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Dean Acheson is perhaps best remembered as President Harry Truman's powerful secretary of state. Yet he also played a major role in politics and foreign affairs after his tenure in the Truman administration. This engrossing book, the first to chronicle...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674432772Author Howard B SchafferFormat HardbackPage Count 401Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 762g

A rebel and risk-taker from childhood, John McCain-son and grandson of admirals-nevertheless chose to follow the traditional path marked out for him in the military. Nearly six years in a North Vietnamese prison tested his resolve and proved his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780759652842Author Rick BiesadaFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 495g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679740087Author Madeleine May KuninFormat PaperbackPage Count 396Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 408g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674429581Author George McJimseyFormat HardbackPage Count 474Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 907g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781544505114Author Jamie Brown HantmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Federal Hall PublishingPublisher Federal Hall PublishingWeight(grams) 404g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780887062667Author Vassilis LambropoulosFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Now in paperback with a new afterword from the author. "An important and extremely timely book...Get it, read it, and talk to others about it." --Timothy Keller In this unvarnished account of faith inside the world's most powerful office,...

This paperback reissue will replace the trade paperback edition (GB 102) which is now discontinued. Southern Populist leader Thomas E. Watson was a figure alternately eminent and notorious. Born before the Civil War, he lived through the turn of the...

The classic biography of Lachlan Macquarie, with a new introduction by Beverley Kingston. today he lives on in the names of a bank, a university, a dictionary and places across Australia. But who was Lachlan Macquarie? Scottish-born Macquarie was sworn...

The tenth and youngest son of a poor Boston soapmaker, Benjamin Franklin would rise to become, in Thomas Jefferson's words, "the greatest man and ornament of his age." In this short, engaging biography, historian Edwin S. Gaustad offers a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997979930Author Victor NickolichFormat HardbackPage Count 322Imprint Shreiber PressPublisher Shreiber PressWeight(grams) 658g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999613061Author Padrika GrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint October Day PublishingPublisher October Day PublishingWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738834573Author Marlin FitzwaterFormat HardbackPage Count 468Imprint Xlibris CorporationPublisher Xlibris CorporationWeight(grams) 794g

William Lloyd Garrison (1805-79) was one of the most militant and uncompromising abolitionists in the United States. As the editor of the abolitionist paper The Liberator and cofounder of the American Anti-Slavery Society, Garrison spent most of his life...

Now in a new paperback edition, Samuel Proctor's popular biography was first described as "a lusty narrative of a lusty age." Revealing the politics and intrigues of frontier Florida in the period still known as the "Broward Era,"...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997979909Author Victor NickolichFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Shreiber PressPublisher Shreiber PressWeight(grams) 472g

Married to Benito Mussolini's favourite daughter Edda, young Count Galeazzo Ciano (1903-44) became il Duce's confidant, emissary, and heir apparent in the years preceding the Second World War. Appointed foreign minister in 1936, Ciano played a central...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986435379Author Christopher E GoldthwaitFormat HardbackImprint VellumPublisher VellumWeight(grams) 798g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595195794Author William M GilbrethFormat PaperbackPage Count 131Imprint Writers Club PressPublisher Writers Club PressWeight(grams) 231g

Harvard Iranian Oral History Project memoirs of the wife of General Hassan Pakravan, who was the head of Iranian intelligence during Khomeini's first uprising in 1963. He was executed by the Islamic Republic shortly after the 1979 revolution. It provides...

As a member of Salvador Allende's Personal Guards (GAP) Luz Arce worked with leaders of the Socialist Party during the Popular Unity Government from 1971 to 1973. In the months following the coup, Arce served as a militant with others from the Left who...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780976694168Author Wale OkediranFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Amv Publishing ServicesPublisher Amv Publishing ServicesWeight(grams) 292g

When the Democrats retook control of the U.S. House of Representatives in January 2007 after twelve years in the wilderness, Nancy Pelosi became the first woman speaker in American history. Given current electoral trends, she will probably serve for many...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791421604Author Gisela Brinker-GablerFormat PaperbackPage Count 378Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791414187Author Lewis TurcoFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781387061211Author Frederick DouglassFormat HardbackPage Count 82Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 295g

The first biography of a politically savvy Californio who straddled three eras "Thanks to this expertly researched and vividly written biography by a next-generation historian making a stunning debut, Pio Pico now emerges into full historical...

This book restores Aaron Burr to his place as a central figure in the founding of the American Republic. Abolitionist, proto-feminist, friend to such Indian leaders as Joseph Brant, Burr was personally acquainted with a wider range of Americans, and of...

Novelist, scholar, journalist, statesman, and leading member of Chile's "Generation of 1842"-an intellectual movement so named for the founding of the National University-Jose Victorino Lastarria (1811-1888) lived his life at the forefront of...

For decades, a great number of Americans saw Alger Hiss as an innocent victim of McCarthyism-a distinguished diplomat railroaded by an ambitious Richard Nixon. And even as the case against Hiss grew over time, his dignified demeanor helped create an aura...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780473580278Author Peter HamiltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 418Imprint Mawhitipana PublishingPublisher Mawhitipana PublishingWeight(grams) 558g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814207451Author Alfred Byron SearsFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994106414Author Ian WishartFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Howling at the Moon Publishing LtdPublisher Howling at the Moon Publishing Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791418642Author Martin B. ShichtmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

A California teacher named Clarice T. Campbell wrote detailed letters to family and friends about her ""small adventure"" while studying at the universities of Alabama and Mississippi and teaching at black Mississippi and South...

Georgi Dimitrov (1882-1949) was a high-ranking Bulgarian and Soviet official, one of the most prominent leaders of the international Communist movement and a trusted member of Stalin's inner circle. Accused by the Nazis of setting the Reichstag fire in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393334500Author William H. SullivanFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint WW Norton & CoPublisher WW Norton & Co

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865548237Author John E. LancasterFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Mercer University PressPublisher Mercer University Press