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Andrew Jackson in Context by Matthew Warshauer 9781607417095
RRP: £59.99£39.82For 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... -
The Biography of F. Augustus Heinze: Copper King at War by Sarah McNelis 9781606391105
RRP: £14.99£12.54Apologies 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 -
Thomas Jefferson: A Public Life, A Private Life by David Kiracofe 9781604560619
RRP: £85.99£56.57This 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... -
A Pioneer in Yokohama: A Dutchman's Adventures in the New Treaty Port by C. T. van Assendelft de Coningh 9781603848374
RRP: £44.99£36.60In 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... -
John Tyler: A Rare Career by Lyle Nelson 9781600219610
RRP: £34.99£28.72Apologies 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 -
Long Walk: M/TV by Slavomir Rawicz 9781599219752
RRP: £11.99£9.79MORE 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... -
Lucy Webb Hayes: A First Lady by Example by Russell L. Mahan 9781594540110
RRP: £84.99£55.93Rutherford 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... -
Benjamin Franklin: An Intimate Portrait by Thomas Fleming 9781596870161
RRP: £6.99£4.51Apologies 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 -
Lou Henry Hoover: A Prototype for First Ladies by Dale C. Mayer 9781590338063
RRP: £70.99£47.32Recent 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... -
Famous Women: Described by Great Writers by Esther Singleton 9781590334713
RRP: £66.99£53.94This 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... -
Courage: One Woman's Dream and the Mighty Effort to Conquer Mulitple Sclerosis by Mike Dugan 9781566634144
£27.25When 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... -
German and Jew: The Life and Death of Sigmund Stein by John K. Dickinson 9781566634045
£16.69Sigmund 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... -
American Heroine: The Life and Legend of Jane Addams by Allen F. Davis 9781566632966
RRP: £14.99£11.53Books 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... -
Dolley Madison by Paul M. Zall 9781560729303
RRP: £25.99£21.05One 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... -
Daughter of Fortune: The Bettie Brown Story by Sherrie S. McLeroy 9781556225291
RRP: £9.99£7.54Her 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... -
Jan Hus between Time and Eternity: Reconsidering a Medieval Heretic by Thomas A. Fudge 9781498527507
RRP: £102.00£89.14This 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... -
Empire Builder: John D. Spreckels and the Making of San Diego by Sandra E. Bonura 9781496233417
RRP: £21.99£19.192021 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,... -
Honoré Jaxon: Prairie Visionary by Donald Smith 9781487550141
RRP: £20.99£17.54Born 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... -
The Miniaturists by Barbara Browning 9781478016274
RRP: £66.00£56.93In 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 Late Years of Benedict Arnold: Traitor, Smuggler, Mercenary, 1780-1801 by Jane Merrill 9781476676531
RRP: £28.99£24.05The 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... -
John Witherspoon's American Revolution: Enlightenment and Religion from the Creation of Britain to the Founding of the United States by Gideon Mailer 9781469652207
RRP: £39.95£38.76In 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... -
Double Agent: The First Hero of World War II and How the FBI Outwitted and Destroyed a Nazi Spy Ring by Peter Duffy 9781451667967
RRP: £17.00£10.93Apologies 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)... -
Buffalo Bill, Boozers, Brothels, and Bare-Knuckle Brawlers: An Englishman's Journal of Adventure in America by Kellen Cutsforth 9781442246591
RRP: £17.99£15.10The 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... -
Anne Frank: The Biography by Melissa Muller 9781250050151
RRP: £21.99£13.81Apologies 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 *... -
The Biographer's Art by Jeffrey Meyers 9780941533522
RRP: £25.00£18.59Leon 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... -
And the Winds Blew Cold: Stalinist Russia As Experienced by an American Emigrant by Eva Stolar Meltz 9780939923762
RRP: £23.99£14.88Apologies 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... -
Paul Pelliot (1878-1945): His Life Works - A Bibliography by Hartmut Walravens 9780933070479
RRP: £62.00£53.56Apologies 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... -
Loves of Yulian: Mother and Me, Part III by Julian Padowicz 9780897336161
RRP: £17.95£11.73Continues: 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 -
On the Frontier: Letters from the Canadian West in the 1880s by William Wallace 9780889774087
RRP: £22.50£21.50In 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... -
The Remarkable Chester Ronning: Proud Son of China by Brian L. Evans 9780888646637
RRP: £29.99£24.12Scholar 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... -
Outrider of Empire: The Life and Adventures of Roger Pocock by Geoffrey A. Pocock 9780888644480
RRP: £29.99£24.52A 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... -
Paint Me Black: Memories of Croker Island and Other Journeys by Claire Henty-Gebert 9780855753993
RRP: £18.99£15.67Apologies 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 -
My Heart in a Suitcase by Anne L. Fox 9780853033110
RRP: £14.95£14.65Apologies 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)... -
Alexander Hamilton: Ambivalent Anglophile by Lawrence S. Kaplan 9780842028783
£46.59Of 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: Daughters Betrayed by Josie Mendez-Negrete 9780822338802
RRP: £85.00£73.81Las 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... -
Jailhouse Stories: Memories of a Small-Town Sheriff by Neil Haugerud 9780816633616
RRP: £21.99£17.54Haugerud 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... -
Clausewitz: A Biography by Roger Parkinson 9780815412335
RRP: £13.99£10.84Carl 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 by Stuart Ball 9780814799192
£29.60Winston 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... -
The Struggles of John Brown Russwurm: The Life and Writings of a Pan-Africanist Pioneer, 1799-1851 by Winston James 9780814742907
RRP: £17.99£15.90"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... -
Gallatin: America's Swiss Founding Father by Nicholas Dungan 9780814721117
RRP: £32.00£28.21You 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...