Biographies/Autobiographies
Biographies/Autobiographies
Shakespeare’s Missing Years
The ‘missing years’ of William Shakespeare is one of the major puzzles in the field of English Literature. He is by universal agreement the most important writer of the English language. Hundreds, if not thousands, of books of his works...
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Real Dirt on America's Frontier Legends
The first in a new Wild West series: Learn the real stories behind the larger-than-life characters of the West. Characters like Daniel Boone, Davy Crocket, “Buffalo Bill” Cody, and Jim Bridger have fascinated the people for generations. But in many...
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The Quaker and the Gamecock: Nathanael Greene, Thomas Sumter, and the Revolutionary War for the Soul of the South
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The Quaker and the Gamecock: Nathanael Greene, Thomas Sumter, and the Revolutionary War for the Soul of the South
A joint biography of Nathanael Greene and Thomas Sumter and the Southern campaign of the American Revolution.As the newly appointed commander of the Southern Continental Army in December 1780, Nathanael Greene quickly realized victory would not only require defeating the...
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Places and Names: On War, Revolution, and Returning
From a decorated Marine war veteran and National Book Award finalist, an astonishing reckoning with the nature of combat and the human cost of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria."War hath determined us..." - John Milton, Paradise LostToward the beginning...
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On Machiavelli: The Search for Glory
An essential, comprehensive, and accessible guide to the life and works of Machiavelli. In On Machiavelli: The Search for Glory, Alan Ryan illuminates the political and philosophical complexities of the often-reviled godfather of realpolitik. Thought by some to be the founder of...
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The Nazi's Granddaughter: How I Discovered My Grandfather was a War Criminal
Hero–or Nazi?Silvia Foti was raised on reverent stories about her hero grandfather, a martyr for Lithuanian independence and an unblemished patriot. Jonas Noreika, remembered as “General Storm,” had resisted his country’s German and Soviet occupiers in World War II, surviving...
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The Most Spectacular Restaurant in the World: The Twin Towers, Windows on the World, and the Rebirth of New York
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The Most Spectacular Restaurant in the World: The Twin Towers, Windows on the World, and the Rebirth of New York
The remarkable story of a restaurant on top of the world—built by a legend, destroyed in tragedy—and an era in New York City it helped to frameIn the 1970s, New York City was plagued by crime, filth, and an ineffective...
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John Wilkes Booth and the Women Who Loved Him
When John Wilkes Booth died—shot inside a burning barn and dragged out twelve days after he assassinated President Lincoln—all he had in his pocket were a compass, a candle, a diary, and five photographs of five different women. They were...
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In Defense of Andrew Jackson
"He was a man of the frontier, self-made but appreciative of those who gave him their loyalty and support. He was, pure and simple, and American..."Andrew Jackson was controversial in his time—and even more controversial in our own. Indian fighter,...
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Howell's Storm: New York City's Official Rainmaker and the 1950 Drought
More than half a century ago, New York City suffered from a drought that lasted through 1949 and into 1950. By February, the desperate city had to try something different. Mayor William O’Dwyer hired a municipal rainmaker.Dr. Wallace E. Howell...
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Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life
A one-volume biography of Roosevelt by the #1 New York Times bestselling biographer of JFK, focusing on his career as an incomparable politician, uniter, and deal makerIn an era of such great national divisiveness, there could be no more timely biography of...
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Armstrong (1) (Custer of the West Series)
What if Custer survived the Battle of the Little Bighorn?What if he became a gun-for-hire?And what if he made common cause with a troupe of cancan dancers, Chinese acrobats, an eyepatch-wearing rebel cardsharp, and a multilingual Crow scout?Eager to clear...
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Alpha One Sixteen: A Combat Infantryman's Year in Vietnam
A Military Book Club main selectionPeter Clark's year in Vietnam began in July 1966, when he was shipped out with hundreds of other young recruits, as a replacement in the 1st Infantry Division. Clark was assigned to the Alpha Company....
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The Accidental President: Chester A. Arthur
Chester Alan Arthur, surely our unlikeliest president, may have been saved from complete obscurity only by the mutton-chop whiskers that stand out among the full-bearded visages of late-nineteenth-century presidents. But as this highly readable portrait of Arthur and his age...
