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"This moving account of a key figure in American history contributes greatly to our understanding of the past. It also informs our vision of the servant leader needed to guide the 1990s movement." Marian Wright Edelman, President, Children's...

In his long and fascinating life, black activist and intellectual Max Yergan (1892-1975) traveled on more ground-both literally and figuratively-than any of his impressive contemporaries, which included Adam Clayton Powell, Paul Robeson, W.E.B. Du Bois,...

In America's early national period, Meriwether Lewis was a towering figure. Selected by Thomas Jefferson to lead the expedition to explore the Louisiana Purchase, he was later rewarded by Jefferson with the governorship of the entire Louisiana Territory...

Named "one of the best books of 2006" by The New York Sun Described by Carl Van Doren as "a harmonious human multitude," Benjamin Franklin was the most famous American of his time, of perhaps any time. His life and careers were so varied and successful...

Judith Sargent Murray (1751-1820), poet, essayist, playwright, and one of the most thoroughgoing advocates of women's rights in early America, was as well known in her own day as Abigail Adams or Martha Washington. Her name, though, has virtually...

These letters tell the story of a young American woman of Japanese descent who, along with over 10,000 other Japanese Americans, was stranded in Japan during World War II.Book InformationISBN 9780804729673Author Mary Kimoto TomitaFormat PaperbackPage...

The long-time Chinese premier Zhou Enlai (1898-1976) is one of the most important, interesting, and appealing figures among twentieth-century world statesmen. This book asserts that the rich and diverse personal, educational, and political experiences of...

Known in the West as a "noble heathen," the great Muslim sultan Saladin led Muslim forces in the reconquest of the Crusader kingdoms and captured Jerusalem in 1187. This concise history traces Saladin's role in the contest between Islam and...

The Laird of Rideau Hall explore la vie et l'epoque de Thomas Mackay, le principal fondateur de Bytown/Ottawa. Ne et eduque a Perth, en Ecosse, Mackay et sa famille ont emigre a Montreal en 1817. Avec son compagnon, le macon John Redpath, il a...

In the fall of 1913, Laura and Earle Smith, a young Iowa couple, made the gutsy-some might say foolhardy-decision to homestead in Wyoming. There, they built their first house, a claim shanty half dug out of the ground, hauled every drop of their water...

Of the many iconic towns of the old West, none has quite captured our imagination like Deadwood. From the legacy of Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane to the current resurgence in mining and gambling, this city in the Black Hills of South Dakota...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780762748150Author Chris EnssFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint TwoDot BooksPublisher TwoDot BooksWeight(grams) 16g

This book outlines the World War II experiences of Carl E. Meyers, an Ohio man, from registering for the draft in 1940 to fighting in the European Theater of Operations in 1944. A large part of the book is the letters Meyers wrote home from his basic...

Irene Levin Berman was born, raised, and educated in Norway. Her first conscious recollection of life goes back to 1942, when as a young child she escaped to Sweden, a neutral country during World War II, to avoid annihilation. Germany had invaded Norway...

Bayard Rustin was a unique twentieth-century American radical voice. A homosexual, World War II draft resister, and ex-communist, he made enormous contributions to the civil rights, socialist, labor, peace, and gay rights movements in the United States,...

V.S. Naipaul once described his purpose as an author as nothing less than a "commitment to deliver the truth." One of the world's greatest, and most controversial, living writers, he has written extensively about the enduring economic,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780716529934Author Donal McCrackenFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Irish Academic Press LtdPublisher Irish Academic Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399184673Author Kevin DannFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint TarcherPerigeePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 1g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312539399Author John ManFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Thomas Dunne BooksPublisher Thomas Dunne BooksWeight(grams) 431g

Lydia Hamilton Smith (1813–1884) was a prominent African American businesswoman in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and the longtime housekeeper, life companion, and collaborator of the state’s abolitionist congressman Thaddeus Stevens. In his biography of this...

The Folly of Revolution takes readers into a "lost" monarchical world that few Americans today would recognize. This biography examines the life and work of Thomas Bradbury Chandler, a talented, hardworking, and erudite Anglican minister from...

Frederick Watts came to prominence during the nineteenth century as a lawyer and a railroad company president, but his true interests lay in agricultural improvement and in raising the economic, social, and political standing of Pennsylvania's farmers...

As the only daughter of Blanche of Castile, one of France's most powerful queens, and as the sister of the Capetian saint Louis IX, Isabelle of France (1225-1270) was situated at the nexus of sanctity and power during a significant era of French culture...

On April 15, 1837, a "long, gawky" Abraham Lincoln walked into Joshua Speed's dry-goods store in Springfield, Illinois, and asked what it would cost to buy the materials for a bed. Speed said seventeen dollars, which Lincoln didn't have. He...

Ernie O'Malley (1897-1957) was one of the most talented and colourful of modern Irish republicans. An important IRA leader in the 1916-1923 Irish Revolution, this bookish gunman subsequently became a distinguished intellectual, and the author of two...

John Nelson was an entrepreneur born in the mid 17th century, a man, in Johnson's words, `operating ahead of the government and settled society from which he came', one who `responded to conventions and conditions derived from several different and often...

This fascinating autobiography describes one woman's life as a slave and subsequently her four years in Lincoln's White House during the Civil War. Through the eyes of this black woman, a seamstress and dressmaker who was only a few years removed from...

Enter a world of ancient secrets, old money, new ambitions and the discovery of priceless treasure in this revelatory new biography. Between November 1922 and spring 1923, a door to the ancient Egyptian world was opened...

A TELEGRAPH BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023 ‘A highly imaginative and thought-provoking way of exploring the personality of a man who, like him or loathe him, left an indelible mark on our age’ ADAM ZAMOYSKI ...

A poignant memoir of lives cleaved by war, Otto and Daria is the first-hand account of Eric Koch, a man who once was called Otto. As a Jewish refugee from WWII Germany, Otto first left his country for England, and later arrived in Canada, where he was...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the thirty-second president of the United States and served four consecutive terms, the longest presidential administration in American history. His resilience, forbearance, and superb political abilities establish Roosevelt...

A Radical Abolitionist And Early Feminist, Francis George Shaw (1809-1882) was a prominent figure in American reform and intellectual circles for five decades. He rejected capitalism in favor of a popular utopian socialist movement; during the Civil War...

Truman, the thirty-third president of the United States, was thrust into office on April 12th, 1945. His path to the presidency did not follow a straight trajectory. Truman had been an ordinary American, growing up in the Midwest where he was raised by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781561649846Author Frank A. CassellFormat HardbackPage Count 2Imprint Pineapple Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101908365Author Nadezhda MandelstamFormat HardbackPage Count 584Imprint Everyman's Library USAPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781410209764Author Madame Du HaussetFormat PaperbackPage Count 740Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the...

First published in 1961 The Unmentionable Nechaev presents a full account of Sergei Nechaev’s extraordinary life. The name of Nechaev is little known today in the western world. Michael Prawdin expounds his teachings and shows the strain of Nechaevism...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789390314164Author Edward Lyell FoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Lector HousePublisher Lector HouseWeight(grams) 286g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541620209Author David ReynoldsFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 658gDimensions(mm) 221mm * 163mm * 56mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684515479Author William MurchisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint ISI BooksPublisher Regnery Publishing IncWeight(grams) 191g