Creator: Michael Burlingame
Publication date: 2002-02-05
Dewey code: 973.7092
Price: $34.95
Review "Lincoln's Humor" and Other Essays / University of Illinois Press:This volume gathers the best previously unpublished and uncollected writings on Abraham Lincoln and Lincoln scholarship by one of his great biographers, Benjamin P. Thomas. A skilled historian and a masterful storyteller himself, Thomas was widely regarded as the greatest Lincoln historian of his generation. With these essays, he combines historical depth with narrative grace in delineating Lincoln's qualities as a humorist, lawyer, and politician. From colorful tall tales to clever barbs aimed at political opponents, Lincoln clothed a shrewd wit in a homespun, backwoods vernacular. He used humor to defuse tension, illuminate a point, put others at ease-and sometimes for sheer fun. From an early reliance on broad humor and ridicule in speeches and on the stump, Lincoln's style shifted in 1854 to a more serious vein in which humor came primarily to elucidate an argument. "If I did not laugh occasionally I should die," he is said to have told his cabinet, "and you need this medicine as much as I do. "Thomas brings his deep knowledge of Lincoln to essays on the great man's tumultuous career in Congress, his work as a lawyer, his experiences in the Courts, and his opinions of the South. A gracious survey of Lincoln's early biographers, particularly Ida Tarbell, stands alongside an appreciation of Harry Edward Pratt, a key figure in the early days of the Abraham Lincoln Association. [+]Thomas also assesses Lincoln's use of language and the ongoing significance of the Gettysburg Address. This diverse collection is enhanced by an introduction by Michael Burlingame, himself a leading biographer of Lincoln. Burlingame provides a balanced portrait of Thomas and his circuitous path toward writing history.
Creator: Nicholas Peterson
Edition: Revised
Publication date: 2004-01-01
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $34.95
Price: $125.69
Review Donald Thomson in Arnhem Land / Melbourne University Publishing:Anthropologist Donald Thomson sought a government commission to investigate the grievances of Yolngu men gaoled for killing Japanese pearl fishermen who had raped several Yolngu women in 1932. In 1932, Japanese pearl fishermen came ashore in the Caledon Bay area of Arnhem Land and raped several Yolngu women. The Yolngu retaliated, fatally spearing five of the fishermen. They were sent to Fanny Bay Gaol in Darwin, sentenced to death and the Federal Government proposed a punitive expedition to 'teach the Aborigines a lesson'. In response, Donald Thomson, a Melbourne-born and trained anthropologist with three expeditions to Cape York behind him, sought a government commission to investigate the grievances of the condemned men. A year later he finally secured their freedom, and returned with them to their own country. Thomson recorded his experiences in newspaper articles, reports to the government and private papers and in his own superb photography. Author Nicolas Peterson brings this material together in a compelling narrative that describes a white man's quest for justice and the Yolngu people's struggle for control of their own destinies.
Publication date: 1990-12
Dewey code: 759.2
Price: $39.95
Review Keith Vaughan: Journals, 1939-1977 / John Murray Publishers Ltd:
Edition: 0
Publication date: 1998-10-15
Dewey code: 920
Price: $25.00
Review Journey from Innocence / East European Monographs:Poland's role in World War II has yet to be fully understood in the West. This book provides insight into the conflict from the perspective of a young Polish girl who experienced it. Caught in the middle of the disaster, Dadlez recounts her stirring true-life tale of wandering amid the aftermath of war as she journeys from Poland to Kazakhstan to refugee camps in the Middle East to post-war Britain.
Publication date: 1997-12-04
Dewey code: 294.5563092
Price: $16.95
Review Dayananda Sarasvati: His Life and Ideas (Oxford India Paperbacks) / Oxford University Press, USA:This biography interprets the founder of the Arya Samaj movement as an integral part of the vigorous intellectual atmosphere of nineteenth-century India, looking in depth at his ideas and involvement in social and religious reform.
Publication date: 1996-01
Price: $80.00
Review Thomas Jefferson: A Life Part 1 of 2 / Books on Tape:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2004-12-20
Dewey code: 338.0944092
List Price: $180.00
Price: $149.70
Review The Assassination of Jacques Lemaigre Dubreuil: A Frenchman between France and North Africa (History and Society in the Islamic World) / RoutledgeCurzon:This is a political biography of the French industrialist and political activist Jacques Lemaigre Dubreuil (1894-1955), president of the Taxpayers' Federation in the 1930s, entrepreneur in wartime France and Africa, organizer of the "Group of Five" in Algiers which prepared for the Allied landings in North Africa (November 1942), "inventor" of General Henri Giraud as a candidate for the leadership of liberated North and West Africa, negotiator of the Murphy-Giraud Agreements and the Anfa Memorandum with President Roosevelt (1942 and 1943), political writer on the post-war future of France in Morocco and the owner of the liberal newspaper Maroc-Presse. He was assassinated in Casablanca by French counter-terrorists in June 1955, a "turning point" event which pushed the French government to grant independence to Morocco. Was he a rabble-rouser, a demagogue, a betrayer of French interests at home and overseas or a reformer, a patriot, a hero of the anti-German resistance, and a champion of Franco-Moroccan solidarity?.
