著者:Max du Preez
出版社: Random House Struik
発売日: 2010年11月05日
Max du Preez het ‘n helse storie om te vertel. Tydens sy loopbaan as ‘n hardegat-joernalis is hy drie keer afgedank; sewe keer weens laster gedagvaar; dertien keer krimineel aangekla en het hy drie ……続きを見る
The office of the American President has evolved dramatically over the last 200 years, from George Washington's heroic posturing as leader of a renegade nation, to calculated cunning as commander of……続きを見る
Elibron Classics. Replica of 1907 edition by Gay and Bird, London. This edition is published in 4 volumes sold separately. This is an illustrated edition. Volume 2: From the beginning of the Consula……続きを見る
Carol Thatcher has one of the most famous surnames in the world. The daughter of former Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher, Carol is a national treasure with a unique story to tell. Her remarkable mix……続きを見る
*Includes pictures of important people, places, and events.*Includes an original introduction for each leader.*Includes a bibliography for each leader.*Includes a Table of ContentsDespite the fact t……続きを見る
著者:Pedro Sanjuan
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2005年09月13日
On the day Pedro Sanjuan moved into his new office at the UN Secretariat in 1984, he had the foresight to unscrew his telephone receiver. Out fell a little packet of high-grade cocaine. When he conf……続きを見る
In many ways the world has never seen a First Lady like Michelle Obama. From the precedent of her race to the singularity of her style, she has been the object of immense fascination. What she says,……続きを見る
The true story of a brilliantly forged Emily Dickinson poem sold at Sotheby’s in 1997. The author’s detective work led him across America to a prison cell in Salt Lake City, where the world’s greate……続きを見る
An insider’s record of the St. Augustine Civil Rights drama.
This memoir recounts the struggle against segregation in St. Augustine, Florida, in the early and mid-1960s. In the summer of 1964 the na……続きを見る
The Premiers Joey and Frank is three stories in one. First is Premier Joseph Roberts Smallwood’s, whose ego and force of personality dominated every room he walked into, and strained to the breaking……続きを見る
著者:Douglas B. Craig
出版社: Johns Hopkins University Press
発売日: 2013年05月01日
Craig's study of McAdoo and Baker illuminates the aspirations and struggles of two prominent southern Democrats.
In this dual biography, Douglas B. Craig examines the careers of two prominent Americ……続きを見る
著者:Robert Dallek
出版社: Henry Holt and Co.
発売日: 2008年09月02日
The plainspoken man from Missouri who never expected to be president yet rose to become one of the greatest leaders of the twentieth century
In April 1945, after the death of Franklin Delano Rooseve……続きを見る
著者:Keni Thomas
出版社: Post Hill Press
発売日: 2013年10月26日
US Army Rangers veteran of the “Black Hawk Down” mission, Keni Thomas was awarded the Bronze Star for Valor and the Combat Infantryman’s Badge from the United States Army and fought the “Black Hawk ……続きを見る
著者:Max du Preez
出版社: Random House Struik
発売日: 2011年02月08日
Max du Preez has one hell of a story to tell. In his career as a renegade reporter, he’s survived three dismissals, seven libel suits, thirteen criminal cases, four aeroplane crashes, a bombing, two……続きを見る
*Includes Revere's firsthand account of his midnight ride.*Includes Longfellow's famous poem, Paul Revere's Ride.*Includes pictures of Revere and important people, places, and events in his life.*In……続きを見る
We live in a gotcha media culture that revels in exposing the foibles and hypocrisies of our politicians. But one politician manages to escape this treatment, getting the benefit of the doubt and a ……続きを見る
*Weaves the lives of John and Samuel Adams into one entertaining and educational narrative.*Includes several quotes and writings from both John and Samuel. *Analyzes their relationship, political co……続きを見る
Angry and hilarious, this collection of satirical essays about Barack Obama confronts the racial tensions that have dogged the president during his campaign and first year in office. Some of the pie……続きを見る
著者:Kati Marton
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2010年09月22日
An engrossing look at twelve presidential marriagesーfrom Edith and Woodrow Wilson to Laura and George W. Bushーthat have profoundly affected America’s history.
“Insightful.... Colorful.... A shrewd……続きを見る
After John Kennedy's assassination, Robert - formerly his brother's no-holds-barred political warrior - was left stunned and grieving. He was haunted by his brother's murder and by the nation's fail……続きを見る
著者:Dr. Sun Yat-Sen
出版社: Eastern Book Publishing
発売日: 2013年06月22日
One of greatest achievements book is that Dr. Sun Yat-sen was able to find a living synthesis between the ancient and the modern, between the East and the West, and combining them together to make C……続きを見る
The definitive biography of the playwright who become a president: Vaclav Havel, the final president of Czechoslovakia and the first president of the new Czech Republic
Vaclav Havel is revered as on……続きを見る
The incredible true story revealed by a family notebook, telling of four daughters across two centuries of turbulent history, of a passionate and ill-fated royal love affair, ending in a tragic and ……続きを見る
著者:Peter C. Newman
出版社: McClelland & Stewart
発売日: 2011年10月12日
The #1 national bestseller now revised and updated with a new Epilogue.
Now aged 75, Peter C. Newman at last tells the story of his stranger-than-fiction life. Try to keep up as we follow his many l……続きを見る
The Pathan patriot who kissed the hangman's noose with the name of Allah on his lips. A youth endowed with a body of iron and a will of steel, he dedicated everything to the service of India and of ……続きを見る
著者:Masha Gessen
出版社: Random House Publishing Group
発売日: 2008年12月30日
In this “extraordinary family memoir,”* the National Book Award–winning author of The Future Is History reveals the story of her two grandmothers, who defied Fascism and Communism during a time when……続きを見る
著者:Jefferson Davis
出版社: Random House Publishing Group
発売日: 2004年08月10日
Jefferson Davis is one of the most complex and controversial figures in American political history (and the man whom Oscar Wilde wanted to meet more than anyone when he made his tour of the United S……続きを見る
Sir Charles Dilke was born in 1843 and died in 1911. His career is one of the mysteries and tragedies of nineteenth-century history.
In the summer of 1885 he was the youngest man in the outgoing cab……続きを見る