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by Jean Edward Smith
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - "A model presidential biography... Now, at last, we have a biography that is right for the man" - Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World
One of today’s premier biographers has written a modern, comprehensive, indeed ultimate book on the epic life...
Faith of My Fathers
A Family Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2000
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Senator John McCain’s deeply moving memoir is the story of three generations of warriors and the ways that sons are shaped and enriched by their fathers.
John McCain’s grandfather, a four-star admiral and one of the navy’s greatest commanders, led the strongest...
General George Washington
A Military Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2005
Much has been written in the past two centuries about George Washington the statesman and “father of his country.” Less often discussed is Washington’s military career, including his exploits as a young officer and his performance as the Revolutionary War commander in chief. Now, in a revealing...
A World Made New
Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2001
A World Made New tells the dramatic story of the struggle to build, out of the trauma and wreckage of World War II, a document that would ensure it would never happen again. There was an almost religious intensity to the project, championed by Eleanor Roosevelt under the aegis of the newly formed...
Roosevelt's Centurions
FDR and the Commanders He Led to Victory in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
“FDR’s centurions were my heroes and guides. Now Joe Persico has written the best account of those leaders I've ever read.”—Colin L. Powell
All American presidents are commanders in chief by law. Few perform as such in practice. In Roosevelt’s Centurions, distinguished historian Joseph...
The Turnaround
How America's Top Cop Reversed the Crime Epidemic
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2009
When Bill Bratton was sworn in as New York City's police commissioner in 1994, he made what many considered a bold promise: The NYPD would fight crime in every borough...and win. It seemed foolhardy; even everybody knows you can't win the war on crime. But Bratton delivered. In an extraordinary twenty-seven...
by Li Zhi-Sui
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
“The most revealing book ever published on Mao, perhaps on any dictator in history.”—Professor Andrew J. Nathan, Columbia University
From 1954 until Mao Zedong's death twenty-two years later, Dr. Li Zhisui was the Chinese ruler's personal physician, which put him in daily—and increasingly...
Conscience of a Conservative
A Rejection of Destructive Politics and a Return to Principle
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A thoughtful defense of traditional conservatism and a thorough assault on the way Donald Trump is betraying it.”—David Brooks, in his New York Times column
In a bold act of conscience, Republican Senator Jeff Flake takes his party to task for embracing...
Wildflower
An Extraordinary Life and Untimely Death in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
With compassion and an unswerving regard for the truth, veteran journalist Mark Seal lays bare the deeply moving, inspirational story of Joan Root, a dedicated environmentalist and Oscar-nominated wildlife filmmaker. He covers her early days in Kenya as a shy young woman with an almost uncanny ability...
Promises to Keep
On Life and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2007
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, the author of Promise Me, Dad, tells the story of his extraordinary life and career prior to his emergence as Barack Obama’s beloved, influential vice president.
“I remain captivated by the possibilities of politics...
by Barry Hill
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
The biography of T. G. H. Strehlow and Aboriginal possession.
'A group of men. chanting with the enthusiasm that made them forget age & weakness & becoming young again in spirit.the rising and falling of the chant melody, like the breathing that gives us life - what an unforgettable...
Yours in Truth
A Personal Portrait of Ben Bradlee, Legendary Editor of The Washington Post
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
An intimate profile of the legendary Washington Post editor whose life and career encompassed Watergate, the Pentagon Papers, and the Kennedys—as portrayed by Tom Hanks in the Steven Spielberg film The Post
“A fairly complete and rare portrait of this last of the lion-king newspaper editors.”—The...
by Geoffrey Perret
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2000
This new, in-depth life of Eisenhower offers fresh perspectives, not only on World War II and the Korean War but also on the Cold War, the civil rights movement, McCarthyism, the U-2 crisis and Vietnam.
Geoffrey Perret's Eisenhower gives us, for the first time, the whole man. It brings...
The Conscience of a Liberal
Reclaiming the Compassionate Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2001
“Never separate the lives you live from the words you speak,” Paul Wellstone told his students at Carleton College, where he was professor of political science.
Wellstone has lived up to his words as the most liberal man in the United States Senate, where for the past decade he has been...