
By Scott S Smith
ISBN-10: 162865113X
ISBN-13: 9781628651133
By Scott S Smith
ISBN-10: 162865113X
ISBN-13: 9781628651133
By Patricia B. Burnette
ISBN-10: 0786473584
ISBN-13: 9780786473588
By Will Fowler
ISBN-10: 0803211201
ISBN-13: 9780803211209
ISBN-10: 0803226381
ISBN-13: 9780803226388
By Charles W. Calhoun,Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
ISBN-10: 0805069526
ISBN-13: 9780805069525
The scion of a political dynasty ushers within the period of huge government
Politics used to be in Benjamin Harrison's blood. His great-grandfather signed the announcement and his grandfather, William Henry Harrison, was once the 9th president of the us. Harrison, a number one Indiana attorney, grew to become a Republican get together champion, even taking a go away from the Civil warfare to crusade for Lincoln. After a scandal-free time period within the Senate-no small feat within the Gilded Age-the Republicans selected Harrison as their presidential candidate in 1888. regardless of wasting the preferred vote, he trounced the incumbent, Grover Cleveland, within the electoral collage.
In distinction to plain histories, which brush aside Harrison's presidency as corrupt and inactive, Charles W. Calhoun sweeps away the stereotypes of the age to bare the accomplishments of our twenty-third president. With Congress less than Republican regulate, he exemplified the activist president, operating feverishly to place the Party's planks into legislation and approving the 1st billion-dollar peacetime finances. however the Democrats gained Congress in 1890, stalling his legislative schedule, and with the 1st girl unwell, his race for reelection proceeded quietly. (She died in advance of the election.) in spite of everything, Harrison couldn't beat Cleveland of their exceptional rematch.
With brilliant consciousness to this president's existence and the social tapestry of his occasions, Calhoun compellingly reconsiders Harrison's legacy.
By Atlas D'four
ISBN-10: 1516957830
ISBN-13: 9781516957835
A sequence of far-flung incidents. probably now not connected
but which cumulated in a single of the second one international War's
most diabolical events.
A nation's secrets and techniques, while laudable within the brief time period,
should inside an inexpensive passage of time be
aired for all to work out. secrets and techniques hence encapsulated
provide for wild hypothesis and eventually
mistrust.
When can we ever learn?
Atlas D'four unwinds the evidence in the back of the 'reluctant'
King, the schizophrenic Hollywood actor, the
misguided freedom-fighter and the fewer than
faithful Nazi mystery Service.
You could not make this up.
By Margarita Lozano Cruz
ISBN-10: 1494874830
ISBN-13: 9781494874834
By Gordon S. Wood
ISBN-10: 052549832X
ISBN-13: 9780525498322
ISBN-10: 0525498826
ISBN-13: 9780525498827
ISBN-10: 0735224714
ISBN-13: 9780735224711
Thomas Jefferson and John Adams may perhaps scarcely have come from extra assorted worlds, or been extra diversified in temperament. Jefferson, the optimist with sufficient religion within the innate goodness of his fellow guy to be democracy's champion, used to be an aristocratic Southern slaveowner, whereas Adams, the overachiever from New England's emerging middling sessions, painfully conscious he used to be no aristocrat, used to be a skeptic approximately renowned rule and a defender of a extra elitist view of presidency. They labored heavily within the crucible of revolution, crafting the statement of Independence and best, with Franklin, the diplomatic attempt that introduced France into the struggle. yet eventually, their profound variations may bring about a basic quandary, of their friendship and within the state writ huge, as they grew to become the figureheads of 2 totally new forces, the 1st American political events. It was once a sour breach, lasting during the presidential administrations of either males, and beyond.
But past due in lifestyles, anything outstanding occurred: those males have been nudged into reconciliation. What begun as a grudging trickle of correspondence turned a very good flood, and a friendship was once rekindled, over the process hundreds of thousands of letters. of their ultimate years they have been the final surviving founding fathers and loved their function during this powerful younger republic because it approached the part century mark in 1826. eventually, at the afternoon of July 4th, 50 years to the day after the signing of the statement, Adams set free a sigh and acknowledged, "At least Jefferson nonetheless lives." He died quickly thereafter. actually, a couple of hours past on that very same day, a ways to the south in his domestic in Monticello, Jefferson died as well.
Arguably no courting during this country's heritage consists of as a lot freight as that of John Adams of Massachusetts and Thomas Jefferson of Virginia. Gordon wooden has greater than performed justice to those entwined lives and their which means; he has written an impressive new addition to America's collective story.
By James F. Pontuso
ISBN-10: 0742522555
ISBN-13: 9780742522558
ISBN-10: 0742522563
ISBN-13: 9780742522565
By Michael Bates
ISBN-10: 0993320007
ISBN-13: 9780993320002
By Celia Sandys
ISBN-10: 1623490677
ISBN-13: 9781623490676
“A bestseller within the united kingdom, this portrait of Winston Churchill, written by way of his granddaughter, unapologetically provides the longer term leading minister as an motion hero within the Boer battle. It’s rousing reading. Sandy’s affection for her grandfather is apparent, yet she indicates adequate of his grandiosity to take care of a reader’s belief. . . . Sandys is totally conscious of the level to which her grandfather had a finger to the political winds in the course of his exploits: he sought the limelight as aggressively as he chased experience. as a result of Sandys’s brisk narrative, in addition to their wisdom of the fellow Churchill later grew to become, readers won't carry younger Winston’s ambition opposed to him.”—Publishers Weekly
“During his nine-month stint in South Africa, Churchill, although formally categorized as a noncombatant reporter, controlled to ship stirring dispatches to the Morning publish, have interaction in different bloody skirmishes with the enemy, be captured and incarcerated as a prisoner of battle, and make a definitely sensationalized, but still bold, get away from criminal. Written in a full of life narrative type, this affectionate biographical portrait of a really younger, very lively, and intensely enterprising Winston Churchill succeeds in foreshadowing the significance of the renown he finally completed. A rip-roaring solid learn chockfull of motion, suspense, and history.”—Booklist