Autobiography: historical, political & military books

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Lift Up Your Hearts: A True Story of Loving One's Enemies; Tragically Killing One's Friends, & the Life That Remains

Lift Up Your Hearts: A True Story of Loving One's Enemies;...

Author: Martin Sheen ,  Douglas W Kmiec
ISBN: 9780615610573
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Douglas W. Kmiec -- at one time head of the Office of Legal Counsel to President Reagan -- is credited with helping...  Read More >>

A Woman in Both Houses: My Career in New Mexico Politics

A Woman in Both Houses: My Career in New Mexico Politics...

Author: Pauline Eisenstadt ,  Jim Belshaw
ISBN: 9780826350244
Format: Paperback
$73.79

The first woman to serve in both houses of the New Mexico legislature, Pauline Eisenstadt has witnessed many exciting...  Read More >>

Everybody's History: Indiana's Lincoln Inquiry and the Quest to Reclaim a President's Past

Everybody's History: Indiana's Lincoln Inquiry and the...

Author: Keith A. Erekson
ISBN: 9781558499157
Format: Paperback
$71.15

How a group of nonprofessional historians forced a reassessment of Abraham Lincolns life story  Read More >>

Lincoln and His World: Volume 4, The Path to the Presidency, 1854-1860

Lincoln and His World: Volume 4, The Path to the Presidency,...

Author: Richard Lawrence Miller
ISBN: 9780786459292
Format: Paperback
$118.80

In the climax of Richard Lawrence Miller's epic four-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln's pre-presidential years,...  Read More >>

The Pink Lady: The Many Lives of Helen Gahagan Douglas

The Pink Lady: The Many Lives of Helen Gahagan Douglas...

Author: Sally Denton
ISBN: 9781608191000
Format: Paperback
$47.52

In this long-overdue political biography of Helen Gahagan Douglas--Broadway star, congresswoman, and forgotten heroine...  Read More >>

It Happened on the Way to War: A Marine's Path to Peace

It Happened on the Way to War: A Marine's Path to Peace...

Author: Rye Barcott
ISBN: 9781608194315
Format: Paperback
$47.52

The Things They Carried meets Three Cups of Tea in this inspirational true story of a Marine who finds his calling...  Read More >>

Keynes: The Rise, Fall, and Return of the 20th Century's Most Influential Economist

Keynes: The Rise, Fall, and Return of the 20th Century's...

Author: Reader in Modern History and Fellow Peter Clarke (King's College London and University of Oxford UK)
ISBN: 9781608193967
Format: Paperback
$42.24

The ideas of John Maynard Keynes inspired the New Deal and helped rebuild world economies after World War II--and...  Read More >>

World War II Remembered

World War II Remembered

Author: Clinton C. Gardner ,  Clinton C. Gardner
ISBN: 9780979997006
Format: Paperback
$47.39

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The Tenacious Spy: The Story of William Morris Jones

The Tenacious Spy: The Story of William Morris Jones...

Author: Karen Rempel Arthur
ISBN: 9781469966755
Format: Paperback
$50.13

This story needs to be told . . . .William Jones, opportunistic by nature, had a most remarkable life. After surviving...  Read More >>

All the Gentlemen Callers: Letters Found in a 1920's Steamer Trunk

All the Gentlemen Callers: Letters Found in a 1920's...

Author: Judith Thompson Witmer ,  E Nan Edmunds
ISBN: 9780983776819
Format: Paperback
$72.60

"Reading letters, particularly love letters, is similar to reading a diary. We are interested and curious, but still...  Read More >>

From Slave to State Legislator: John W. E. Thomas, Illinois' First African American Lawmaker

From Slave to State Legislator: John W. E. Thomas, Illinois'...

Author: David Joens
ISBN: 9780809330584
Format: Hardback
$92.27

As the first African American elected to the Illinois general assembly, John W. E. Thomas was the recognised leader...  Read More >>

Richard Brevard Russell Jr.: A Life of Consequence

Richard Brevard Russell Jr.: A Life of Consequence

Author: Sally Russell
ISBN: 9780881462593
Format: Hardback
$92.40

In 1897, the year Richard Brevard Russell, Jr. was born, the world was poised for a dramatic swing into a century...  Read More >>

Sarah Palin and the Wasilla Warriors: The True Story of the Improbable 1982 Alaska State Basketball Championship

Sarah Palin and the Wasilla Warriors: The True Story...

