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A literary account of the author's experience in World War I. Hell on Earth is the second book written by Avigdor Hameiri (born Feuerstein, 1890-1970) about his experiences as a Russian prisoner of war during the second half of World War I. Translator...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393335262Author Theo LippmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint WW Norton & CoPublisher WW Norton & CoWeight(grams) 472g

The notorious Parr family manipulated local politics in South Texas for decades. Archie Parr, his son George, and his grandson Archer relied on violence and corruption to deliver the votes that propelled their chosen candidates to office. The influence...

This book commemorates and explores the life of one of Mississippi's great civil rights activists, Fannie Lou Hamer. Known for her daring, her brinkmanship and her impassioned speech-making, Hamer rose to prominence in the Mississippi Freedom Democratic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986547331Author John MeiselFormat PaperbackImprint Wintergreen Studios PressPublisher Wintergreen Studios PressWeight(grams) 562g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873512060Author George H MayerFormat PaperbackPage Count 351Imprint Minnesota Historical Society PressPublisher Minnesota Historical Society...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865347533Author David Francis CargoFormat HardbackPage Count 344Imprint Sunstone PressPublisher Sunstone PressWeight(grams) 658g

Eugene Talmadge's career as a politician lasted twenty years, and during that time he dominated Georgia's political structure as few men have in any state's history. The Wild Man from Sugar Creek is a fascinating biography of one of the South's most...

In the months following his resignation as PM in late August 1941, Robert Menzies swayed between relief at his release from the burdens of office and despair that his life at the top had come to so little. In 1941, after two tumultuous years as prime...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999383629Author Charlene Butts LigonFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Smallwood Charlotte PressPublisher Smallwood Charlotte PressWeight(grams) 413g

Congressman Emanuel Celler (1888-1981) was a New York City congressman who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1923 to 1973. Celler's almost fifty-year career was highlighted by his long fight to eliminate national origin quotas as...

Charles Cornelius Coffin Painter (1833-89), clergyman turned reformer, was one of the foremost advocates and activists in the late-nineteenth-century movement to reform U.S. Indian policy. Very few individuals possessed the influence Painter wielded in...

This biography of Rachel Jackson, wife of President Andrew Jackson, delves into how the relatively forgotten figure rebelled against the 18th-century restraints on women and overcame many personal tragedies to become an inspirational figure of...

Originally published in 1919, The Iron Hunter is the autobiography of one of Michigan's most influential and flamboyant historical figures: the reporter, publisher, explorer, politician, and twenty-seventh governor of Michigan, Chase Salmon Osborn...

Elected governor of Georgia in 1958, Ernest Vandiver presided over a crisis greater than any faced by his predecessors since the Civil War: the 1961 desegregation of the state's public schools. Harold Paulk Henderson tells the full story of Vandiver's...

In the general election of 1997, the Conservative Party was heading for electoral oblivion, the Prime Minister was competent but unable to connect with voters, the Labour leader was dragging his party back to the centre ground and MPs on all sides were...

As a Harvard alumnus, diplomat, US President, member of Congress and attorney before the Supreme Court, John Quincy Adams had a unique relationship with slavery. Prickly and curmudgeonly, he danced with abolitionists, but never became one himself...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956098351Author Henry Von BlumenthalFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Longcross PressPublisher Longcross PressWeight(grams) 254g

In Looking Beyond Race, Otis Milton Smith (1922-94) recounts his life as an African American who overcame poverty and prejudice to become a successful politician, going on to become the first black vice president and general counsel of General Motors...

One of the most gripping images from the 1960s captures the slight figure of Dr. S. I. Hayakawa scrambling onto a sound truck parked in front of San Francisco State College amid campus unrest. Hayakawa had hoped to use this soapbox to address the...

Has liberalism lost its way--or merely its voice? This book by one of the nation's most insightful, articulate, and powerful Democrats at last breaks the silence that has greeted the Republican Party's revolution of 1994. When voters handed Democrats...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645583236Author Dhieu Mathok Diing WolFormat HardbackPage Count 306Imprint Africa World Books Pty LtdPublisher Africa World Books Pty LtdWeight(grams)...

This authorized biography of Havel, based on unrestricted access to him, his circle, and even his enemies, is not only the first definitive account of one of the modern world's great moral and political leaders but also a vivid panorama of the tumultuous...

A distinguished historian of early America sees Franklin's influence on the course of the revolutionary movement in a new light. Benjamin Franklin was a man of genius and enormous ego, smart enough not to flaunt his superiority but to let others proclaim...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374521905Author Andre JardinFormat PaperbackPage Count 562Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345303233Author John Kenneth GalbraithFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

This illuminating biography of our thirty-ninth president by an acclaimed historian of American religion presents Jimmy Carter as the last great standard-bearer of progressive evangelical politics. Evangelical Christianity and conservative politics are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781469666075Author Associate Professor of History Matthew MasonFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint The University of North Carolina PressPublisher The...

This is the biography of a wily Scots settler who arrived in New York in 1675 and became one of the colony's wealthiest and most powerful citizens. His career illustrates the growing breach between English and American approaches to political and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781088052686Author Cason LonghurstFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Cason LonghurstPublisher Cason LonghurstWeight(grams) 152g

"An original and informative biography that helps us understand that the American spirit--in its many shades--can never be suppressed."--Maceo Crenshaw Dailey Jr., University of Texas, El Paso "Sound and well argued, readable and engaging...

As a high-ranking American diplomat during the Cold War, Martin J. Hillenbrand was witness to some of the most exciting moments in twentieth-century history. After five years in Asia and Africa, Hillenbrand spent most of his diplomatic career dealing...

As governor of Rhode Island, J. Howard McGrath oversaw the passage of social legislation aimed at improving the lives of his constituents during the dark days of World War II. As a Rhode Island senator he served as the Democratic National Committee...

By the time he was forty-eight Steve Bracks had achieved the goal he'd set himself nine years earlier. He was Premier of Victoria. In A Premier's State, Bracks reflects on his ambition to make a difference, and how he reached his goal. This wide-ranging,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781088100660Author Handri TimbulengFormat PaperbackPage Count 30Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 41g

Documents from The Papers of Daniel WebsterBook InformationISBN 9780874516289Author Daniel WebsterFormat PaperbackPage Count 351Imprint Dartmouth College PressPublisher University Press of New England

"A must read for all who continue to grapple with the twin legacy of hatred and hope from September 11. . . "*International terrorism expert Roland Jacquard's In the Name of Osama bin Laden presents a dramatic portrait of the world's most...

As a three-term member of Congress and as the secretary of the interior in the Kennedy and Johnson cabinets (1961-1969), Stewart L. Udall (1920-2010) was a distinguished public servant and one of the great environmental leaders in US history. This book,...

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Known in CIA circles as "the Elizabeth Taylor of the jihad" and among her cohorts as the "mother of Mohammed," Australia native Robyn (or Rabiah) Hutchinson lived for twenty years at the frontlines of the jihadist movement, after...