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Lon Chaney Speaks
A stunning graphic debut: the life of the legendary silent-film actor Lon Chaney (the original Phantom of the Opera and Hunchback of Notre Dame), as imagined by an artist whose work recalls the style and skill of early-era New Yorker cartoonists.From the artist: "'No one...
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Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography and Finalist for the National Book Award.The definitive biography of America's greatest playwright from the celebrated drama critic of The New Yorker. John Lahr has produced a theater biography like no...
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Stan Lee and the Rise and Fall of the American Comic Book
Based on interviews with Stan Lee and dozens of his colleagues and contemporaries, as well as extensive archival research, this book provides a professional history, an appreciation, and a critical exploration of the face of Marvel Comics. Recognized as a...
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Sound Pictures: The Life of Beatles Producer George Martin, The Later Years, 1966–2016
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Sound Pictures: The Life of Beatles Producer George Martin, The Later Years, 1966–2016
More than anyone besides the bandmates themselves, George Martin was the man who created the unique sound of the Beatles. Sound Pictures offers a powerful and intimate account of how he did so. The second and final volume of...
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Of Potato Heads and Polaroids: My Life Inside and Out of Pearl Jam
Pearl Jam. Not many bands have achieved a status needing no adjective or description. Pearl Jam has. And fewer still have had an insider, much less a member, obsessively capture onstage and offhand pics of the experience-the friends, family, and...
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Nowhere Man: The Final Days of John Lennon
Written by one of the few people outside John Lennon's inner circle to have read his personal diaries, Nowhere Man reveals an emotional truth about the ex-Beatle that can't be found in any of the approximately 400 other Lennon biographies currently in...
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Johnny Cash: The Redemption of an American Icon
A deep dive into the Man in Black's demons, triumphs, and ultimate road back to faith by a celebrated pastor and best-selling author. A national bestseller in hardcover.Join Greg Laurie, pastor and bestselling author of Steve McQueen: The Salvation of an...
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A Child of the Century
A classic memoir by one of the greatest American screenwriters, Ben HechtNamed to Time’s list of All-Time 100 Nonfiction Books, which deems it “the un-put-downable testament of the era’s great multimedia entertainer.”A Child of the Century, Ben Hecht’s autobiographical memoir, was...
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Your Second Act: Inspiring Stories of Reinvention
An entertaining book “filled with inspirational anecdotes” (People) about second acts in life and reinventing yourself from beloved television actress Patricia Heaton—Emmy Award–winning star of Everybody Love’s Raymond, The Middle, Patricia Heaton Parties,and most recently, Carol’s Second Act.Patricia Heaton is one of TV’s most...
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Write Your Own Story: How I Took Control by Letting Go
As seen on Gutfeld!A witty and candid glimpse of life in cable news from a long-time anchor who walked away from the spotlight and found joy in faith, family, and life’s simple pleasures.This upbeat memoir is full of the edgy humor...
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Without Precedent: Chief Justice John Marshall and His Times
From the author of Unlikely Allies and Indivisible comes the remarkable story of John Marshall who, as chief justice, statesman, and diplomat, played a pivotal role in the founding of the United States. No member of America's Founding Generation had a greater impact on the...
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Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand
Told by one of our greatest chroniclers of technology and society, the definitive biography of iconic serial visionary Stewart Brand, from the Merry Pranksters and the generation-defining Whole Earth Catalog to the marriage of environmental consciousness and hacker capitalism and the rise...
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The Warrior, the Voyager, and the Artist: Three Lives in an Age of Empire
A portrait of empire through the biographies of a Native American, a Pacific Islander, and the British artist who painted them both Three interconnected eighteenth-century lives offer a fresh account of the British empire and its intrusion into Indigenous societies. This...
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Virginia Woolf at Home
Virginia Woolf, figurehead of the Bloomsbury Group and an innovative writer whose experimental style and lyrical prose ensured her position as one of the most influential of modern novelists, was also firmly anchored in the reality of the houses she...
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The Truth About Rudolf Hess
Rudolf Hess' flight to Britain in May 1941 stands out as one of the most intriguing and bizarre episodes of the Second World War.In The Truth About Rudolf Hess, Lord James Douglas-Hamilton explores many of the myths which still surround the...
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Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh
The definitive biography of America's greatest playwright from the celebrated drama critic of The New Yorker. John Lahr has produced a theater biography like no other. Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh gives intimate access to the mind of one of the...
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