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General Ike
A Personal Reminiscence
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2003
John S.D. Eisenhower modestly explains General Ike as “a son's view of a great military leader—highly intelligent, strong, forceful, kind, yet as human as the rest of us.” It is that, and more: a portrait of the greatest Allied military leader of the Second World War, by the man who knew Ike...
by Harriet Jacobs
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
A retelling of the lives of black slaves of the south through the eyes of one born a slave during the pre-civil war years in America. Harriet tells not only her own story, but countless others, and at the time it was written, it fanned the abolitionist fires that started a war.
by John Mosier
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
A modest and unassuming man, Grant never lost a battle, leading the Union to victory over the Confederacy during the Civil War, ultimately becoming President of the reunited states. Grant revolutionized military warfare by creating new leadership tactics by integrating new technologies in classical...
The Every-Day Life of Abraham Lincoln
A NARRATIVE AND DESCRIPTIVE BIOGRAPHY WITH PEN-PICTURES AND PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS BY THOSE WHO KNEW HIM
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
Daniel Day Lewis' portrayal of the sixteenth president of the United States shows a mature statesman at the height of his powers. But Lincoln's story starts long before that with a struggling country lawyer whose future was by no means assured. Browne's biography begins "in a rude cabin in a...
by Ernest Crosby
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879) , born in Massachusetts, was an abolitionist and founder of The Liberator in 1831, an abolitionist newspaper. He also co-founded the American Anti-Slavery Society. Crosbys brief history of this American hero included a table of contents and over ten images of Garrison, Benjamin Lundy, The Liberator , and more.
One Man Great Enough
Abraham Lincoln's Road to Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2009
From the author of The Class of 1846: “A swift-paced narrative of Lincoln’s pre-presidential life.” —The Washington Post Book World
How did Abraham Lincoln, long held as a paragon of presidential bravery and principled politics, find his way to the White House? How did he become the...
TRUMP EFFECT
AMERICA'S DOOM OR BOOM?
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Trump emerged to either make America Great Again or bring the superpower to doom. Which will it be? find out in this great book.
by Thomas Hosty, James P. Hosty Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
A “valuable” account by the FBI agent who began to investigate Lee Harvey Oswald . . . a month before the Kennedy assassination (Publishers Weekly).
A month before President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Special Agent James Hosty was tasked with investigating a suspicious...
John Tyler
The American Presidents Series: The 10th President, 1841-1845
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2008
The first "accidental president," whose secret maneuverings brought Texas into the Union and set secession in motion
When William Henry Harrison died in April 1841, just one month after his inauguration, Vice President John Tyler assumed the presidency. It was a controversial move...
Lincoln's Boys
John Hay, John Nicolay, and the War for Lincoln's Image
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
From the author of the forthcoming Building the Great Society (February 2018), an intimate look into Lincoln’s White House and the aftermath of his death, via the lives of his two closest aides
In this timely look into Abraham Lincoln’s White House, and the aftermath of his death, noted...
Jefferson's Poplar Forest
Unearthing a Virginia Plantation
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2012
Thomas Jefferson once called his plantation Poplar Forest, "the most valuable of my possessions." For Jefferson, Poplar Forest was a private retreat for him to escape the hordes of visitors and everyday pressures of his iconic estate, Monticello.
Jefferson's Poplar Forest uses the...
by Francis Fisher Browne
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
Abraham Lincoln (18091865) is one of the most famous Americans in history and one of the countrys most revered presidents. Schoolchildren can recite the life story of Lincoln, the Westerner who educated himself and became a self made man, rising from lawyer to leader of the new Republican Party before...
Closest Companion
The Unknown Story of the Intimate Friendship Between Franklin Roosevelt and Margaret Suckley
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2012
For the first time in paperback, the highly acclaimed, remarkably intimate, and surprisingly revealing secret diary of the woman who spent more private time with FDR than any other person during his years in the White house. At once a love story and a major contribution to history, it offers dramatic...
by Edward S. Corwin
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2013
This edition features a linked Table of Contents.
CONTENTS
I. THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE NATIONAL JUDICIARY
II. MARSHALL'S EARLY YEARS
III. JEFFERSON'S WAR ON THE JUDICIARY
IV. THE TRIAL OF AARON BURR
V. THE TENETS OF NATIONALISM
VI. THE SANCTITY OF CONTRACTS
VII. THE MENACE OF STATE RIGHTS
VIII. AMONG FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS
IX. EPILOGUE
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE