著者:Roy Jenkins
出版社: Pan Macmillan
発売日: 2012年08月23日
Winner of the Whitbread Biography of the Year.
William Gladstone was, with Tennyson, Newman, Dickens, Carlyle, and Darwin, one of the stars of nineteenth-century British life. He spent sixty-three o……続きを見る
著者:Ronald Clark
出版社: Bloomsbury Publishing
発売日: 2011年10月28日
First published in 1981, this is about the life of Bertrand Russell, born when Queen Victoria had nearly three decades still to reign, was one of the most influential of the twentieth century, as we……続きを見る
著者:Michael E. Haskew
出版社: St. Martin's Publishing Group
発売日: 2011年09月27日
Michael Haskew takes us on a tremendous journey through de Gaulle's pivotal years, his leadership of the resistance, and beyond to understand the man who remade both modern military tactics and glob……続きを見る
When George Washington became the new United States of Americas first president, he set several precedents, including one on April 30, 1789. That day, Washington was inaugurated as president, and fo……続きを見る
The story of Freud's involvement with cocaine and how it affected research long after he died... The book tells of a number of drug related tragedies Freud was involved in including the death of Ern……続きを見る
著者:Andrew Jackson
出版社: Charles River Editors
発売日: 2012年05月01日
When George Washington became the new United States of Americas first president, he set several precedents, including one on April 30, 1789. That day, Washington was inaugurated as president, and fo……続きを見る
In his heyday, Paul Robeson was one of the most famous people in the world; to his enemies he was also one of the most dangerous. From the 1930s to the 1960s, the African-American singer was the voi……続きを見る
Allan Spear had a long and distinguished career as a historian and as a Minnesota state senator. Perhaps best known for coming out as openly gay during his first term in the Minnesota Senate-becomin……続きを見る
著者:Thomas Freiling
出版社: Baker Publishing Group
発売日: 2009年07月01日
Abraham Lincoln faced many serious challenges during his life. Yet he rose above it all--and his faith in God was the indispensible ingredient in his life's journey. Even generations later we can st……続きを見る
著者:Robert A. Caro
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2013年10月01日
This account of the Kennedy assassination ("the most riveting ever," says The New York Times) is taken from Robert A. Caro's brilliant and bestselling The Passage of Power.
Here is that tragic day i……続きを見る
Cleopatra VII : Queen of Egypt (A Short Biography for Children)
Name of seven pharaohs. The most famous is Cleopatra VII, the last Pharaoh of Egypt. She came to power at age 15, married to her broth……続きを見る
著者:Gail Sheehy
出版社: Random House Publishing Group
発売日: 2000年02月28日
Why does she stay with him? Where does she go from here? The author who revealed a generation's Passages now answers all the questions about the most talked-about First Lady in American history. In ……続きを見る
著者:John F. Harris
出版社: Random House Publishing Group
発売日: 2005年05月31日
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The definitive account of one of the most accomplished, controversial, and polarizing figures in American history
Bill Clinton is the most arresting leader of his generatio……続きを見る
How Hitler's spy chief sabotaged the German war effort.
Wilhelm Canaris was appointed by Hitler to head the Abwehr (the German secret service) 18 months after the Nazis came to power. But Canaris tu……続きを見る
“George W. Bush is a liar. He has lied large and small, directly and by omission. He has mugged the truthーnot merely in honest error, but deliberately, consistently, and repeatedly.” ーfrom the Int……続きを見る
»Ich bin Cäsar, nicht König!« -- der so sprach, begründete, die römischen Republikaner scheinbar beschwichtigend, mit seinem Namen einen neuen Rang und Grad der politischen Herrschaft. Episoden sein……続きを見る
著者:John Womack
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2011年07月27日
This essential volume recalls the activities of Emiliano Zapata (1879-1919), a leading figure in the Mexican Revolution; he formed and commanded an important revolutionary force during this conflict……続きを見る
著者:Ronald Reagan
出版社: Charles River Editors
発売日: 2012年05月01日
When George Washington became the new United States of Americas first president, he set several precedents, including one on April 30, 1789. That day, Washington was inaugurated as president, and fo……続きを見る
With the Eurozone engulfed in an unprecedented crisis, one political figure looms largest of all, Angela Merkel, the leader of its most powerful economy. While foreign affairs have become the centra……続きを見る
Among the important stories that need to be told about noteworthy Canadians, Lincoln Alexander's sits at the top of the list. Born in Toronto in 1922, the son of a maid and a railway porter, Alexand……続きを見る
著者:Robert B. Reich
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2013年09月04日
Locked in the Cabinet is a close-up view of the way things work, and often don't work, at the highest levels of government--and a uniquely personal account by the man whose ideas inspired and animat……続きを見る
著者:Blaine Harden
出版社: Penguin Publishing Group
発売日: 2012年03月29日
**“If you have a soul, you will be changed forever by Blaine Harden’s *Escape from Camp 14." ー*Mitchell Zuckoff, New York Times bestselling author of Lost in Shangri-La
The heartwrenching New York ……続きを見る
Success often depends on the strength of a single quality: leadership. Winston Churchill is universally recognized as one of the 20th century's great political leaders and his words ring just as tru……続きを見る
著者:Jim Newton
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2011年10月04日
**“Newton's contribution is as cogent an inventory of Eisenhower's White House years as I've ever read. He blends masterful writing with historic detail and provides the value-added of Ike as the ma……続きを見る
著者:Anthony Howard
出版社: Bloomsbury Publishing
発売日: 2013年02月07日
Richard Austin Butler remains the great enigma of post-war British politics. Independent, indiscreet and never anything but irreverent, Butler commanded the respect of both sides of the Commons and ……続きを見る
A Jewish family, victimized by anti-Semitism in Poland and Germany, flees to Minsk, Byelorussia and eventually to the Minsk forests when the Soviet Union is invaded by Nazi Germany in World War II. ……続きを見る
This fact-packed exposé reveals all the dirty little secrets that Michele Bachmann would rather you didn't know
Since Michele Bachmann became a front-runner for the Republican presidential nominatio……続きを見る
#1 national bestseller
When Pierre Elliott Trudeau died in 2000, the outpouring of emotion was extraordinary. Thousands of people across Canada ー and all over the world ー mourned the loss of one o……続きを見る
Por cada golpista venezolano ha habido numerosos militares fieles al juramento de respetar la Constitución. Oscar Zamora Conde es un testigo excepcional de hechos fundamentales del siglo XX v……続きを見る
著者:Henry Adams
出版社: Random House Publishing Group
発売日: 2000年11月01日
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time
'I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams,' said Gore Vidal. 'He was remarkably prescient about t……続きを見る