Historical

"Lucid and comprehensive, Founding Federalist brings to light for a modern audience one of the most important of the constitutional framers." - DAVID FRUM. In Founding Federalist, Michael C. Toth provides an in-depth look at the life and work...

Beyond Washington and Jefferson: Ranking the Founders Even as Americans devour books about our Founding Fathers, the focus seldom extends past a half dozen or so icons--Franklin, Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton. Many of the men (and...

Every great city is a restless work in progress, but nowhere is the urban impulse more in flux than in Berlin, that sprawling metropolis located on the fault line of history. A short-lived fever-dream of modernity in the Roaring Twenties, redubbed...

From beloved CBS Sunday Morning correspondent and humorist Mo Rocca, a rigorously researched, "funny and smart" (Jon Stewart) book that celebrates the dead people who have long fascinated him.Mo Rocca has always loved obituaries-reading about the...

This book is a detailed thematic biography of the Highland landowner Francis Humberston Mackenzie, Lord Seaforth (1754-1815). Despite being profoundly deaf and partially mute from a young age, Lord Seaforth went on to become a proprietor of a large...

In this book, seven distinguished scholars and writers discuss seven leading figures in the history of Canadian letters and public affairs. Frank H. Underhill, historian, describes the tragic career of Edward Blake, one of the ablest men who ever entered...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780871692023Author Robert Francis JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 252Imprint American Philosophical SocietyPublisher American Philosophical...

Originally published in Germany in 1997, Lotte Strauss's Over the Green Hill: Personal Memoir, Germany 1913-43, was begun in 1975 as a letter to her daughter. It took twenty years to write the complete story, and by then, was no longer a letter, but a...

Originally published in Germany in 1997, Herbert A. Strauss In The Eye of The Storm: Growing Up Jewish in Germany, 1918-1943, A Memoir is not merely a memoir, or biography, but rather a description of a life embedded in the history of the Jewish...

Stealing Home is an at times witty, at times grave, at times hopeful, and at times cynical, but always thought-provoking collection of autobiographical essays. This book is a man's bold yet humble analysis of his own choices, particularly of his decision...

"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...

Kaia, Heroine of the 1944 Warsaw Rising tells the story of one woman, whose life encompasses a century of Polish history. Full of tragic and compelling experiences such as life in Siberia, Warsaw before World War II, the German occupation, the Warsaw...

This is a collection of letters that American women wrote to their men during World War II. They range from the prosaic retelling of domestic news, through deeply personal and tender letters, to hard-headed practicality. At all times, the growing...

A scholarly edition of the memoirs of Robert Carey. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.Book InformationISBN 9780198124405Author F H MaresFormat HardbackPage Count...

William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898) was both the most characteristic and the most extraordinary of Victorians. His huge public career - in and out of office from 1834 to 1894 and four times Prime Minister - was consistently controversial and dramatic...

MIKE PENCE: THE ULTIMATE POLITICAL SHAPE-SHIFTER "I'm a Christian, a conservative, and a Republican . . . in that order." --Mike Pence As the impeachment of President Donald Trump remains a constant topic of discussion in political circles,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416544944Author James GrantFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 395gDimensions(mm) 214mm * 141mm...

In "The Hillary Trap", journalist and media personality Laura Ingraham turns a razor sharp eye on this view of Hillary and questions her status as a metaphor for the modern empowered woman. Ingraham suggests that if anything, Hillary's mix of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684515462Author Bradley J BirzerFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint ISI BooksPublisher Regnery Publishing IncWeight(grams) 168g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684515547Author Melanie MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 225Imprint ISI BooksPublisher Regnery Publishing IncWeight(grams) 154g

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845401900Author Carol RichardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

In the welter of popular and well-known stories and reminiscences about Churchill (many of them more legend than fact), it can be easy to forget that he was more than an inspirational leader and figurehead to a nation and its allies. For in spite of his...

In a fascinating blend of biography and history, Joseph Tartakovsky tells the epic and unexpected story of our Constitution through the eyes of ten extraordinary individuals-some renowned, like Alexander Hamilton and Woodrow Wilson, and some forgotten,...

In this warm and intimate memoir Judge Wilkinson delivers a chilling message. The 1960s inflicted enormous damage on our country; even at this very hour we see the decade's imprint in so much of what we say and do. The chapters reveal the harm done to...

How did two men move the world away from wars for land and treasure to wars over ideas and ideologies—a change that would go on to kill millionsIn April 1917, Woodrow Wilson—champion of American democracy but also of segregation, advocate for free trade...

Diplomat, courtier, and heretic, Juan de Valdes (c.1500-1541) was one of the most famous humanist writers in Renaissance Spain. In this biography, Daniel A. Crews paints a lively portrait of a complex and fascinating figure by focusing on Valdes's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594038914Author J. Harvie Wilkinson IIIFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Encounter Books,USAPublisher Encounter Books,USA

Is Benjamin Franklin, the familiar cultural icon whose face appears on coins, currency, and postage stamps, in addition to being an affable inventor, printer, and humorist also an important American philosopher? In Recovering Benjamin Franklin, James...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476700281Author Trudi KanterFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm)...

W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his founding role in the NAACP, as well as internationally...

The facts of Alexander's life are extraordinary, and it's no surprise that two major Hollywood films on his life are in production. Born Alexander III, king of Macedonia, and the first king to be called "the Great," he was born in 356 BC and brought up...

James Anthony Froude remains one of the most commonly referenced and frequently cited of Victorian public intellectuals. Known to intellectual historians as the author of a monumental History of England in the sixteenth century and as a key exponent of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781567925166Author Laurie LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint David R. Godine Publisher IncPublisher David R. Godine Publisher Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950354764Author Jude PiesseFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Scribe UsPublisher Scribe UsWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 146mm * 30mm

Two men from Connecticut, each embarked on a dangerous mission, slipped onto Long Island in September 1776. Only a few weeks earlier, British forces had routed the Continental Army and taken control of New York City. The future of the infant American...

In September 1776, two men from Connecticut each embarked on a dangerous mission. One of the men, a soldier disguised as a schoolmaster, made his way to British-controlled Manhattan and began furtively making notes and sketches to bring back to the...

Whatever we may think of Alexander—whether Great or only lucky, a civilizer or a sociopath—most people do not regard him as a religious leader. And yet religion permeated all aspects of his career. When he used religion astutely, he and his army...

A spiritualist, mystic, historian and lifelong collector of antiquities, J. S. M. Ward (18851949) embodied the cultural turmoil of an age of collapsing empires, religious fragmentation and world war. The Abbey Folk Park he started in 1934 at New Barnet,...