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Here in one omnibus edition are Booker T. Washington's most important books. Washington was constantly, and often bitterly, criticized by his contemporaries for being too conciliatory to whites and ……続きを見る

First published in 1984, this is the first biography of Stanley Baldwin for more than ten years, although there had been four in the preceding decade. This is strange, for Baldwin has recently begun……続きを見る

From Missouri to New York and back again, this recounting of an amazing journey chronicles the road trip of a former president and his wife and their amusing, failed attempts to keep a low profile. ……続きを見る

Up from Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of Booker T. Washington detailing his personal experiences in working to get from the position of a slave child during the Civil War, to the difficulties a……続きを見る

When Winston Spencer Churchill was born in 1874. No one could have predicted the path that lay ahead. But, as it turned out, from Winston's undistinguished academic career to his front-line experien……続きを見る

Books for All Kinds of Readers Read HowYouWant offers the widest selection of on-demand accessible format editions on the market today. Our 7 different sizes of EasyRead are optimized by increasing ……続きを見る

Beneath the surface of the apparently untutored and deceptively frank Abraham Lincoln ran private tunnels of self-taught study, a restless philosophical curiosity, and a profound grasp of the fundam……続きを見る

Georges and Pauline Vanier follows their lives and travels across the world - from Canadian military life to the League of Nations, from the inner circles of British government to their harrowing es……続きを見る

In the 1950s most of Acadian society was poor, uneducated, isolated, and dominated by the Roman Catholic clergy. In the following decade two individuals, Pierre E. Trudeau and Louis J. Robichaud, po……続きを見る

Biographical profile of Alexander Hamilton, one of the most interesting, paradoxical, and brilliant members of our Founding Fathers. Professor Carl Rubine of Columbia University called him "the firs……続きを見る

Revealing previously unreleased information from the Rod Blagojevich investigation, this narrativeーwritten by two Chicago Tribune reporters who spent years sifting through evidence, compiling docum……続きを見る

Caro Lettore, la presente è non solo una biografia del Presidente Mattarella ma è anche e soprattutto un documento indipendente e politicamente scorretto di analisi della politica italiana, in parti……続きを見る

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An abolitionist and a champion of free love and women’s rights would seem decidedly out of place in nineteenth-century Texas, but such a man was Stephen Pearl Andrews (1812–1886), American reformer,……続きを見る

"The finest historian of the American Revolution." Douglas Brinkley. For all his fame and familiarity, George Washington remains something of an enigma - the stiff portrait on the dollar bill. But h……続きを見る

Here is an authoritative reference work that makes biographies of prominent Mexican national politicians from the period 1884–1934 available in English. Like the author's biographical directory for ……続きを見る

William Gilpin (1815–1894) has been called “America’s first geopolitician.” Regarded today as both scientist and quack, Gilpin was in his own time a recognized authority whose maps were accepted by ……続きを見る

Few political figures of the twentieth century have aroused such intensities of fierce admiration and reactionary fear as Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky. His extraordinary life and extensive wri……続きを見る

Translated extracts from the memoirs of Luis Andrés Edo, an anarchist activist whose life was dedicated to the ‘Idea’ and the struggle for liberty. Throughout his life Luis Andrés Edo ……続きを見る

Dr. Frank Arthur Calder of BC’s Nisga’a First Nation was the first aboriginal person to be elected to any Canadian governing body. For twenty-six years he served as an MLA in the legislature of Brit……続きを見る

“An autobiography that makes compelling reading... Eban’s words and deeds derive from his commitment to the principle of partition [of ancient Palestine]... Eban’s testament is not only elegant, but……続きを見る

A full-scale portrait of the marriage of the father and mother of our countryーand of the struggle for independence that he led The Washingtons’ long union begins in colonial Virginia in 1759, when ……続きを見る

'The Education of Henry Adams' is the Pulitzer Prize winning autobiography of Henry Adams. 'The Education' is much more a record of Adams's introspection than of his deeds. It is an extended meditat……続きを見る

“Onassis, as he emerges from these pages, is superb…Onassis was a phenomenon in our time, combining money, power, intelligence, a zest for humanity, and, I suspect, a deep-seated humanity…Onassis wa……続きを見る

1998 errang sie ein Bundestagsmandat im Berliner Wahlkreis "Mitte/Prenzlauer Berg" gegen namhafte Mitbewerber. Damit hatten nicht einmal die eigenen Parteistrategen gerechnet … Derweil hat sie den B……続きを見る

Twelve Years A Slave is subtitled Narrative of Solomon Northup, citizen of New York, kidnapped in Washington city in 1841, and rescued in 1853 from a cotton plantation near the Red River in Louisian……続きを見る

Dieses eBook: "Karl Marx - Geschichte seines Lebens" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Franz Mehring (1846-1919) war ein ……続きを見る

While serving as an assistant to Vice President George H. W. Bush, Chase Untermeyer concluded that the only way to learn how the US government really works was to leave the silken cocoon of the Whit……続きを見る

This comprehensive bibliography on William Lyon Mackenzie King, the most prominent Canadian politician in the first half of the twentieth century, will be an invaluable reference tool for researcher……続きを見る

James Shaver Woodsworth (1874-1942) stands as one of the half-dozen most important national political figures in twentieth-century Canadian history. Allen Mills acknowledges his outstanding achievem……続きを見る