Biography: Historical, Political & Military

When Juliette Kinzie first visited Chicago in 1831, it was anything but a city. An outpost in the shadow of Fort Dearborn, it had no streets, no si...

Thomas Cranmer, the architect of the Anglican Book of Common Prayer, was the archbishop of Canterbury who guided England through the early Reformat...

This definitive biography of England's Henry IV reassesses the adversities of his reign, his ruthlessness and extravagance, and his previously unre...

A provocative and penetrating new life of Galileo, placing the man, his achievements, and his failures in the broader history of the Scientific Rev...

Training her eye on traits that other biographers have neglected and mining newly released diaries and letters, Barbara Perry captures Rose Kennedy...

No one working on Douglass should leave home without a copy of this book.from the foreword by David W. Blight, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Fre...

Highly accessible and sprightly written. -Library JournalWinner of the Kansas State Library''s Kansas Notable Book AwardIn this engaging, fast-pac...

A new translation that captures the gripping power of one of the greatest war stories ever toldJulius Caesars pitiless account of his brutal campai...

Robert Marsden Hope (191999), a NSW Supreme Court judge, shaped the structures, operations and doctrines of Australias intelligence agencies more t...

A life of glamour and tragedy, set against the watershed cultural and political movements of twentieth-century Europe. Toto Koopman (19081991) is ...

As Indonesia's leading Muslim politician in the second half of the 20th century, Mohammad Natsir (1908-1993) went from heading the country's first...

Before the nation came to know them as the President and First Lady, Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham were close friends of Webb Hubbells. Now Hubbe...

Wife, widow, mother, survivor, the story of the last queen of Henry VIII. Catherine Parr was enjoying her freedom after her first two arranged marr...

The extraordinary true story of the 'Red Queen'. Born in the midst of the Wars of the Roses, Margaret Beaufort became the greatest heiress of her t...