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Cicero said, "In history nothing is sweeter than pure and clear brevity." A Lincoln Treasure Trove uses clarity and brevity to present many amazing facts and stories."A Lincoln Treasure Trove...is a delightful book...The conversational style adds to the...

In a blend of biography, personal essay, and a rendition of deeply researched metaphysical and Mexican history that reads like a novel, award-winning writer and noted literary translator C.M. Mayo provides a rich introduction and the first translation of...

If you think Abraham Lincoln was our greatest president, think again! The truth is that unless you're a dictator, a socialist, a racist, a warmonger, an outlaw, a sexist, or a left-wing progressive, you won't find much about him that's admirable. Our...

This book originally began as a series of articles, at the behest of the author's son,for the website Bharat Rakshak. As the articles flowed, the author was the persuaded by his children to expand these articles into something that more resembles a book...

Patron of Florence Nightingale, high society and the Arts, Sidney Herbert was hailed in his own times as a statesman, administrative reformer and co-founder of modern Liberalism. Strangely neglected since his death, this biography brilliantly recaptures,...

Tony Abbott is the most successful Opposition leader of the last forty years, but he has never been popular. Now Australians want to know: what kind of man is he, and how would he perform as prime minister?In this dramatic portrait, David Marr shows that...

'You are either alive and proud or you are dead ... and your method of death can be a politicizing thing' - Steve BikoFounder of the Black Consciousness Movement, Steve Biko was a natural target for the South African authorities. On 13 August 1977, Steve...

The Autobiography of an Indian Princess. By Sunity Devee (Maharani of Cooch Behar). Originally Published 1921. TABLE OF CONTENTSChapter IMY CHILDHOODChapter IIMY FAMILYChapter IIIFESTIVALS AND FESTIVAL DAYSChapter IVMY ROMANCEChapter VMY...

Based on extensive research as well as on a career working for cultural institutions, historian Thomas E. Chávez has created a historical novel about the American southwest, specifically in New Mexico and Arizona, a place where Europeans settled...

When Thomas Jefferson wrote Notes on the States of Virginia in 1785, he had no idea that he would be the Founding Father of a trend. US Presidents have written over 150 books since that time, creating an entire genre of presidential literature...

Every four years, the United States elects a President. And every four years, that President makes a speech, outlining his goals and plans for the coming term. Presidential inaugurations are Constitutionally mandated. Inaugural speeches, however, are...

Marty Blum shares with the readers her experiences as mayor of a world-renowned city, Santa Barbara, California. Beginning with her election to the city's highest office, she describes the day-to-day life of the mayor, the services for the residents, and...

Jackson Stitt Wilson (1868-1942) was one of America's most prominent socialist politicians. Barton's biography brings his extraordinary career vividly to life and illuminates the vitality and creativity of the socialist movement, from the Gilded Age to...

"Our pre-war period was not everyone's pre-war period, I know that. It was first of all that of a small group of friends, sometimes distant from the time when they lived, but I imagine that through the details of their individual existence they were able...

This book by a noted Ph.D. historian is one of the best books available about historical relations between the United States and Mexico. It shines new light on reasons for the US invasion of Mexico in 1846, opposition by Abraham...

How much does the average American actually know about the men who have served as president of our country, especially when it comes to their lives before the presidency? For example: One of the biggest influences in George Washington's life was his...

Presidential rankings emerged in 1948 when Life Magazine published an article by the prominent historian, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr., who had selected 55 experts on the presidency and asked them to rank the presidents. He asked his respondents to rank...

Thirty years after the initial discovery of Roscoe White's naval footlocker, Ricky White - with the help of J. Gary Shaw and Brian K. Edwards - has made documented connection between items in the footlocker and munitions cannister and the events and...

Inspired by its famous predecessor Chairman Mao's Little Red Book. With close-ups and a real-time camera running approach, this PALM-SIZED COLLECTOR'S EDITION of Xi Dada's quotes is an attempt to reveal the true intentions of China's...

