Biography: General

This book makes no attempt to fill the place either of a critical study or a definitive biography. The author found it impossible to draw a real po...

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin was originally published in 1791. It has been republished many times. This important document is as relevant...

Frederick Douglass, a former slave, became the leader of the abolitionist movement. The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Sl...

Thomas Rice Holmes' aim in these pages has been to tell the story of man's life from the earliest times. What has been called 'prehistory' cannot b...

The aim of the History of Julius Caesar is to prove that, when Providence raises up such men as Cæsar, Charlemagne, and Napoleon, it is to trace o...

This book contains a collection of letters between John and Abigail Adams. The letters not only reveal the depth of their relationship but also det...

This book incorporates a comprehensive survey of sites and buildings associated with the signers of the Declaration of Independence. The book highl...

In this critically acclaimed biography, now fully updated, Royle revises Kitcheners latter-day image as a stern taskmaster, the ultimate war lord, ...

''The truth was stranger than any of the fictions that have since been offered to explain her away''Drawing upon Queen Victoria''s previously unpub...

Robert Johnson. Brian Jones. Jimi Hendrix. Janis Joplin. Jim Morrison. Kurt Cobain. Amy Winehouse. They were inspirational, controversial, talisman...