Richard James Oglesby is best known for introducing the rail-splitter image into Abraham Lincoln's successful presidential campaign of 1860, and in many ways his career ran parallel to Honest Abe's. This biography of the three-time governor of Illinois offers the first detailed view of a key figure in the great changes that swept Illinois and the ......
In this groundbreaking study, Watts draws a powerful portrait of Amiri Baraka, founder of the influential Black Arts movement and strident voice within the Black Power movement.
Eve: A Biography is the history of Everywoman. Her brief adventure in the Book of Genesis is where the Western idea of woman began, and three thousand years after Eve offered Adam the forbidden fruit, everyone still knows that losing Paradise was Eve's fault. Pamela Norris traces the evolution of Eve's bad reputation, drawing on a rich and diverse ......
For over 30 years Hafez al-Asad has ruled Syria, one of the last of the old generation of Arab leaders. This biography examines the array of choices facing Asad and his country in the post-Cold War period, looking at issues of civil liberties, economic liberalization and international allies.
Savitri Devi, the Hindu-Aryan Myth, and Neo-Nazism
A study of the ideology of Savitri Devi, whose beliefs combined Aryan supremacism and anti-semitism with Hinduism, social Darwinism and a fundamentally biocentric view of life. This book examines how Devi has been lionized by the fringe radical right as a foremother of Nazi ideology.
Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore's first prime minister (from 1959 to 1990), has been an international figure not only for establishing Singapore's political and economic stability but also for fostering economic development throughout Asia.
In 1987, former Naval Intelligence officer Jonathan Jay Pollard was sentenced to life in prison for passing classified information to the Israelis - the only person ever to be so severely punished for spying on behalf of an American ally. Why was his sentence so harsh? This book aims to reveal the story.
Benedict Arnold stands as one of the most vilified figures in American history. Stories of his treason have so come to define him that his name, like that of Judas, is virtually synonymous with treason.Yet Arnold was one of the most heroic and remarkable men of his time, indeed in all of American history. A brilliant military leader of uncommon ......
In this text, the author aims to present a cultural biography of the first woman. She traces the evolution of Eve's bad reputation, drawing on myth and folk tale, and puts the spotlight on women's sexuality.
