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Thomas Jefferson was a prolific letter writer; it has been estimated that he wrote and received as many as fifty thousand letters. The letters here are not limited strictly to family matters but deal with local events in Paris, Philadelphia, New York,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780228802396Author John M HillFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Tellwell TalentPublisher Tellwell TalentWeight(grams) 127g

The story of Fray Servando's life in exile is a vivid account of the adventures of one of the most original ideologues of Latin American independence. On December 12, 1794, Fray Servando preached a sermon in Mexico City claiming that the Indies had been...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615278124Author Max R TermanFormat PaperbackImprint M. R. TermanPublisher M. R. TermanWeight(grams) 327g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738811789Author Ollie KirbyFormat HardbackPage Count 220Imprint Xlibris UsPublisher Xlibris UsWeight(grams) 408g

A thorough and effectively executed study, this biography will appeal to anyone interested in Stonewall Jackson and the military history of the Civil War. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson was one of the greatest generals of the Civil War and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780646820132Author Joni DennisFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint BlossomPublisher BlossomWeight(grams) 152g

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This is an unusual and fascinating biography of William Franklin, Benjamin Franklin's illegitimate son, who, with the onset of Independence, became a visible spokesman for the Loyalist cause. This biography sheds light on imperial issues and...

Roma Ben-Atar resisted until late in life the urging of her family to share the memories of her Nazi-era experiences. The Holocaust exerted a dark pressure on all of their lives but was never openly discussed. It was only when her granddaughter insisted...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316286022Author James Thomas FlexnerFormat HardbackPage Count 554Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780854950492Author Anthony MartienssenFormat PaperbackPage Count 338Imprint Sapere BooksPublisher Sapere BooksWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679740353Author Sojourner TruthFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 176g

As the bold fathers of the American Revolution left behind their private lives to become public nation-builders, what happened to their families? Surprisingly, no previous book has ever explored how family life shaped the political careers of America's...

This is an engaging autobiographical account of a young American woman's life in her Samoan husband's native home. Fay Calkins, a descendant of Puritan settlers, met Vai Ala'ilima, a descendant of Samoan chiefs, while working on her doctoral dissertation...

The Wright brothers have long received the lion's share of credit for inventing the airplane. But a California scientist succeeded in flying gliders twenty years before the Wright's powered flights at Kitty Hawk in 1903. Quest for Flight reveals the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983989875Author Joanne L YeckFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint Slate River PressPublisher Slate River PressWeight(grams) 422g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645599329Author Karl SchmudeFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint Christopher Dawson PressPublisher Christopher Dawson PressWeight(grams) 95g

Marie-André Duplessis (1687-1760) guided the Augustinian sisters at the Hôtel-Dieu of Quebec - the oldest hospital north of Mexico - where she was elected mother superior six times. Although often overshadowed by colonial nuns who became foundresses or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990815501Author Priscilla L PartridgeFormat HardbackPage Count 420Imprint Priscilla PartridgePublisher Priscilla PartridgeWeight(grams) 1075g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692064719Author Charles OsborneFormat HardbackPage Count 168Imprint del Monte Publishing Co.Publisher del Monte Publishing Co.Weight(grams) 481g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780759605596Author Brunhild RajaniemiFormat PaperbackPage Count 356Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 388g

Martin and Osa Johnson thrilled American audiences of the 1920s and 30s with their remarkable movies of far-away places, exotic peoples, and the dramatic spectacle of African wildlife. Their own lives were as exciting as the movies they made--sailing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780898753745Author Emma HamiltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 488Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the PacificWeight(grams)...

The keen-eyed, cool-headed, and fearless men (Kit Carson, Jim Bridger, Buffalo Bill Cody, Big Foot Wallace, and Captain Jim Cook, among others) who were pivotal personalities for more than half a century in the almost ceaseless task of clearing the way...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738819716Author Carol MillerFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Xlibris CorporationPublisher Xlibris CorporationWeight(grams) 440g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780759698895Author Harry Mewes SantoFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 330g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780759651906Author Damon MizeFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 131g

At the end of his seventy-year career as a journalist, Benjamin Franklin trained his grandson, Benjamin Franklin Bache, in his profession. After his grandfather's death, Bache brought the republican and Enlightenment ideas he had been taught to the...

Amanda Berry Smith was a trail-blazing black woman evangelist of the nineteenth century. She became a member of Bethel African Methodist Episcopal congregation in Philadelphia in 1865, a time when women were denied positions of authority in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780646973333Author Carl ScullyFormat HardbackPage Count 488Imprint Carl ScullyPublisher Carl ScullyWeight(grams) 1057g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692106785Author Harris C AngelicaFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Angela-Filomena LocascioPublisher Angela-Filomena LocascioWeight(grams) 435g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780788452666Author Dorr B CarpenterFormat PaperbackPage Count 398Imprint Heritage BooksPublisher Heritage BooksWeight(grams) 689g

The poems include touchingly romantic and sad expressions of Steffi's youthful idealism and more recent humorous epistles. My first Year in Eretz Israel picks up the story where her previous book Jewish Girl in the Weimar Republic ends, with Steffi's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692741504Author Jaron K EamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 636Imprint Jke ProductionsPublisher Jke ProductionsWeight(grams) 839g

This is the story of Leandro Illin and his family who settled in Australia in 1910 after roaming the world seeking a new home. Five years later, in the face of official opposition, Leandro married a Ngadjon Aboriginal woman, Kitty Clarke. Following her...

The first full investigation of John Brown's trusted co-conspirator and his betrayal of the doomed Harper's Ferry raiders John Brown's Spy tells the nearly unknown story of John E. Cook, the person John Brown trusted most with the details of his plans to...

The most beloved American comedic actor of the nineteenth century, Joseph Jefferson made his name as Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle. In this book, a compelling blend of biography and theatrical and cultural history, Benjamin McArthur chronicles...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385506991Author Professor of Ancient History Alan LloydFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA...

Pawn of the U.S. government. Right-hand man to the mob. Iron-fisted dictator. For decades, public understanding of the pre-Revolutionary Cuban dictator ""Fulgencio Batista"" has been limited to these stereotypes. While on some level...