James L : 962 books
by James L. Neibaur
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Mickey Rooney is a cinematic icon whose career lasted from the silent era into the twenty-first century. From the shorts he made as Mickey McGuire to supporting roles in such films as Night at the Museum, Rooney had more than 300 film appearances to his credit. Mickey Rooney was not just a movie star,...
Manhunt
The 12-Day Chase to Catch Lincoln's Killer
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
The murder of Abraham Lincoln set off the greatest manhunt in American history. From April 14 to April 26, 1865, the assassin, John Wilkes Booth, led Union cavalry and detectives on a wild twelve-day chase through the streets of Washington, D.C., across the swamps of Maryland, and into the forests...
The Shores of Tripoli
Lieutenant Putnam and the Barbary Pirates
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
The first novel in award-winning historian James L. Haley’s brilliant adventure series featuring young midshipman Bliven Putnam as he begins his naval service aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise.
It is 1801 and President Thomas Jefferson has assembled a deep-water navy to fight the growing threat...
Dedham
Historic and Heroic Tales from Shiretown
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
This New England community has made national headlines for the notorious Sacco and Vanzetti trial; it has hosted Presidents Washington, Jackson and Lincoln, among other leaders; and it played a formative role in the establishment of the Animal Rescue League. In popular culture, Dedham made its mark as...
Wolf
The Lives of Jack London
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
Jack London was born a working-class, fatherless Californian in 1876. In his youth he was a boundlessly energetic adventurer on the bustling West Coast-by turns playing the role of hobo, sailor, prospector, and oyster pirate. He spent his brief life rapidly accumulating the experiences that would...
by James L. Cotton Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2018
Former Sen. Howard Baker aptly descibes the book in his Foreword:"The Greatest Speech, Ever was written to be more than a specialized monograph about the Gettysburg Address. The author, Judge James L. Cotton Jr. digressed along the way into side excursions and back roads of Abraham Lincoln s...
Becoming a Leader of Character
6 Habits That Make or Break a Leader at Work and at Home
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
While many books focus on developing managerial competencies, most leadership failures are the result of a failure in character, not a failure in competence. But, just like how you don’t get in shape by reading a fitness magazine, you don’t become a Leader of Character by reading a book on Character....
End of Days
The Assassination of John F. Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
In End of Days, James L. Swanson, the New York Times bestselling author of Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer, brings to life the minute-by-minute details of the JFK assassination—from the Kennedys' arrival in Texas through the shooting in Dealey Plaza and the shocking aftermath that...
by James L. Neibaur
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
While the western was a staple of cinema for many decades, the form began to fade as its greatest star, John Wayne, made fewer films of distinction toward the end of his career. In the mid-1960s, the genre was redefined by a handful of directors, including Don Siegel and Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone,...
Reign of Iron
The Story of the First Battling Ironclads, the Monitor and the Merrimack
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
At the outbreak of the Civil War, North and South quickly saw the need to develop the latest technology in naval warfare, the ironclad ship. After a year-long scramble to finish first, in a race filled with intrigue and second guessing, blundering and genius, the two ships -- the Monitor and the Merrimack...
A Darker Sea
Master Commandant Putnam and the War of 1812
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
The second installment of the gripping naval saga by award-winning historian James L. Haley, featuring Commander Bliven Putnam, chronicling the build up to the biggest military conflict between the United States and Britain after the Revolution—the War of 1812.
At the opening of the War of...
The Perfect Hour
The Romance of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ginevra King, His First Love
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
F. Scott Fitzgerald was a handsome, ambitious sophomore at Princeton when he fell in love for the first time. Ginevra King, though only sixteen, was beautiful, socially poised, and blessed with the confidence that considerable wealth can bring.
Their romance began instantly, flourished in heartfelt...
Butterfly in the Rain
The 1927 Abduction and Murder of Marion Parker
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
On December 17, 1927 in Los Angeles, twelve year old Marion Parker, daughter of a prominent banker, was called to the school office where a stranger told her that her father had been in an accident and that she must leave with him right away. Fewer than 48 hours later, she was dead.
What started...
by James L. Gelvin
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
In the aftermath of the collapse of the USSR, the American invasion of Iraq, and the Arab uprisings of 2010-11, a new Middle East has emerged. The Syrian civil war has displaced half the country's population, and ISIS and other jihadi groups thrive in the political vacuum there and in Iraq, setting...