A true story about love, grief, resiliency, faith, and transformation despite daunting odds.California wildfires burned more than 4.2 million acres in 2020-more than double the previous record. Approximately 500,000 people have died from an...

Few famous humans came into the world under such humble circumstances as Abraham Lincoln on February 12, 1809. But it may very well be that the humble and unassuming life he lived actually served to shape him into the solid, moral, honest, decent,...

Everyone who was alive remembers where they were the day John F. Kennedy was shot; but that’s just a brief moment in time. What shaped the country—and even the world—wasn’t that brief moment…it was how we rebuilt. This...

A wave of revolution swept across the United States in the sixties and the seventies. And across California, Cesar Chavez sparked the Chicano civil rights movement in the barrio, giving prominence to new leaders, new voices, and new demands for freedom...

Few days in history have been as meticulously documented as Abraham Lincoln's last day. The bucket list was short. The day began as a peaceful spring day and Lincoln had put in motion a plan to have a joyous carriage ride with his wife, attend the...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...

""Die Deutsche Centralgewalt und Preu�����en (1848)"" ist ein historisches Buch von Adolf Heinrich von Arnim-Boytzenburg. Es beschreibt die politischen Ereignisse in Deutschland im Jahr 1848, insbesondere die Rolle Preu�����ens in der damaligen...

Die Corveyschen Geschichtsquellen ist ein Buch, das 1841 von Paul Wigand ver������ffentlicht wurde. Es handelt sich um eine Sammlung von historischen Quellen, die sich auf die Geschichte des Klosters Corvey beziehen. Das Kloster Corvey war eines der...

Die Chronica Pontificum Leodiensium (1882) von Franz, Friedrich ist ein historisches Buch, das sich mit der Geschichte der Bisch������fe von L�����ttich im Mittelalter befasst. Es handelt sich um eine umfassende Studie, die auf einer Vielzahl von...

Dunmore's New World tells the stranger-than-fiction story of Lord Dunmore, the last royal governor of Virginia, whose long-neglected life boasts a measure of scandal and intrigue rare in the annals of the colonial world. Dunmore not only issued the...

Farmers, shopkeepers, businessmen, politicians--the fathers of the presidents of the United States have come from a wide variety of professions and all walks of life. In many cases, they provided their sons and future presidents with a political...

South Vietnam fell because of events occurring thousands of miles away from the battlefields--in China, the Soviet Union, Latin America, the Middle East, and Washington's corridors of power, along protest lines, and around America's dinner tables...

A groundbreaking look at the lives of George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush, the most consequential father-son pair in American history, often in their own words. In this revealing, often poignant work, presidential historian Mark K. Updegrove tracks the...

From the author of Argo comes an unforgettable behind-the-scenes story of espionage in action. In the first ever memoir by a top-level operative to be authorized by the CIA, Antonio J. Mendez reveals the cunning tricks and insights that helped save...

"... J'ai marqué sur ce berceau des États-Unis les dates importantes : 1633, 1638, 1673 ; l'émigration, la persécution, la législation. Peu d'années après cette dernière date, en 1682, un puritain fervent du Northamptonshire, nommé Josiah Franklin,...

" De nouveaux mémoires d'Horace Walpole, publiés à Londres, doivent fixer l'attention, surtout si on les rapproche de quelques publications récentes qui ont trait à la même époque et qui renferment de curieux documents.La vie d'Horace Walpole, vie...

HARRY TRUMANThis book aims to serve as a biography of Harry S. Truman, and explores the incredible life that he lived. Inside, you will learn stories of Harry’s childhood, his career in the Army, his family life, and his unlikely journey to...

In A View from the Horizon one of South Australia's most influential  political reformers  tells his life story with frank disclosure. Five years after he graduated as a lawyer, aged 28, Peter Duncan entered the South...

During the Nixon administration, lists were drawn up with names of people thought to be liberal and anti-Nixon; the list was orighinally to be 20 names-- politicans  and entertainers, but eventually grew to be well over 700 names, on two...