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From the very moment Alfred Dreyfus was placed under arrest for treason and espionage, his entire world was turned upside down, and for the next five years he lived in what he called a phantasmagoria. To keep himself sane, Dreyfus wrote letters to and...

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...

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...

Claudia Alta Taylor received her nickname "Lady Bird" as a small child and as "Lady Bird" she is known and loved throughout America today. "Bird" was President Lyndon Johnson's partner, confidante, and helpmate. She helped...

"I didn't realize there was another 'hermit' of Walden Pond!" is the usual response author-historian Terry Barkley receives when he tells someone the subject of his new book. Henry David Thoreau's experiment there from 1845-1847 is widely known...

When Theodore Roosevelt went into the Maine Woods with legendary Maine guide Bill Sewall, he was a sickly, asthmatic city boy. When he emerged several trips later, he was a robust, confident outdoorsman-the kind of man who could be president. This book...

If the people killed or starved to death by the Soviets were laid out end to end they would stretch half way to the moon. This compelling novel of life in the Soviet Union tells an up-front and personal story of a family who lived through the birth, life...

Christened Claudia Alta Taylor when she was born in a country mansion near Karnack, Texas, she received her nickname "Lady Bird" as a small child; and as Lady Bird she is known and loved throughout America today. Perhaps that name was...

President of the United States of America is an official title sought by many and won by only a few individuals. The series entitled First Men, America's President, contains a book length biography of each President of the United States of America. Every...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594545566Author David MurphyFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 362g

This biography of French liberator Marquis de Lafayette (1757-1834) reveals not only how the nineteen-year-old bravely ventured to the infant United States to serve in its War of Independence, but also the iconoclast's enormous contribution to the causes...

A true story of the battered life of a foremast crewman, Two Years Before the Mast is Richard Henry Dana's classic travel narrative, which inspired canonical works such as Moby Dick and Sailing Alone Around the World. As Rod Scher follows Dana (the...

This is an intimate personal and political history of Lyndon Johnson's frustration with the Kennedy mystique, based on exhaustive new research. "Solidly researched, well written, carefully analyzed...a major contribution to recent American political...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556527951Author Katherine R. BatemanFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint A Cappella BooksPublisher A Cappella BooksWeight(grams) 504g

Anne Clifford's memoir for the year 1603 and her diary of 1616-1619 are invaluable records of the daily life and social and family relationships of a noblewoman of her time. In them she records her travels, her reading, her religious observances, her...

Real news traveled fast, even in the days before internet connections. During the New Deal and World War II, Washington elites turned to Hope Ridings Miller's column in the Washington Post to see what was really going on in town. Cocktail parties,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781512800418Author Frederick J Boehlke JrFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint University of Pennsylvania PressPublisher University of Pennsylvania...

Driven by the promise of prosperity and opportunity on the frontier, thousands of men and women traveled west in the mid-1800s to forge a new life. Accompanying them were their children, wide-eyed and excited about the adventures that awaited them as...

Lucy Pier Stevens, a twenty-one-year-old woman from Ohio, began a visit to her aunt's family near Bellville, Texas, on Christmas Day, 1859. Little did she know how drastically her life would change on April 4, 1861, when the outbreak of the Civil War...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781409909019Author John Stevens Cabot AbbottFormat PaperbackImprint Dodo PressPublisher Dodo PressWeight(grams) 322g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789356990180Author Rajpal PuniaFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint HarperCollins IndiaPublisher HarperCollins India

This first-of-its-kind biography tells the story of Rev. James Page, who rose from slavery in the nineteenth century to become a religious and political leader among African Americans as well as an international spokesperson for the cause of racial...

Published for the first time, this illuminating and poignant correspondence offers a rare insight into the workings of the Cabinet War Rooms towards the end of the Second World War, and documents the rich wartime experiences of a woman with exclusive...

Like the great showman himself, Buffalo Bill: Scout, Showman, Visionary stands apart from other tributes to the man. Based upon the collection of the Buffalo Bill Museum and Grave, this visual book provides a new perspective on William F. Cody.About the...

These are riveting, true-life tales of the legendary Jim Corbett and the man-eating tigers and leopards he tracked and killed in India in the early part of this century.Book InformationISBN 9781571571045Author Tim WerlingFormat HardbackPage Count...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783869652597Author Leslie PaldonFormat HardbackPage Count 346Imprint LexxionPublisher LexxionWeight(grams) 3075g

This book contains a useful tool for teaching or personal knowledge about Jewish-American History.Book InformationISBN 9780883910269Author Seymour BrodyFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Frederick FellPublisher Frederick Fell

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780911012606Author Jay Rober NashFormat HardbackPage Count 298Imprint Nelson-Hall, IncPublisher Nelson-Hall, IncWeight(grams) 612g

Told through the astonished eyes of a young girl, this book narrates the vicissitudes that Fiorenza Di Franco and her family lived through against the backdrop of Hungary devastated by the tragic events of World War II. The original title ""A Young Girl...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569805046Author Deborah StrobinFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Barricade Books IncPublisher Barricade Books IncWeight(grams) 345g

The inspiration for this book came from the tiny Pacific island of Kosrae in Micronesia, where Brewer native and Bangor Theological Seminary graduate the Reverend Galen Snow converted all of the natives to Christianity, and Portlander Harry Skillins left...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780762749034Author Glacier AssociationFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint TwoDot BooksPublisher TwoDot BooksWeight(grams) 21g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846827365Author Jonathan Jeffrey WrightFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press LtdWeight(grams) 368g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780717808076Author Beatrice LumpkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 346Imprint International Publishers Co Inc.,U.S.Publisher International Publishers Co Inc.,U.S...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156032599Author William DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 736Imprint Harvest BooksPublisher Harvest Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804679869Author Helen PughFormat PaperbackPage Count 526Imprint Bookvault PublishingPublisher Bookvault PublishingWeight(grams) 755g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781455614875Author Colin RushtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Pelican Publishing CoPublisher Pelican Publishing Co

Karl Mayer-Eymar was a 19th century Swiss geologist and an expert in the Tertiary period. He was a complex character, multitalented, introverted and possibly autistic. He visited many locations in Europe and North Africa amassing a personal collection of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551640723Author Peter E. NewellFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Black Rose BooksPublisher Black Rose BooksWeight(grams) 194g