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The Rise of Charleston: Conversations with Visionaries.
Army & Navy Academy: History of the West Point of the West.
Canyon Village in Yellowstone: The Model for Mission 66.
A Crowded Hour: Milwaukee During the Great War 1917-1918.
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck. The Vance family story begins hopefu
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Although Jim Bowie and Davy Crockett were more celebrated, Buck Barry did as much or more to tame the Old Southwest. Greer, who edited Buck Barry's private papers and reminiscences and shaped them into this book. Peace officer, legislator
I've tried to live my whole life so that I would never become a congressman." In American Original, Ray Robinson chronicles the trajectory of Will Rogers' remarkable life. Hailed by The New York Times as "America's Aristopha
Notice is hereby given to all persons, that Christopher Carson, a boy about 16 years old, small of his age, but thick-set; light hair, ran away from the subscriber, living in Franklin, Howard County, Missouri, to whom he had been bound to learn the sad
Edmund Burke in America: The Contested Career of the Father of Modern Conservatism.
The Fighting Cameliers: The Exploits of the Imperial Camel Corps in the Desert And Palestine Campaign of the Great War.
The Measure of Manhattan: The Tumultuous Career and Surprising Legacy of John Randel Jr. Bringing Randel's story into the present, Holloway travels with contemporary surveyors and scientists trying to envision Manhattan as a wild i
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In this exploration of Colin Powell's career and character, Christopher D. In addition, O'Sullivan explores the conflicts and debates between different foreign policy ideologies such as neo-conservatism and realism. O' Sullivan reveals several b
A finalist for the 2007 Spur Award, sponsored by the Western Writers of America, Black Gun, Silver Star tells Bass Reeves's story for the first time and restores this remarkable figure to his rightful place in the history of the American West. M
The Cowshed: Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution.
Africa's Peacemakers: Nobel Peace Laureates of African Descent. De Klerk; as well as Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee, Wangari Maathai, and Mohamed El-Baradei, who have been variously involved in women's rights, environmental protecti
In this heartwrenching memoir, Cetin tells a powerful story that breaks the silence surrounding the Armenian genocide. As a child in Turkey, Fethiye Cetin knew her grandmother as a happy and well respected Muslim housewife. Decades later,
The result is a comprehensive and vivid impression of what it meant to play a part in the battle which has become synonymous with the sea of mud which characterised the fighting in Flanders. A fascinating anthology of eyewitness accounts from both the
The Hitler Conspirator: The Story of Kurt Freiherr Von Plettenberg and Stauffenberg's Valkyrie Plot to Kill the Fuhrer. This biography shows for the first time how Kurt von Plettenberg, who belonged to the inner circle of conspirat
The Life and Times of General Andrew Pickens: Revolutionary War Hero. Combining insights from military and social history, Andrew argues that while Pickens's actions consistently reaffirmed the authority of white men, he was also d
As "the most influential American theologian of the twentieth century." In this companion volume to the forthcoming documentary film by Martin Doblmeier on the life and influence of Reinhold Niebuhr, Jeremy Sabella draws on an unprecedent
The first close examination of how Robert E. Lee's faith shaped his life Robert E. Faith was central to Lee's character, Cox argues-so central that it directed and redirected his life, especially in the aftermath of defeat.
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The Land on Which We Live: Life on the Cariboo Plateau: 70 Mile House to Bridge Lake.
Napoleon's Doctor: The St Helena Diary of Barry O'Meara. He records in lively detail many hours of Napoleon's conversation, ranging from his views on class, religion and slavery to his love for Josephine and why Waterloo was lost.
My Dear People: The World War I Letters of Private Ned Crawford.
Lawson Lies Still in the Thames: The Extraordinary Life of Vice-admiral Sir John Lawson. At the beginning of his diary, on 1 January 1660, Samuel Pepys noted that 'Lawson lies still in the River. A staunch republican, Law
