Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery
9 best books like Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery (Leon F. Litwack): No One Here Gets Out Alive, Napoleon: A Life, Sex with the Queen: 900 Years of Vile Kings, Virile Lovers, and Passionate Politics, The Impending Crisis: America Before the Civil War, 1848-1861, A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration, A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story, Royal Affairs: A Lusty Romp Through the Extramarital Adventures That Rocked the British Monarchy, The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln, W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919
No One Here Gets Out Alive
| Author | Danny Sugerman |
| ISBN | 0446697338 |
Here is Jim Morrison in all his complexity-singer, philosopher, poet, delinquent-the brilliant, charismatic, and obsessed seeker who rejected authority in any form, the explorer who probed "the bounds of reality to see what would happen..." Seven years in the writing, this definitive biography...
| Author | Andrew Roberts |
| ISBN | 0670025321 |
The definitive biography of the great soldier-statesman by the New York Times bestselling author of The Storm of War—winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography and the Grand Prix of the Fondation Napoleon
Austerlitz, Borodino, Waterloo: his battles are among the greatest...
| Author | Eleanor Herman |
| ISBN | 0060846739 |
In royal courts bristling with testosterone—swashbuckling generals, polished courtiers, and virile cardinals—how did repressed regal ladies find happiness?
Anne Boleyn flirted with courtiers; Catherine Howard slept with one. Henry VIII had both of them beheaded.
Catherine...
| Author | David M. Potter |
| ISBN | 0061319295 |
“David M. Potter’s magisterial The Impending Crisis is the single best account to date of the coming of the Civil War.” —Civil War History
“The magnum opus of a great American historian.” —Newsweek
Now in a new edition for the 150th Anniversary of the Civil War, David...
This is the epic story of how African-Americans, in the six decades following slavery, transformed themselves into a political people--an embryonic black nation. As Steven Hahn demonstrates, rural African-Americans were central political actors in the great events of disunion, emancipation,...
A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story
| Author | Elaine Brown |
| ISBN | 0385471076 |
elaine brown was appointed charperson of the black panther party in the 70s, after huey p. newton was sent packing off to jail again. she headed up the party during a fractious period in its history. she was responsible for dismantling national offices & bringing the focus of the party back to oakland,...
| Author | Leslie Carroll |
| ISBN | 0451223985 |
A funny, raucous, and delightfully dirty history of 1,000 years of bedroom-hopping secrets and scandals of Britain?s royals.
Insatiable kings, lecherous queens, kissing cousins, and wanton consorts? History has never been so much fun.
Royal unions have always been the stuff...
| Author | Sean Wilentz |
| ISBN | 0393058204 |
In this magisterial work, Sean Wilentz traces a historical arc from the earliest days of the republic to the opening shots of the Civil War. One of our finest writers of history, Wilentz brings to life the era after the American Revolution, when the idea of democracy remained contentious, and Jeffersonians...
W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919
| Author | David Levering Lewis |
| ISBN | 0613630866 |
This is a biography that actually merits the “magisterial” among its blurbs, the kind of book that shows biography second only to the novel for difficulty of organization and effect. As epigraph to the first of the five volumes he would devote to the life of Henry James, Leon Edel quoted a line from...