Author: Mike Shropshire
ISBN: 9780312604240
Format: Hardback
$68.61

<p>Long before the whole world knew Sarah Palin as Momma Grizzly, the handful of girls on her high school basketball...  Read More >>

Mad Women: The Other Side of Life on Madison Avenue in the '60s and Beyond

Mad Women: The Other Side of Life on Madison Avenue...

Author: Jane Maas
ISBN: 9780312640231
Format: Hardback
$65.97

Maas offers a wickedly funny, inside look at what it was really like to be an ad woman on Madison Avenue in the...  Read More >>

The Issue of Autonomy: An Address to the Venezuelan People

The Issue of Autonomy: An Address to the Venezuelan...

Author: Ramon Andrade ,  Ignacio Andrade
ISBN: 9781470132675
Format: Paperback
$39.60

General Ignacio Andrade (1839 - 1925), President of Venezuela, reviews the events that led him to resign from power...  Read More >>

Forgotten Heroes: The Charge of the 21st Lancers at Omdurman

Forgotten Heroes: The Charge of the 21st Lancers at...

Author: Roy Dutton
ISBN: 9780955655456
Format: Hardback
$77.60

The charge of the 21st Lancers at Omdurman on the 2nd of September 1898, will go down in the annals of British military...  Read More >>

Dr. Alfred: The Life and Letters of Alfred Walker Bethea, a Signer of the Ordinance of Secession of South Carolina from the Union

Dr. Alfred: The Life and Letters of Alfred Walker Bethea,...

Author: Lesa Bethea, MD
ISBN: 9781432773977
Format: Paperback
$23.63

"""I think your idea of leaving if Vicksburg falls is a very good one, for your section of the country will certainly...  Read More >>

George F. Kennan

George F. Kennan

Author: John Lewis Gaddis ,  Malcolm Hillgartner
ISBN: 9781455155415
Format: Pre-recorded MP3 player
$263.97

Drawing on extensive interviews with Kennan and exclusive access to his archives, an eminent Cold War scholar delivers...  Read More >>

James Madison

James Madison

Author: Richard Brookhiser ,  Norman Dietz
ISBN: 9781617071768
Format: Pre-recorded MP3 player
$171.57

Brookhiser is a remarkable biographer-there are no wasted words in this slim volume, but plenty of fascinating insights...  Read More >>

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Author: Harriet Ann Jacobs
ISBN: 9781613822616
Format: Paperback
$26.37

The story of a young black mother'AEos former life as a slave  Read More >>

One Trip Too Many: A pilot's memoirs of 38 months in combat over Laos and Vietnam

One Trip Too Many: A pilot's memoirs of 38 months in...

Author: Wayne A Warner
ISBN: 9781467931557
Format: Paperback
$42.11

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The Man Without a Face

The Man Without a Face

Author: Masha Gessen ,  Eyre, Justine
ISBN: 9781455153152
Format: Pre-recorded MP3 player
$145.17

This is the chilling account of how a low-level, small-minded KGB operative ascended to the Russian presidency and,...  Read More >>

Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House

Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four...

Author: Elizabeth Keckley
ISBN: 9781618950369
Format: Paperback
$34.19

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Winter King: The Dawn of Tudor England

Winter King: The Dawn of Tudor England

Author: Thomas Penn ,  Simon Vance
ISBN: 9781455134434
Format: Audio
$287.76

Near the turn of the sixteenth century, England had been ravaged for decades by conspiracy and civil war. Henry...  Read More >>

Winter King: The Dawn of Tudor England

Winter King: The Dawn of Tudor England

Author: Thomas Penn ,  Gavin, Marguerite
ISBN: 9781455134472
Format: Mixed media product
$211.17

Rich with incident, drama, and vivid characters, this is a fresh look at the endlessly fascinating Tudors filled...  Read More >>

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