Publication date: 1999-09-01
Dewey code: 941.061092
List Price: $40.00
Price: $125.00
Review King James & the History of Homosexuality / NYU Press:"Young's book is a timely reminder of the complex interplay of sex and politics in Jacobean England"—American Historical ReviewAllegations of King James's homosexuality made in his lifetime and in the generation afterwards shook the political world of early Stuart England. In this engaging history of the monarch and his times, Michael B. Young relates these allegations to the current debate among historians on the origin of modern conceptions of "homosexuality. " Situating the claims of homosexuality within the interplay between sexuality and gender in early seventeenth century England and ideas of governance and peace and war, Young argues that the origins of the modern conception of "homosexuality" lie earlier than has been supposed and that by the beginning of the seventeenth century they were already apparent. The principal evidence he adduces for this is the muted tone he sees in these claims made against James and in the absence in them of ideas concerning "sodomy" as an absolute Other, which have been argued as characterizing early modern England. Combining research on the history of homosexuality with political history, Young's treatment of homophobia, effeminacy, manliness, and sexual politics in Jacobean England not only explores the repercussions of James's homosexuality on his son Charles's reign, but shows how prior historians have mishandled the subject of James' homosexuality and underestimated its political consequences.
Publication date: 1976-08
Dewey code: 943.0860924
Price: $29.75
Review The Young Hitler I Knew / Greenwood Pub Group:This is the first edition to be published in English since 1955 and it corrects many changes made for reasons of political correctness. It also includes important sections which were excised from the original English translation. August Kubizek met Adolf Hitler in 1904 while they were both competing for standing room at the opera. Their mutual passion for music created a strong bond, and over the next four years they became close friends. Kubizek describes a reticent young man, painfully shy, yet capable of bursting into hysterical fits of anger if anyone disagreed with him. The two boys would often talk for hours on end; Hitler found Kubizek to be a very good listener, a worthy confidant to his hopes and dreams. In 1908 Kubizek moved to Vienna and shared a room with Hitler at 29 Stumpergasse. During this time, Hitler tried to get into art school, but he was unsuccessful. With his money fast running out, he found himself sinking to the lower depths of the city: an unkind world of isolation and 'constant unappeasable hunger'. Hitler moved out of the flat in November, without leaving a forwarding address; Kubizek did not meet his friend again until 1938. [+]The Young Hitler I Knew tells the story of an extraordinary friendship, and gives fascinating insight into Hitler's character during these formative years. A must for Hitler scholars.
Publication date: 1947
Review Dust upon the sea / Hodder & Stoughton:
Publication date: 2003-10
Price: $97.99
Review The English Governess at the Siamese Court / IndyPublish.com:Anna Leonownes' memoir of her six year as a governess in the Royal Palace of Bangkok was the inspiration for the beloved Broadway musical The king and I, as well as two award-winning films. First published in 1870, Leonowens' memoir is the true story of a proper English governess who is hired by the King of Siam to tutor his many children. A delightful portrait of an unlikely friendship between two headstrong personalities, it is also a revealing peak at two very different cultures.
Publication date: 1918
Review Ten months in a German raider;: A prisoner of war aboard the Wolf, / George H. Doran company:
Publication date: 1997-04-03
Review Henry VIII (Yale English Monarchs) / Yale University Press:First published in 1968, Jack Scarisbrick's "Henry VIII" is a book which focuses on the personality of this flamboyant and forceful monarch, exploring an impulsive interventionist king whose impact on the government, society and religion of England is felt more than four centuries on.
Publication date: 1899
List Price: $125.00
Price: $125.00
Review George Washington: An Historical Biography (Notable American Authors) / Reprint Services Corp:This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1889 edition by Houghton, Mifflin and Co. , Boston etc.
