Autobiography: historical, political & military books

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Judge Sewall's Apology: The Salem Witch Trials and the Forming of an American Conscience

Judge Sewall's Apology: The Salem Witch Trials and the...

Author: Richard Francis
ISBN: 9780007163632
Format: Paperback
$42.11

Subtitle on some previous printings: The Salem witch trials and the forming of an American conscience.  Read More >>

Legion of the Lost: The True Experience of an American in the French Foreign Legion

Legion of the Lost: The True Experience of an American...

Author: Jaime Salazar
ISBN: 9780425210154
Format: Paperback
$39.60

The son of underpaid Mexican immigrants, Jaime earned a degree in mechanical engineering from Purdue. But at twenty-three,...  Read More >>

The President's Counselor: The Rise To Power Of Alberto Gonzales

The President's Counselor: The Rise To Power Of Alberto...

Author: Bill Minutaglio
ISBN: 9780061119200
Format: Hardback
$65.87

A quintessential immigrant success story, Alberto Gonzales defied all expectations growing up, including that he...  Read More >>

Seize the Fire: Heroism, Duty, and Nelson's Battle of Trafalgar

Seize the Fire: Heroism, Duty, and Nelson's Battle of...

Author: Adam Nicolson
ISBN: 9780060753627
Format: Paperback
$39.47

For the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar, Nicolson draws from a wide range of sources to investigate...  Read More >>

Flags of Our Fathers

Flags of Our Fathers

Author: James Bradley ,  Ron Powers
ISBN: 9780756969462
Format: Hardback
$45.14

This unforgettable New York Times bestselling chronicle of perhaps the most famous moment in American military...  Read More >>

The Women of the House: How a Colonial She-Merchant Built a Mansion, a Fortune, and a Dynasty

The Women of the House: How a Colonial She-Merchant...

Author: Jean Zimmerman
ISBN: 9780151010653
Format: Hardback
$68.64

The remarkable Margaret Hardenbroeck Philipse arrived in New Amsterdam from Holland in 1659, and promptly built...  Read More >>

The Heart to Artemis: A Writer's Memoir

The Heart to Artemis: A Writer's Memoir

Author: Bryher
ISBN: 9781930464087
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Out of Africa meets A Moveable Feast in this swashbuckling memoir of courage, literary passion, and adventure  Read More >>

Thomas Paine and the Promise of America

Thomas Paine and the Promise of America

Author: Harvey J Kaye
ISBN: 9780809093441
Format: Paperback
$34.10

Showing how Paine turned Americans into radicals, the author presents the nation's democratic story with wit, subtlety,...  Read More >>

Floria: An Autobiography

Floria: An Autobiography

Author: Floria Leet
ISBN: 9780595885817
Format: Hardback
$60.59

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Usurped

Usurped

Author: Ida Gelbart ,  Claire Gelbart
ISBN: 9781412085953
Format: Paperback
$52.77

An account of a young girl's travels during the Second World War. A family's story of devastation and survival through...  Read More >>

A More Perfect Union: Socialization to Realization

A More Perfect Union: Socialization to Realization

Author: Maurice A Hargraves
ISBN: 9780741431684
Format: Paperback
$39.47

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Mexican War Journal

Mexican War Journal

Author: Miller
ISBN: 9780890965375
Format: Paperback
$44.75

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Ronald Reagan & Public Lands

Ronald Reagan & Public Lands

Author: Charles Short
ISBN: 9780890963821
Format: Hardback
$86.99

The federal government holds a vast domain of American land. Does it hold these acres in trust for future generations...  Read More >>

Lambshead Legacy: The Ranch Diary of Watt R. Matthews

Lambshead Legacy: The Ranch Diary of Watt R. Matthews...

Author: Neugebauer
ISBN: 9780890967386
Format: Hardback
$92.27

Successful ranching combines cattle, markets, weather, grass, and skilled workers to make a profitable business....  Read More >>

Lost in the Victory

Lost in the Victory

Author: Mix- A
ISBN: 9781574410334
Format: Hardback
$85.80

Herein are recollections of war orphans of World War II, sons and daughters who for half a century have seldom spoken...  Read More >>

Defiant Peacemaker

Defiant Peacemaker

Author: Ohrt
ISBN: 9780890967782
Format: Hardback
$79.07

"However much the extending of America's borders may have seemed like destiny at the time, much of the process was...  Read More >>

Artist at War

Artist at War

Author: Toliver
ISBN: 9780929398761
Format: Hardback
$79.07

"When twenty-nine-year-old artist John Gaitha Browning enlisted in 1942, he was determined to keep a journal recording...  Read More >>

Skin and Bones

Skin and Bones

Author: Hyvernaud
ISBN: 9781568970004
Format: Hardback
$50.03

A professor of literature at the école normale in Arras, Georges Hyvernaud was called up at the start of World War...  Read More >>

From Slave to Statesman

From Slave to Statesman

Author: PRATHER ,  Jane Clements Monday
ISBN: 9780929398471
Format: Hardback
$85.80

This is the story of the ""other"" Houston, Joshua, the slave of Margaret Lea until she married Sam Houston and...  Read More >>

John J Rhodes: Man of the House

John J Rhodes: Man of the House

Author: Jay Smith
ISBN: 9780935810752
Format: Paperback
$65.87

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DC Confidential

DC Confidential

Author: Sir Christopher Meyer
ISBN: 9780753820919
Format: Paperback
$26.99

Riveting and candid memoir of life behind the scenes as US Ambassador and Prime Minister's Press Secretary - a Sunday...  Read More >>

John J. Rhodes: Man of the House

John J. Rhodes: Man of the House

Author: Jay Smith
ISBN: 9780935810745
Format: Hardback
$79.20

This biography of John Rhodes is about a man who continues to be cited by congressional scholars as a quintessential...  Read More >>

Her Majesty's Spymaster: Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the Birth of Modern Espionage

Her Majesty's Spymaster: Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham,...

Author: Stephen Budiansky
ISBN: 9780452287471
Format: Paperback
$42.24

In the taut narrative of a spy novel, Budiansky recounts how legendary spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham, principal...  Read More >>

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