Michael Shelden: 4 books
Young Titan
The Making of Winston Churchill
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
In modern memory, Winston Churchill remains the man with the cigar and the equanimity among the ruins. Few can remember that at the age of 40, he was considered washed up, his best days behind him. In Young Titan, historian Michael Shelden has produced the first biography focused on Churchill’s...
Melville in Love
The Secret Life of Herman Melville and the Muse of Moby-Dick
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
A new account of Herman Melville and the writing of Moby-Dick, written by a Pulitzer Prize finalist in Biography and based on fresh archival research, which reveals that the anarchic spirit animating Melville’s canonical work was inspired by his great love affair with a shockingly unconventional...
by Michael Shelden
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: July 23, 2013
A imagem mais recorrente de Winston Churchill (1874-1965) nos livros de história e em documentários televisivos mostra o inglês com pouco mais de sessenta anos e um eterno charuto no canto da boca. Parece até que ele nunca foi de outro jeito. Michael Shelden, autor de biografias de escritores...
Mark Twain: Man in White
The Grand Adventure of His Final Years
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2010
One day in late 1906, seventy-one-year-old Mark Twain attended a meeting on copyright law at the Library of Congress. The arrival of the famous author caused the usual stir—but then Twain took off his overcoat to reveal a "snow-white" tailored suit and scandalized the room. His shocking...