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by Grigoris Balakian
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009
On April 24, 1915, Grigoris Balakian was arrested along with some 250 other leaders of Constantinople’s Armenian community. It was the beginning of the Ottoman Empire’s systematic attempt to eliminate the Armenian people from Turkey—a campaign that continued through World War I and the fall...
Nathan Bedford Forrest
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2011
Amid the aristocratic ranks of the Confederate cavalry, Nathan Bedford Forrest was untutored, all but unlettered, and regarded as no more than a guerrilla. His tactic was the headlong charge, mounted with such swiftness and ferocity that General Sherman called him a "devil" who should "be...
Unforgivable Blackness
The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2010
In this vivid biography Geoffrey C. Ward brings back to life the most celebrated — and the most reviled — African American of his age.
Jack Johnson battled his way out of obscurity and poverty in the Jim Crow South to win the title of heavyweight champion of the world. At a time when whites...
by Leon Goldensohn
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
During the Nuremberg trials, Leon Goldensohn—a U.S. Army psychiatrist—monitored the mental health of two dozen Germans leaders charged with carrying out genocide. These recorded conversations went largely unexamined for more than fifty years, until Robert Gellately—one of the premier historians...
by Louis S. Warren
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody was the most famous American of his age. He claimed to have worked for the Pony Express when only a boy and to have scouted for General George Custer. But what was his real story? And how did a frontiersman become a worldwide celebrity? In this prize-winning biography,...
A Is for American
Letters and Other Characters in the Newly United States
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
What ties Americans to one another? What unifies a nation of citizens with different racial, religious and ethnic backgrounds? These were the dilemmas faced by Americans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as they sought ways to bind the newly United States together.
In A is for American,...
The Hard Way Around
The Passages of Joshua Slocum
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
A masterful biographer now offers a thrilling, definitive portrait of one of history’s most legendary icons of adventure.
In 1860, sixteen-year-old Joshua Slocum escaped a hardscrabble childhood in Nova Scotia by signing on as an ordinary seaman to a merchant ship bound for Dublin. Despite...
Lost in America
A Journey with My Father
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
A writer renowned for his insight into the mysteries of the body now gives us a lambent and profoundly moving book about the mysteries of family. At its center lies Sherwin Nuland’s Rembrandtesque portrait of his father, Meyer Nudelman, a Jewish garment worker who came to America in the early years...
Shrapnel in the Heart
Letters and Remembrances from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
For the first time, one book gives voice to the haunting, painful, tender, and healing tales of those who lost so much in America's least popular war.
by Joseph Lelyveld
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
A highly original, stirring book on Mahatma Gandhi that deepens our sense of his achievements and disappointments—his success in seizing India’s imagination and shaping its independence struggle as a mass movement, his recognition late in life that few of his followers paid more than lip service...
Denmark Vesey
The Buried Story of America's Largest Slave Rebellion and the Man Who Led It
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2009
In a remarkable feat of historical detective work, David Robertson illuminates the shadowy figure who planned a slave rebellion so daring that, if successful, it might have changed the face of the antebellum South. This is the story of a man who, like Nat Turner, Marcus Garvey, and Malcolm X, is a...
Victoria & Abdul (Movie Tie-In)
The True Story of the Queen's Closest Confidant
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Soon to be a Major Motion Picture starring Dame Judi Dench from director Stephen Frears, releasing September 22, 2017.
History’s most unlikely friendship—this is the astonishing story of Queen Victoria and her dearestcompanion, the young Indian Munshi Abdul Karim.
In the twilight...
Digging Up the Dead
Uncovering the Life and Times of an Extraordinary Surgeon
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2010
A tearaway young man from Norfolk, Astley Cooper (1768-1841) became the world's richest and most famous surgeon. Admired from afar by the Brontës and up close by his student Keats, his success was born of an appetite for bloody revolutions.
He set up an international network of bodysnatchers,...
by Vaclav Havel
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2009
From the former president of the Czech Republic comes this first-hand account of his years in office and the transition to democracy following the fall of Communism.
A renowned playwright, Václav Havel became one of Czechoslovakia's most prominent dissidents under Communist rule – and the...