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In this highly acclaimed and enduring biography, John R. Alden traces the interwoven histories of George Washington and the nation he helped to create, defend, and guide toward the future. Alden revisits the major events of Washington's personal and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615706948Author Cheryl Marie Birdsong-DyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Cheryl Birdsong-DyerPublisher Cheryl Birdsong-DyerWeight(grams) 327g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578469287Author Jerry KochFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Bear Paw PressPublisher Bear Paw PressWeight(grams) 626g

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In this extraordinary, true story about an independent woman, a world-famous aviator, and the powerful man who loved them both, Sally Putnam Chapman, the granddaughter of Dorothy Binney Putnam and George Putnam, recounts a treasure trove of memories,...

"I begged, and often my brother obliged. In the dark of night, when I couldn't sleep, Ivan told me fairy tales in a whisper. All the stories began, in the traditional Hungarian manner, `Once there was / where there wasn't / there was once a Castle / that...

Harriet Tubman's name is known world-wide and her exploits as a self-liberated Underground Railroad heroine are celebrated in children's literature, film, and history books, yet no major biography of Tubman has appeared since 1943. Jean M. Humez's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156027892Author Lytton StracheyFormat PaperbackPage Count 372Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 481g

This biography of William Plumer--New Hampshire lawyer, politician, senator, and governor--furnishes unique insight into state, local, and national politics in the formative period of party development. Plumer was an important participant in the American...

David Ruggles (1810-1849) was one of the most heroic--and has been one of the most often overlooked--figures of the early abolitionist movement in America. Graham Russell Gao Hodges provides the first biography of this African American activist, writer,...

George Croghan--land speculator, Indian trader, and prominent Indian agent--was a man of fascinating, if dubious, character whose career epitomized the history of the West before the Revolution. This study is based on Croghan's long-lost personal papers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781039113725Author R L ByskalFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 608g

In Separate Pasts Melton A. McLaurin honestly and plainly recalls his boyhood during the 1950s, an era when segregation existed unchallenged in the rural South. In his small hometown of Wade, North Carolina, whites and blacks lived and worked within each...

At the beginning of World War II, Catholic priests all across Poland were arrested and sent to Nazi concentration camps. This memoir by Fr. Henryk Maria Malak (1912-1987) is their story and his. Through the author's eyes we witness the German invasion,...

A story of the impossible choices of vulnerable individuals living under the Third Reich and the blurred boundaries between victim, bystander, and accomplice.Book InformationISBN 9780815636106Author Annegret SchuleFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint...

Biographical sketches of twenty notable young men with ties to Michigan. Bold Boys in Michigan History-a companion to Great Girls in Michigan History-explores the stories of twenty boys who did some amazing things before they turned twenty years old...

Born in the 1490s, Anthonius Margaritha was the grandson, son, and brother of noted rabbis and was perhaps the best-known Jew of his generation in Germany to convert to Christianity. When he became a Christian in 1521, he began a series of writings that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820359045Author Merrill D. PetersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint University of Georgia PressPublisher University of Georgia PressWeight(grams)...

"He was a man of fair learning, and more than average accomplishment; not at all intolerant of opinions at issue with his own; in religion a Dissenter of the class still prevalent in New England: in his tastes scholarly and refined, not ill read in...

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Volume 4 of the ""Presidential Series"" continues the fourth chronological series of ""The Papers of George Washington"". The ""Presidential Series"", when complete, will cover the eight...

The public perception of the First Lady has evolved through the years and the press and scholars are beginning to take note of the essential role presidents' wives have played in the Administration and in the nation as a whole. Their participation in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999336502Author Miriam HoffmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Yiddishkayt PressPublisher Yiddishkayt PressWeight(grams) 290gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999275917Author Alan BalsamFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint CityscapeworksPublisher CityscapeworksWeight(grams) 181g

Washington was rarely isolated from the world during his eventful life. His diary for 1751-52 relates a voyage to Barbados when he was nineteen. The next two accounts concern the early phases of the French and Indian War, in which Washington commanded a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998192703Author Larry a DrewFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint KittenbritchesPublisher KittenbritchesWeight(grams) 254g

The founding, in 1951, of the Japan Library School, now called the School of Library and Information Science, at Keio University, was a development of great significance in the development of librarianship in Japan and a remarkable example of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997333527Author Patricia D WestFormat HardbackPage Count 284Imprint Tree of Life MemoirsPublisher Tree of Life MemoirsWeight(grams) 572g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780987567307Author Ian MinchinFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Cobalt Blue PublishersPublisher Cobalt Blue PublishersWeight(grams) 585g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986751011Author Sir John PitkaFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Booklocker.comPublisher Booklocker.comWeight(grams) 472g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983551065Author Tom SutakFormat HardbackPage Count 552Imprint Pine Park PublishingPublisher Pine Park PublishingWeight(grams) 962g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865435742Author Tanure OjaideFormat HardbackPage Count 220Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 393g

Liveright is proud to make available in paperback its reissue of the classic 1926 edition of The Travels of Marco Polo. Working from the traditional lyrical Marsden translation, editor Manuel Komroff corrected it against Henry Yule's magisterial...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780866240109Author Dr Frank Javier Garcia BerumenFormat PaperbackImprint Bilingual Educational Services, IncPublisher Bilingual Educational Services,...

Compelling recollections of a Jewish boy in a prewar Polish village, of his incredible scramble to survive the Holocaust, and of his adventures in America. Told with the inimitable flair of a born storyteller, these stories recall the lost world of...

I Hope This Reaches You: An American Soldier's Account of World War I begins in May 1917 with Byron Fiske Field (1897-1968) boarding a morning train bound for Detroit with one objective in mind: to help the United States win the war against Germany. A...

Extraordinarily wealthy and influential, Stephen Duncan (1787–1867) was a landowner, slaveholder, and financier with a remarkable array of social, economic, and political contacts in pre-Civil War America. In this, the first biography of Duncan, Martha...