionists
John Quincy Adams, Slavery, and the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
**“[Kaplan] tells this story with precision and eloquence.”****—**Seattle Times
“An eye-opening biography from a trusted source on the topic.” **—**Kirkus Review
“Elegantly written and thoroughly researched.”** **—**Publishers Weekly
The acclaimed biographer,...
by H. W. Brands
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Though he was a hero of the Revolutionary War, a prominent New York politician, and vice president of the United States, Aaron Burr is today best remembered as the villain who killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel.
But as H. W. Brands demonstrates in this fascinating portrait of one of the most...
Franklin Pierce
The American Presidents Series: The 14th President, 1853-1857
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
The genial but troubled New Englander whose single-minded partisan loyalties inflamed the nation's simmering battle over slavery
Charming and handsome, Franklin Pierce of New Hampshire was drafted to break the deadlock of the 1852 Democratic convention. Though he seized the White House in a...
Seward
Lincoln's Indispensable Man
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
From one of our most acclaimed new biographers– the first full life of the leader of Lincoln’s “team of rivals” to appear in more than forty years.
William Henry Seward was one of the most important Americans of the nineteenth century. Progressive governor of New York and outspoken...
Plunkitt of Tammany Hall
A Series of Very Plain Talks on Very Practical Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1995
Plunkitt of Tammany Hall
A Series of Very Plain Talks on Very Practical Politics
William L. Riordan
“Nobody thinks of drawin’ the distinction between honest graft and dishonest graft.”
This classic work offers the unblushing, unvarnished wit and wisdom of one of the most fascinating figures...