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by Nicholas Fraser, Marysa Navarro
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
A brand new edition of this classic Deutsch biography of Eva Peron. Eva Peron was a legend in her own lifetime and since her death in 1952 the legends have proliferated. By the end of the twentieth century she had been immortalised on stage and screen and is now regarded as one of the strongest, most...
Abraham Lincoln: A Life From Beginning to End
Biographies of US Presidents, #16
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2016
As president, Abraham Lincoln had one goal and that was to preserve the Union at all costs. His determination to hold the North and South together would ultimately lead to the bloodiest war in American history, the abolition of slavery, and his own untimely death from an assassin's bullet. But to...
A Just and Generous Nation
Abraham Lincoln and the Fight for American Opportunity
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
In A Just and Generous Nation, the eminent historian Harold Holzer and the noted economist Norton Garfinkle present a groundbreaking new account of the beliefs that inspired our sixteenth president to go to war when the Southern states seceded from the Union. Rather than a commitment to eradicating...
Bunny Mellon
The Life of an American Style Legend
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
AN AMAZON BEST BOOK OF THE MONTH IN BIOGRAPHIES & MEMOIRS
A new biography of Bunny Mellon, the style icon and American aristocrat who designed the White House Rose Garden for her friend JFK and served as a living witness to 20th Century American history,...
Dr. Feelgood
The Shocking Story of the Doctor Who May Have Changed History by Treating and Drugging JFK, Marilyn, Elvis, and Other Prominent Figures
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Doctor Max Jacobson, whom the Secret Service under President John F. Kennedy code-named “Dr. Feelgood,” developed a unique “energy formula” that altered the paths of some of the twentieth century’s most iconic figures, including President and Jackie Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra,...
Dead Wrong
Straight Facts on the Country's Most Controversial Cover-Ups
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
For years, the government has put out hits on people that they found “expendable,” or who they felt were “talking too much,” covering up their assassinations with drug overdoses and mysterious suicides. In Dead Wrong, a study of the scientific and forensic facts of various Government cover-ups,...
The Whiskey Rebellion
George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and the Fro
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
A gripping and sensational tale of violence, alcohol, and taxes, The Whiskey Rebellion uncovers the radical eighteenth-century people’s movement, long ignored by historians, that contributed decisively to the establishment of federal authority.
In 1791, on the frontier of western Pennsylvania,...
by Abraham Lincoln
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2012
Abraham Lincoln, the greatest of all American presidents, left us a vast legacy of writings, some of which are among the most famous in our history. Lincoln was a marvelous writer—from the humblest letter to his great speeches, including his inaugural addresses, the Emancipation Proclamation, and...
American Evita
Hillary Clinton's Path to Power
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
"I don't quit. I keep going."
–Hillary Rodham Clinton
She is, quite simply, the most famous, most complex, most loved/hated/admired/reviled woman -- perhaps person -- in America. And, whether she fulfills her life's ambition or not, she can already lay claim to being the first woman...
Sisters
The Lives of America's Suffragists
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2006
How the Personal Became Political In the Fight to Grant Women Civil Rights
They forever changed America: Lucy Stone, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frances Willard, Alice Paul. At their revolution's start in the 1840s, a woman's right to speak in public was questioned. By its conclusion...
The Quiet Man
The Indispensable Presidency of George H.W. Bush
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
In this major reassessment of George Herbert Walker Bush, the 41st president of the United States, his former Chief of Staff offers a long overdue appreciation of the man and his universally underrated and misunderstood presidency.
“I’m a quiet man, but I hear the quiet people others don’t.”—George...
by William E. Gienapp
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2002
In Abraham Lincoln and Civil War America historian William Gienapp provides a remarkably concise up-to-date and vibrant biography of the most revered figure in United States history. While the heart of the book focuses on the Civil War Gienapp begins with a finely etched portrait of Lincoln's early...
Richard M. Nixon
The American Presidents Series: The 37th President, 1969-1974
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2007
The complex man at the center of America's most self-destructive presidency
In this provocative and revelatory assessment of the only president ever forced out of office, the legendary Washington journalist Elizabeth Drew explains how Richard M. Nixon's troubled inner life offers the key to...
The Harding Affair
Love and Espionage during the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Warren Harding fell in love with his beautiful neighbor, Carrie Phillips, in the summer of 1905, almost a decade before he was elected a United States Senator and fifteen years before he became the 29th President of the United States. When the two lovers started their long-term and torrid affair,...