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The Invincible Soul is the biography of Girdhari Lal Salwan -educationist, humanitarian, politician, craftsman and, above all, leader. Deprived of a formal education himself, Girdhari Lal took up the challenge of providing education to the children of a resurgent India in the post-Partition era ....

Literary Thoughts edition presents Autobiography of Matthew Scott, Jumbo's Keeper by Matthew Scott ------ "Autobiography of Matthew Scott, Jumbo's Keeper" is the autobiography of Matthew Scott (1834-1914) and his biography of P.T. Barnum's great 19th-century male African Bush Elephant named...

"The most substantive biography of the artist to date...propulsive, positive and persuasive."—Holland Cotter, New York Times Book Review ****A Marfield Prize Finalist** **Finalist for the PEN / Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography** **A New York Times Editors...

Baer's biography of the former Czechoslovak foreign minister Vladimír Clementis (1902–1952) is the first historical study on the Communist politician who was executed with Rudolf Slánský and other top Communist Party members after the show trial of 1952. Born in Tisovec, Central Slovakia, Clementis...

Winner of the 2016 Eric Hoffer Award, this acclaimed biography of the brilliant, controversial Buddhist teacher Rama - Dr. Frederick Lenz (1950 - 1998) tells the story of a free-spirited, sports jock teenager who transforms into an iconoclastic, innovative leader. Adventure, mystical journeys and...

Walter Reed - chances are, you are familiar with his name only because you have heard of the major army medical center named after him. Maybe you have heard of his name in general references related to yellow fever. Either way, there is so much more to this humble, hard-working man than most know....

This is the first-ever biography of Emmet Dalton, an American-born Dubliner, Home Ruler and later Republican, whose extraordinary military career as a British officer, IRA leader and General in the Free State army brought him from Flanders to Beal na Bláth. A decorated hero of the Battle of the Somme,...

This 1892 biography of the great English historian was part of the acclaimed English Men of Letters series. Nichol wrote the biography based on his own in-depth analysis of Carlyle’s work, Nichol’s personal impressions of Carlyle, as well as information from other biographies. As well as the story...

A.J.A. Symons’s life is changed forever when his friend Millard, a dealer in rare books, lends him an old tome and a stack of manuscript letters. The book is Hadrian the Seventh (1904), the work of one “Fr. Rolfe”; it is a brilliant and bizarre fantasy, in which a downtrodden English writer...

Jayne Mansfield, most people would consider her as the Marilyn Monroe successor. In fact, Jayne has played some of the Monroe's films "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" and "Bus Stop." Many fans would compare her to Monroe in so many ways, mostly due to her physical appearance, singing...

This text contains the life and times of Antonio Lorenzo Vega Sr., of Caye Caulker, Belize. It documents the life of a man who raises himself from poverty through sheer hard work at sea. Suddenly, after leading his village to remarkable success, Tony suffers the loss of his career at the very hands...

Born in 1918 into the fabric of Arab-Jewish frontier life at the foot of Mt. Tabor, Yigal Allon rose to become one of the founding figures of the state of Israel and an architect of its politics. In 1945 Allon became commander of the Palmah—an elite unit of the Haganah, the semilegal army of the...

When William Lyon Mackenzie King retired in 1948, he had held office as Prime Minister of Canada for a total of 7829 days, a longer term of service than that of any other Prime Minister in the history of the British Commonwealth. Like Roosevelt, his contemporary of many momentous years, he was greatly...

A man who lived his life mostly in the shadows, Edward M. House is little known or remembered today; yet he was one of the most influential figures of the Wilson presidency. Wilson's chief political advisor, House played a key role in international diplomacy, and had a significant hand in crafting...