**NATIONAL BESTSELLER • This widely acclaimed biography of a Soviet dictator and his entourage during the terrifying decades of his supreme power transforms our understanding of the Marxist leader a……続きを見る
著者:Arnold Rampersad
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2007年04月24日
Ralph Ellison is justly celebrated for his epochal novel Invisible Man, which won the National Book Award in 1953 and has become a classic of American literature. But Ellison’s strange inability to ……続きを見る
著者:Gregg Jones
出版社: Penguin Publishing Group
発売日: 2012年02月07日
“Fascinating.”ーNew York Times Book Review • “Well-written.”ーThe Boston Globe • “Extraordinary.”ーThe Christian Science Monitor • “A compelling page-turner.”ーAdam Hochschild
On the eve of a new ce……続きを見る
著者:Daniel Alef
出版社: Titans of Fortune Publishing
発売日: 2009年03月15日
The Huntington in San Marino, California, is one of the world's foremost collections of books, art and flora. Set in park-like grounds and a Beaux-Arts mansion built in the early 1900s, the Hun……続きを見る
Honoured as a hero in China, Ontario-born Norman Bethune was a surgeon, medical innovator, and charismatic political activist who deployed his skills on the battlefields of Spain and China in the 19……続きを見る
著者:Alexander Rose
出版社: Random House Publishing Group
発売日: 2007年12月18日
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Turn: Washington’s Spies, now an original series on AMC
Based on remarkable new research, acclaimed historian Alexander Rose brings to life the true story of the spy ring……続きを見る
著者:Otto Rühle
出版社: Taylor and Francis
発売日: 2013年04月03日
First published in English in 1929, this is a reissue of Otto Rühle's comprehensive biography of Karl Marx. Written by a leading Marxist and key figure within the German Labour movement, this is an ……続きを見る
著者:Sally Bedell Smith
出版社: Random House Publishing Group
発売日: 2004年05月04日
In GRACE & POWER: THE PRIVATE WORLD OF THE KENNEDY WHITE HOUSE, New York Times bestselling author Sally Bedell Smith takes us inside the Kennedy White House with unparalleled access and insight. Hav……続きを見る
著者:A. N. Wilson
出版社: HarperCollins Publishers
発売日: 2012年03月15日
Written by acclaimed biographer A. N. Wilson, Hitler offers a short, sharp, gripping account of one of the twentieth century’s most monstrous and influential figures.
In 1923, a thirty-four year old……続きを見る
According to Wikipedia: "Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 April 15, 1865) served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully l……続きを見る
Thomas Wyatt (1503?-1542) was the first modern voice in English poetry. 'Chieftain' of a 'new company of courtly makers', he brought the Italian poetic Renaissance to England, but he was also revere……続きを見る
著者:Elizabeth Drew
出版社: Henry Holt and Co.
発売日: 2007年05月29日
The complex man at the center of America's most self-destructive presidency
In this provocative and revelatory assessment of the only president ever forced out of office, the legendary Washington jo……続きを見る
著者:Charles A. Ruud
出版社: McGill-Queen's University Press
発売日: 2009年09月01日
Robert A.D. Ford had a distinguished diplomatic career that included an unprecedented sixteen years as Canadian ambassador to the Soviet Union during some of the most turbulent and important years o……続きを見る
著者:Donald Savoie
出版社: McGill-Queen's University Press
発売日: 2009年09月01日
Donald Savoie a grandi dans un petit village acadien et est devenu un auteur et un universitaire accompli. Ses livres ont eu un effet profond sur les politiques publiques du Canada et sur l'administ……続きを見る
著者:Michael Burlingame
出版社: The Johns Hopkins University Press
発売日: 2013年07月15日
In the first multi-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln to be published in decades, Lincoln scholar Michael Burlingame offers a fresh look at the life of one of America’s greatest presidents. Incorpo……続きを見る
著者:Sean Wilentz
出版社: Henry Holt and Co.
発売日: 2007年04月01日
The towering figure who remade American politicsーthe champion of the ordinary citizen and the scourge of entrenched privilege
"It is rare that historians manage both Wilentz's deep interpretation a……続きを見る
The first major biography of Winston Churchill to focus on his inner life and psychology
'An extraordinary biography...Pearson...has a sensitive pen, matching the wit of his subject, and shows perce……続きを見る
著者:John T. Morse
出版社: MobileReference
発売日: 2010年01月01日
This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This book features a table of contents linked to every chapter. The book was designed for optimal navigation on t……続きを見る
著者:H. W. Brands
出版社: Henry Holt and Co.
発売日: 2003年06月01日
A comprehensive account of the rise and fall of one of the major shapers of American foreign policy.
On the eve of his inauguration as President, Woodrow Wilson commented, "It would be the irony of ……続きを見る
著者:Charles C. Bolton
出版社: University Press of Mississippi
発売日: 2013年07月17日
For more than six decades, William F. Winter (b. 1923) has been one of the most recognizable public figures in Mississippi. His political career spanned the 1940s through the early 1980s, from his i……続きを見る
The Watergate scandal began with a break-in at the office of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate Hotel on June 17, 1971, and ended when President Gerald Ford granted Richard M. Nixon ……続きを見る
Eric Williams: The Myth and the Man seeks to illuminate the political career of one of the Caribbean's most elusive figures, Eric Williams, the first prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago. The book……続きを見る
著者:Luis Gutiérrez
出版社: W. W. Norton & Company
発売日: 2013年09月30日
A candid, savvy, inspiring, and often hilarious memoir by one of America’s most fearless political leaders.
Beloved by the immigrants and working people whose rights he has championed, twelve-term C……続きを見る
著者:Shirley Williams
出版社: Little, Brown Book Group
発売日: 2009年12月03日
'That politics was the most exciting of all the exciting things in the world I never doubted'
Shirley Williams was born to politics. As well as being influenced by her mother, Vera Brittan, her fath……続きを見る
著者:Patti Davis
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2011年07月27日
Ronald Reagan’s daughter writes with a moving openness about losing her father to Alzheimer’s disease. The simplicity with which she reveals the intensity, the rush, the flow of her feelings encompa……続きを見る
Robert Rubin was sworn in as the seventieth U.S. Secretary of the Treasury in January 1995 in a brisk ceremony attended only by his wife and a few colleagues. As soon as the ceremony was over, he be……続きを見る
著者:Bill Clinton
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2007年09月04日
Here, from Bill Clinton, is a call to action. Giving is an inspiring look at how each of us can change the world. First, it reveals the extraordinary and innovative efforts now being made by compani……続きを見る
著者:Edmund Morris
出版社: Random House Publishing Group
発売日: 2011年10月19日
This book, the only biography ever authorized by a sitting President--yet written with complete interpretive freedom--is as revolutionary in method as it is formidable in scholarship. When Ronald Re……続きを見る