Autobiography: historical, political & military books

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Living Political Biography: Narrating 20th Century European Lives

Living Political Biography: Narrating 20th Century European...

Author: Ann-Christina Lauring Knudsen ,  Karen Gram-Skjoldager
ISBN: 9788771240573
Format: Paperback
$77.63

Historical political biography is a popular genre, capable of reaching a wide audience. It explores and explicates...  Read More >>

The Obamas

The Obamas

Author: Jodi Kantor ,  Robin Miles
ISBN: 9781611133806
Format: Mixed media product
$224.37

When Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election, he also won a long-running debate with his wife Michelle....  Read More >>

Napoleon and His Marshals (Two Volumes in One)

Napoleon and His Marshals (Two Volumes in One)

Author: Joel T Headley
ISBN: 9781616405625
Format: Paperback
$75.01

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Living My Life (Two Volumes in One)

Living My Life (Two Volumes in One)

Author: Emma Goldman
ISBN: 9781616405649
Format: Paperback
$95.71

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Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch

Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch

Author: Sally Bedell Smith ,  Rosalyn Landor
ISBN: 9780307934192
Format: Audio
$118.80

With a new afterword by the author --Cover.  Read More >>

May First

May First

Author: Sheila Banks ,  Duane Melvin Jackson Sr
ISBN: 9781463676810
Format: Paperback
$39.47

Here is the true story of an average guy's brush with death and how it changed his life: In 1973, I boarded the...  Read More >>

Ties That Bind - Scotland to Crete

Ties That Bind - Scotland to Crete

Author: Marie Naxaki Karioti
ISBN: 9789609610025
Format: Paperback
$18.09

"From an early age I have been attracted to this story - my childhood was spent with my Granny Jessie in Lindsay...  Read More >>

A Hard Man to Beat: The Story of Bill White: Labour Leader, Historian, Shipyard Worker, Raconteur

A Hard Man to Beat: The Story of Bill White: Labour...

Author: Howard White
ISBN: 9781550175516
Format: Paperback
$39.99

Bill White (1905-2001) was an itinerant ranch hand and trapper, a member of the RCMP and an Arctic traveller, but...  Read More >>

The Obamas

The Obamas

Author: Jodi Kantor
ISBN: 9780316098755
Format: Hardback
$79.17

"Kantor takes readers deep inside the White House as they try to grapple with their new roles, change the country,...  Read More >>

Locked in the Sex Offender Registry: Rendition in Maine

Locked in the Sex Offender Registry: Rendition in Maine...

Author: Jim Logan
ISBN: 9781466466784
Format: Paperback
$54.46

Canada and England have Sex Offender Registries. The U. S. is the only country giving citizens access to their identity...  Read More >>

Booker T. Washington in Perspective: Essays of Louis R. Harlan

Booker T. Washington in Perspective: Essays of Louis...

Author: Raymond Smock
ISBN: 9786613455062
Format: Electronic book text
$79.20

This book, an important companion volume to Louis R. Harlan's prize-winning biography of Booker T. Washington, makes...  Read More >>

Francis W. Pickens and the Politics of Destruction

Francis W. Pickens and the Politics of Destruction

Author: John Edmunds Jr.
ISBN: 9780807896556
Format: Paperback
$132.00

Pickens (1807-69) was the first Civil War governor of South Carolina, the most difficult governorship in the nation's...  Read More >>

Marcantonio Flaminio: Poet, Humanist, and Reformer

Marcantonio Flaminio: Poet, Humanist, and Reformer

Author: Carol Maddison
ISBN: 9780807868812
Format: Paperback
$132.00

The life of Flaminio mirrors the first half of the sixteenth century in Italy. He was a member of the courts of...  Read More >>

Porte Crayon: The Life of David Hunter Strother, Writer of the Old South

Porte Crayon: The Life of David Hunter Strother, Writer...

Author: Cecil D. Eby Jr.
ISBN: 9780807878422
Format: Paperback
$132.00

In this biography of David Hunter Strother, the nineteenth-century chronicler of Southern manners, who, as Porte...  Read More >>

William Louis Poteat: Prophet of Progress

William Louis Poteat: Prophet of Progress

Author: Suzanne Cameron Linder
ISBN: 9780807879122
Format: Paperback
$132.00

As one of the key figures in the political and cultural development of North Carolina in the twentieth century,...  Read More >>

An Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt

An Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt

Author: Stephen Brennan
ISBN: 9781616083526
Format: Hardback
$22.99

Tells the true story of Theodore Roosevelt, one of America's most beloved presidents.  Read More >>

From Classroom to White House: The Presidents and First Ladies as Students and Teachers

From Classroom to White House: The Presidents and First...

Author: James McMurtry Longo
ISBN: 9780786464869
Format: Paperback
$105.60

"President Eisenhower, who was not always the best student, once wrote, """"One cannot always read a man's future...  Read More >>

Stories of Service: Volume 2 -- Valley Veterans Remember World War II, Korea, Vietnam and the Cold War

Stories of Service: Volume 2 -- Valley Veterans Remember...

Author: Janice Stevens
ISBN: 9781610350051
Format: Hardback
$65.87

Perfectly blending a vast historical scope with intensely individual viewpoints, this stirring collection of stories...  Read More >>

Private Journal of a Voyage to Australia

Private Journal of a Voyage to Australia

Author: James Bell
ISBN: 9781742377957
Format: Hardback
$26.99

Though intended only for the eyes of his beloved in England, this diary written by James Bell, sailor on the voyage...  Read More >>

George F. Kennan: An American Life

George F. Kennan: An American Life

Author: John Lewis Gaddis
ISBN: 9781594203121
Format: Hardback
$105.47

The full scope of George Kennan's long life and vast influence is revealed by one of today's most important Cold...  Read More >>

A Boy in Terezin: The Private Diary of Pavel Weiner, April 1944-April 1945

A Boy in Terezin: The Private Diary of Pavel Weiner,...

Author: Pavel Weiner ,  Paul
ISBN: 9780810127791
Format: Hardback
$79.07

Covers a year of Pavel Weiner's life in the Theresienstadt transit camp in the Czech town of Terezín from April...  Read More >>

Nobody Calls Just to Say Hello: Reflections on Twenty-Two Years in the Illinois Senate

Nobody Calls Just to Say Hello: Reflections on Twenty-Two...

Author: Philip J. Rock ,  Ed Wojcicki
ISBN: 9780809330713
Format: Hardback
$79.07

A loyal partisan and highly principled public official whose career overlapped with those of many legends of Illinois...  Read More >>

The Hard Way Around: The Passages of Joshua Slocum

The Hard Way Around: The Passages of Joshua Slocum

Author: Geoffrey Wolff
ISBN: 9780307745453
Format: Paperback
$26.99

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Small Fires: Essays

Small Fires: Essays

Author: Julie Marie Wade
ISBN: 9781936747023
Format: Paperback
$42.11

Wade's self-aware, grief-inflected essays attempt to answer the question-what have you given up in order to become...  Read More >>

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