DeRobigne Mortimer Bennett (1818-1882) was 19th-century America's controversial publisher and free-speech martyr. Based on sources, this biography of D M Bennett offers a glimpse into the turbulent period of late 19th-century America - the Gilded Age, a time when our nation was controlled by pious politicians and censorious clergymen.
Crossing the Dead Heart is a classic narrative of modern exploration - and follows the first crossing of the Simpson desert by the author in 1939. From Charlotte Waters Madigan travelled by camel, camping at Andado Bore before heading east through the centre of the desert to Birdsville, then south by Goyder's Lagoon to the eastern shores of Lake ......
William A. A. Carsey and the Shaping of American Reform Politics
Confidence man and canny operative, charlatan and manipulator--William A. A. Carsey emerged from the shadow of Tammany Hall to build a career undermining working-class political organizations on behalf of the Democratic Party. Mark A. Lause's biography of Carsey takes readers inside the bare-knuckle era of Gilded Age politics. An astroturfing ......
William A. A. Carsey and the Shaping of American Reform Politics
Confidence man and canny operative, charlatan and manipulator--William A. A. Carsey emerged from the shadow of Tammany Hall to build a career undermining working-class political organizations on behalf of the Democratic Party. Mark A. Lause's biography of Carsey takes readers inside the bare-knuckle era of Gilded Age politics. An astroturfing ......
The Story of Coretta Scott King: Commemorative Edition
Shows a determined young girl who grew up in Alabama and worked her way through Antioch College only to discover that she was not allowed to teach in the white schools in Ohio. This biography, including a black and white photo gallery, tells the story of Coretta Scott King from her childhood to her death in February 2006.
The Truth Behind the Hess Flight to Scotland, May 10th 1941
The Hess affair requires an understanding of a variety of disciplines and practices: Wartime aviation, political history and human psychology to name but three. Harris and Wilbourn have over an extended period tried to learn as much as possible about all relevant aspects of what is in concert a complicated subject, one that has not yet been ......
Published in the year of the one hundredth anniversary of Bonhoeffer's birth, this book documents Bonhoeffer's life under the increasing restraints and fateful events of World War II Germany. It sheds light on his active resistance to and increasing involvement in the conspiracy against the Hitler regime, his arrest, and his long imprisonment.
This is how it feels to be a Cold War front-line fighter pilot. Fly in the Phantom with the author and follow him into the bar for some epic nights of drinking. The triumphs and the disasters are all laid out here in a completely open and honest way as the author looks back with a certain sense of nostalgia and mild embarrassment. What a blast!
Silas Talbot's life illuminates his time-not with greater brightness than the lives of his more famous contemporaries, but with perhaps broader range and greater insight into the experiences and circumstances of a plain citizen of the new republic-a citizen whose bravery and energy helped to create it. Silas Talbot was a farmer's son who went to ......