Authors
- William Caferro
- Philip Joshua Jacks
Dewey code: 945.51050922
List Price: $95.00
Price: $151.09
Review The Spinelli of Florence: Fortunes of a Renaissance Merchant Family / Pennsylvania State University Press:A cross-sectional view of Renaissance Florence through the story of one celebrated merchant family. "Through vivid depiction of the worlds of banking and business in Florence and at the papal court in Rome, this book contributes greatly to our sense of the texture of Renaissance life. The authors bring to life the thoroughly three-dimensional men of the Spinelli family through judicious use of telling detail. It is a rare pleasure to read a study in which the getting of wealth and its spending, the two primary and intimately connected preoccupations of a Renaissance patrician, receive equal attention. " —Dale Kent, University of California, Riverside The private archive of the Spinelli, acquired by Yale University’s Beinecke Library in 1988, constitutes the largest fund of information about a Florentine family anywhere outside Italy. The Spinelli of Florence tells the story of these merchants and their ascent to social and economic prominence during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. This book gives an intimate portrait of daily life—the worlds of papal finance, silk and wool manufacturing, and household affairs—as recorded in letters and financial ledgers preserved for two hundred years since the extinction of the male line. The fame of this family rests largely on the extraordinary success of one individual, Tommaso Spinelli, who broke into banking through the Alberti and Borromei organizations, later to serve as depository general under Pope Eugenius IV and financial officer to three subsequent popes. Tommaso sought to raise his status in society through ties of marriage and business rather than entering the political arena, which had led to the demise and exile of older, established Florentine families, notably the Peruzzi and Alberti. Like his contemporaries, Cosimo de’Medici, Giovanni Rucellai, and Francesco Sassetti, Tommaso poured his considerable wealth into the patronage of private palaces and villas in Rome and Florence, as well as through donations to the great Franciscan churce of Santa Croce. [+]Despite his reputation for magnificence, it was Tommaso’s obeisance to the codes of religious decorum and his adherence to older artistic traditions that allowed him to commemorate himself and his family without censure. The authors of this collaborative study, an architectural historian and economic historian, add significantly to our knowledge of private and papal banking, wool and silk manufacturing, and patronage of the arts. The Spinelli of Florence is important for scholars of history, economic history, social history, and art history. "By synthesizing the enormous cache of Spinelli documents, by publishing the most significant of those documents, and by setting these documentary tesserae into the larger historical mosaic of Renaissance Italy, the authors have provided a well-rounded picture of the rise and decline of a prominent Florentine patrician family. " —William E. Wallace, Washington University in St. Louis 440 pages 130 b&w / 10 color illustrations 8-1/2 x 11.
Publication date: 1991-12
Dewey code: 941.084092
Price: $25.00
Review Churchill: Strategy and History / Lynne Rienner Publishers:Challenging assumptions about Churchill's role as a strategist and an historian, the author examines how Churchill's strategic conception and decisions were formulated, how those decisions affected the course of the two World Wars, and to what extent his books on the wars are reliable histories.
Publication date: 1941
Review Baggage to the enemy, / J. Murray:
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 2001-12
Dewey code: 973.73
List Price: $29.95
Price: $125.00
Review General William Dorsey Pender: A Military Biography / Da Capo Press:The talented William Dorsey Pender is a prime example of the advantage held by the Confederacy in junior-level commanders during the opening months of the Civil War. The inability of the Southern forces to adequately replace Pender after his death at a young age also demonstrates the ultimate lack of depth that the Confederacy had at the command level. Pender was born in North Carolina and graduated in the top half of the West Point class of 1856. He was one of the first Southern-born officers to offer his services to the Confederacy and soon found himself a colonel, a rank he might not have attained during a full career in the pre-War army. Pender first came to prominence during the Seven Days' Battles, when a number of junior Confederate officers took bold action to counter the battlefield errors of some of their better-known superiors. Pender soon developed a reputation as Robert E. Lee's favorite brigade commander. After further capable work at Antietam, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, Pender was raised to divisional command. Arriving at Gettysburg on the first day of the battle, Pender's troops from Georgia, South Carolina and his own North Carolina played a major role in driving the veteran Union I Corps from the town. Unfortunately, Pender sustained what at first seemed a minor wound later in the battle and died of complications after the Confederate retreat back to Virginia. [+]The inability of the less-populous Confederacy to replace key figures such as Pender was an important cause of the ultimate Southern defeat. Edward G. Longacre has previously done ground-breaking research for his acclaimed biographies of John Buford, George Armstrong Custer, and Joshua Chamberlain. His study of William Dorsey Pender is both a gripping narrative and a major contribution to our understanding of Civil War principles of command.
Publication date: 1995-10-16
Dewey code: 347.732634
List Price: $90.00
Price: $160.41
Review The Papers of John Marshall: Vol. VIII: Correspondence, Papers, and Selected Judicial Opinions, March 1814-December 1819 (Papers of John Marshall) / The University of North Carolina Press:The 1819 term of the Supreme Court stands preeminent in John Marshall's chief justiceship as the year of three major constitutional pronouncements: Dartmouth College v. Woodward, Sturgis v. Crowninshield, and McCulloch v. Maryland. This volume, covering 1814 to 1819, reproduces these and other important Marshall opinions given in the Supreme Court and the U. S. Circuit Court for Virginia. Also included are a series of essays Marshall wrote to answer critics of the McCulloch v. Maryland decision. In addition to papers concerning judicial business, this volume includes personal correspondence that sheds light on Marshall's private interests and family life.
Publication date: 1984-06
Dewey code: 973.50924
Price: $95.00
Review Thomas Hart Benton (American statesmen) / Scholarly Pr:A judicious account of Benton's career as orator, statesman, author and political figure. THIS TITLE IS CITED AND RECOMMENDED BY: Books for College Libraries; Catalogue of the Lamont Library, Harvard College; Guide to the Study of the United States of America; Literature of American History.
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