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For over a century historians have been unable to agree about Andrew Jackson. Was he as Robert Remini has insisted for more than forty years a masterful politician who shaped the modern presidency and ushered in an era of new democratic politics? Or was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606391105Author Sarah McNelisFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Riverbend PublishingPublisher Riverbend PublishingWeight(grams) 140g

This book offers information on the President's early education, professional career, military service or political service prior to the presidency. Thomas Jefferson of Virginia was the first president to be inaugurated in Washington, DC. He wrote two of...

In relating the story of his life on the island of Deshima and in the port of Yokohama during the late 1850s, Dutch merchant C. T. Assendelft de Coningh provides both an unprecedented eyewitness account of daily life in the Japanese treaty ports and a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781600219610Author Lyle NelsonFormat HardbackPage Count 190Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 450g

MORE THAN HALF A MILLION COPIES SOLD! The classic adventure story that inspired the new major motion picture The Way Back, directed by Peter Weir *** In 1941, the author and six fellow prisoners of war escaped a Soviet labor camp in Yakutsk-a...

Rutherford B. Hayes and Lucy Webb Hayes lived their lives as though they knew Rutherford would become President of the United States one day. They not only led exemplary lives from beginning to end, but saved an incredible amount of information for the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596870161Author Thomas FlemingFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint ibooksPublisher ibooksWeight(grams) 156g

Recent interest in the wives of American Presidents has led to the rediscovery of many First Ladies whose public service and accomplishments had been forgotten. The prime example is Lou Henry Hoover, a vivacious woman with a thoroughly modern approach to...

This book is a compilation of sketches about famous and beautiful women, who were selected for this volume based upon their political influence exercised through their celebrity. The women profiled here run the gamut of status, beginning with sovereigns...

When Sylvia Lawry's brother was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in the late 1930s, she refused to accept the medical wisdom of the day that "nothing could be done." In 1945 Ms. Lawry took the unique step of running a classified ad searching for someone...

Sigmund Stein was a prominent lawyer in the town of Hochburg, a German with deep roots in rural Germany. When fellow Jews urged Stein to leave Germany in the 1930s and after, he refused, arguing that he could best serve his people by acting as a buffer...

Books about Jane Addams-founder of Hull House, social reformer, suffragist, pacifist, and one of the most greatly admired women in American history-come and go, but Allen Davis's account of her life, work, and ideas remains the standard biography...

One of the most beloved first ladies of all time, Dolley Madison was also, arguably the most well known and influential woman of her era. Presiding over the social affairs of both her husband's two terms in the 'President's House' and Jefferson's...

Her name was Rebecca Aston Brown, but the world knew her as Miss Bettie. Artist, world traveler, and for the times most shocking of all, a spinster to the end of her days, Bettie's life has been the subject of conjecture and rumor.Book InformationISBN...

This study is a reconsideration of Jan Hus, a late medieval Bohemian priest who was burned at the stake six hundred years ago. His death sparked a social revolution. This book considers his role as a priest and reformer in Prague, his martyrdom in...

2021 San Diego Book Award Empire Builder is the previously untold story of a pioneer who almost single-handedly transformed the bankrupt village of San Diego into a thriving city. When he first dropped anchor in San Diego Bay on a warm June day in 1887,...

Born in 1861 to a Methodist family, William Henry Jackson grew up in Ontario before moving to Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, where he sympathized with the Métis and became personal secretary to Louis Riel. After the Métis defeat a Regina court committed...

In The Miniaturists Barbara Browning explores her attraction to tininess and the stories of those who share it. Interweaving autobiography with research on unexpected topics and letting her voracious curiosity guide her, Browning offers a series of...

The life of Benedict Arnold, the notorious American Revolutionary War general who attempted to surrender West Point to the British in 1780, didn't end after he betrayed his American compatriots. In the newly formed United States of America, he was...

In 1768, John Witherspoon, Presbyterian leader of the evangelical Popular party faction in the Scottish Kirk, became the College of New Jersey's sixth president. At Princeton, he mentored constitutional architect James Madison; as a New Jersey delegate...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451667967Author Peter DuffyFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm)...

The travel journal of the wealthy young Englishman, Evelyn Booth, weaves a factual, enthralling, and entertaining narrative that follows his escapades throughout the United States of the late nineteenth century. Transcribed and edited (with relevant...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250050151Author Melissa M llerFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 404gDimensions(mm) 209mm *...

Leon Edel has recently noted that "there exists, I am sorry to say, no criticism of biography worthy of the name. Reviewers and critics have learned how to judge plays, poems, novels—but they reveal their helplessness in the face of a biography." The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780939923762Author Eva Stolar MeltzFormat PaperbackPage Count 486Imprint McDonald & Woodward Publishing Company, USPublisher McDonald & Woodward...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780933070479Author Hartmut WalravensFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Research Institute for Inner Asian StudiesPublisher Research Institute for Inner...

Continues: A ship in the harbor. Chicago, Ill.: Academy Chicago Publishers, 2009.Book InformationISBN 9780897336161Author Julian PadowiczFormat PaperbackPage Count 255Imprint Academy Chicago PublishersPublisher Academy Chicago Publishers

In this first-hand account of the earliest days of settlement in the Canadian West, William Wallace conveys a sense of unspoken courage--the courage that was needed to make a fresh start in a strange new land.Book InformationISBN 9780889774087Author...

Scholar and diplomat Brian L. Evans gives us the first English-language biography of Chester A. Ronning (1894-1984): diplomat, politician, educator, and one of Canada's major public figures. This fascinating story depicts Ronning, the man who received...

A dreamer of dreams, an adventurer, and a man of many ideas, Roger Pocock was an inveterate, world-ranging traveler who lived the life that all adventurous boys desire. He listened with wonder to the stories of all those he met, be they outlaws like...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780855753993Author Claire Henty-GebertFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Aboriginal Studies PressPublisher Aboriginal Studies PressWeight(grams) 188g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853033110Author Anne L. FoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdWeight(grams)...

Of all of the Founding Fathers of the American republic none, with the possible exception of Thomas Jefferson, has evoked more passions and aroused more controversy than Alexander Hamilton. In this absorbing new biography, eminent historian Lawrence...

Las hijas de Juan shatters the silence surrounding experiences of incest within a working-class Mexican American family. Both a feminist memoir and a hopeful meditation on healing, it is Josie Mendez-Negrete's story of how she and her siblings and mother...

Haugerud describes what it was like to live above a prison, where jailbirds and jailbreaks were part of family life. These are the reminiscences of a man dedicated to maintaining order during both turbulent and peaceful days.'Book InformationISBN...

Carl Phillip Gottleib von Clausewitz (1780-1831), Prussian general and military theorist, is most famous for his book On War, a work that has influenced numerous wartime leaders from Lenin to Henry Kissinger. Parkinson's biography of Clausewitz provides...

Winston Churchill's key role in the outcome of the Second World War brought him international renown and arguably made him the most important figure in twentieth-century British politics. Born into an aristocratic family in 1875, his life spanned two...

"If I know my own heart, I can truly say, that I have not a selfish wish in placing myself under the patronage of the [American Colonization] Society; usefulness in my day and generation, is what I principally court." "Sensible then, as all are of the...

You won't find his portrait on our currency anymore and his signature isn't penned on the Constitution, but former statesman Albert Gallatin (1761-1849) contributed immeasurably to the formation of America. Gallatin was the first president of the council...