Mandela: The Authorised Biography
10 best books like Mandela: The Authorised Biography (Anthony Sampson): Lincoln's Greatest Journey: Sixteen Days that Changed a Presidency, March 24 - April 8, 1865, Miriam's Song: A Memoir, The Girl I Left Behind: A Narrative History of the Sixties, Ethnic Groups in Conflict, Updated Edition With a New Preface, The Presidency in Black and White: My Up-Close View of Three Presidents and Race in America, Declaration: The Nine Tumultuous Weeks When America Became Independent, May 1-July 4, 1776, Into the Rising Sun: In Their Own Words, World War II's Pacific Veterans Reveal the Heart of Combat, Complete Gone with the Wind Trpb, Women Wartime Spies, Blood and Thunder: The Life and Art of Robert E. Howard
Lincoln's Greatest Journey: Sixteen Days that Changed a Presidency, March 24 - April 8, 1865
| Author | Noah Andre Trudeau |
| ISBN | 1611213266 |
March 1865: The United States was at a crossroads and, truth be told, Abraham Lincoln was a sick man. “I am very unwell,” he confided to a close acquaintance. A vast and terrible civil war was winding down, leaving momentous questions for a war-weary president to address. A timely invitation from...
| Author | Mark Mathabane |
| ISBN | 0743203240 |
Mark Mathabane first came to prominence with the publication of Kaffir Boy, which became a New York Times bestseller. His story of growing up in South Africa was one of the most riveting accounts of life under apartheid. Mathabane's newest book, Miriam's Song, is the story of Mark's sister, who was left...
At the height of the Vietnam War protests, twenty-eight-year-old Judith Nies and her husband lived a seemingly idyllic life. Both were building their respective careers in Washington—Nies as the speechwriter and chief staffer to a core group of antiwar congressmen, her husband as a Treasury department...
| Author | Donald L. Horowitz |
| ISBN | 0520227069 |
Drawing material from dozens of divided societies, Donald L. Horowitz constructs his theory of ethnic conflict, relating ethnic affiliations to kinship and intergroup relations to the fear of domination. A groundbreaking work when it was published in 1985, the book remains an original and powerfully...
| Author | April Ryan |
| ISBN | 1442238410 |
2016 NAACP Image Award Nominee, Essence Top 10 books of 2015, African American Literary Show Inc. 2015 Best Non Fiction Award In The Presidency in Black and White, journalist April Ryan gives readers a compelling and personal behind-the-scenes look at race relations in contemporary America from...
| Author | William Hogeland |
| ISBN | 1416584099 |
I think most people, when they think of the pre-Revolutionary days, are aware of two groups--those that supported independence and those that did not. But Hogeland shows how much more complex the real story was. There were those that wanted war with England leading to independence. There were those...
| Author | Patrick K. O'Donnell |
| ISBN | 0743214811 |
In his award-winning book Beyond Valor, Patrick O'Donnell reveals the true nature of the European Theater in World War II, as told by those who survived. Now, with Into the Rising Sun, O'Donnell tells the story of the brutal Pacific War, based on hundreds of interviews spanning a decade. The men who fought...
| Author | Pauline Bartel |
| ISBN | 1589798201 |
A Must-Have for Gone With the Wind Fans! From Margaret Mitchell s tattered manuscript to the film s seventy-fifth anniversary, this book is a behind-the-scenes chronicle of Gone With the Wind the book, the movie, and the phenomenon that continues today. Related in loving detail are inside stories...
| Author | Ann Kramer |
| ISBN | 1844680584 |
From Mata Hari through to Noor Inyat Khan, women spies have rarely received the recognition they deserve. They have often been trivialized and, in cinema and popular fiction, stereotyped as vamps or dupes. The reality is very different. As spies, women have played a critical role during wartime, receiving...
Robert E. Howard, creator of Conan, King Kull, and others that defined heroic fantasy, lived and died in the small town of Cross Plains, Texas. While his books remain in print, Howard himself has fallen into obscurity, his life mired in speculation and half-truth. This engaging biography traces the...
The Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace
| Author | Dennis Ross |
| ISBN | 0374529809 |
"The definitive and gripping account of the sometimes exhilarating, often tortured twists and turns in the Middle East peace process, viewed from the front row by one of its major players."--Bill Clinton
The Missing Peace, published to great acclaim last year, is the most candid inside account...
First Ladies: Presidential Historians on the Lives of 45 Iconic American Women
| Author | Susan Swain |
| ISBN | 1610395662 |
A look inside the personal life of every first lady in American history, based on original interviews with major historians
C-SPAN's yearlong history series, First Ladies: Influence and Image, featured interviews with more than fifty preeminent historians and biographers. In this informative...
The Oxford Illustrated History of the British Monarchy
| Author | John Cannon |
| ISBN | 0198227868 |
The rich pageant of Britain's history emerges nowhere more colorfully than in the story of its kings and queens. This spectacular book offers the most authoritative account of the British monarchy ever published for the general reader. With over 400 illustrations--a third of them in color--it traces...
Filthy Shakespeare: Shakespeare's Most Outrageous Sexual Puns
| Author | Pauline Kiernan |
| ISBN | 1592403271 |
Celebrating the Bard in all his bawdy glory, a hilarious and insightful look into the down-and-dirty sexual puns lurking in Shakespeare’s body of work
London’s Elizabethan theaters were located in the seedy part of town, close to whorehouses but never far from Puritanical scorn. In...
| Author | Nelson Mandela |
| ISBN | 0873485947 |
“Those who prefer abstractions or empty phrases, or fanciful—supposedly political—ideas, would do best to avoid this book, because Nelson Mandela is not a Quixotic fighter of windmills and imaginary monsters but a man who is fighting the bitter reality of the apartheid monster that is...
Reagan at Reykjavik: Forty-Eight Hours That Ended the Cold War
| Author | Ken Adelman |
| ISBN | 0062310194 |
The dramatic, first-hand account of the historic 1986 Reagan-Gorbachev summit in Iceland—the definitive weekend that was the key turning point in the Cold War—by President Reagan’s arms control director, Ken Adelman.
In October 1986, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev met for...
Alexander The Great: A History From Beginning To End (One Hour History Military Generals #1)
★ Alexander the Great ★
What does it mean to be great? There have been many that have come through the sands of time proclaiming their own greatness. We see it in the news every day; leaders, heroes, tyrants, and even reality star presidential candidates claim that they are great. But what about...
How Can Man Die Better: The Life of Robert Sobukwe
| Author | Benjamin Pogrund |
| ISBN | 1868422658 |
‘I am greatly privileged to have known him and to have fallen under his spell. His long imprisonment, restriction and early death were a major tragedy for our land and for the world.’
– Archbishop Desmond Tutu on Sobukwe
On 21 March 1960, Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe led a mass defiance...
Presents Truman's own perspective on the momentous events, personalities, and decisions that filled his first year as president of the United States and led to the successful ending of the Second World War and the building of a new era. A vivid and dramatic account of the months that saw the death of Roosevelt,...
Hal Moore: A Soldier Once . . . And Always
Hal Moore, one of the most admired American combat leaders of the last 50 years, has until now been best known to the public for being portrayed by Mel Gibson in the movie 'We Were Soldiers.' In this first-ever, fully illustrated biography, we finally learn the full story of one of America's true military...
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill
This is compilation of Winston Churchill's books. So as I read each book I will provide you with a brief description and review of each one.
1)The Crossing-***1/2 Delightful book many of the characters put perspective and life to history long past. Following a young boy as he grows into a man, experiencing...
The Lion Sleeps Tonight: And Other Stories of Africa
| Author | Rian Malan |
| ISBN | 0802119905 |
Since its original publication twenty years ago Rian Malan’s classic work of narrative nonfiction My Traitor’s Heart has earned its author comparisons to masters of literary nonfiction like Michael Herr and Ryszard Kapuscinski.
The Lion Sleeps Tonight is Malan’s remarkable chronicle...
Puppetmaster: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover
| Author | Richard Hack |
| ISBN | 1893224872 |
J. Edgar Hoover, the most powerful lawman in America for over fifty years, was also the country's most controversial and feared public servant. His career as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation spanned nine different presidential administrations and survived a dozen attempts to sweep...
