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All the Best, George Bush
My Life in Letters and Other Writings
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Former President George H.W. Bush, revealed through his letters and writings from 1941 to 2010, is “worth its weight in gold…a valuable update of the life of an honorable American leader” (The Washington Post).
“Who knew that beneath George Bush’s buttoned-up propriety pulsed the...
The Ascent of Nanda Devi
I believe we so far forgot ourselves as to shake hands on it
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
In 1934, after fifty years of trying, mountaineers finally gained access to the Nanda Devi Sanctuary in the Garhwal Himalaya.
Two years later an expedition led by H.W. Tilman reached the summit of Nanda Devi. At over 25,000 feet, it was the highest mountain to be climbed until 1950.
The...
Sport in the Modern World — Chances and Problems
Papers, Results, Materials Scientific Congress Munich, August 21 to 25, 1972
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Should scientific congresses take place in connection with Olympic Games, and should science be represented not only in the form of applied science engaged in the care of athletes, but also as an informing, reflecting and critical authority? The Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXth Olympiad...
by D. Abdel-Halim, D. Anagnostopoulos, T.A. Angerpointner
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
At first sight it may appear strange that a volume of Progress in Pediatric Surgery should be devoted to the history of our specialty. One assumes that progress is concerned primarily with recent developments whilst history deals with matters of the past. However, in the past there has also been considerable...
by H.W. Altmann, H.-J. Barrach, H.V. Gärtner
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The Murder of Jim Fisk for the Love of Josie Mansfield
A Tragedy of the Gilded Age
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Even before he was shot dead on the stairway of the tony Grand Central Hotel in 1872, financier James “Jubilee Jim” Fisk, Jr., was a notorious New York City figure. From his audacious attempt to corner the gold market in 1869 to his battle for control of the geographically crucial Erie Railroad,...
The First American
The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2010
Pulitzer Prize Finalist
Benjamin Franklin, perhaps the pivotal figure in colonial and revolutionary America, comes vividly to life in this masterly biography. Wit, diplomat, scientist, philosopher, businessman, inventor, and bon vivant, Benjamin Franklin was in every respect America’s first...
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The Last Romantic
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2019
From the New York Times bestselling author, an acclaimed biography of President Teddy Roosevelt
Lauded as "a rip-roaring life" (Wall Street Journal), TR is a magisterial biography of Theodore Roosevelt by bestselling author H.W. Brands. In his time, there was no more popular national...
Andrew Jackson
His Life and Times
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2006
National Bestseller
In this, the first major single-volume biography of Andrew Jackson in decades, H.W. Brands reshapes our understanding of this fascinating man, and of the Age of Democracy that he ushered in.
An orphan at a young age and without formal education or the family lineage...
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...
The Man Who Saved the Union
Ulysses Grant in War and Peace
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
From New York Times bestselling author H. W. Brands, a masterful biography of the Civil War general and two-term president who saved the Union twice, on the battlefield and in the White House, holding the country together at two critical turning points in our history.
Ulysses Grant rose from...
by H. W. Brands
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
In a grand-scale narrative history, the bestselling author of two finalists for the Pulitzer Prize now captures the decades when capitalism was at its most unbridled and a few breathtakingly wealthy businessmen utterly transformed America from an agrarian economy to a world power.
The years...
by H.W. "Buzz" Bernard
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
St. Simons Island, Georgia, has never been hit by a Category 5 hurricane. Until now. No one predicted the storm's sudden force. A crippled Air Force recon plane, trapped in the eye of a violent hurricane. An outspoken tropical weather forecaster, fired from his network TV job before he can issue a...
Traitor to His Class
The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2008
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
A brilliant evocation of the qualities that made FDR one of the most beloved and greatest of American presidents.
Drawing on archival material, public speeches, correspondence and accounts by those closest to Roosevelt early in his career and during his presidency,...