Category: Leaders Notable People

By Patrick Sauer

ISBN-10: 0028638212

ISBN-13: 9780028638218

ISBN-10: 058532834X

ISBN-13: 9780585328348

Whereas there arey a couple of overviews of the forty-one Presidents of the U.S. released for the juvenile marketplace, few grownup books offer a easy examine each one guy and his presidency, the context of his time and the main occasions that formed him. "The entire Idiot's consultant to American Presidents" does simply that. you will find out about every one president as a result of timelines, pictures, trivialities and different information.

By Valerie Hansen

ISBN-10: 0373874073

ISBN-13: 9780373874071

Love wasn't on Trudy Lynn Brown's to-do checklist, although she definitely wanted an individual to assist her eliminate the vandals threatening her campground. And her top friend's brother healthy the invoice. Injured in a white-water rafting coincidence, Cody Keringhoven had come to Serenity, Arkansas, to get well and rebuild his damaged religion and shattered desires. observing over the campground stored him in consistent touch with the ever-surprising--and delightful--Trudy Lynn, whose sunny nature soothed his battered spirit. but the criminals might cease at not anything to force her off her property....

By Caro, Robert A.; Johnson, Lyndon Baines; Caro, Robert A.; Johnson, Lyndon Baines

ISBN-10: 0307960463

ISBN-13: 9780307960467

Pulitizer Prize biographer Robert A. Caro follows Lyndon Johnson via either the main difficult and the main positive sessions of his profession, describing Johnson's risky courting with John Kennedy and Robert Kennedy throughout the struggle they waged for the 1960 Democratic nomination for president, via Johnson's unsatisfied vice presidency, his assumption to the presidency after Kennedy's assassination, his victories over the price range and civil rights, and the eroding capture of Vietnam. Read more...

By Henry Chadwick

ISBN-10: 0199568308

ISBN-13: 9780199568307

This biography of St. Augustine is a splended scholarly tale. I loved each web page.

By Fred Thomas

ISBN-10: 0870134213

ISBN-13: 9780870134210

By William Howard Adams

ISBN-10: 0300099800

ISBN-13: 9780300099805

This identify is a biography of 1 of the main vibrant and least recognized of the founding fathers. A plain-spoken, racy patrician who distrusted democracy yet antagonistic slavery and championed freedom for all minorities, a huge participant within the American Revolution, later an astute critic of the French Revolution, Gouverneur Morris is still an enigma one of the founding new release. This biography tells his strong tale, together with his celebrated amorous affairs in the course of his lengthy remain in Europe. Morris's public list is extraordinary. one of many top figures of the Constitutional conference, he positioned the structure in its ultimate model, together with its beginning Preamble. As Washington's first minister to Paris, he grew to become America's top-rated consultant in France. A winning, overseas entrepreneur, he understood the dynamics of trade within the sleek global. Frankly cosmopolitan, he embraced urban lifestyles as an artistic centre of civilization and had a principal function within the development of the Erie Canal and in laying out the city grid plan of ny. William Howard Adams describes Morris's many contributions, abilities, sophistication, and wit, in addition to his romantic liaisons, loose conduct, and unfastened speech. He brings to lifestyles a desirable guy of significant stature, a founding father who gets his due eventually.

By Douglas Rice

ISBN-10: 1450282563

ISBN-13: 9781450282567

Voices from the Korean battle offers a suite of first-person bills of these who served within the Korean struggle. The Korean struggle is frequently dubbed the "Forgotten War," even if greater than 36,000 infantrymen died during this three-year clash. In Voices from the Korean struggle, writer Douglas Rice makes definite the lads who served should not forgotten as he stocks first-person money owed from seventy-nine infantrymen who fought within the struggle from June of 1950 via July of 1953. Voices from the Korean warfare follows the warriors as they trek and fly over the mountainous terrain of the Korean peninsula. via those eyewitness money owed, pay attention a soldier describe what occurred to a small crew of North Korean villagers who refused to disclose their position. pay attention in as a wounded soldier tells a flight nurse the tale of the way he used to be rescued via American squaddies as he lay wounded in a North Korean domestic. learn the way a few prisoners of battle walked their imaginary canine to annoy their captors. This compilation of alternative squaddies' views conveys what it should have been wish to be without delay interested in the clash. It serves as a reminder of the demanding situations and the sacrifices the warriors made within the identify of battle.

By Robert W. Dimand (auth.)

ISBN-10: 1137431954

ISBN-13: 9781137431950

ISBN-10: 1349492353

ISBN-13: 9781349492350

By Leonard Woolf

ISBN-10: 0701202513

ISBN-13: 9780701202514

Downhill all of the method, by means of Woolf, Leonard

By Bill Boyarsky

ISBN-10: 0520219678

ISBN-13: 9780520219670

Revealing and frank, this hugely attractive biography tells the tale of an American unique, California's titanic Daddy, Jesse Unruh (1922-1987), a charismatic guy whose energy reached some distance past the workplaces he held. Unruh, who used to be born into Texas sharecropper poverty, grew to become a larger-than-life determine and a important architect and builder of contemporary California--first as an assemblyman, then as meeting speaker, and at last, as nation treasurer. He was once additionally an excellent personality: a mix of intelligence, wit, idealism, cynicism, woman-chasing vulgarity, attraction, drunken extra, and political ability all wrapped up in a single gigantic package deal. He ruled the California capitol and prolonged his impression to Washington and Wall highway. He was once just about Lyndon Johnson and the Kennedys, yet closest to Robert Kennedy, and was once within the Ambassador inn kitchen whilst Kennedy was once shot. invoice Boyarsky provides a close-up examine this notable political chief, a guy who believed that politics was once the artwork of the potential, and his period.