Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Description
Get the Summary of Craig Shirley's Mary Ball Washington in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Mary Ball Washington" delves into the life of George Washington's mother, Mary Ball Washington, against the backdrop of colonial Virginia's transformation. Born in 1708, Mary witnessed the growth of Virginia's counties and the rise of influential families like the Washingtons. The book explores the societal context of the...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Biographies of the First 23 American Presidents - Volume I" offers an illuminating journey through the lives of the founding leaders of the United States. From George Washington to Benjamin Harrison, this meticulously researched volume provides a comprehensive exploration of the individuals who shaped the nation during its formative years.Spanning from the birth of the Republic to the Gilded Age, each biography delves into the personal backgrounds,...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Biographies of the Second 23 American Presidents: From Grover Cleveland to Joe Biden - Volume 2" continues the captivating journey through the lives and leadership of the individuals who have held the highest office in the United States. From the late 19th century to the present day, this comprehensive volume offers an in-depth exploration of the presidents who guided the nation through the challenges and triumphs of the modern era.Spanning from...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
How a great American president communicated a changing worldview. What made Franklin Delano Roosevelt an effective leader? His policies and decisions changed our nation's and the world's history. But more than his skill as a savvy politician and progressive thinker, FDR's ability to directly and eloquently voice his thoughts on national concerns, social change, and humanity spoke to and reached the hearts of his people. In this selection of quotes...
Author
Language
English
Description
In his renowned biographies Portrait of a President and The Death of a President, William Manchester intimately and meticulously detailed the life and death of President John F. Kennedy. One Brief Shining Moment is a celebration of that life, based on Manchester's own recollections of his time with one of America's most famous families. John Kennedy first met William Manchester in 1946, beginning a friendship that would follow him to Washington and...
Author
Language
English
Description
In just a few generations, Michelle Obama's family has blazed a path from a slave cabin to the White House. She's now writing a new chapter in history as a fresh kind of first lady, old-fashioned in many ways, yet so genuine and natural that she constantly surprises and inspires.
7) Headwind
Author
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the skies above Europe, a Boeing 737 jets toward an unknown destination. On board is John Harris—a fugitive from justice. Charged by an international accord of ordering the torture of hundreds of innocent people, he is the most wanted man in the world.
He is the former President of the United States.
The pilot, Captain Craig Dayton, realizes that a silent conspiracy against John Harris is taking shape,...
He is the former President of the United States.
The pilot, Captain Craig Dayton, realizes that a silent conspiracy against John Harris is taking shape,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Published in a single volume for the first time, Margaret Thatcher is the story of her remarkable life told in her own words--the definitive account of an extraordinary woman and consummate politician, bringing together her bestselling memoirs The Downing Street Years and The Path to Power.
Margaret Thatcher is the towering political figure of late-twentieth-century Great Britain. No other prime minister in modern times sought to change the...
9) The Boer War
Author
Language
English
Description
A fascinating piece of first-person reporting from the British statesman's early years as a war correspondent in South Africa. As a young, ambitious soldier, Winston Churchill managed to get himself posted to the 21st Lancers in 1899 as a war correspondent for the Morning Post-and joined them in fighting the rebel Boer settlers in South Africa. In this conflict, rebel forces in the Transvaal and Orange Free State had proclaimed their own statehood,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Franklin Delano and Eleanor Roosevelt's marriage is one of the most celebrated and scrutinized partnerships in presidential history. It raised eyebrows in their lifetimes and has only become more controversial since their deaths. From FDR's lifelong romance with Lucy Mercer to Eleanor's purported lesbianism-and many scandals in between-the American public has never tired of speculating about the ties that bound these two headstrong individuals. Some...
Author
Language
English
Description
Following the resounding success of the eponymous West End and Broadway hit play, Frost/Nixon tells the extraordinary story of how Sir David Frost pursued and landed the biggest fish of his career-and how the series drew larger audiences than any news interview ever had in the United States, before being shown all over the world.
This is Frost's absorbing story of his pursuit of Richard Nixon, and is no less revealing of his own toughness and pertinacity...
Author
Language
English
Description
The great American leader uses his voice to change history, alter politics, and bring hope of a brighter future to generations to come.
Born in the U.S.A., the son of an African father and an American mother, a boy who spent his childhood in Indonesia and Hawaii, Barack Obama is truly a citizen of the world. In kindergarten, he wrote an essay titled, "I Want to Become President," and now, with his fierce optimism, exuberant sense of purpose and...
Author
Language
English
Description
Simón Bolívar was a revolutionary who freed six South American countries from Spanish Imperial rule, an intellectual who argued the principles of national liberation, and a statesman who led the governments of Venezuela, Gran Colombia, Bolivia, and Peru. His life, passions, and battles were woven into Spanish American culture almost as soon as they happened. In the first major English-language biography of "The Liberator" in half a century, John...
Author
Language
English
Description
History Hub presents a complete biography of Franklin Roosevelt from start to end, whose remarkable story inspires us even today.
On the 30th of January, 1882, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born in Hyde Park, New York. His father was James Roosevelt, an alumnus of Union College and Harvard Law School. His mother is Sara Delano, born in the Delano Estate in New York, and James Roosevelt's second wife. During his childhood, Franklin Roosevelt often...
Author
Language
English
Description
Gamal Abdel Nasser, architect of Egypt's 1952 Revolution, president of the country from 1956 to 1970, hero to millions across the Arab world since the Suez Crisis, was also a family man, a devoted husband and father who kept his private life largely private. In 1973, three years after his early passing at the age of 52, his wife Tahia wrote a memoir of her beloved husband for her family. The family then waited almost forty years, through the presidencies...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The former senator and presidential candidate offers a provocative new assessment of the first "national security president"
James Monroe is remembered today primarily for two things: for being the last of the "Virginia Dynasty"-following George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison-and for issuing the Monroe Doctrine, his statement of principles in 1823 that the western hemisphere was to be considered closed to European intervention. But...
Author
Language
English
Description
The judicious statesman who won victories abroad but suffered defeat at home, whose wisdom and demeanor served America well at a critical time
George Bush was a throwback to a different era. A patrician figure not known for eloquence, Bush dismissed ideology as "the vision thing." Yet, as Timothy Naftali argues, no one of his generation was better prepared for the challenges facing the United States as the Cold War ended. Bush wisely encouraged...
Author
Language
English
Description
Spur Award winning author Dale Walker tells the colorful story of Americas most memorable fighting force, the volunteer cavalry known as the Rough Riders. From its members, and their slapdash training in Texas and Florida, to its battles at Las Gusimas and San Juan Hill under the command of Theodore Roosevelt, who kept riding, some say, into the White House.
Author
Language
English
Description
A patriot by birth, John Quincy Adams's destiny was foreordained. He was not only "The Greatest Traveler of His Age," but his country's most gifted linguist and most experienced diplomat. John Quincy's world encompassed the American Revolution, the War of 1812, and the early and late Napoleonic Age. As his diplomat father's adolescent clerk and secretary, he met everyone who was anyone in Europe, including America's own luminaries and founding fathers,...
Author
Language
English
Description
The authorized biography of John F. Kennedy offers a fresh and candid look at what shaped the man America came to love and admire, just as he was on the cusp of the presidency Historian, political scientist, and Pulitzer Prize–winning author James MacGregor Burns wrote Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox, the first volume of his highly acclaimed biography of FDR, in 1956. Two years later, Burns ran for a seat in Congress and became close friends with...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request