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The Romanovs
The Final Chapter
by Robert K. Massie
In July 1991, nine skeletons were exhumed from a shallow mass grave near Ekaterinburg, Siberia, a few miles from the infamous cellar room where the last tsar and his family had been murdered seventy-three years before. But were these the bones of the Romanovs? And if these were their remains- revealed finally after over seven decades-where were the bones of the two younger Romanovs supposedly murdered with the... (more)
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His Excellency
George Washington
by Joseph J. Ellis
The author of seven highly acclaimed books, Joseph J. Ellis has crafted a landmark biography that brings to life in all his complexity the most important and perhaps least understood figure in American history, George Washington. With his careful attention to detail and his lyrical prose, Ellis has set a new standard for biography. Drawing from the newly catalogued Washington papers at the University of... (more)
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Mankiller: A Chief and Her People (Audi O Literature Presents)
by Wilma Mankiller, Michael Wallis
In this spiritual, moving autobiography, Wilma Mankiller, former Chief of the Cherokee Nation and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, tells of her own history while also honoring and recounting the history of the Cherokees. Mankiller's life unfolds against the backdrop of the dawning of the American Indian civil rights struggle, and her book becomes a quest to reclaim and preserve the great Native... (more)
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Gandhi on Non-Violence (New Directions Paperbook)
by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
In this book, Merton has selected the basic statements of principle and interpretation which make up Gandhi's philosophy of non-violence (AHIMSA) and non-violent action (SATYAGRAHA). The Gandhi text follows that established by the Navaijivan Trust with sections dealing with "Principles of non-violence", "Non-violence, true and false", "Spiritual dimensions of non-violence". "The political scope of non-violence",... (more)
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Long Walk to Freedom
The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
by Nelson Mandela
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Plutarch's Lives (Volume 1)
by Plutarch
Plutarch's Lives, written at the beginning of the second century A.D., is a brilliant social history of the ancient world by one of the greatest biographers and moralists of all time. In what is by far his most famous and influential work, Plutarch reveals the character and personality of his subjects and how they led ultimately to tragedy or victory. Richly anecdotal and full of detail, Volume I contains profiles... (more)
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Plain Speaking
An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman
by Merle Miller
That plainest speaker of all, Harry S. Truman, comes to us alive, magically alive, in his own words and those closest to him, words masterfully elicited by Merle Miller. Plain Speaking is an evocation of one of America's great Presidents. It also details the critical events and the crucial background facts that marks some of the most momentous decades in modern American life, the years of the Depression, the New... (more)
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A Leader Becomes a Leader
Inspirational Stories of Leadership for a New Generation
by J. Kevin Sheehan
A Leader Becomes a Leader opens with a window on history: Henry David Thoreau riding a borrowed horse and wagon into the woods around Concord, Massachusetts to Walden Pond in 1845. There, he writes a classic work that has a powerful effect on the lives and philosophies of seminal leaders in the next century as diverse as Mohandas Gandhi, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Nelson Mandela. Thoreau believed that a... (more)
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Women in History Series
The Warrior Queens
The Legends and the Lives of the Women Who Have Led Their Nations in War
by Antonia Fraser
Fraser gives readers a singularly rich and provocative study of the Warrior Queens, those women who--cutting across the entrenched male view of women as weak--have rallied armies and whole populations to themselves and their causes. 16 pages of photographs.
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The Last Lion: Book 1
Visions of Glory
Winston Spencer Churchill: The Last Lion, 1874-1932
by William Manchester
Publisher: Little, Brown And Company
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Failure Is Impossible
Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words
by Lynn Sherr
Juxtaposed with contemporary reports and biographical essays, the words of this legendary suffragist reveal Susan B. Anthony as a loyal, caring friend, and an eloquent, humorous crusader. "More than a collection of well-arranged quotations, the work informs, inspires, and gives historical perspective".--The Houston Post. 33 photos & illustrations.
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Facing Mount Kenya
by Jomo Kenyatta
Besides its continuing value for an understanding of the problems of Kenya, Facing Mount Kenya has an enduring place in the literature of social anthropology. As Professor Malinowski wrote in his introduction, it 'is a really competent and instructive contribution to African ethnography by a scholar of pure African parentage...As a first-hand account of a representative African culture, as an invaluable document... (more)
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A Godly Hero
The Life of William Jennings Bryan
by Michael Kazin
An illuminating and dramatic biography of William Jennings Bryan that restores him to his place of importance in American history – as a hero and leader of the Christian left. Bryan is remembered today mostly as the fundamentalist voice in the 1925 Scopes trial. But as Michael Kazin makes clear, he was a man of exceptional accomplishment. The most popular speaker of his time, he gained a vast and passionate... (more)
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Eleanor
The Years Alone
by Joseph P. Lash
A biographical account of the life of Eleanor Roosevelt following the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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Eleanor and Franklin
The Story of Their Relationship Based on Eleanor Roosevelt's Private Papers
by Joseph P. Lash
In the words of Arthur Schlesinger, Eleanor & Franklin "is a beautiful book - beautiful in its scholarship, insight, objectivity and candor." Joseph Lash was secretary and confidant to Eleanor Roosevelt. His book was made into the PBS special of the same name.
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The Last Tsar
The Life and Death of Nicholas II
by Edvard Radzinsky, Marian Schwartz
An in-depth account of the life, reign, and final days of the last Russian tsar draws on Nicholas II's personal diaries, firsthand accounts of the murder of the royal family, and other sources. Reprint. 90,000 first printing. $90,000 ad/promo. NYT. K.
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Freedom's Daughters: A Juneteenth Story
by Lynne Olson
The first comprehensive history of the role of women in the civil rights movement, Freedom's Daughters fills a startling gap in both the literature of civil rights and of women's history. Stokely Carmichael, Andrew Young, John Lewis, and other well-known leaders of the civil rights movement have admitted that women often had the ideas for which men took credit. In this groundbreaking book, credit finally... (more)
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Eleanor Roosevelt Biography: Book 1
Eleanor Roosevelt
Volume 1, 1884-1933
by Blanche Wiesen Cook
Cook hit a nerve with her portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt--the brave, fierce, passionate, political heroine of our century. A national bestseller, her authoritative biography has been celebrated by feminists, historians, politicians, potential first ladies, and by reviewers everywhere. Now this seminal work depicting the life and achievements of an inspiring First Lady is available in trade paperback. Photographs.
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Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2 (Modern Library Classics)
by A. H. Clough
Plutarch's Lives, written at the beginning of the second century A.D., is a brilliant social history of the ancient world by one of the greatest biographers and moralists of all time. In what is by far his most famous and influential work, Plutarch reveals the character and personality of his subjects and how they led ultimately to tragedy or victory. Richly anecdotal and full of detail, Volume I contains profiles... (more)
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Robert Kennedy and His Times
by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., chronicles the short life of the Kennedy family's second presidential hopeful in "a story that leaves the reader aching for what cannot be recaptured" (Miami Herald). Schlesinger's account vividly recalls the forces that shaped Robert Kennedy, from his position as the third son of a powerful Irish Catholic political clan to his concern for issues of social justice in the turbulent... (more)

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