William J: 1364 books
Literature and Painting In Quebec
From Imagery to Identity
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2013
This unique study explores how Quebec's landscapes have been represented in both literature and visual art throughout the centuries, from the writing of early explorers such as Cartier and Champlain to work by prominent contemporary authors and artists from the province. William J. Berg traces recurrent...
The Third Reconstruction
How a Moral Movement Is Overcoming the Politics of Division and Fear
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
A modern-day civil rights champion tells the stirring story of how he helped start a movement to bridge America’s racial divide.
Over the summer of 2013, the Reverend Dr. William J. Barber II led more than a hundred thousand people at rallies across North Carolina to protest restrictions...
by William J. Tennyson
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2013
Biography and Jazz music of William J Tennyson, Jr. (1923-1959), musician, singer and composer, affectionately called Bill. The story is about the life and musical brilliance of a young black composer, born into a musical family in New Orleans.
The theme is around jazz music, and Bills journey...
Hello, Gorgeous
Becoming Barbra Streisand
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
“Masterful . . . Many books have been written about Streisand but few, if any, put readers as close to the subject as Mann does” (Miami Herald).
A legendary singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker with multiple Academy, Emmy, Grammy, Tony, and even two Peabody awards to her name, Barbara...
Kate
The Woman Who Was Hepburn
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2007
The first major Katharine Hepburn biography independent of her control reveals the smart, complicated, and sophisticated woman behind the image
Onscreen she played society girls, Spencer Tracy's sidekick, lionesses in winter. But the best character Katharine Hepburn ever created was Katharine...
The Wars of the Roosevelts
The Ruthless Rise of America's Greatest Political Family
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
The award-winning author presents a provocative, thoroughly modern revisionist biographical history of one of America’s greatest and most influential families—the Roosevelts—exposing heretofore unknown family secrets and detailing complex family rivalries with his signature cinematic flair.
Drawing...
A Splendid Exchange
How Trade Shaped the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2009
A Financial Times and Economist Best Book of the Year exploring world trade from Mesopotamia in 3,000 BC to modern globalization.
How did trade evolve to the point where we don’t think twice about biting into an apple from the other side of the world?
In A Splendid Exchange, William J. Bernstein,...
by William J. Cooper, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
In his masterpiece, Jefferson Davis, American, William J. Cooper, Jr., crafted a sweeping, definitive biography and established himself as the foremost scholar on the intriguing Confederate president. Cooper narrows his focus considerably in Jefferson Davis and the Civil War Era, training his expert...
America: The Last Best Hope (Volume I)
From the Age of Discovery to a World at War
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2007
America, how well do you know your history?
Who quelled a coup d'etat by putting on a pair of reading glasses?
Which U.S. senator was nearly caned to death on the Senate floor?
Which first lady refused to serve alcohol in the White House?
What famous inventor was called to find the assassin's...
Eisenhower and Cambodia
Diplomacy, Covert Action, and the Origins of the Second Indochina War
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Although most Americans paid little attention to Cambodia during Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidency, the nation's proximity to China and the global ideological struggle with the Soviet Union guaranteed US vigilance throughout Southeast Asia. Cambodia's leader, Norodom Sihanouk, refused to take sides...
Understanding Inequality
The Intersection of Race/Ethnicity, Class, and Gender
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2007
As the age of globalization and New Media unite disparate groups of people in new ways, the continual transformation and interconnections between ethnicity, class, and gender become increasingly complex. This reader, comprised of a diverse array of sources ranging from the New York Times to the journals...
by William J. Prior
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
Before Socrates, philosophers sought explanations for naturally-occurring phenomena from earthquakes and eclipses to the existence of the entire cosmos. But the Socratic era saw a great shift towards questions much closer to the human experience. Philosophers became concerned with life and how to live...
Aboard the Fabre Line to Providence
Immigration to Rhode Island
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
In an era when immigration was at its peak, the Fabre Line offered the only transatlantic route to southern New England. One of its most important ports was in Providence, Rhode Island. Nearly eighty-four thousand immigrants were admitted to the country between the years 1911 and 1934. Almost one in...
The Death of Outrage
Bill Clinton and the Assault on American Ideals
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 1998
Today we see little public outrage about Bill Clinton's misconduct. With enormous skill, the president and his advisors have constructed a defensive wall built of bricks left over from Watergate: diversion, half-truth, equivocation, and sophistry. It is a wall that has remained unbreached. Until now.
In...