Biography: Historical, Political & Military

Frank Barlow's magisterial biography, first published in 1970 and now reissued with new material, rescues Edward the Confessor from contemporary my...

Among the most celebrated works in the Anglo-American legal tradition, William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765-9) is current...

I've been there before And I'll try it again But anyfoolknows Thatthere's no way to winThose lyrics have been sung by Ray Charles, Norah Jones, Nan...

My Life in Nevada Politics tells the entertaining, informative, and at times poignant story of the rise of Richard Bryan from humble beginnings in ...

In February 1946, when the 21-year-old Malcolm Little was sentenced to eight to ten years in a maximum-security prison, he was a petty criminal and...

In 1999, 30-year-old Nada Bakos moved from her lifelong home in Montana to Washington, DC, to join the CIA. Quickly realizing her affinity for inte...

What happens when a seasoned journalist and travel writer takes on his most challenging assignment yetcrossing not just continents but also history...

An American hero...finally gets her due in this riveting narrative. You will absolutely love Florence Finch: her grit, her compassion, her fight. T...

To most Americans, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. represent contrasting ideals: self-defense versus nonviolence, Black Power versus civil rig...

In February 1946, when the 21-year-old Malcolm Little was sentenced to eight to ten years in a maximum-security prison, he was a petty criminal and...

In 1942, America's deadliest fighter pilot, or ace of aces -- the legendary Eddie Rickenbacker -- offered a bottle of bourbon to the first U.S. fig...

Beginning with the 1992 presidential campaign that propelled them to two terms in the White House, Hillary and Bill Clinton have occupied the Ameri...

Labor leader, civil rights activist, outspoken feminist, African American clergywoman--Reverend Addie Wyatt stood at the confluence of many rivers ...

AL FRANKEN, GIANT OF THE SENATE is a book about an unlikely campaign that had an even more improbable ending: the closest outcome in history and an...

A memoir of one of Americas first adventurers, a young boy who acted as a link between the Jamestown colonists and the Patawomecks and Powhatans. B...

The long buried story of three extraordinary female journalists who permanently shattered the official and cultural barriers to women covering war....

In the Company of Heroes will feature in-depth narrative profiles of the twenty-five post-9/11 Medal of Honor awardees who served in Afghanistan an...

At a time when print media reigned supreme and newspapers were legion, Dorothy Thompson, John Gunther, Vincent Sheean, and Rayna Raphaelson Prohme ...

From humble origins, the eminent Russian scientist Nicholas Borodin forged a career in microbiology in the era of Stalin. Pragmatic and dedicated t...

Congressman John Lewis was a paragon of the Civil Rights Movement and political leadership for decades. A hero we won't soon forget, Lewis was a be...

He was a ruthless conqueror, feared throughout Asia, Europe and Africa, and a superb military tactician. Yet he was also a patron of the arts and l...

The Black Power movement, often associated with its iconic spokesmen, derived much of its energy from the work of people whose stories have never b...

Sophonisba Breckinridge's remarkable career stretched from the Civil War to the Cold War. She took part in virtually every reform campaign of the P...

A photo in the New York Times on June 10, 1942 depicted a young naval officer, John Duncan Bulkeley, and his wife in the back of an open touring ca...

During his seven-decade career in public life, George Sewall Boutwell sought to redeem Americas promise of racial equality, economic equity, and th...

A landmark edition of an American masterpiece: the incomparable self-portrait of John Quincy Adams and his times from the Revolution to the coming ...

For the 250th anniversary of John Quincy Adams's birth, a landmark new selected edition of an American masterpiece: the incomparable self-portrait ...

A landmark new selected edition of an American masterpiece: the incomparable self-portrait of a man and his times from the Revolution to the coming...

From late 1994 to June 1997 Fine Gael, Labour and Democratic Left were a coalition government led by John Bruton, arguably the most left-wing gover...

Longlisted for The Baillie Gifford Prize 2024Frantz Fanon was born in Martinique, a French colony, in 1925. As a young man, he volunteered to fight...

Pat Hughes is today perhaps the greatest unsung hero of the Battle of Britain. Ranked sixth in the ace of aces of the aerial campaign of summer 194...

'A delicate, evocative story of strength and survival that turns on one of the most powerful forces in the known universe: a mother's love.' - Jona...

A century ago a Labour government took power for the first time, meet the Wild Men who led the way...'Superb' -- New Statesman 'Fascinating' --...